30 October 2025
Resistance explores how acts of resistance have shaped life in the UK, and the powerful role of photography in documenting and driving change. For the Spin evening we will be joined by Senior Curator for Photography, Ben Harman.
Conceived by acclaimed artist and filmmaker Steve McQueen, the exhibition brings together works by renowned photographers such as Vanley Burke, John Deakin, Fay Godwin, Edith Tudor-Hart, David Hurn, Tish Murtha, Humphrey Spender, and Paul Trevor, alongside lesser-known photographers who documented these powerful stories. Drawing photographs from various archives, collections and image libraries, McQueen has deliberately focused on moments captured before digital cameras became commonplace.
Presenting a century of activism, Resistance gives a voice to the stories and images from history which have been buried in UK archives until now. McQueen amplifies underrepresented voices to present a compelling exploration of overlooked histories, that will shed light on the forgotten stories of individuals whose contributions have helped define the course of Britain’s history.
26 November 2015
For our final meeting of 2015, Spin will visit Edinburgh Sculpture Workshop. ESW’s Curator, Dan Brown will join us to discuss Concrete Antenna, a sound work in the tower created by Tommy Perman, Professor Simon Kirby and Rob St John. Concrete Antenna explores, through audio archives and specially made field recordings, the past, present and future of the ESW’s site.
Also on show will be Workshopshop – part-shop, part-exhibition, which includes a range of affordable contemporary artworks and commissions from Edinburgh Sculpture Workshop’s studio holders, programme artists and members including the following artists:
Catherine Aitken and David Murphy | Elaine Allison | Miranda Blennerhassett | Amy Boulton | Simon Burns-cox | Hans Clausen | Concrete Antenna | Covered In Toner | Sarah Dale | Jean Philippe Dordolo | Keith Farquhar | Alec Finlay | Clare Flatley | Andrew Gannon | Jessica Harrison | Christine Heughan | Kate Ive | Alejandro Lopez | Ian McPhail | John Mooney | Chris Muirhead | Despina Nissiriou | Jonathan Owen | Toby Paterson | Tommy Perman | Emma Pratt | Maja Quille | Jessica Ramm | Brodie Sim | Kjersti Sletteland and Tone Boska | Hanna Tuulikki.
The shop aims to support artists who work at Edinburgh Sculpture Workshop. Artists will benefit directly from all sales made
