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Michael Fullerton

29 January 2026
A Study in Uncertainty and Irresolution (Joseph Stiglitz, Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Centre Italy, 26th June 2015) © Michael Fullerton

Happy New Year. We look forward to another year of incredible contemporary art!

Our first visit of the year is to the City Art Centre to discuss their exhibition by Glasgow artist, Michael Fullerton where we will be joined by curator Stuart Fallon.

Fullerton is a painter, printmaker, and sculptor whose practice places portraiture at its core. His work engages with complex figures, exposes socio-political power dynamics, and brings to light hidden or forgotten histories.

For this exhibition Fullerton has created a new series of paintings of individuals he met whilst working in the Hilltop Hotel in Carlisle, Cumbria. For five months in 2023 he lived and worked in the hotel – then serving as accommodation for people seeking asylum in the UK.

Bruce McLean: I Want My Crown

28 November 2024

This month we will be joined by assistant curator Leila Riszko, as she guides us around the new exhibition Bruce McLean: I Want My Crown at Modern One. 

This celebratory display of works by internationally renowned Scottish artist Bruce McLean, marks his 80th birthday. Discover McLean’s humorous and lively six-decade long inquiry into sculpture and his criticisms of the art world from within. Through works made across a range of media – including photography, performance, painting, printmaking, film, and ceramics – this display invites you to challenge your thinking about sculpture and expand your ideas of what it can be. 

Sharp, witty and satirical, this display will showcase the breadth of McLean’s boundary-pushing work and spotlight him as one of the most important artists of his generation. 

The Printmaker’s Art: Rembrandt to Rego

25 January 2024

For the first event of 2024, we will explore The Printmaker’s Art: Rembrandt to Rego with curators Kerry Watson and Hannah Brocklehurst.

The exhibition focuses on print pioneers who have made their mark in the last 500 years. Themed by printmaking technique, from etching and woodblock to screenprinting and linocut, artists range from Albrecht Dürer in the 15th century right through to contemporary artists such as Tracey Emin, Chris Ofili, Tessa Lynch, David Shrigley, Yinka Shonibare and Lucy Mackenzie.

This great survey show reveals how artists have approached printmaking in different ways over time and includes short films showing the techniques, as well as the tools of each process.

Paula Rego: Obedience and Defiance

27 February 2020

For our February session, we will be discussing the major retrospective exhibition, Paula Rego: Obedience and Defiance, where we will be joined by the curator of the exhibition, Alice Strang.

Paula Rego: Obedience and Defiance is a survey of the Portuguese artist’s work that brings politics to the fore. This major exhibition is the first ever retrospective of Paula Rego’s work to be held in Scotland. Rego is one of the most important artists living in Britain today. Born in Lisbon in 1935, she is celebrated for her intense and courageous paintings, drawings and prints. The exhibition spans over 50 years of her international career, from the 1960s to the 2010s. It features more than 80 works, lent from public and private collections. Rego is admired for her courageous exploration of moral challenges to humanity, such as political tyranny, gender discrimination, abortion, female genital mutilation and the death of civilians in war. Other works in the exhibition begin with her Portuguese roots and lived experiences, or respond to current affairs and stories from literature, cinema, folklore, mythology and art history.

Edinburgh Printmakers

30 June 2019
Edinburgh Printmakers

This month we pay a visit to the new home Edinburgh Printmakers in the former North British Rubber Company HQ, Castle Mills in Fountainbridge.

The £11million project has created an international centre for printmaking and it will host a year-round programme of exhibitions, events and learning opportunities. The new open access print studio provides spacious, low-cost printmaking facilities for artists including etching, lithography, screen-printing, relief printing and digital printmaking.

Also on show is a new body of work by German artist Thomas Kilpper. The Politics of Heritage vs. the Heritage of Politics is a large-scale, site-specific floor carving commissioned by the Printmakers to celebrate and launch their new home of Castle Mills.

Nàdar/Prakriti by Ravi Agarwal

27 September 2018

In our September session, we will be exploring the work of Indian artist, Ravi Agarwal, whose work is currently on show at Edinburgh Printmakers.

Ravi Agarwal is an artist, environmental activist, writer and curator and has shown work across the world, collaborating with artists on a variety of ecologically focused art projects. His practice looks into contemporary questions around ecology, society, urban space and capital.

For his first solo show in the UK, Ravi presents Nàdar / Prakriti a body of work including prints, photography and film, created as part of a research residency in the Scottish Highlands in the summer of 2017. Looking at the Scottish landscape from his unique perspective, Ravi draws parallels between eco systems and landscape management in India and Scotland. The work reflects on the human impact on nature and how different types of pressures are managed. The result is a thoughtful portrait of Scotland, and includes new prints commissioned and published by Edinburgh Printmakers.

With Edinburgh Printmakers moving into their new location in 2019, this is a great opportunity for Spin to visit before the move and hear all about plans for the future.


WASPS Artists’ Studios Visit: Louise Fraser, Jenny Pope and Carrie Fertig

25 May 2017

This month, we will be visiting three artists who each have a studio at WASPS on Albion Road. Artists include Louise Fraser, Jenny Pope and Carrie Fertig.

Louise Fraser’s practice incorporates drawing, printmaking and sculpture and is a response to the environment she inhabits. Her work draws people’s attention to the space they are in, the space they consume and the space they leave their imprint on.

Jenny Pope creates sculptural pieces inspired by beach-combing, collecting, bone structures and geology working with a range of materials including porcelain, limecrete and found materials. Through her work she explores the changes that happen in our internal lives and externally in the natural environment. Recently, Jenny has been working within a hospital, creating large drawings and wearable sculptures which explore personal space.

Carrie Fertig uses borosilicate glass as the main material in her practice of performance, film, installation, sound and sculpture. From the 20 May-2 July 2017, she will be exhibiting as part of Summa at the Royal Scottish Academy with an installation, sound and performance based on the physical, social and metaphysical events of death. The work she will be showing us concentrates on sound, including work from her group Torcher Chamber Arkestra, which features live music, fire, and digital manipulation of sound on glass instruments that she designs, makes, and repurposes.

This is a great opportunity to meet artists living and working in Edinburgh and to find out more about their working methods and approaches to their art-making

Species of Space by Robert Powell

30 June 2016

For our June Spin event, we will visit Edinburgh Printmakers to discuss Robert Powell’s latest exhibition, Species of Space. We will be joined by the artist as well as several members of the studio and gallery staff.

Species of Space takes its title from Georges Perec’s playful 1974 essay collection in which the author considers, in minute detail, the way in which we inhabit various everyday spaces from the street to the bedroom. Like Perec, Robert Powell is attentive to scenes of ordinary life: his prints are rich with details and are absurd, humorous and often grotesque. Powell also makes a dizzying array of art historical, literary and mythological references, yet gives them all a witty twist. The exhibition brings together framed print works with three-dimensional constructions – a dollshouse and a cityscape – that also contain Powell’s carefully observed carnival of characters. Most of the work on display was create onsite at Edinburgh Printmakers, and there will be a chance to chat about the facilities and courses offered by the studio during our visit.

Natasha Russell: Night Smell

26 February 2015

Our February event will be Spin’s first visit to a new visual art space in the city, The Number Shop Gallery and Studios.

Gallery Director, Alistair Grant will take us on a tour of the studios and preview emerging artist Natasha Russell’s exhibition of new work which will open the following night. Russell is an Edinburgh-based painter and illustrator. She is a recent graduate of Edinburgh College of Art and will join us on the night for the discussion.

Natasha is interested in the strange and imbalanced relationships between humans and the rest of nature. Night Smell is a body of recent work in printmaking and drawing exploring night time. Here she has woven together folklore and science, exploring the tug of war between our desire to become more removed from the natural world while peering ever closer. 

The Number Shop studios provide artists with a defined personal space, as well as shared floor space in which to work, echoing the art school studio model. Since its opening, the TNS has hosted a program of exhibitions in the Project Space as well as throughout the shared studio spaces.

Studio Visit: Carla Scott Fullerton

23 June 2010 at 6.30pm

Acclaimed Scottish artist Carla Scott Fullerton has invited Spin members to visit her studio, giving us a rare opportunity to discuss and gain insight into her practice. As well as visiting Fullerton’s studio, we will also have an opportunity to look around the various other artists studios and facilities contained within the Glasgow Sculpture Studios building.

Carla Scott Fullerton’s practice is primarily sculptural, with additional elements such as drawing and printmaking. The materials she uses are sourced from the field of construction – cement, plywood, rebar, graph paper, all elements that make up the foundations of architectural forms.

Fullerton is interested in the moment at which these materials lose their usual restrictions, for example, through the irregular and unpredictable nature of pouring cement. She is interested in how materials speak about the status and economies of a building, its usage, contents and age and in the combined usage of old and new materials.

Fullerton graduated from the MFA at Glasgow School of Art in 2008. She was awarded the prestigious Glasgow Sculpture Studios Fellowship Award in 2008-09.The award is presented to the artist who demonstrates a commitment to maintaining a studio based arts practice and to contemporary sculptural practices. Recent solo presentations of Fullerton’s work include Lines have edges, tentilten, Glasgow and Open Space, Art Cologne 2010. Lines & Pours, Chert Gallery Berlin, breadthless lines, Glasgow Sculpture Studios, Spacioux, Lambretto Art Project, Milan all 2009 and You cant hide your love forever, Tulips & Roses, Vilnius. Fullerton is represented by Chert Gallery, Berlin.