In Conversation with Robert Powell - In Person Talk
with Dr Alasdair Richmond
On Thursday 21st August at 6pm please join us for a hybrid artist's talk to celebrate Robert Powell’s solo exhibition Hall of Hours, in conversation with Dr Alasdair Richmond from the University of Edinburgh, School of Philosophy.
The conversation will take place in our Gallery 1 where the exhibition is on display, and will be followed by a short Q&A.
Robert Powell is an Edinburgh-based visual artist whose multidisciplinary practice focuses on printmaking, but extends to sculpture, video, and text. A graduate of Edinburgh College of Art and longstanding studio member of Edinburgh Printmakers, Robert Powell has exhibited widely at home as well as throughout Europe, North America and the Far East.
Alasdair Richmond teaches philosophy at Edinburgh University. He's interested in time, space and philosophy of science. He mainly researches the philosophy of time travel. He never got over failing to win John Menzies' 'Dr. Who Monster Painting Competition' 1976.
Find out more about Robert Powell's solo show Hall of Hours here.
Tickets on this page are for the in-person talk. To join this event online, please book via this link.
This exhibition is supported by New Media Scotland, and is a new body of work that expands on the themes contained within a previous work, Chronoscope, an animated clock commissioned by Aberdeen Performing Arts and New Media Scotland's Alt-w Fund with investment from Creative Scotland in 2022.
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This event is part of our heritage project Castle Mills: Then & Now supported by the National Lottery Heritage Fund, made possible by money raised by National Lottery players.
Image credit: Robeert Powell, The Clock, etching and watercolour, 2025.
Course Times 6-7pm
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21 August 2025 -
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