In Conversation with Robert Powell - Online Event
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.
Tickets on this page are for the online talk. To join this event in person, please book via this link. The conversation will be followed by a short Q&A, participants online will be able to ask questions through the chat and they will be read out loud by a member of EP staff.
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.
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: Robert Powell, The Age of Expectation, etching and watercolour, 2025
Course Times 6-7pm
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Openings, Talks and Tours
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£3.00 -
21 August 2025 -
18:00 -
Online -
Adult 16+
