Because of the Covid-19 pandemic, the 2020 edition of the Edinburgh Art Festival will not take place. Instead, as Edinburgh begins to emerge from lockdown, the Art Festival has invited 10 artists from previous festival editions, to work with them to mark the dates of what would have been the 2020 festival (30 July – 30 August). Amongst other projects, I have been working with the festival on a series of posters that will appear in locations throughout Edinburgh, making the artists’ original artwork ready for printing by the arts agency, Jack Arts. This one is a billboard by the artist Tam Joseph and is based on a painting originally made in 2012 that was first presented as a billboard in the 2014 festival. As well as making the image ready for print (which, because of it’s huge size, sent my computer into meltdown as well as the machines of the printers!), I also designed the contextual panels that appear on either side of the structure. Tam’s billboard can be viewed on Middle Meadow Walk, EH8, until 30 August.
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Tam Joseph The Hand Made Map of the World, 2020, poster for Edinburgh Art Festival, 4000mm x 2440mm
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