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Ade Adesina: Bard

Now showing7 November 2026 – 11 April 2027£6

Major solo show of Aberdeen-based printmaker Ade Adesina: monumental woodcuts, etchings and linocuts on climate change and colonial histories, plus a new Edinburgh commission.

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Preview: written before the show opened

Ade Adesina's prints look, at first glance, like classical landscapes and still lifes. The City Art Centre says to keep looking: up close, the scenes fill with tangled imagery about climate change, colonial histories and what people have done to the natural world.

Adesina was born in Nigeria in 1980 and works in Aberdeen. This show brings together his monumental woodcuts, etchings, linocuts and screen-prints, a series he made with other artists, and a new print commissioned specially for Edinburgh. You stand back for the landscape, then step in to find what's buried in it.

Tickets are £6 plus a £2 online fee. From 21 November to 7 March they're £10 and cover Kenneth Dingwall: Being as well. Last admission is 4.30pm and latecomers may not be let in. Adesina leads a printmaking workshop on 16 January and a gallery tour on 30 January.

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Monumental woodcuts, etchings and linocuts by the Aberdeen-based printmaker Ade Adesina on climate change and colonial histories, plus a new commission made for Edinburgh.

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