7 November 2026 - 11 April 2027

Ade Adesina: Bard

City Art Centre is pleased to present a major solo show by Aberdeen-based printmaker Ade Adesina RSA (b.1980. Nigeria), bringing together an expansive collection of the artist’s monumental woodcuts, etchings, linocuts and screen-prints.

Exploring urgent global themes, including climate change and colonial histories, Adesina draws from the past and present, to imagine possible futures. His works carefully balance beauty with a darker underbelly, revealing the impact of human intervention on the natural world.

Informed by his African roots, combined with the influence of British culture and global travels, Adesina’s practice is steeped in the traditions of Fine Art printmaking. On first glance his work appears as classical landscapes or still lifes, however they invite and reward closer looking, as complex narratives and entangled iconography is revealed.

Previously

18 July - 13 September 2026

Study for North Bridge | Rachel McBrinn & Jonathan Webb

Study for North Bridge is a new moving image commission from artists Rachel McBrinn and Jonathan Webb which responds to Edinburgh’s North Bridge. Following in a tradition of artworks commissioned by the city to document and commemorate one of Edinburgh’s most historically significant landmarks, the film places the bridge’s current restoration in its historical context, from its original build in the 1760s and the political and social backdrop of the developing city around it.

This work is part of a series of arts legacy projects commissioned by the City of Edinburgh Council on the occasion of the North Bridge refurbishment.

Rachel McBrinn was awarded a RSA John Kinross Scholarship in 2014 and  RSA Residency for Scotland Artist with Edinburgh Printmakers & RSA Collections, both in 2015