
EPscope at Edinburgh Printmakers
Key Facts
Client
Edinburgh Printmakers
Location
Fountainbridge, Edinburgh
Completion
April 2019
Synthesis of Periscope and Kaleidoscope
Project Info
‘EPscope’ noun
ee-pee-scope
: an instrument that channels the senses to a parallel world by way of complex mechanical and optical devices, suspended within a rubber-clad prismatic duct.
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The Castle Mills EPscope is a collaboration between the artist Calum Colvin and Suzy O’Leary and Peter Smith of Page\Park Architects, exploring themes of curiosity and constraint through a visual dialogue with the inner life of the Edinburgh Printmakers workshop, physically connecting the first floor print studio with the public spaces below and emotionally connecting the industrial past of the building with its creative future. It is a response to the idea that architecture can bear witness and perpetuate the distant memories of a long-forgotten life; an archaeological opportunity for the inquisitive.



