Méabh Breathnach
In Bodies of Work (in progress), Méabh Breathnach uses ceramics, metal and the body as materials, tools, and sources of inspiration in the creation of both sculptural and functional objects.
About Méabh Breathnach
| 8th Nov 2025 to 8th Feb 2026 | |
| 7am - 9pm Viewable daily from the street. | |
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Edinburgh Sculpture Workshop 21 Hawthornvale, Leith EH6 4JT |
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| This is a free event | |
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In Bodies of Work (in progress) catch a glimpse into the artist’s studio as they work. A collection of brass tools Breathnach has been making will be visible in the space, used in the creation of new works in ceramics and added to over the period of the exhibition. These tools contain casts of, or impressions from, the artist’s and members of Edinburgh Sculpture Workshop’s community’s bodies. They’ve been inspired by the ways in which Breathnach engages with their own body, tools and materials while making, as well as conversations and interactions they’ve had with others along the way. While each tool speaks to a specific instance of engagement or use, the series reflects upon communal spaces of creativity like ESW, where things are shared and constantly changing hands, and many bodies and minds are inextricably contributing to everyone’s experience and making process.
7am - 9pm Viewable daily from the street.
Méabh Breathnach:
Breathnach (b. 1996, Ireland) graduated from the Sculpture and Environmental Art department at the Glasgow School of Art, in 2019, and a masters in Ceramics at Konstfack University of the Arts, Craft and Design in Stockholm, in 2025. They have exhibited in Glasgow’s Pollok House, House for an Art Lover and in the Royal Scottish Academy’s New Contemporaries exhibition. They have been awarded the Sir William Gillies Bequest (RSA), Creative Scotland’s Visual Artist and Craft Makers Award, and the Young Scot Nurturing Young Talent Fund.
Image: Méabh Breathnach, Minor Monuments (installation view), 2020.
Image credit: Sean Patrick Campbell.
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