Preview: 12th August 2010 Exhibition runs 13th August - 26th September 2010 Sir Eduardo Paolozzi RA (1924-2005) was one of Scotland's most inventive and prolific artists of the 20th Century. Born in Leith, Edinburgh, Paolozzi studied at Edinburgh College of Art and The Slade School of Art, London. Paolozzi's works, in part influenced by Dada and Surrealism, often featured collaged pictorial subjects drawn from film, magazines and commercial packaging. After 1973 his use of mass media imagery was replaced by more abstract iconography inspired by the graphic notation of sound, and later by the work of the mathematician and wartime code-breaker Alan Turing. Paolozzi's innovative use of collage translates well onto screenprint, which readily retains the collage-like effect within a larger-scale graphic work. Paolozzi was a master of the screenprinting technique and used it to create many of his most famous and memorable prints of the 1960s. These collage-based silkscreened images are among the finest examples of Pop Art, a style that he was instrumental in shaping. In addition to the range of screenprints from 1967-2005 this exhibition will feature four etchings produced at the Glasgow Print Studio workshop in 1990. Image: Eduardo Paolozzi, Turing 6 (2000), screenprint in colours, 76 x 56 cm, signed in pencil and numbered from the edition of 50. From The Turing Suite. Preview: 12th August 2010 Exhibition runs 13th August - 26th September 2010 The Independent Group co-founded by Eduardo Paolozzi in London in 1952, is regarded as the precursor to the pop art movement in the UK. From here the term pop art was coined for an art form centering on mass advertising, movies, product design, comic strips, science fiction and technology. Ten years on Ken Russell produced Pop goes the Easel. Cutting-edge in content and form, the 44-minute film is an elaborate, rapidly cut rhythmic kaleidoscope of images of film and pop stars, fashion magazines, fast cars, politicians, the space race, guns and girls. Today, pop culture continues to inspire and influence artists; this exhibition features a selection of artists who have created work in the Pop idiom. Image: Mary in Mourning, digital print, Ashley Cook