{"id":474997,"date":"2026-05-30T16:58:21","date_gmt":"2026-05-30T16:58:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/474997\/"},"modified":"2026-05-30T16:58:21","modified_gmt":"2026-05-30T16:58:21","slug":"major-wendy-mcmurdo-exhibition-opens-in-edinburgh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/474997\/","title":{"rendered":"Major Wendy McMurdo exhibition opens in Edinburgh"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n  <img   width=\"100%\"\/>Artist Wendy McMurdo in The Digital Mirror. (Image: Stewart Armitt)\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  The exhibition is the largest solo showcase to date by the scottish photographer and features more than 50 works, including previously unseen photographs and rarely displayed digital animations.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Many of the featured works were created between 1995 and 2018 during a period of technological change.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  The exhibition examines childhood, learning and imagination through McMurdo\u2019s experimental use of photography and digital technology.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  <img   width=\"100%\"\/>Artist Wendy McMurdo in The Digital Mirror (Image: Stewart Armitt)\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  One of the centrepieces is Indeterminate Objects (Classrooms), a large-scale moving image installation combining photography with 3D animated forms inspired by video games such as Minecraft.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  The exhibition also pairs McMurdo\u2019s work with pieces from the national collection that influenced her creative practice, including The Skating Minister by Henry Raeburn and sculptures by Eduardo Paolozzi.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  <img   width=\"100%\"\/>Artist Wendy McMurdo in The Digital Mirror. (Image: Stewart Armitt)\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  The exhibition coincides with the bicentenary of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.royalscottishacademy.org\/?ref=ed_direct\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Royal Scottish Academy,<\/a> marking McMurdo\u2019s distinction as the first female photographer elected to the academy.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Admission is free and the exhibition will open daily from 10am until 5pm.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Wendy McMurdo said: &#8220;With new legislation focussing on the impact of online culture on children\u2019s lives, now is a particularly apt time to revisit this body of work.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  &#8220;It is an invitation to celebrate play and creativity and to consider the wider implications of new technologies on the lives of young people.&#8221;\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Ben Harman, senior curator of photography and lead curator of the exhibition at the National Galleries of Scotland, said: &#8220;We\u2019re excited to have this opportunity to celebrate a pioneering body of photographic work by an artist based in Edinburgh with an internationally-renowned reputation in the world of contemporary photography.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Artist Wendy McMurdo in The Digital Mirror. (Image: Stewart Armitt) The exhibition is the largest solo showcase to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":474998,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[307,304,305,306,308,93,61,60],"class_list":["post-474997","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-arts-and-design","tag-arts","tag-arts-and-design","tag-artsanddesign","tag-artsdesign","tag-design","tag-entertainment","tag-ie","tag-ireland"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/474997","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=474997"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/474997\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/474998"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=474997"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=474997"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=474997"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}