About
The Embassy is a non-profit making artist-run gallery. The gallery holds a yearly programme of exhibitions and events, hosts video and performance nights at Edinburgh College of Art, and exhibits at off site projects. Each year we also co-ordinate the Annuale festival; a presentation of grassroots artistic activity in various venues throughout the city.
The gallery co-ordinates and presents professional practice events for students at Edinburgh College of Art in return for some funding towards the gallery’s core costs. The Embassy has also received funding from the Scottish Arts Council, ECA Trustees and the Young Scot Award.
The Embassy was founded in May 2004 by Kim Coleman, Craig Coulthard, Tommy Grace, Jenny Hogarth, Dave Maclean, Kate Owens and Catherine Stafford who had variously intitiated the other exhibiting projects Win Together Lose Together Play Together Stay Together, Magnifitat and Edinburgh College of Art Video and Performance nights. The second committee included John Farrugia, Deborah Jackson, Katie Orton, Debjani Banerjee, and Dan Brown, who were followed by Tessa Lynch, John A. Harrington, Shona Handley and Daniella Watson. Many thanks also to Oliver Herbert, Jenny Richards and Martine Foltier-Pugh.
The Embassy’s current Directors are:
Angela Beck
Norman James Hogg
Ashleigh Reid
This is a rolling committee. All directors are volunteers and are supported by a member base.
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