The current exhibition at Talbot Rice Gallery in Edinburgh, The Recent, looks at the concepts of geological, evolutionary, human and environmental time and explores what art can do to stretch the human imagination, examining what humans can do ‘to situate our actions and impact in a deeper, future-oriented timeframe.’ This is especially pertinent to Edinburgh, where geological evidence such as its extinct volcano, and geologists such as James Hutton and Charles Lyell (whose journals and geological specimens feature in the exhibition), developed their theories, the latter’s deep time concept reflected in many of the artists’ works.

Curated by Talbot Rice Gallery Director, Tessa Giblin, the exhibition ties-in with the recent Deep Time music festival and artist Sarah Wood’s Project Paradise at the city’s Fruitmarket, and the University’s Centre for Research Collection’s exhibition Time Traveller: Charles Lyell at Work , and features the work of Egl? Budvytyt?, Helen Cammock, Dorothy Cross, Regina de Miguel, Mikala Dwyer, Nicholas Mangan, Angelica Mesiti (whose work is pictured), Otobong Nkanga, Katie Paterson, Micol Roubini and Simon Starling.