Stop & Examine

Some final thoughts from the team at RAIL @RAIL Send contributions to: mike.wright@bauermedia.co.uk An exhibition inspired by the colonial railways of Ghana has found its “perfect site” in a gallery above Edinburgh Waverley station. Artist Ibrahim Mahama’s first solo exhibition in Scotland will feature large-scale drawings, sculpture and installations drawing on Ghana’s rail network and its relationship to the country’s people. Known for working with found objects, Mahama’s exhibition will also feature repurposed material from defunct railway infrastructure. Ghana’s railways were built by British engineers to transport minerals and cocoa around what was then the Gold Coast. But much of the network is now obsolete. Housed in Waverley’s 1938-built fruit and vegetable market, Fruitmarket opened as a gallery in 1974 after the station’s markets moved out of town. It is…