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Talbot Rice Gallery

Name: Talbot Rice Gallery
Address: Old College, Edinburgh, EH89YL, GB
Telephone: +441316502210
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The public art gallery of The University of Edinburgh, Talbot Rice Gallery presents original and relevant exhibitions within a unique historical context. The exhibitions exemplify creativity and ambition, seen through a distinctive programme of Scottish and International artists, with informed interpretation and lively educational events.

20/08/2026

Little Creative Morning: Wind Chimes of the Universe ✨

A playful, hands-on family workshop with artist-educator Fibi Cowley (fibi cowley) 🌿🎐

Inspired by AnneHardy / Feelings, families will create their own unique wind chimes using found and foraged materials from shells and stones to twigs, seeds and other natural treasures ☺️

Bring along any found objects you’d like to include, and join us for a creative morning of making, listening and experimenting together.

📆 Sat 29 August, 10am
🎟️ Free, book via link in bio

18/08/2026

Introducing our second introductory reel for Anne Hardy / Feelings ✨

Anne Hardy on Marfa, Texas: ”There’s not really any facilities or supplies there in terms of making art. So I worked primarily with found materials and wtih earth and light, natural light, to really think about what was the absolute minimum that I needed for my work.”

Keep your eyes peeled for part three of our introduction to the exhibition, coming soon, or check out the full exhibition now at trg.ed.ac.uk 📲

Anne Hardy / Feelings
📆 Until 27 September
🔗 More info via link in bio

13/08/2026

Take a closer look at Anne Hardy's exhibition at Talbot Rice Gallery with the first of our introductory reels 🌠

"Figures in sculpture have long possessed the ability to take flight in the imagination: from the tension of a body in contrapposto poised to uncoil, or a futurist form capturing movement through space. Through subtle scenography and immersive spatial composition, we encounter Hardy’s sculptural beings in a world that is, in her words, “sentient” – responsive, reverent and alive with energy." - Director of Talbot Rice Gallery Tessa Giblin, Exhibition guide

Anne Hardy / Feelings
📆 Until 27 September
🔗 More info via link in bio

10/08/2026

Just announced! Talbot Rice Gallery’s festival book sale 📚

To celebrate Edinburgh’s festival season, we’re offering 50% off selected exhibition catalogues in the gallery from 8 - 30 August.

Featuring publications from El Anatsui, Céline Condorelli, Jesse Jones, Angelica Mesiti, Emeka Ogboh (including the accompanying vinyl) Stephen Sutcliffe and Samson Young.

✨ And more good news: We are now open seven days a week throughout the Edinburgh Festivals ✨

⏰ Monday - Sunday, 10am–5pm
📍 Until 30 August

More time to see Anne Hardy’s exhibition, pick up a book (or two), and take a break from the festival crowds.

See you in the gallery 👋

07/08/2026

A huge thank you to everyone who joined us today for our British Sign Language (BSL) tour of Anne Hardy's exhibition as part of Edinburgh Deaf Festival🧏

We offer a BSL tour for every exhibition at Talbot Rice Gallery creating opportunities to explore and discuss our exhibitions in BSL 💕

👀 Keep an eye on our programme for details of upcoming BSL tours

06/08/2026

Over the past four weeks, a group of young people aged 15 - 19 from Impact Arts have been working with Talbot Rice Gallery to create an exhibition in response to AnneHardy’s work ✨

The project has culminated in a mini exhibition, All Seeing I, which is open to the public today from 1 – 3pm in our Round Room 👁️

We’d love for you to come along, explore the exhibition, and say hello 👋

27/07/2026

A quieter way to experience 💛

Our Sensory Friendly Mornings offer a more relaxed gallery environment, with sensory adjustments, free sensory kits and resources to help you plan your visit.

📅 28 July, 27 August and 12 September
🕙 10am – 12pm
🎟 Free, tickets via link in bio

Everyone is welcome. Find out more via the link in our bio.

21/07/2026

Sensory friendly mornings just announced 😊

📆 Tuesday 28 July
📆 Thursday 27 August
📆 Saturday 12 September

These sessions are designed to prioritise the sensory needs of autistic people, other neurodivergent people, those with additional sensory support needs, or anyone else who may prefer a more relaxed experience of the gallery 🤗

🎧 Sensory kits are available, containing: a stress ball, ear defenders, a traffic light fan, a fidget toy, a magnifying glass torch and an emotion fan

🗺️ A visual storyboard and sensory map helps you navigate the gallery and highlights any elements that may impact your sensory experience

🔗 Free tickets via link in bio
📸 by Angus Mill © Anne Hardy

16/07/2026

Now open! Be among the first to experience Anne Hardy / Feelings ✨

British Irish artist Anne Hardy has transformed Talbot Rice Gallery's iconic Georgian Gallery into a new installation, illuminated by flickering light sculptures and a newly commissioned sonic landscape. A series of sculptural "beings" inhabit a world where communication is imagined as something transmitted through gesture, material, vibration and energy.

📆 Until 27 September 2026
📸 by Angus Mill

→ Supported by College of Art at the University of Edinburgh, Scotland , Henry Moore Foundation and presented in association with Edinburgh International Festival and part of Edinburgh Art Festival

26/06/2026

📣 Anne Hardy’s solo exhibition is now open!

British artist annehardy has transformed Talbot Rice Gallery’s iconic Georgian Gallery into a new installation entitled ‘Feelings’. Throughout the exhibition, Hardy considers the growing presence of artificial intelligence and a changing climate in everyday life, while reflecting on the intuitive knowledge, instincts and experiences that have shaped human existence over millennia.

Newly created for this exhibition, a group of enigmatic figures, ‘beings’, inhabit the space. Charged with presence, they embody both the inherited wisdom of ancient ritual and the uncertain impact of emerging technology.

A newly commissioned soundscape fills the gallery with traces of an evolving world. Fragments of wind moving through dry grasses, rain striking concrete and distant birdsong are combined with electric signals, shifting frequencies and synthetic tones. The installation is illuminated by flickering light sculptures, with movement activated by weather data received from Marfa, a city in the high desert of West Texas where Hardy first developed the sculptures that evolved into this body of work.

Presented in association with Edinburgh International Festival and forming part of Edinburgh Art Festival’s programme.

🎟️ Free Entry
📍 Talbot Rice Gallery Edinburgh
🗓️ Until 27 September
🔗 More info via link in bio
📸 Anne Hardy portrait, photo: Neil Hanna
📸 Anne Hardy ‘Feelings’, installation with quadraphonic audio and lighting that responds to meteorological data, Talbot Rice Gallery, 2026. Photo: Angus Mill © Anne Hardy. Courtesy Talbot Rice Gallery, University of Edinburgh and Maureen Paley, London.

→ Supported by Edinburgh College of Art Creative Scotland Henry Moore Foundation Grants
→ Presented in association with Edinburgh International Festival and part of Edinburgh Art Festival

Address

Old College
Edinburgh
EH89YL

Opening Hours

Monday	10am - 5pm
Tuesday	10am - 5pm
Wednesday	10am - 5pm
Thursday	10am - 5pm
Friday	10am - 5pm
Saturday	10am - 5pm
Sunday	10am - 5pm

Telephone

+441316502210

Website

http://www.trg.ed.ac.uk/

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