Collective Gallery

Collective Gallery A free contemporary art space on Edinburgh's iconic Calton Hill 🔭 No pre-booking is required to visit Collective. Our winter hours are Thurs-Sun, 10am-4pm.
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Not just for when it’s raining cats and dogs... and ducks?We have a range of colourful Matisse-inspired Original Duckhea...
15/07/2026

Not just for when it’s raining cats and dogs... and ducks?

We have a range of colourful Matisse-inspired Original Duckhead umbrellas in our shop – perfect for Edinburghs unpredictable summer weather ☂️

Our next Play Saturday is coming up soon! Come along on Saturday 18 July for an afternoon of hands-on making, storytelli...
02/07/2026

Our next Play Saturday is coming up soon!

Come along on Saturday 18 July for an afternoon of hands-on making, storytelling and mysticism, inspired by our current exhibition 'Afterlife' by Katie Paterson 🌖

Our lead play artist Kat Stanley invites participants to transform into environmental guardians through crafting protective amulets from natural materials, and making costumes that pay homage to the nature around us!

🎟️Book your free ticket: https://buytickets.at/collective1/2272620

📸Image credit: Sally Jubb, 2025.

New in the shop 🖌️Artist and writer  has created natural watercolour pigments from hawthorn and rosebay willowherb colle...
24/06/2026

New in the shop 🖌️

Artist and writer has created natural watercolour pigments from hawthorn and rosebay willowherb collected from Calton Hill. This is a perfect way to take a piece of Edinburgh home with you, or a great gift for those into plant-based making 🌿

In 2025, Annie Lord led a site-specific drawing workshop as part of Collective Gallery’s Panorama programme, which took inspiration from the origins of the panorama to explore how we see, move through and understand the city today.

🛒 Pop into our shop to see our full range of products from local artists and makers.

You’re invited: Richard Maguire Exhibition Launch Join us on Thursday 9 July to celebrate the opening of Richard Maguire...
15/06/2026

You’re invited: Richard Maguire Exhibition Launch

Join us on Thursday 9 July to celebrate the opening of Richard Maguire’s There Is No Beginning, As There Is No End, the inaugural exhibition in our new Time + Space programme.

Maguire’s drawings and sculptures consider how ideas around sexuality have been shaped and weaponised through colonial histories. The exhibition will be a presentation of new work, drawing from archival imagery, religious artworks and historical representations of q***r intimacy from the Indian subcontinent.

🎟️ This event is free but ticketed – please book your spot at the link in our bio!
📅 9 July, 6–8pm
📍 Collective, Edinburgh
📷 Richard Maguire, The Premises of Stricture, 2025. Courtesy of the Artist

🎪 EAF26: Hidden histories. Transformed venues. Radical artistic voices.The programme for the UK’s largest annual festiva...
28/05/2026

🎪 EAF26: Hidden histories. Transformed venues. Radical artistic voices.

The programme for the UK’s largest annual festival of visual art is now live to explore!

Returning to Edinburgh from 14—30 August, the festival is a dedicated platform for visual art during Edinburgh’s festival season. Spread across the entire city, EAF brings together 45 galleries, museums and community spaces with a programme of specially commissioned work. We showcase artists: local and global; historic and contemporary; emerging and established; and always strive to amplify intersectional voices.

We’re thrilled to partner with EAF once again, and this year we’re presenting two exhibitions during the festival:

Katie Paterson: Afterlife from 19 June – 6 September 2026

Richard Maguire: There is no beginning, as there is no end from 10 July – 13 September

The full festival programme is now live to book: with an events programme of live performance, talks from internationally acclaimed artists, community-driven workshops, and space for people to pause, gather, and reflect.

See the whole programme, explore all of the Partner Galleries, and book tickets, now at edinburghartfestival.com or at the link in our bio

Afterlife was commissioned by Creative Folkestone for Folkestone Triennial 2025, with additional support from The Shifting Foundation, Collective Edinburgh and Goethe Institut Glasgow. Exhibition Design by Zeller & Moye.

Richard Maguire: There is no beginning, as there is no end is the first exhibition in Collective’s Time + Space programme, which is supported by Creative Scotland’s Multi-Year Funding Programme.

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Katie Paterson: Afterlife Exhibition LaunchJoin us to celebrate the opening of Katie Paterson’s Afterlife, a sculptural ...
27/05/2026

Katie Paterson: Afterlife Exhibition Launch

Join us to celebrate the opening of Katie Paterson’s Afterlife, a sculptural installation of nearly 200 amulets. Initially commissioned for Folkestone Triennial 2025, each amulet is created with materials sourced from endangered landscapes and fragile ecosystems, exploring themes of deep time, geology, and the environment. Drawing on centuries of cultural and spiritual traditions, Afterlife prompts us to reflect on the fragility of the natural world today.

🎟️ This event is free but ticketed – please book your spot at the link in our bio!
📅 18 June, 6–8pm
📍 Collective, Edinburgh
📷 Courtesy of the artist and Creative Folkestone. Photo by Thierry Bal

We’re hiring! We’re looking for a Trading Manager to play a key role in developing and delivering our trading strategy, ...
25/05/2026

We’re hiring!

We’re looking for a Trading Manager to play a key role in developing and delivering our trading strategy, with a particular focus on our retail, hires and events income.

The role will work collaboratively to shape Collective’s commercial identity – we are interested in hearing your vision of how our trading enterprises could develop, and how we connect our charitable purpose to our commercial offer.

We are looking for someone with:
⭐️ At least 3 years’ experience in retail, hires, hospitality, tourism, events or a related industry
⭐️ A track record of developing and delivering commercial strategy

🔗 Follow the link in bio for the full job description and to apply on Submittable
📅 Deadline: 5pm, 15 June 2026

🫀 Last weekend of Glass DelusionIt’s your last chance to see ’s Glass Delusion! The show brings together recent work wit...
23/05/2026

🫀 Last weekend of Glass Delusion

It’s your last chance to see ’s Glass Delusion! The show brings together recent work with new sculpture devised specifically for our Dome gallery.

Proudfoot has a background in textiles, and often applies dressmaking techniques to the malleable medium of clay. Using tailors’ patterned paper to measure and draw each object and figure, Proudfoot then creates a template to build them in clay. The outcome is a stylised combination of both flat and three dimensional figures.

Glass Delusion closes this Sunday 24 May.

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📣 Our Dome Gallery is temporarily closed today for essential maintenance. We will share an update when the gallery, curr...
06/05/2026

📣 Our Dome Gallery is temporarily closed today for essential maintenance. We will share an update when the gallery, currently showing Paloma Proudfoot: Glass Delusion, is reopened.

Address

City Observatory, 38 Calton Hill
Edinburgh
EH75AA

Opening Hours

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

Telephone

+441315561264

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