Fruitmarket

15/09/2023

Jill Smith’s Zodiac Journey begins this month with Virgo.

Read her first diary entry on our website here: https://www.fruitmarket.co.uk/jill-smiths-zodiac-journey/

In 1975, Jill Smith was the first woman to take part in our exhibition programme. Now, for our 50th year, she is making Fruitmarket a new ‘ritual journey’. These journeys are Smith’s term for her works structured over a span of time by ritual actions across multiple locations chosen for their personal significance. This new journey will reference the zodiac calendar within the island landscape of Lewis and Harris that she has made her home.

Each month, we will share Smith’s diary, alongside a new photograph taken by Lewis-based photographer Mhairi Law who will travel with Smith to capture her actions as they take place throughout the year.

Image 1: Photograph by Mhairi Law of Jill Smith at Achmore stone circle
Image 2: Jill Smith’s Virgo cloth photographed by Laura Cameron-Lewis
Image 3: Jill Smith’s Virgo symbol disc

05/04/2023

Youth Arts Takeover:
Gig Night

Our Associate Artists Khadea Santi and Bea Makan have worked with support from BE United, to select a range of performers showcasing some of the best live music in Scotland. This Friday evening 7-10pm come down to hear

Link to booking in bio in the youth arts takeover link.

This free gig is for 14–25 year olds. A Dry Bar will be in operation as part of our Youth Arts Takeover 'testing' the idea of presenting music events for young people.

Thanks to for the support in helping us bring the artists together

25/02/2023

16/10/2022

05/10/2022

The Fruitmarket is recruiting for a 6 month part-time paid trainee position open to young people aged 18 – 25. The trainee will work on the Celebrate Art Youth Project working alongside a professional artist and participants aged 16–25.

The trainee must be available to work at weekly creative sessions on Fridays 12–5pm from November 2022 to April 2023. The traineeship will be paid £10.90 per hour for 5 hours per week.

The Fruitmarket aims to reach people who have been under represented in audiences, in our team and in the sector and have prioritised increasing representation of disabled people, people who are black or from POC communities.

The Fruitmarket welcomes all people no matter their age, race, gender, s*x, s*xual orientation, religion or belief, class, cultural background, disability, marital status, pregnancy or maternity status.

All staff and freelancers working with children and young people must agree to a PVG record check which will be carried out by Fruitmarket prior to commencement of the post.

Full details here: https://www.fruitmarket.co.uk/recruitment

If there is a job going at the Fruitmarket we will post about it here

30/09/2022

This weekend we open an exhibition of almost a thousand clay heads, made by participants in our Heads Up! project.

Inspired by our exhibition Daniel Silver: Looking, these small ceramics were created following a process invented by Silver. First, you sculpt a head that faces away from you, so you can feel the face, but not see it. Next, you sculpt a head while looking at yourself in a mirror rather than the clay. And finally, you sculpt a head blindfolded. Each of these methods required participants to trust their hands, to understand how they saw themselves through touch alone.

For the last three months the entire engagement programme has been focusing on making heads, with artist-led workshops for nurseries, schools, young people and community groups as well as public sessions.

Come along and see nearly 1,000 clay heads made by the hands of many and if you feel like you missed out, we have free drop-in, self-led workshops in the lower gallery all week so you can try the three head-making techniques yourself using plasticine, you can also try this at home, link in bio.

Photos: Neil Hanna

22/09/2022

We’re delighted to have been shortlisted for the Freelands Award with artist Zarina Bhimji whose exhibition will be held from next year. Working since the 1980s in photography, installation and film, Bhimji is developing a new film for the show at Fruitmarket. Made in India, it will feature, “beauty, warmth, tenderness, smells, intense colour, texture and oils”.

Good luck to all the other nominees


The winner will be announced on 30 November 2022.

19/09/2022

Daniel Silver makes sculptures that have a relationship with the human body. He came to public prominence with his 2013 Artangel project DIG, in which he created an imagined archaeological site in a derelict cinema in London, filling it with fragmented and apparently eroded figures and heads. Throughout his career, he has made work in concrete, bronze, marble, stone, wood and – most recently – clay.

This book is a celebration of Silver’s work in clay, made between 2018 and 2022 for an exhibition at Edinburgh’s Fruitmarket. It takes a close look at the work in the exhibition, and at Silver’s practice and process, with essays by Barry Schwabsky and Margrethe Troensegaard; and conversations between the artist and Mark Godfrey and Adam Philips. Ruth Clark’s photographs of the sculptures in the spaces of the Fruitmarket let us get close up to Daniel Silver: Looking, an exhibition about what it is to look, and about how looking can clear a space for us to understand ourselves as people in the world, in relation to how we look and how we live.

Authors: Fiona Bradley, Adam Phillips, Mark Godfrey, Barry Schwabsky, Daniel Silver, Margrethe Troensegaard

ISBN: 978-1-908612-63-2

245 x 290 mm portrait, hardback

152pp – full colour throughout. £25.

01/09/2022

WIN lunch for two this month at the Fruitmarket Cafe!

You and a friend could have lunch on us during September!

To enter just follow on insta
LIKE this post https://www.instagram.com/p/Ch9qckgoqea/?igshid=YmMyMTA2M2Y=,

TAG a friend and for an extra entry SHARE this post on your stories.

Lunch can be taken any time during September!

We will announce the winner on Monday 5th September and they will be notified via Instagram and email where possible.

Photos: and

28/07/2022

Come and work with us! We’re looking for Waiting Staff and a Kitchen Assistant to join our team.

Customer service is key so we are looking for friendly and approachable people as Fruitmarket waiting staff deliver a high standard of customer experience for café visitors, the Fruitmarket’s events audiences, and corporate clients.

The Kitchen Assistant must be a reliable and hard-working person who will assist the Chefs by ensuring kitchen cleanliness, maintaining kitchen organisation and carrying out basic meal preparation duties.

For more information on how to apply go to: https://www.fruitmarket.co.uk/recruitment/

26/07/2022

JOIN THE TEAM!

We're looking for a Duty Manager for an immediate start to work a minimum of 20 hours per week.

Duty Managers are based within the team of Information Assistants. They are responsible on shift for the whole building, liaising with their equivalent manager in the Café operator team, to ensure the safety of the building and those visiting or working within it. They deal with any issues and incidents that arise during their shift, and communicate information appropriately to other members of the Fruitmarket team when necessary. They have a supervisory role with Information Assistants whilst working Duty Manager shifts, supporting their performance and ensuring standards are maintained consistently. They will ideally have experience of customer service and a knowledge of and interest in contemporary art.

Duty Managers take a supporting role in the function of the Fruitmarket’s bookshop and assist with the running of events. They are key holders for the building, responsible for performing opening and closing procedures.

There is no set shift pattern; shifts are spread between daytime, evening and weekend working. Duty Managers may supplement their shifts with additional Information Assistant shifts.

Successful applicants will have proven experience of dealing with the public, and an ability to think clearly, assess situations and act using appropriate initiative.

We aim to reach people who have been under represented in audiences, in our team and in the sector and have prioritised increasing representation of disabled people, people who are black, Asian or from an ethnic minority background. Fruitmarket welcomes all people no matter their age, race, gender, s*x, s*xual orientation, religion or belief, class, cultural background, disability, marital status, pregnancy or maternity status.

DEADLINE: 02.08.22 at 1pm

Apply now: https://www.fruitmarket.co.uk/recruitment/

25/07/2022

On Saturday we held a great My Art Comes From Who I Am workshop inspired by Daniel Silver’s exhibition. It was led by artists Anne Dignan and Duncan Robertson and specifically designed for people with visual impairments.



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11/07/2022

Daniel Silver Looking continues until 25.09.22

The first exhibition in Scotland by London based artist Daniel Silver spans the Fruitmarket’s Exhibition Galleries and Warehouse and is a celebration of Silver’s recent shift to working with clay. Painted ceramic busts, figures, and abstracted totems/vessels ranging in scale from table top to over life sized are exhibited alongside new works on paper – large heads and smaller drawings that express the figure in movement.

07/07/2022

It’s a year to the day since we reopened our doors - mid pandemic! It’s been great that so many of you have visited our free, public space for culture in the heart of Edinburgh. Here’s to many more years of exhibitions, commissions, publications, performances, events and engagement activities.

29/06/2022

For his exhibition, Looking, has made some lovely photolithographs in an edition of 50. Looking 1, Looking 2 and Dancer, 2022 are available to buy on our website.

Daniel Silver (b.1972, London) studied at the Slade School of Fine Art and the Royal College of Art, and lives and works in London. In his sculptural practice – in marble, bronze, concrete, wood and now clay – he explores the human figure and asks what it feels like to live within and understand the world through a human body. His work draws upon archaeology, psychoanalysis and references modernist sculpture and painting.

Looking 1, 2022 2 colour photolithograph Edition of 50 £250 (unframed, 39 x 28 cm) £350 (framed, 45 x 35.5 x 3 cm; white painted wood frame)

Looking 2, 2022 3 colour photolithograph Edition of 50 £250 (unframed, 39 x 28 cm) £350 (framed, 45 x 35.5 x 3 cm; white painted wood frame)

Dancer, 2022 1 colour photolithograph Edition of 50 £250 (unframed, 51 x 34.5 cm) £375 (framed, 58 x 42.5 x 3 cm; white painted wood frame)

21/06/2022

On Friday 5th August during join artists Phyllida Barlow and Daniel Silver in conversation about making sculpture and giving life to material. You can join us in person or online, link to booking in bio.

That evening we will also launch our new publication Daniel Silver: Looking, with contributions by Mark Godfrey, Adam Phillips, Barry Schwabsky and Margrethe Troensegaard.

Image: Daniel Silver by Sølve Sundsbø. Phyllida Barlow by Sally Jubb.

13/06/2022

This exhibition celebrates Daniel Silver’s recent turn to clay, a material he uses not as a ceramicist, but as a sculptor. Daniel Silver: Looking is about the gaze of the artist, forming the world he sees through touch, but it is also about the eyes of the audience and of the sculptures themselves, creating connections through reciprocal observation.

Daniel Silver (b.1972, London) studied at the Slade School of Fine Art and the Royal College of Art, and lives and works in London.

In his sculptural practice – in marble, bronze, concrete, wood and now clay – he explores the human figure and asks what it feels like to live within and understand the world through a human body. His work draws upon archaeology, psychoanalysis and references modernist sculpture and painting.

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