Edinburgh Festival Guide

Fruitmarket Gallery

Fruitmarket Gallery
45 Market Street, Edinburgh, EH1 1DF
  • Telephone 0131 225 2383
  • Opening times Mon–Sat 11am–6pm; Sun noon–5pm.
  • Website www.fruitmarket.co.uk

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Located behind Waverley train station, this world-class gallery showcases work by many of the leading names in contemporary art. An all-glass frontage allows passing pedestrians to observe the lower level of the gallery beyond the bookshop and café, and brings natural light to the top floor. The gallery's output includes exhibitions, commissions, interpretation, education and publishing in both print and electronic forms. Notable exhibitions include works by Lucy Skaer and Fred Tomaselli, and a retrospective of the Turner Prize-winning Glasgow artist Martin Creed.

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Gabriel Orozco

Major exhibition of work by the Mexican artist, taking his painting The Eye of Go as a starting point, and featuring a series of large works on acetate which have never before been exhibited. Orozco is concerned not so much with what art should be but why it exists at all, and his practice never stands still – he'll cite…

Thu 1 Aug

Free / 0131 225 2383

Part of Edinburgh Art Festival.

Fri 2 Aug

Free / 0131 225 2383

Part of Edinburgh Art Festival.

Sat 3 Aug

Free / 0131 225 2383

Part of Edinburgh Art Festival.

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Independent shopping guide: Books

28 Mar 2011

Analogue, The Fruitmarket Gallery and Monorail are among our favourite hangouts

Some of our best and most enjoyable timewasting has been done in the independent bookshops and record stores of Edinburgh and Glasgow. So – apologies go out to the recently relocated, ever excellent Analogue Books with its unique collection of locally…

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