The Skinny's Guide to Edinburgh's Galleries

Fruitmarket
45 Market St
London-based Irish artist Eva Rothschild’s The Void Presses the Wall will be taking over the closest gallery to Waverley station this summer (10 Jul-11 Oct). Her sculptural pieces, in bronze, plaster, steel, cast or constructed, play with the relationship between audience and artwork.

City Art Centre
2 Market St
Across the road, Start from the Level (27 Jun-27 Sep) celebrates the life and legacy of Edinburgh photographer Sandra George, who spent 30 years working with communities in the city.

Stills
23 Cockburn St
Edinburgh’s original photography gallery and education space hosts a major survey of internationally renowned South African documentary and portrait photographer Jillian Edelstein (31 Jul-24 Oct) as its Edinburgh Art Festival show.

Talbot Rice Gallery
University of Edinburgh, South Bridge
British sculptor Anne Hardy presents an immersive installation transforming the Georgian galleries in the heart of the University’s Old College. (27 Jun-27 Sep).

Dovecot
10 Infirmary St
The home of weaving in Scotland presents Elizabeth Blackadder: A Life in Colour (until 14 Nov), marking the five-decade relationship between the celebrated artist and the textile studio.

Collective
City Observatory, 38 Calton Hill
The hilltop Collective gallery offers unparalleled views. This summer they’re hosting Katie Paterson’s Afterlife (until 6 Sep), a collection of nearly 200 amulets created with materials sourced from endangered landscapes and fragile ecosystems. They also present There is no beginning, as there is no end, a new solo commission by Richard Maguire (10 Jul-14 Sep).

Edinburgh Printmakers
Castle Mills, 1 Dundee St
A series of new prints and printed sculptures form Memorials to Sausage Politics (24 Jul-25 Oct), a new exhibition by Jamie Fitzpatrick exploring debates around post-colonial public statuary.

Bard. Photo: Murray Orr.

Edinburgh Sculpture Workshop
21 Hawthornvale
The summer exhibition in this buzzing Newhaven workshop complex is Esther Castle: Abundant Parts, a newly commissioned installation that evokes an otherworldly garden.

Royal Botanic Garden
Inverleith Row
Around A Tree, an evolving installation from Colombian foundation Más Arte Más Acción, is a site for gathering, dialogue and exchange.

Bard
1 Customs Wharf
The summer Bard, a magical Leith space celebrating Scottish design, present Laura Lees’ Wish You Were Here (until 18 Jul), and intricate embroidery works of monuments and tropes of Edinburgh life.

Embassy
7 Ferry Rd
Artist-run space, check their Instagram for up-to-date exhibition info.

Agitate
20 Castle Ter
An artist-run photography collective, hosting workshops, exhibitions and in-conversation events. 

Ingleby Gallery
33 Barony St
Songs of Innocence & Experience Part II celebrates the Caribbean artist Frank Walter (until 12 Sep) in the airy surrounds of this former Glasite meeting house. 

Jupiter Artland
Bonnington House, Wilkieston
On the outskirts of the city, this magical sculpture park is home to a treasure trove of site-specific artworks by an array of international artists. Their summer show Sgàire Wood: In Pride, In Piety, In Vigilance has origins in drag, fashion photography and multi-artform nightlife scenes. They also host JUPITER RISING x EAF, a one-night-only experimental music and performance party in the woods (Sat 22 Aug). 

National Galleries of Scotland
The Mound
Taking a break from their usual summer programme of Impressionist exhibitions, NGS present Catherine Opie: To Be Seen (8 Aug-1 Nov). The celebration of portraiture includes nearly 80 works featuring the American artist’s mentors and collaborators, queer communities, children, surfers, high school footballers and political crowds.

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Edinburgh Art Festival runs 14-30 Aug