Fruitmarket Segments

A mix of speech, music and song from Karine Polwart, introducing the plans for her 2025/26 writing residency with Fruitmarket.

Karine Polwart is a writer, musician, and storyteller whose work evokes a richness of place, hidden histories, scientific enquiry and folklore.

She has been selected as the recipient of the 2025/25 Dr Gavin Wallace Fellow...

A panel discussion on Louis Bourgeois featuring British sculptor Phyllida Barlow, and art historians Elisabeth Lebovici and Mignon Nixon, chaired by Fruitmarket Director Fiona Bradley.

Louise Bourgeois is one of the greatest and most influential artists of our time. In a career spanning seven decades, from the 1940s until her death in 2010, she...

A conversation between British-European artist Tacita Dean and Fruitmarket Director Fiona Bradley, recorded in 2018 to accompany Dean’s exhibition Woman with a Red Hat.

Best known for her use of film, and her advocacy for its preservation as an artistic medium, Tacita has a wide-ranging practice that includes drawings, photographs, installation...

2024 was Fruitmarket’s fiftieth birthday. As part of our celebrations we published Words and Things, a selection of just some of the writing on art published by Fruitmarket over the decades, edited by Ruth Bretherick, the gallery’s Research and Public Engagement Curator.

To launch the book, Ruth and Fruitmarket head of publishing Elizabeth McLean were joined in conversation ...

Extracts of a conversation between artists Mike Nelson and Simon Patterson and art historian, lecturer and writer Patricia Bickers, from the opening of Print the Legend: The Myth of the West, at Fruitmarket in 2008.

British artist Mike Nelson is known for immersive, absorbing installations assembled from the detritus of everyday lives. Often re...

A conversation recorded in 2023 between composer Sara Glojnarić and journalist and author Kate Molleson, recorded in front of a live audience at Fruitmarket’s first Deep Time festival of new music ahead of the world premiere of Sara’s piece seconds, minutes, hours, eons, - commisioned by Fruitmarket and the ensemble p.e.r.s.o.n.a.l.c.l.u.t.t.e.r.

Germany-based Croatian compo...

Artists William Kentridge and Vivienne Koorland in conversation with curator Tamar Garb.

The conversation was recorded at the opening of the 2016 Fruitmarket exhibition William Kentridge and Vivienne Koorland: Conversations in letters and lines. Curated by Garb, this exhibition brought together the work of the two prominent South African artists, mapping their artistic frien...

Curator and activist Linda Goode Bryant and Fruitmarket director Fiona Bradley discuss the art of Senga Nengudi.

This conversation was recorded in 2019, when Fruitmarket showed the first solo institutional exhibition of Nengudi’s work outside the United States.

Born in Chicago in 1943, Senga Nengudi has been a trail...

Phyllida Barlow in conversation with fellow artists with Kate Davis, Keith Wilson, Eric Bainbridge and Jon Wood. They discuss the question why make art?

This conversation accompanied the 2015 Fruitmarket exhibition Phyllida Barlow: Set, a major exhibition of new work made specially for the gallery. Further details about Set, including images and video, can be found at the Fr...

Sisters in Solidarity: The Legacy of Southall Black Sisters 

University of Edinburgh students in conversation with Pragna Patel and Meena Patel  

This episode is one of three in a series accompanying the exhibition of Sisters!, a film by Petra Bauer, at the Fruitmarket: a collaborative film, documenting a day in the life of the Southall Black Sisters, a feminist or...

University of Edinburgh students in conversation with Dr. Kirsten Lloyd and Dr. Rochelle Rowe 

This episode is one of three in a series accompanying the exhibition of Sisters!, a film by Petra Bauer at Fruitmarket. Sisters! is a collaborative film, documenting a day in the life of the Southall Black Sisters, a feminist organisation supporting Black and minoritised women in London facing domestic abuse and im...

A conversation between Swedish artist Petra Bauer and curator Frances Stacey, recorded in February 2025 during the Preview event of the Fruitmarket exhibition of the film Sisters!, on loan from the University of Edinburgh Art Collection.

This episode is one of three in a series accompanying the exhibition of Sisters!   

This was the first major exhibition in Scotland of Sisters! by Petra Bauer, who uses film to explore the interse...

Artist Karla Black in conversation with Fruitmarket Director, Fiona Bradley, discussing how Barry Le Va’s work inspires and informs her approach to materials and continues to have relevance for artists working today. This conversation, recorded in January 2025, accompanied the Fruitmarket show Barry Le Va: In a State of Flux, the first-ever major exhibition in the UK of the work of ground-breaking Ameri...

Portuguese, Berlin-based artist Leonor Antunes in conversation with Professor Briony Fer and Fruitmarket director Fiona Bradley, recorded in October 2023 to accompany Antunes’ Fruitmarket exhibition the apparent length of a floor area.

Leonor Antunes works with traditions of modernist art, architecture and design through sculpture made and displayed with the specifics of a g...

Professor Briony Fer’s keynote lecture on German-born American artist Eva Hesse, accompanying the 2009 Fruitmarket exhibition Eva Hesse: Studiowork, curated by Fer and Barry Rosen, Director of The Estate of Eva Hesse.

Throughout her career, Eva Hesse produced a large number of small, experimental works alongside her large-scale sculpture. These...

A conversation from October 2024 between Fruitmarket Director Fiona Bradley and Ibrahim Mahama, a Ghanaian artist critically acclaimed for his evocative large-scale, site-specific installations that speak to the cultural and social effects of post-colonialism and global migration.

Mahama’s 2024 Fruitmarket exhibition, Songs about Roses, was his first solo exhibition in Scotl...

Poor Things was an exhibition of sculptures made by 22 artists, working across the UK, shown at Fruitmarket in spring 2023. It was born out of conversations about art and social class that Emma Hart and Dean Kenning had together, both as friends and as artists.

Emma and Dean’s hope for Poor Things was that it might reveal the multiplicity of experiences of artists whose work...

A November 2021 conversation between Howardena Pindell and Fruitmarket Director, Fiona Bradley, about the selection of works in Howardena Pindell: A New Language at Fruitmarket.

This was Howardena Pindell’s first solo exhibition in a public organisation in the UK.

The exhibition tracked the development of Pindell’s artistic language from the 1970...

Karla Black in conversation with Fiona Bradley, Director of Fruitmarket, from September 2021. This event accompanied Karla’s 2021 exhibition, sculptures (2001–2021) details for a retrospective.

Scottish artist Karla Black makes sculptures that begin with a desire to do something. To experiment with certain materials, certain colours. In turn, the sculptures she makes do some...