Edinburgh Visual Arts
Discover exhibitions spanning contemporary practice, historic collections and public art.
This collection gives users the first visual-arts route through Edinburgh: civic exhibitions, contemporary practice and public-art contexts that make the city legible beyond performance.
8 venues
City Art Centre
A civic art gallery for exhibitions and Scottish art.
City Art Centre is an Edinburgh art gallery on Market Street, presenting exhibitions, Scottish art and visual arts programmes.
Explore venue →Fruitmarket
A contemporary art institution with exhibitions and talks.
Fruitmarket is an Edinburgh contemporary art gallery on Market Street, presenting exhibitions, contemporary art and artist talks.
Explore venue →Collective
A Calton Hill centre for contemporary art, sculpture and commissions.
Collective is an Edinburgh contemporary art centre at the City Observatory on Calton Hill, presenting contemporary art, sculpture, public art and artist commissions.
Explore venue →Dovecot Studios
A working tapestry studio since 1912, in a converted Victorian swimming baths, pairing a live weaving floor visible to visitors with contemporary art, craft and design exhibitions.
Dovecot Studios is a working tapestry studio founded in 1912, housed since 2008 in a converted Victorian swimming baths near the Royal Mile, combining a live weaving floor visible…
Explore venue →Edinburgh Printmakers
Britain's first open-access print studio, now one of the largest printmaking spaces in Europe in a former Fountainbridge rubber factory — printmaking as a living, expanding practice.
Founded in 1967 as the first open-access print studio in Britain, Edinburgh Printmakers moved in 2019 into Castle Mills, a former rubber factory in Fountainbridge, now one of the l…
Explore venue →Stills
Scotland's dedicated home for photography since 1977, with free exhibitions alongside a working darkroom and digital studio open to anyone who completes an induction.
Stills has been Scotland's dedicated home for photography since 1977, when it began as the Scottish Photography Group, running free exhibitions of historic and contemporary work al…
Explore venue →National Galleries of Scotland
Scotland's foremost collection of historic Scottish and European fine art on The Mound — Raeburn and Ramsay through to Titian, Rembrandt and Gauguin, for visitors happy to look slowly.
The National, on The Mound between Edinburgh's Old and New Towns, holds Scotland's foremost collection of historic Scottish and European fine art, from Raeburn and Ramsay to Titian…
Explore venue →Edinburgh Sculpture Workshop
An artist-run Newhaven organisation with large-scale fabrication facilities — for visitors interested in how sculpture actually gets made, not just displayed.
Edinburgh Sculpture Workshop is an artist-run organisation founded in 1986 by Edinburgh College of Art sculpture graduates, providing large-scale fabrication facilities (wood, meta…
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