Permanent Exhibition
Courtyard Commission 2024: A Shift in Perception
Susa Joy Joy
'When I think of TRANSFORMATION my thoughts immediately take me to the beauty of our minds ability to transform emotions – for better or worse – due to how we choose to think. We all know it can... [more]
Permanent Exhibitions
Permanent Exhibition
Some of Summerhall
Will Knight
Will Knight’s background in Architecture has instilled in him the importance of people and place, and the significance that one’s environment, has on their understanding of community and... [more]
Permanent Exhibition
Tarogramma
Damien Cifelli
Damien Cifelli is a multidisciplinary artist whose work explores the fictitious land of Tarogramma, a hidden world that explorers have long searched for in vain.His work is focused on fictional... [more]
Permanent Exhibition
You Are Magic
Pilar Garcia de Leaniz
Pilar Garcia de Leaniz is a freelance award-winning illustrator and graphic designer and teaching fellow at Edinburgh College of Art.Leaniz' works stem from a belief in the link between... [more]
Permanent Exhibition
The Bone Library
Jenni Fagan
Jenni Fagan was the Gavin Wallace Fellowship writer in residence at Summerhall from February 2019 to February 2020. During the Fellowship, she worked on a new book of poetry, The Bone Library, and a... [more]
Permanent Exhibition
Protest Mask Project
Jane Frere
The CAT - standing for Creative, Aesthetic Transgression - came first as a social media experiment for the selfie generation. Frere's cat masks have travelled from China and Iran, across Europe to... [more]
Permanent Exhibition
Meena Bazaar 2017
Urdu Park: Axial Margins
Meena Bazaar is a collaborative work by nine artists (Bina, Parveen, Rabina, Reshma, Ritu, Sabina, Sabrun, Shehzadi, Sunita) – homeless women living with their children in a government-run night... [more]
Permanent Exhibition
Permanent Exhibitions
The Odyssey
John Kindness
John Kindness presents a series of works based on Homer's epic.Inspired by James Joyce's version of the Odyssey, Ulysses, Kindness draws on the detailed nature of the writing to inform the... [more]
Permanent Exhibition
Paintings by Nihad Al Turk
Nihad Al Turk
Many of Nihad Al Turk's deeply psychological compositions, informed by readings in literature and philosophy, can be read as allegorical self-portraits.Central to his work are the thematic... [more]
Permanent Exhibition
Wall Drawing No. 1
Roger Elliot
Wall Drawing No.1 explores the perception of the expressive potential of rational structures. It is not to be stood in front of, but rather moved around, from right to left and then back again. By... [more]
Permanent Exhibition
Courtyard Commission 2023: High Hopes
Nathan Price
2023’s courtyard commission has been awarded to recent graduate Nathan Price, a mixed media installation artist based in Scotland. Price’s work captures an intense feeling of fun, excitement and... [more]
Permanent Exhibition
Feminine Futures
Curated by Adrien Sina
Avant-garde expressive & abstract dance‘Feminine Futures’ exhibitions explore dance history in the feminine during the first half of the 20th century, unfolding new research perspectives... [more]
Permanent Exhibition
The Demarco European Art Foundation
For over half a century Richard Demarco has been closely involved with the Edinburgh International Festival. As an artist, gallery director, conference organiser and teacher, he has been a potent... [more]