Fruitmarket Gallery

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Fruitmarket Gallery

45 Market Street

Edinburgh, EH1 1DF

Phone: 0131 225 2383

Website: www.fruitmarket.co.uk

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Opening times: Mon–Sat 11am–6pm; Sun noon–5pm.

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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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Independent shopping guide: Books

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

28 Mar 2011

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…

Events at Fruitmarket Gallery (45 Market Street, Edinburgh)

3 events at this location.

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DesignMarket
Location	Date	Tickets
	An arts market encompassing furniture, graphic design, homewares and fashion from the best designers as selected by the Fruitmarket, and taking over all of the gallery's spaces for the weekend. View full details
Fruitmarket Gallery	13 Jul–15 Jul Fri 5–8pm; Sat 11am–6pm; Sun noon–5pm	Free

Dieter Roth: Diaries
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	The artist Dieter Roth (1930–98) began as a constructivist, but was galvanised by the social and artistic upheaval of the 1960s into reinventing himself as a multi-media, multi-art renaissance man, producing sculptures, books, pictures and writings. This exhibition focuses on his diaries, which he used to keep appointments but also to write down ideas and poems, as a sketchbook and as a place to keep photos. He exhibited in the legendary Strategy: Get Arts from the 1970 Edinburgh Festival and… View full details
Fruitmarket Gallery	2 Aug–26 Aug Mon–Sun 10am–7pm 27 Aug–14 Oct Mon–Sat 11am–6pm; Sun noon–5pm	Free

Tony Swain: Drowned Dust, Sudden Word
Location	Date	Tickets
	New painted collages, incorporating newspaper, from the Irish-born, Glasgow-based artist. View full details
Fruitmarket Gallery	15 May–8 Jul Mon–Sat 11am–6pm; Sun noon–5pm	Free