Fruitmarket Segments

Where We Meet Land

A panel discussion between the moving image artists who contributed to the Fruitmarket show Where We Meet Land - environment and ecology in artists’ moving image. Fergus

James Hutton: Ilana Halperin, Karine Polwart and more in conversation

Artists Ilana Halperin and Louise Bennetts, writer and performer Karine Polwart, and soil scientist Colin Campbell (Chief Executive of the James Hutton Institute) discuss

Ilana Halperin

Artist Ilana Halperin in conversation with Fruitmarket director Fiona Bradley. Ilana Halperin (b.1973, New York; lives and works in Glasgow) thinks deeply about our rela

Jaune Quick-to-See Smith

A conversation between Neal Ambrose-Smith and Dr. Maryam Ohadi-Hamadani about the artist, activist, educator and curator Jaune Quick-to-See Smith and Fruitmarket’s new ex

Holly Davey

A conversation between Holly Davey and Ruth Bretherick, Fruitmarket’s Research and Public Engagement Curator, discussing Davey’s 2024 exhibition The Unforgetting. Holly

Mike Nelson

Mike Nelson in conversation with Fruitmarket Director Fiona Bradley about his exhibition Humpty Dumpty, a transient history of Mardin earthworks, low rise. The show use

Emma Hart and Ali Smith

A conversation between artist Emma artist and novelist Ali Smith from 2018, including a reading by Ali Smith of a short story inspired by visits to Emma Hart's studio.

Andrew O'Hagan on Lee Lozano and Muriel Spark

Andrew O’Hagan and Fruitmarket Director Fiona Bradley discuss the links between Lee Lozano and Dame Muriel Spark. Their conversation, titled ‘Self-Sabotage’, explored th

EAF Assembly: Women and the built environment

A panel conversation between Voices of Experience (Suzanne Ewing, Jude Barber and Nicola McLachlan) and architect Kirsty Maguire. Voices of Experience is a collaborative

On Mike Nelson: David Grinly and David Moore in conversation

On Mike Nelson: David Grinly and David Moore in conversation    David Grinly (Stills) and David Moore (Edinburgh College of Art) discuss Mike Nelson’s new work for Frui

Briony Fer on Martin Creed

A 2010 lecture by curator and art historian Briony Fer on ‘oneness’ and ‘noneness’ in the work of Martin Creed. Martin Creed is one of Britain’s most highly-regarded and

Stan Douglas

A conversation between Canadian artist Stan Douglas and Fruitmarket director Fiona Bradley. Stan Douglas is known for films, photographs and installations which use new

Gabriel Orozco

A panel discussion from 2013, between artist Gabriel Orozco, curator Briony Fer and art historian Benjamin Buchloh, chaired by Fruitmarket’s director Fiona Bradley. Gabr

Karine Polwart: introducing Fruitmarket's Dr Gavin Wallace Fellow

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

Future Bourgeois: Phyllida Barlow, Elisabeth Lebovici, and Mignon Nixon in conversation

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

Tacita Dean in conversation

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.

Words and Things: celebrating fifty years of writing on art

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 Fruitmark

Mike Nelson & Simon Patterson: Print the Legend

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:

Sara Glojnarić in conversation with Kate Molleson

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

William Kentridge and Vivienne Koorland

Artists William Kentridge and Vivienne Koorland in conversation with curator Tamar Garb. The conversation was recorded at the opening of the 2016 Fruitmarket exhibition