Fruitmarket Segments

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...

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 given place in mind. The...

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 objects, the so-called test pieces, were made in a...

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 Scotland. He worked with mat...

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 speaks to working and...

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 1970s to now, and examined her work as exemplary in arti...

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 something: they hang, heap,...

Programmed alongside Daniel Silver: Looking at the Fruitmarket, Edinburgh (11 June – 25 Sep 2022), this conversation explores space, sculpture and the audience encounter. Silver was taught by Barlow at the Slade School of Fine Art, London, and this conversation emerged from their professional and artistic relationship. As Fruitmarket Director, Fiona Bradley says, ‘Daniel mentioned having bumped in...