Fruitmarket Bookshop

Fruitmarket Bookshop Our bookshop offers thoughtfully selected titles that endeavour to encompass the world of contemporary writers, thinkers, researchers, and makers

04/12/2025

Tomorrow night 05.12.25. 6.30–8.30pm come and join us for a special pre Christmas sale in the bookshop and café. Browse the tables, pick up a gem (or three) and enjoy a glass of mulled wine from our café bar while you do it.

Future Makers is up and running, and we’ve launched our first few collections. Future Makers is a year long programme th...
18/12/2024

Future Makers is up and running, and we’ve launched our first few collections. Future Makers is a year long programme that invites 12 local makers and designers to create responses to our exhibition programme. Working with makers and designers not only invests in people and community, but also is sustainability, and offers our audience a chance to connect with our exhibitions and events meaningfully.

1. Rachel Ashcroft .of.the.woods responding to Barry LeVa. Ashcroft has created vases that have been hand carved and then burnt to create a dark, inky black. The woodworker worked with the nature of the wood, and used an action (burning) in parallel to Barry LeVa’s work with glass.

2. Rachel Ashcroft cont’d

3. Holly Allen .inch.nailsss in response to Barry LeVa. Allen has taken LeVa’s use of mark making and documentation of chance and applied them to the surface of a set of nails. Each set comes in a tiny art crate, has 10 nails, a cuticle pusher, nail glue, and a small nail file.

4. Dominique Saag in response to our upcoming Portia Zvavhera’s exhibition. Saag was inspired by the way the Zimbabwean artist depicted dreams with textile motifs. Saag experimented with eco-resins to create a technique to suspend crocheted panels into vases and bowls that look as if they are underwater.

5. Ames Truscott in response to Barry LeVa’s glass-based. The glass blower has created baubles that have been blown traditionally, and then submerged to create a cracked effect in the structure of the glass. The cracking of the glass parallels LeVa’s shattered glass pieces.

6. Second Cashmere in response to this year’s Deep Time, a experimental music festival. This year’s Deep Time explored Basquiat and John Cage’s show in the 80’s. Second Cashmere created a template to evoke the paint on a cashmere jumper Basquiat wore. They experimented and perfected a process to transfer the pattern to hats and gloves made of second hand cashmere panels.

All products are available in our shop! Though some have already sold through! We will restock in the new year though!

Celebrate the season with good books, design-led objects and delightful holiday decor.If you’re starting your Christmas ...
19/11/2024

Celebrate the season with good books, design-led objects and delightful holiday decor.

If you’re starting your Christmas shopping is here to make a day of it! Beautiful gifts, great food, and an exhibition to discover.

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45 Market Street
Edinburgh
EH11DF

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Monday 10am - 6pm
Tuesday 10am - 6pm
Wednesday 10am - 6pm
Thursday 10am - 6pm
Friday 10am - 6pm
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