Collective Gallery

Collective Gallery is a contemporary art gallery in Edinburgh, Scotland, situated on Calton Hill, in the former City Observatory and City Dome. It offers a programme of exhibitions, guided walking tours, audio walking tours, and events. A core element of the gallery's work is in supporting new work by artists who are at a pivotal stage in their career. Its current Director is Kate Gray.[1]

Collective Gallery in its temporary buildings on Calton Hill 2014-18

History

Collective Gallery was established in 1984[2] and it was located on Cockburn Street in Edinburgh until 2014, when it relocated to Calton Hill. It moved to a temporary space in 2013 and fundraised to develop and restore the Calton Hill site in partnership with City of Edinburgh Council. In 2015, Collective took over detailed design work of the site after Malcolm Fraser Architects went into liquidation[3] and they opened the new site in November 2018. It includes the renovated City Observatory and City Dome, and two new buildings: the Hillside, an exhibition space; and the Lookout, a restaurant run by Gardener's Cottage. The landscaping of the site was developed with Harrison Stevens Landscape Architects, and makes the site fully accessible.[4] A new permanent sculptural work, Turns, by Tessa Lynch, was commissioned a part of the landscaping.[5]

Programming

Since it was founded, Collective Gallery has supported the work of emerging artists, which it continues through its core artist development accelerator Satellites Programme.[6] Past participants of the Satellite Programme include Hardeep Pandhal. It hosted feminist academic Silvia Federici in 2018.[7]

Since its move to Calton Hill, Collective Gallery has engaged with the history of the site with its Observers' Walks, a series of audio walks created by artists including Ruth Ewan & Astrid Johnston, Bedwyr Williams, Tris Vonna-Michell, Patrick Staff, James N Hutchinson (Lothian Blind Ramblers), and Catherine Payton.[8][9] Collective Gallery now uses its location to inform its programming, using contemporary art as a prism through which to think about astronomy and science.[10] An example of such a project is Alexandra Laudo's How to Observe a Nocturnal Sky.[11]

References
  1. "Collective Consciousness: Collective Gallery returns - The Skinny". www.theskinny.co.uk. Retrieved 18 January 2021.
  2. "Collective Consciousness: Collective Gallery returns - The Skinny". www.theskinny.co.uk. Retrieved 18 January 2021.
  3. Marrs, Colin (9 October 2015). "Collective takes over on Malcolm Fraser observatory scheme". The Architects’ Journal. Retrieved 18 January 2021.
  4. "Collective, Calton Hill". www.collectivearchitecture.com. Retrieved 18 January 2021.
  5. "Tessa Lynch Turns". Collective. Retrieved 18 January 2021.
  6. "Satellites Programme". Collective. Retrieved 18 January 2021.
  7. "Silvia Federici, Collective, 2018 – Outset". Retrieved 18 January 2021.
  8. "Patrick Staff interview: EAF show Observers' Walks - The Skinny". www.theskinny.co.uk. Retrieved 18 January 2021.
  9. "Observers' Walks Homepage". Collective. Retrieved 18 January 2021.
  10. "Patrick Staff interview: EAF show Observers' Walks - The Skinny". www.theskinny.co.uk. Retrieved 18 January 2021.
  11. "Alexandra Laudo: How to Observe a Nocturnal Sky, 2019 | Centre d'Art Contemporani de Barcelona". www.barcelona.cat. Retrieved 18 January 2021.
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