Fruitmarket Segments

About Fruitmarket Segments

The voices and ideas of some of the most inspiring contemporary artists and creative people working today, direct from Fruitmarket in Edinburgh. Fruitmarket is a free, public space for culture in the heart of Edinburgh providing inspiration and opportunity for artists and audiences. We programme, develop and present world-class exhibitions, commissions, publications, performances, events and engagement activities, opening up the artistic process. Creativity makes space for meaning, and we create a welcoming space for people to think with contemporary art and culture in ways that are helpful to them – for free. Find out more at Fruitmarket.co.uk

Publisher

Fruitmarket

Category

arts · society & culture

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

30 Jul 2024

Latest episode

17 Jun 2026

Latest episodes

33 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   17 Jun 2026

   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 Carmichael, Olivia Priya Foster, Rachel McBrinn & Alison Scott, Helen McCrorie, Kadeem Oak & Jonn Gale, and Hanna Tuulikki discuss their work in relation to the themes of the exhibition. The discussion was chaired by Ruth Betherick, Research and Public Engagement Curator at Fruitmarket. An exhibition of artists’ moving image works, Where We Meet Land ran at Fruitmarket in March 2026. The selection of work included recent pieces by Scottish artists alongside that of artists from elsewhere in the UK. All were concerned with where humans meet the natural environment – how we manage it, commune with it, play in it, map and record it, mould it to our shape and use, both historically and now; and in turn how it can engulf us, and haunt us. Further details of the exhibition, including photos, are available on our online archive. A free, public space for culture in the heart of Edinburgh, Fruitmarket provides inspiration and opportunity for artists and audiences. We programme, develop and present world-class exhibitions, commissions, publications, performances, events and engagement activities, opening up the artistic process. To find out more about our current exhibition programme and upcoming events visit fruitmarket.co.uk where you can sign up for our newsletter, or follow us on  Bluesky, Instagram or TikTok.

2. 

   10 Jun 2026

   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 Hutton’s legacy in the context of contemporary creative practice. The conversation is chaired by Susanna Beaumont, curator of Earth Matters. This event was programmed as part of Earth Day  to celebrate two concurrent exhibitions that explore our place in geological time – Ilana Halperin: What Is Us and What Is Earth (Fruitmarket) and Earth Matters (Inverleith House Gallery, Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh) – in the context of the tercentenary of Scottish geologist James Hutton (1726-1797). Ilana Halperin: What Is Us and What Is Earth An exhibition of sculpture, drawing and photography from Glasgow based artist Ilana Halperin, whose art seeks to make geological time human; to map the incomprehensible vastness of geological time and the natural world through the knowable familiarity of human experience. Earth Matters (20.03.26–01.11.26. Inverleith House Gallery, Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh) Marking the tercentenary of James Hutton’s birth, Earth Matters celebrates the life of the ground-breaking Edinburgh born geologist and farmer. Exploring his writings on soil, Earth Matters is inspired by Hutton and other subsequent trailblazers who have helped challenge and change our understanding of soil. Through art and craft, dating from the 18th century to the present-day, work by over thirty artists and makers illuminates the vital beauty and brilliance of the earth beneath our feet. Funded jointly with the Edinburgh Geological Society and Design Exhibition Scotland. Photos and video of What is Us and What is Earth are available on our online archive. Fruitmarket produced a book to accompany the show. Writing by Paul Bonaventura, Catriona McAra with Claire Cousins, and Stephanie Straine sheds new light on Halperin's work and career, while a sequence of letters between Ilana Halperin and friends geographer Adam Bobbette and writer Candice Chung offer personal insight into the thought processes behind this intensely beguiling body of work. The book can be ordered from our online shop, where you can also buy a limited edition lithograph print made especially by Ilana. A free, public space for culture in the heart of Edinburgh, Fruitmarket provides inspiration and opportunity for artists and audiences. We programme, develop and present world-class exhibitions, commissions, publications, performances, events and engagement activities, opening up the artistic process. To find out more about our current exhibition programme and upcoming events visit fruitmarket.co.uk where you can sign up for our newsletter, or follow us on  Bluesky, Instagram or TikTok.

3. 

   3 Jun 2026

   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 relationship to place and to the rocks that form the foundations of the Earth on which we live. What interests Halperin is the ability rocks have to tell stories about life – life that has left its mark, however minutely, in the matter of the earth. The show Ilana Halperin: What is Us and What is Earth ran at the Fruitmarket from February to May 2026. The exhibition brought together several bodies of work made over the last twenty-five years that allow us to think about the deep time of geology through the lens of the human life and body. Photos and video of What is Us and What is Earth are available on our online archive. Fruitmarket produced a book to accompany the show. Writing by Paul Bonaventura, Catriona McAra with Claire Cousins, and Stephanie Straine sheds new light on Halperin's work and career, while a sequence of letters between Ilana Halperin and friends geographer Adam Bobbette and writer Candice Chung offer personal insight into the thought processes behind this intensely beguiling body of work. The book can be ordered from our online shop, where you can also buy a limited edition lithograph print made especially by Ilana. A free, public space for culture in the heart of Edinburgh, Fruitmarket provides inspiration and opportunity for artists and audiences. We programme, develop and present world-class exhibitions, commissions, publications, performances, events and engagement activities, opening up the artistic process. To find out more about our current exhibition programme and upcoming events visit fruitmarket.co.uk where you can sign up for our newsletter, or follow us on  Bluesky, Instagram or TikTok.

Who has been a guest on Fruitmarket Segments

Names identified in recent episode analyses. Showing up to five guests.

• Karine Polwart
• Phyllida Barlow
• Elisabeth Lebovici
• Mignon Nixon
• Tacita Dean

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