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🎪 EAF26: Hidden histories. Transformed venues. Radical artistic voices.

The programme for the UK’s largest annual festival of visual art is now live to explore!

Returning to Edinburgh from 14—30 August, the festival is a dedicated platform for visual art during Edinburgh’s festival season. Spread across the entire city, EAF brings together 45 galleries, museums and community spaces with a programme of specially commissioned work. We showcase artists: local and global; historic and contemporary; emerging and established; and always strive to amplify intersectional voices.

We’re thrilled to partner with EAF once again, and this year we’re presenting two exhibitions during the festival:

Katie Paterson: Afterlife from 19 June – 6 September 2026

Richard Maguire: There is no beginning, as there is no end from 10 July – 13 September

The full festival programme is now live to book: with an events programme of live performance, talks from internationally acclaimed artists, community-driven workshops, and space for people to pause, gather, and reflect.

See the whole programme, explore all of the Partner Galleries, and book tickets, now at edinburghartfestival.com or at the link in our bio

Afterlife was commissioned by Creative Folkestone for Folkestone Triennial 2025, with additional support from The Shifting Foundation, Collective Edinburgh and Goethe Institut Glasgow. Exhibition Design by Zeller & Moye.

Richard Maguire: There is no beginning, as there is no end is the first exhibition in Collective’s Time + Space programme, which is supported by Creative Scotland’s Multi-Year Funding Programme.

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Katie Paterson: Afterlife Exhibition Launch

Join us to celebrate the opening of Katie Paterson’s Afterlife, a sculptural installation of nearly 200 amulets. Initially commissioned for Folkestone Triennial 2025, each amulet is created with materials sourced from endangered landscapes and fragile ecosystems, exploring themes of deep time, geology, and the environment. Drawing on centuries of cultural and spiritual traditions, Afterlife prompts us to reflect on the fragility of the natural world today.

🎟️ This event is free but ticketed – please book your spot at the link in our bio!
📅 18 June, 6–8pm
📍 Collective, Edinburgh
📷 Courtesy of the artist and Creative Folkestone. Photo by Thierry Bal

We’re hiring!

We’re looking for a Trading Manager to play a key role in developing and delivering our trading strategy, with a particular focus on our retail, hires and events income.

The role will work collaboratively to shape Collective’s commercial identity – we are interested in hearing your vision of how our trading enterprises could develop, and how we connect our charitable purpose to our commercial offer.

We are looking for someone with:
⭐️ At least 3 years’ experience in retail, hires, hospitality, tourism, events or a related industry
⭐️ A track record of developing and delivering commercial strategy

🔗 Follow the link in bio for the full job description and to apply on Submittable
📅 Deadline: 5pm, 15 June 2026

🫀 Last weekend of Glass Delusion

It’s your last chance to see ’s Glass Delusion! The show brings together recent work with new sculpture devised specifically for our Dome gallery.

Proudfoot has a background in textiles, and often applies dressmaking techniques to the malleable medium of clay. Using tailors’ patterned paper to measure and draw each object and figure, Proudfoot then creates a template to build them in clay. The outcome is a stylised combination of both flat and three dimensional figures.

Glass Delusion closes this Sunday 24 May.

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📣 Our Dome Gallery is temporarily closed today for essential maintenance. We will share an update when the gallery, currently showing Paloma Proudfoot: Glass Delusion, is reopened.

🎊 Play Sunday

Join new Lead Play Artist Kat Stanley to kick of this year’s Play programme! The first session involves an afternoon of process-based making, exploring the mediums of clay and puppetry in response to Paloma Proudfoot’s exhibition Glass Delusion.

To warmup, families will get hands-on with clay, investigating its transformable qualities through messy sensory play. The main activity will explore puppetry, control, and voice. Bring Proudfoot's figures to life by creating and animating your very own paper puppet, with an invitation to imaginative play that gives your puppet a voice.

The final puppets will then be presented in a special Play exhibition in our Hillside Gallery space from 6 – 17 May 2026.

This play session is aimed towards primary-aged children. There will also be activities for younger children, such as gestural drawings and sensory clay moulding and building.

📍 Collective, Hillside Gallery and Play Shelter
📆 Sunday 3 May
⏰️ 1pm - 4pm
🎟️ Tickets: free! Reserve yours here: https://www.tickettailor.com/events/collective1/2172924

Photo: Sally Jubb

🫀 BSL Tour of Glass Delusion

Join us next week for a BSL Tour of Paloma Proudfoot's exhibition Glass Delusion, designed for Deaf visitors.

This Deaf-led tour will be hosted by Trudi Collier and will offer BSL visitors the opportunity to learn more about the exhibition. We will have refreshments to wrap up the session, with opportunity to discuss the exhibition with Trudi and other attendees. Trudi will be joined by an interpreter for this event.

Location: Collective, City Dome Gallery 📍
Date: Thursday 16 April 📆
Time: 3.30 - 5pm ⏰️
Tickets: free! Reserve yours here: https://www.tickettailor.com/events/collective1/2115226

Find out more about accessing Collective on our website: https://www.collective-edinburgh.art/visit/accessibility

We're hiring!

We're looking for a Communications Coordinator to help communicate our programme to a wide audience. The role involves working collaboratively with the Collective team to share our work through engaging social media and web content, marketing materials and newsletters.

We are looking for someone with:
⭐️ Some experience (paid or voluntary) of social media, marketing or communications, preferably in a cultural, heritage, charity or tourism context
⭐️ Excellent communication and organisational skills

🔗 Follow the link in bio for the full job description and to apply on Submittable - https://www.collective-edinburgh.art/about/opportunities
📅 Deadline: 23 April, 5pm

We're looking for a freelance Lead Play Artist to develop and deliver four exciting Play events, responding to our 2026 programme.

We are looking for someone with:
⭐️ Some experience of running art workshops with children of primary school age
⭐️ A passion for creative play, and supporting children to access art from an early age

🔗 Find out more on our website: https://www.collective-edinburgh.art/about/opportunities
📅 Deadline: 23 March, 5pm

📸 Sally Jubb