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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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📣 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