Events

Sound Ceremony | Guadalupe Maravilla

Thursday 24 October, 5pm

There are limited spaces for this unique sound ceremony by Guadalupe Maravilla 

Opening reception / In Conversation: Gabrielle Goliath | Guadalupe Maravilla

Friday 25 October, 6pm

You are warmly invited to join us for the first solo exhibitions in the UK by Gabrielle Goliath and Guadalupe Maravilla.

Doors Open Days

28 Sep - 29 Sep 2024

Talbot Rice Gallery is part of the citywide initiative to open doors to Scotland’s largest free festival that celebrates places and stories, new and old

British Sign Language (BSL) Tour

28 Sep 2024

Join us for a deaf-led tour in British Sign Language hosted by Trudi Collier: explore the works of El Anatsui, exchange and share your ideas.

Friday Tour | Paul Nugent

Friday 27 September, 12.30

This week Paul Nugent will consider international borderlands, the production and consumption of alcohol and contemporary political relationships to the idea of nationhood

Afterhours Making | Wednesday 25 September 2024

25 Sep 2024

Spend time with the artwork, meet our team, enjoy a complimentary drink and express yourself with sketching and collaging.

Curator's Tour | Tessa Giblin

25 Sep 2024

Join us for a tour of El Anatsui / Scottish Mission Book Depot Keta, with curator of the exhibition and Director of Talbot Rice Gallery, Tessa Giblin.

ECA Student Welcome Social 2024

Friday 13 September, 6pm

Join us for a student social event with a preview of the show & drinks at Talbot Rice Gallery to welcome you to the University of Edinburgh!

Creative Morning | Saturday 21 September

21 Sep 2024

Explore our current exhibition Scottish Mission Book Depot Keta by artist El Anatsui and make your own art piece using recycled materials.

Friday Tour | Victoria Ogoegbunam Okoye (cancelled)

Friday 20 September, 12.30

In this short tour, Victoria Ogoegbunam Okoye, a Lecturer in Black Geographies, will take us from a critical history of Old College to ideas about African being (ontology)

Welcome Week

09 Sep - 15 Sep 2024

It is with great pleasure that we welcome all new and returning students to Talbot Rice Gallery. During this exciting week we will host a series of tours and events.

Friday Tour | Angus MacBeth

Friday 13 September, 12.30

Focusing on mental health, this week's Friday Tour will see Angus MacBeth explore El Anatsui's work as a metaphor for clinical psychology

From raw material to gift: panel discussion with Osei Bonsu, Nana Biamah-Ofosu, Tessa Giblin and Fiona Bradley

12 September 2024, 6.30pm

Friday Tour | Francisca Anita Adom-Opare

Friday 6 September, 12.30

Built around a theme of the "visible yet invisible", Doctoral Researcher Francisca Anita Adom-Opare's tour will focus on the politics of inclusive development

Sensory Friendly Morning | Tuesday 3 September 2024

03 Sep 2024

We welcome children and adults with sensory needs to enjoy the galleries with adjusted lighting and sounds within the exhibition.

Afterhours Making | Wednesday 21 August 2024

21 Aug 2024

Spend time with the artwork, meet our team, enjoy a complimentary drink and express yourself with sketching and collaging.

Chika Okeke-Agulu Lecture

19 Aug 2024

Talbot Rice Lectures | Professor Chika Okeke-Agulu

British Sign Language (BSL) Tour

18 Aug 2024

Join us for a deaf-led tour in British Sign Language hosted by Trudi Collier: explore the works of El Anatsui, exchange and share your ideas.

Creative Morning | Saturday 17 August

17 Aug 2024

Explore our current exhibition Scottish Mission Book Depot Keta by artist El Anatsui and make your own art piece using recycled materials.

Closet for the Curious: Old College's Uneven Evolutions

From 15 to 17 August, open daily

Students on the MScR Collections and Curating Practices programme present their facilitating research into our historic spaces.

Sensory Friendly Morning | Tuesday 6 August 2024

06 Aug 2024

We welcome children and adults with sensory needs to enjoy the galleries with adjusted lighting and sounds within the exhibition.

Creative Morning | Saturday 20 July

20 Jul 2024

Explore our current exhibition Scottish Mission Book Depot Keta by artist El Anatsui and make your own art piece using recycled materials.

Sensory Friendly Morning | Tuesday 9 July 2024

09 Jul 2024

We welcome children and adults with sensory needs to enjoy the galleries with adjusted lighting and sounds within the exhibition.

Friday Tour | Sophia Lycouris

Friday 31 May, 12.30

Friday Tours provide a platform for our colleagues from different fields to share their perspectives, this week Sophia Lycouris takes us on a journey of visceral movement

Sensory Art Walk | The Animal Husband and Talbot Rice Residents

Friday 31 May, 2pm

Talbot Rice Gallery is delighted to invite you to experience a new way of exploring its current exhibitions. Join us on Friday 31 May for a Sensory Art Walk with Alena Ageeva.

Friday Tour | Cathy Dwyer

Friday 17 May, 12.30

Our Friday Tours give University colleagues a chance to reflect on exhibitions through the lens of their own specialism, this week Cathy Dwyer thinks about animal treatment, agency and status

Closet for the Curious: CRC Edition

Tuesday 23 April, 11.30 to 2pm

An opportunity to visit the University archives and explore the history of Old College through series of artifacts

Uneven Evolutions Talk Series | Simon Buck

Monday 22 April, 10 am

Going into the heart of Old College, Simon Buck shares his research on the links between the University, colonialism and enslavement

Katie Paterson | To Burn, Forest, Fire

28 Oct 2023 - 17 Feb 2024

Daily incense ceremony as part of Katie Paterson's 'To Burn, Forest, Fire'.

Friday Tour | Andrew Patrizio

Friday 16 February, 13.30pm

Part of our Friday Tours series for The Recent, this week we are joined by Andrew Patrizio who looks at eco-critical art histories 

Friday Tour | Rachel Wood

Friday 2 February, 12.30pm

Part of our Friday Tours series for The Recent, this week we are joined by palaeontologist and geologist Rachel Wood

Friday Tour | Mihaela Mihai

Friday 19 January, 12.30pm

Part of our Friday Tours series for The Recent, this week the fabulous Mihaela Mihai is back to talk about ecological emotions

Friday Tour | Danielle Celemajer

Friday 10 November, 12.30pm

We are delighted to launch a new series of Friday Tours for our new exhibition The Recent (there will be one tour each month of the exhibition, announced shorty).

Doors Open Days 2023

23 & 24 September, 10am - 4.30pm

Discover the home for contemporary art at the University of Edinburgh!

Jesse Jones In Conversation With Lawrence Abu Hamdan

23 Jun 2023

Join exhibiting artists Jesse Jones and Lawrence Abu Hamdan as they discuss their practices and ideas.

Special Event | Owning It

Friday 26 May, 6pm

A special event featuring musical performances, poetry, talks and sculpture - celebrating Lubaina Himid's "Naming the Money".

Friday Tour | Charlotte Rommerskirchen

Friday 19 May, 12.30pm

This Friday Tour looks at 'debt as a time machine' to think about how it carries forwards the inequalities of the past.

Online Artist Talk | Marwa Arsanios

Thursday 18 May, 6pm

Artist Marwa Arsanios will join us remotely to discuss her practice and the series of works, "Who is Afraid of Ideology".

Friday Tour | Owen Kelly

Friday 12 May, 12.30pm

This week's Friday Tour with Owen Jones will help us to think about debt and justice through the lens of classical philosophy.

Family Activity | The Magpie's Challenge

Saturday 22 April, all day

A special family bird hunt at Talbot Rice Gallery

Artist Talk | Cian Dayrit

Saturday 18 March, 2pm

Artist Cian Dayrit talks about his incredible, critical practice: documenting and challenging capitalism in the Philipines

Friday Tour | Stephen McDowall

Sorry - this tour has been cancelled owing to industrial action

Sorry - this tour has been cancelled owing to industrial action

Charles Esche

03 Feb 2023

Talbot Rice Lectures | Charles Esche

Friday Tour | Inge Panneels

Friday 3 February, 12.30pm

This week we explore historical and contemporary cartographies, thinking about the technologies and politics that shape them.

Charlotte Higgins | Ukrainian Public Art in a Time of War

02 Feb 2023

Talbot Rice Lectures | Charlotte Higgins

Friday Tour | Jonny Geber

Friday 27 January, 12.30pm

Take an archaeological approach to our current exhibitions with this week's special guest.

Lara Favaretto | Thinking Head - Clandestine Talk

17 Jan 2023

BORDERS

Clandestine Talk | Tuesday 17 January, 10:15am

Richard Baxstrom, James Harrison, Hephzibah Israel and Killian O’ Dochartaigh

Friday Tour | Richard Williams

Friday 30 September, 12.30pm

Lina Bo Bardi is the focus of this Friday Tour with Richard Williams.

Doors Open Day

Saturday 24 September, 10am-5pm

Get to know your art gallery!

Friday Tour | Karen Gregory

Friday 23 September, 12.30pm

This week's tour with Karen Gregory is all about life and labour... on demand!

Friday Tour | Tom Grove

Friday 9 September, 12.30pm

This week marine biologist Tom Grove will take us on a tour exploring non-human forms of intelligence.

Friday Tour | Fiona McLachlan

Friday 2 September, 12.30pm

The first in a new series of Friday Tours based around Céline Condorelli's 'After Work'.

Friday Tour | Stuart Fallon

12.30pm, Friday 13 May 2022

A lunchtime tour with the curator of Meet me at the threshold.

Friday Tour | Stephanie Mann (with Julie-Ann Delaney and Ian Molnar)

06 May 2022

A lunchtime tour exploring the nature of objects, with special guests and handling session with artist Stephanie Mann.

Screening and in-conversation | Jenny Hogarth (with Laura Haynes)

6pm, Wednesday 4 May, 2022

A screening of When You Talk About The Volcano Will You Talk About Yourself (2022) followed by a conversation between Jenny Hogarth and Dr. Laura Haynes.

Conversation | Eothen Stearn (with Maggie McKeown, Roy Robertson and Louise Williams)

6.30pm, Tuesday 3 May, 2022

An informal conversation with artist Eothen Stearn and those who collaborated on her project about the HIV epidemic in Edinburgh.

Friday Tour | Tina Röck

12.30pm, Friday 29 April 2022

For this lunchtime tour we'll be joined by philosopher Tina Röck who will ask us to think about what it means to be.

In Another Tongue

Thursday 3 March, 6.30pm

An evening of short through-provoking talks and musical performance.

Friday Tour | Mihaela Mihai

12.30 pm on Friday 11 February, 2022

An informal lunchtime tour focusing on the idea of Democracy.

Friday Tour | Sarah Deters

12.30 pm on Friday 4 February, 2022

An informal lunchtime tour taking its lead from the musical instruments in the exhibition.

In the Round | Friday Tours

Fridays at 12.30 am, from 28 January

Our Friday Tours return - with specialists offering their own perspectives on our exhibitions.

Friday Tour | Jarita Holbrook

12.30 pm on Friday 28 January, 2022

An informal lunchtime tour focusing on the relationship between Astronomy and the exhibition.

Amy Balkin et al.

A People's Archive of Sinking and Melting (Until 12 November)

A growing collection of items contributed by people living in places that are disappearing as a result of climate change.

There’s No Place Called Home (Edinburgh), 2021

James Webb, until 4 October 2021

An artwork by James Webb that brings the sound of foreign birdsong to Edinburgh.

Emeka Ogboh | In-conversation

25 Aug 2021

Emeka Ogboh in-conversation about his new commission, 'Song of the Union', at the Burns Monument until 29 August 2021

Online Q&A: Talbot Rice Residents

25 Aug 2021

Find out more about the Talbot Rice Residents programme

Tonya McMullan | Honey Tastings

Tuesday 17 and Thursday 19 August, 6pm

Artist Tonya McMullan leads two special honey tasting events.

Femke Herregraven | Artist Talk

05 Aug 2021

Artist Femke Herregraven talks about her work relating to the Bubonic plague, and the links between finance and disease.

Larry Achiampong | Artist Talk

Wednesday 21 July, 6pm

Artist Larry Achiampong discusses his 'Detention (Series)', and his broader practice, reflecting upon racial hierarchies and identities.

Gabrielle Goliath - Artist Talk

Thursday 24 June, 6pm

Join artist Gabrielle Goliath for a talk about the development of her powerful work 'This song is for...' and her broader practice.

Rewilding the Future

Thursday 25 March, 5pm

As a prelude to The Normal, an artist and academic discussion about how we design our future relationships with nature.

The Birds and the Bees Talk

Thursday 4 March, 5pm

As a prelude to The Normal, an artist discussion about creatively working with other species.

Lecture | Tessa Giblin: On the Un-Muting of Art

07 Oct 2020

Talbot Rice Gallery Director, Tessa Giblin, will talk about a series of exhibitions that are activated within the national conversation. 

Screening | Maker of Monsters

26 Feb 2020

A special one off screening of documentary film 'Maker of Monsters', a portrait of Kwakwaka’wakw Chief, indigenous rights activist and carver, Beau Dick

Performance | Atlakim Ceremony

25 Feb 2020

For the first time, members of the Kwakwaka’wakw community will perform the Atlakim ‘Dance of the Forest Spirits’ ceremony outside Canada.

Trading Zone 2020: OPEN CALL

12 Feb 2020

Trading Zone, Talbot Rice Gallery’s annual student exhibition is back for 2020!

Interdisciplinary Symposium | The Art of the Extended Mind

31 Jan 2020

A symposium bringing together leading philosophers with artists from The Extended Mind exhibition.

Lecture | ‘Cyborg Minds in Designer Worlds’ by Andy Clark

31 Jan 2020

Within a context of technological change, Professor Andy Clark asks: where does the human mind stop, and the rest of the world begin?

Joseph Grigely | Artist Talk

02 Nov 2019

As part of The Extended Mind exhibition, join us for an Artist Talk with American artist and scholar Joseph Grigely. 

The Extended Mind | Panel Discussion

01 Nov 2019

The Extended Mind artists Marcus Coates, Marjolijn Dijkman, Myriam Lefkowitz and Angelo Plessas in conversation with Talbot Rice Gallery's James Clegg and Dr. Miranda Anderson, Anniversary Research Fellowship at Stirling and Honourary Fellow, School of History, Classics & Archaeology, University of Edinburgh.

Myriam Lefkowitz | Artist Talk

30 Oct 2019

As part of The Extended Mind exhibition, join us for an Artist Talk with Paris-based artist and choreographer Myriam Lefkowitz.



 

Real Music / Friday Lunchtime Tours

04 Oct 2019

Led by experts from various fields, our lunchtime tours enable a deeper exploration of the complex issues raised through our exhibitions. This week Dr. Sarah Deters tells us more about the history of tourist instruments.

Real Music / Friday Lunchtime Tours

27 Sep 2019

Led by experts from various fields, our lunchtime tours enable a deeper exploration of the complex issues raised through our exhibitions. This week Dr. Michele Ducceschi tells us more about Next Generation Sound Synthesis.

Real Music / Friday Lunchtime Tours

20 Sep 2019

Led by experts from various fields, our lunchtime tours enable a deeper exploration of the complex issues raised through our exhibitions. This week Prof. Natascha Gentz discusses the cultural negotiations between the so called West and East.

Real Music / Friday Lunchtime Tours

13 Sep 2019

Led by experts from various fields, our lunchtime tours enable a deeper exploration of the complex issues raised through our exhibitions. This week Prof. Peter Nelson takes us through the history of experimental music.

Stephen Sutcliffe | Catalogue Launch and In Conversation

04 Sep 2019

Join artist Stephen Sutcliffe in conversation with writer and academic Professor Maria Fusco, celebrating the launch of at Fifty, the first catalogue dedicated to his practice.

Art Early

03 Aug 2019

Art Early offers family-focused, morning tours of festival venues with creative activities and refreshments along the way. Suitable for adults and children of all ages.

Art Late

01 Aug 2019

Each Thursday evening during the festival, Edinburgh Art Festival host a series of curated tours. Art Late is a special culture crawl with artists’ talks, hands-on workshops and one-off performances – celebrating the city’s galleries by night.

Samson Young in conversation

25 Jul 2019

Samson Young in conversation with Professor Stefan Bilbao, chaired by Charlotte Day, Director of Monash University Museum of Art.

Artist Talk and Tour/Trading Zone

05 Jun - 05 Jul 2019

Mohamed Tonsy, a PHD student in Creative Writing uses literature and ceramics to filter his own biographical history and explore imagined near futures. He will talk about his experience in Tahrir Square in Cairo during the height of the Arab Spring in 2011. This experience and its aftermath fuels his ongoing literary work which will be a central theme of his tour.

Anuna/Live Rehearsals

22 Jun 2019

Three 20 minute performances by Elise Steenackers and actors. Showcasing the final draft of 'Ode to Anuna'.

Paul Abbott, DUCTUS

14 Jun 2019

This Friday as part of Trading Zone 2019, Paul Abbott will perform DUCTUS, a one-off live performance including drums and synthetic sound. Using rhythm, fiction and philosophy it explores what he describes as, ‘the vibrating edge of pulse and sign.’

Trading Zone/ Friday Lunchtime Tour

07 Jun 2019

Assistant Curator, Stuart Fallon leads the Friday Lunchtime Tour, introducing the work of Trading Zone artists. Including artist talks by Luiz B Guzman about the ideas behind his video footage, 'Lost Landscape' and a live portraiture performance by Cat & Eimear McClay.

Borderlines / Friday Lunchtime Tour

05 Apr 2019

Geologists Eimear Deady and Dr Gillian McCay will talk about changes in the make-up of the Earth over large periods of time. From the drying up and flooding of the Mediterranean to the Zechstein Sea, they will discuss the shifting patterns of commodities beneath our feet.

Borderlines / Friday Lunchtime Tour

29 Mar 2019

Dr James Harrison, lecturer in international law and a specialist in the marine environment, will talk about the borderlines of the sea. Focusing on how power and control are exerted over maritime spaces and resources, James will discuss the impact of different laws and regulations on people and communities.

Collective and Talbot Rice Gallery Present: Silvia Federici

23 Nov 2018

An open public lecture with leading feminist thinker Silvia Federici, addressing interpersonal and institutional violence against women as discussed in her new book “Witches, Witch-Hunting, and Women”, which offers powerful tools for understanding collective resistance to victimisation in the past and today.