Collective
A free contemporary art space on Edinburgh's iconic Calton Hill 🔭 No pre-booking is required to visit Collective. Our winter hours are Thurs-Sun, 10am-4pm.
A few final tweaks! 🔨
Over the next week we will be making some final repairs to the roof of our Hillside Gallery. During this time, our viewing terrace will not be accessible to the public.
The rest of our site will remain open as usual from Wednesday-Sunday, 10am-5pm.
📸 Anna Henly
Invitation to take part: The Nelken Line
Working with artist Moyna Flannigan and choreographer Janice Parker, Collective are inviting participants to take part in a public performance of Pina Bausch’s dance work The Nelken Line — taking place on Saturday 17 August amongst the historic monuments and panoramic city views of Calton Hill.
No prior dance experience is necessary. Everyone is welcome to create the Nelken Line.
If you would like to take part, please sign up to one of our Introductory Sessions:
o Saturday 27th July, 2-4pm at Collective
o Tuesday 30th July, 6-8pm at Collective
Sign up here: https://loom.ly/IP_uXgI
We're hiring for two roles!
✒️ Marketing and Communications Manager
Full-time, permanent contract, c. 31k p/a, apply by 10am, 22 July 2024.
Work closely with the Director to shape and develop integrated and compelling messaging which communicates our unique offering.
🏛️ Facilities Technician
4 days per-week, permanent contract, c.28k p/a, apply by 10am, 22 July 2024.
Work closely with our Facilities and Operations Manager to support the day to day running and maintenance of our complex site. You will also offer support to the Programme Team and artists participating in our programmes in planning for the production and installation of their work.
Find out more about these roles and our access information on our website: https://loom.ly/CjyGZzo
[Image: Colourfully dressed people watch a display being mounted on a grey stone building. The National Monument stands to the left in the background.]
Opportunities Current vacancies and job opportunities to join the Collective team.
📚 Could you be our next Trustee?
Our Board of Trustees is looking to recruit a practising artist and a Trustee with financial expertise. Deadline: 21 June.
Collective is particularly keen to hear from candidates who are currently under-represented in the arts and in our organisation. We also have a small access fund to help individuals who need support in the completion of their written application – find out more and apply here: https://loom.ly/CjyGZzo
📸 Paul Andrews
Opportunities Current vacancies and job opportunities to join the Collective team.
You're invited | Moyna Flannigan: Space Shuffle, Exhibition Preview 🚀
📆 Thu 27 June
🕙 6-8pm
Created in response to the unique context and architecture of our City Dome gallery, Space Shuffle will feature figurative collages, alongside a constellation of paper sculptures that extend the principles of collage into three dimensional form and space.
Moyna Flannigan was one of Collective's early committee members, and we are delighted to welcome her back as part of our 40th year programme. With inspiration drawn from myth, art history and pop culture, Flannigan has become known for her paintings that focus on women, interweaving visual memories and experiences.
Space Shuffle will run from Friday 28 June – Sunday 15 September 2024, and will also be part of Edinburgh Art Festival’s 20th birthday programme, taking place from 9 – 25 August 2024.
https://loom.ly/DD5Imnk
Exhibition Preview | Moyna Flannigan: 'Space Shuffle' Collective brings people together to look at, think about and produce contemporary art in a new kind of city observatory
We're on the lookout for a Welcome Assistant!
Our front-of-house team is dedicated to the visitor experience and everyday running of Collective. We would love to hear from people with great communications skills and experience of working with the public.
Find out more and apply: https://loom.ly/CjyGZzo
Apply by: 28 June, 5pm
📷: Sally Jubb
Opportunities Current vacancies and job opportunities to join the Collective team.
🎨 Missed Play Weekend? Join us for Friday Play!
If you missed out on the folkloric mayhem of Play Weekend, join us for our year-round programme of free art and play events for families with children aged 5-12.
For local families, Friday Play is a weekly loose-parts play session on Friday afternoons during term-time. These are child-led sessions, involving anything from messy play and crafts to gardening and cooking. Drop-in any time from 1.30–4.00pm, and get in contact with us if you'd like more information.
The Friday Play summer term runs until 21 June.
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[Images: 1. A child in a blue-ish green dress and a paper crown holds a stick like a sceptre, pointing the way forward. 2. A child in a lilac hoody and a backwards baseball cap makes parade props at a wooden bench. 3. Two children pose like deep sea explorers in front of a giant green screen. 4. Play Lead Artist Frieda Ford, holding a large silver flag and dressed in a light blue dress and shiny silver jacket, leads a gaggle of children in paper crowns on a parade, like the pied piper.]
🔭 Collective is on the lookout for Trustees! 🔭
Our skilled and engaged Board of Trustees is looking to recruit:
- A Trustee who is a practising artist; and
- A Trustee with financial expertise.
Deadline: 21 June.
Find out more: https://loom.ly/CjyGZzo
📸 Paul Andrews
Opportunities Current vacancies and job opportunities to join the Collective team.
Repair work 🔨
Over the coming weeks, we will be undertaking some crucial repairs to the roof of our Hillside Gallery. During this time, our viewing terrace and Hillside Gallery will not be accessible to the public.
The rest of our site will remain open as usual from Wednesday-Sunday, 10am-5pm.
Bear with us, and we look forward to welcoming you back to our whole site soon!
📸 Anna Henly
💫 This weekend! 💫
Join us as we craft magical offerings, travel through green-screened lands, explore Collective alongside a folkloric creature, and end each day with a procession around the site to the City Observatory...
🦉 Play Weekend
📆 Sat 11 - Sun 12 May
🕐 11am - 4pm
A reminder that the event is free but ticketed, with morning and afternoon time slots available.
Ideal for children aged 5-12 years old.
📸 Neil Hanna
https://loom.ly/wX94wqA
Play Weekend 2024 A free weekend of creative play
After some months of hibernation, our kiosk has reopened to the public!
We are serving tea, coffee, soft drinks and snacks, 10am-4pm Wednesday to Sunday.
Pop up the hill and get yourself a Tunnocks tea cake!
📸 Paul Andrews
💫 Just two weeks left to catch '"U Scantu": A Disorderly Tale'! 🐐
Magical yet vengeful; feminine yet masculine; human yet animal: Elisa Giardina Papa's exhibition explores the Sicilian myth of the ‘donne di fora’.
Their healing rituals were known to alleviate ‘u scantu’ – fear – but their patients could sometimes awaken with monstrous duck feet or long disorderly braids...
Wednesday – Sunday, 10am-5pm.
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https://loom.ly/5Gzn6yo
Elisa Giardina Papa | U Scantu: A Disorderly Tale Collective brings people together to look at, think about and produce contemporary art in a new kind of city observatory
🌷 Play Weekend | 11-12 May 🦉
Play Weekend is just around the corner!
Craft magical offerings, travel through green-screened lands, explore Collective alongside a folkloric creature, and end the day with a procession around the site to the City Observatory....
Ideal for children aged 5-12 years old.
This event is free but ticketed, with morning and afternoon time slots available: see link in bio for more!
✒️ Poster by
Play Weekend 2024 A free weekend of creative play
🐐 BSL Tour | "U Scantu": A Disorderly Tale 🐐
📆 Sat 18 May 2024
🕙 11am-12pm
Join us for a British Sign Language tour of Elisa Giardina Papa’s exhibition "U Scantu": A Disorderly Tale. This Deaf-led tour will be hosted by Trudi Collier and will offer BSL speakers the opportunity to visit and discuss "U Scantu": A Disorderly Tale.
In “U Scantu”: A Disorderly Tale (2022), Sicilian artist Elisa Giardina Papa brings together ceramic sculptures and a large-scale video installation to explore the Sicilian myth of the ‘donne di fora' - ‘women from the outside and beside themselves’.
Please book your free ticket in advance via the Collective website and meet on the day at the entrance to the City Dome space at Collective.
https://loom.ly/kVBEIO4
BSL Tour | U Scantu: A Disorderly Tale Collective brings people together to look at, think about and produce contemporary art in a new kind of city observatory
🌷 Play Weekend: 11-12 May! 🦉
Join us for a weekend of playful and creative outdoor activities to lull winter to sleep and welcome the warmer months.
Each day we’ll be crafting magical offerings, travelling through green-screened lands, exploring Collective alongside a folkloric creature, taking part in themed loose parts play, and ending the day with a procession around the site to the City Observatory.
Ideal for children aged 5-12 years old.
This event is free but ticketed, with morning and afternoon time slots available, check the website for details.
https://loom.ly/wX94wqA
🖌️ Illustration by the brilliant Ot Pascoe
Play Weekend 2024 Collective brings people together to look at, think about and produce contemporary art in a new kind of city observatory
⚪ The architecture of '"U Scantu": A Disorderly Tale' ⚪
From Gibellina Nuova, a planned postmodern utopian city near Trapani, to the ballroom and private apartments of Palazzo Biscari, a Baroque and Rococo palace in Catania, the varied architecture of Sicily plays a significant role in "U Scantu".
In "U Scantu"'s exhibition at Collective, the curve of Gibellina Nuova's extraordinary cathedral is echoed in the curve of our City Dome.
Read more in Barbara Casavecchia and Elisa Giardina Papa's 'In Conversation' piece, available on the "U Scantu" exhibition page on our website.
Walking tours 👣
We're so happy to announce two walking tours inspired by the themes of Elisa Giardina Papa’s "U Scantu": A Disorderly Tale.
🐐 Thu 2 May: 'Inside there is a goat on the table'
Join Glasgow-based artist and writer Megan Rudden as she reimagines the hill as a site of magical occurrences, where history, myth and healing intertwine...
🎟️ https://loom.ly/fggntsY
🌱 Thu 9 May: 'Women in History: A Disorderly Tale'
Edinburgh-based guide, researcher and writer Jean Bareham will consider stories of women who have been seen as outsiders...
🎟️ https://loom.ly/p0V3mhM
Book your tickets now!
Buy tickets / Join the guestlist – Megan Rudden | Walking Tour: 'Inside there is a goat on the table' – Collective, City Observatory, Edinburgh Join Glasgow-based artist and writer Megan Rudden on a walking tour of Collective and Calton Hill, Edinburgh. Exploring the the...
🎨 Friday Play: Summer term
Friday Play starts back again next week, Friday 19th April, 1:30 – 4pm.
Friday Play is a weekly loose-parts play session on Friday afternoons during term-time, led by our wonderful Play Lead Artist, Frieda Ford. From messy play and crafts to gardening and cooking, there’s always something different to do during these child-led play sessions.
📷:
[Image: two children lean over a pool of water with colourful toys. Behind them is the national monument to the left, and Arthur's Seat to the right.]
🚀 Exhibition announcement: Moyna Flannigan | 'Space Shuffle'
In our 40th year, we are delighted to welcome back Moyna Flannigan – renowned Scottish artist and early committee member of Collective.
'Space Shuffle' has been created in response to the unique context and architecture of our City Dome gallery, and will feature figurative collages, alongside a constellation of paper sculptures that extend the principles of collage into three dimensional form and space.
'Space Shuffle' will run from Friday 28 June – Sunday 15 September 2024, and will also be part of Edinburgh Art Festival 2024 (taking place from 9 – 25 August 2024).
https://loom.ly/MRFDyIg
📷: Cosmic Traces 11. 54 x 39 cm, ink and gouache on Japanese paper, 2024. Photography by John McKenzie. Courtesy of Ingleby Gallery
Moyna Flannigan | 'Space Shuffle' Collective brings people together to look at, think about and produce contemporary art in a new kind of city observatory
First peek at our install shots! 🐐
Wander up the hill to catch '"U Scantu": A Disorderly Tale' - running until Sunday 19 May.
Wednesday – Sunday, 10am-5pm.
https://loom.ly/5Gzn6yo
📸 Eoin Carey
Elisa Giardina Papa | "U Scantu": A Disorderly Tale Collective brings people together to look at, think about and produce contemporary art in a new kind of city observatory
Thanks to everyone who came along last night! 💫
Elisa Giardina Papa's '"U Scantu": A Disorderly Tale' is now open - pop up and see it: Wed-Sun, 10am-5pm.
https://loom.ly/5Gzn6yo
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[Images: Ten pictures of people chatting and enjoying themselves across the Collective site - both inside the City Dome gallery space, and in the area around the Play Shelter, which is strung with glowing fairy lights.]
Elisa Giardina Papa | U Scantu: A Disorderly Tale Collective brings people together to look at, think about and produce contemporary art in a new kind of city observatory
🐐 💫 Tonight! 💫🐐
Arancine and a selection of drinks will be served from our Kiosk outdoors. It's sunny but the weather is decidedly *not* Sicilian, so wrap up warm!
'"U Scantu": A Disorderly Tale' launch event
📆 Thursday 29 February
🕙 5.30-7.30pm
📷 U Scantu”: A Disorderly Tale, 2022. Video and ceramic installation. Variable dimensions,12 min. Installation view, The Milk of Dreams, 59th International Art Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia. Courtesy of the Artist and Galerie Tanja Wagner. Ph. Nicolò Gemin
Exhibition launch | U Scantu: A Disorderly Tale Collective brings people together to look at, think about and produce contemporary art in a new kind of city observatory
🚲💫 '"U Scantu": A Disorderly Tale' opens this week 💫🚲
Magical yet vengeful; feminine yet masculine; human yet animal: Elisa Giardina Papa's '"U Scantu": A Disorderly Tale' explores the Sicilian myth of the ‘donne di fora’.
Their healing rituals were known to alleviate ‘u scantu’ – fear – but their patients could sometimes awaken with monstrous duck feet or long disorderly braids...
🐐 Launch Event
📆 Thursday 29 February
🕙 5.30-7.30pm
Exhibition runs: 1 March - 19 May
Refreshments will be served from our Kiosk outdoors, so please dress for the weather.
🔗 https://loom.ly/pp0e5Vo
📷: U Scantu”: A Disorderly Tale, 2022. Video and ceramic installation. Variable dimensions,12 min. Installation view, The Milk of Dreams, 59th International Art Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia. Courtesy of the Artist and Galerie Tanja Wagner. Ph. Nicolò Gemin
Exhibition launch | U Scantu: A Disorderly Tale Collective brings people together to look at, think about and produce contemporary art in a new kind of city observatory
Just one week until we open '"U Scantu": A Disorderly Tale'
🐐 💫 Launch event 💫🐐
📆 Thursday 29 February
🕙 5.30-7.30pm
Refreshments will be served from our Kiosk outdoors, so bring your woolly jumpers!
🔗 https://loom.ly/pp0e5Vo
📷: Elisa Giardina Papa, '“U Scantu”: A Disorderly Tale', 2022. Video and ceramic installation. Variable dimensions,12 min. Still frame from video. Courtesy of the Artist and Galerie Tanja Wagner. ©Elisa Giardina Papa.
Exhibition launch | U Scantu: A Disorderly Tale Collective brings people together to look at, think about and produce contemporary art in a new kind of city observatory
In “U Scantu”: A Disorderly Tale (2022), Elisa Giardina Papa reimagines the mythical figures of the ‘donne di fora’ as teenage ‘tuners’.
These young women ride through the seemingly abandoned utopian urban landscape of Gibellina Nuova in the west of Sicily, on their bikes customised with powerful sound systems...
Elisa Giardina Papa
'"U Scantu": A Disorderly Tale' (2022)
1 March – 19 May 2024.
Launch: 29 February, 5.30-7.30pm
🔗 https://loom.ly/5Gzn6yo
📷: Elisa Giardina Papa, '“U Scantu”: A Disorderly Tale', 2022. Video and ceramic installation. Variable dimensions,12 min. Still frame from video. Courtesy of the Artist and Galerie Tanja Wagner. ©Elisa Giardina Papa.
Elisa Giardina Papa | U Scantu: A Disorderly Tale Collective brings people together to look at, think about and produce contemporary art in a new kind of city observatory
🐐 💫 You're invited: '"U Scantu": A Disorderly Tale' 💫🐐
Join us for the launch of Elisa Giardina Papa's '"U Scantu": A Disorderly Tale' - Thursday 29 February, 5.30-7.30pm
First exhibited at the 2022 Venice Biennale, 'U Scantu' brings together ceramic sculptures and a large-scale video installation to explore the Sicilian myth of the ‘donne di fora'...
Refreshments will be served from our Kiosk outdoors, so please dress for the weather.
https://loom.ly/pp0e5Vo
Video: Elisa Giardina Papa, “U Scantu”: A Disorderly Tale, 2022. Video and ceramic installation. Variable dimensions,12 min. Teaser trailer from video. Courtesy of the Artist and Galerie Tanja Wagner. © Elisa Giardina Papa.
Upcoming:
Elisa Giardina Papa
'"U Scantu": A Disorderly Tale' (2022)
1 March – 19 May 2024.
We are thrilled to announce our first exhibition of the year, '"U Scantu": A Disorderly Tale' by Elisa Giardina Papa.
First exhibited at the 2022 Venice Biennale, 'U Scantu' brings together ceramic sculptures and a large-scale video installation to explore the Sicilian myth of the ‘donne di fora' - ‘women from the outside and beside themselves’. Considered to be at once heretical and magical healers, the ‘donne di fora’ defied simple categorization, believed to embody a range of opposing qualities – feminine and masculine; human and animal; benevolent and vengeful...
https://loom.ly/5Gzn6yo
📷: Elisa Giardina Papa, '“U Scantu”: A Disorderly Tale', 2022. Video and ceramic installation. Variable dimensions,12 min. Still frame from video. Courtesy of the Artist and Galerie Tanja Wagner. © Elisa Giardina Papa.
Elisa Giardina Papa | U Scantu: A Disorderly Tale Collective brings people together to look at, think about and produce contemporary art in a new kind of city observatory
🌷 Re-opening: Friday 1 March 🌼
The winter months are flying by - we re-open in just a few weeks!
Keep your eyes peeled for news about our first exhibition of the year, coming your way soon...
📷: Sally Jubb
🚨 Deadline upcoming
Monday 22 January (10am) is your last chance to apply for our Programme Manager and Operations and Facilities Manager roles!
🎨 Programme Manager
Full-time, permanent contract
30-34k p/a, depending on experience
Working closely with the Director to shape an ambitious programme of new commissions and exhibitions in line with Collective’s vision and strategic priorities, the Programme Manager will develop and deliver an annual programme of exhibitions, commissions and events.
🏛️ Operations and Facilities Manager
Full-time, permanent contract
30-34k p/a, depending on experience
The Operations and Facilities Manager will work closely with the Director and colleagues across Programme, Development, Marketing and Communications and Trading to ensure the smooth day to day running of our operations and site, and to support the delivery of Collective’s wider strategic objectives.
🔗 https://loom.ly/CjyGZzo
📷: Collective Gala, 2023, photo by Sally Jubb.
[Image: A person sits on the floor in a grey gallery with a brown bog pool, lit with a golden glow. To the back of the image is a line of people watching the talk.]
Opportunities Current vacancies and job opportunities to join the Collective team.
One week until applications close! 📝
You have one week left to apply for our Programme Manager and Operations & Facilities Manager roles: deadline 10 am, 22 January.
🎨 Programme Manager
Full-time, permanent contract
30-34k p/a, depending on experience
🏛️ Operations and Facilities Manager
Full-time, permanent contract
30-34k p/a, depending on experience
🔗 https://loom.ly/CjyGZzo
📷: Collective Gala, 2023, photo by
[Image: Two copper-green domed buildings stand behind pale stone, foliage, and colourful bunting.]
Opportunities Current vacancies and job opportunities to join the Collective team.
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