Fruitmarket Bookshop

Fruitmarket Bookshop Our bookshop offers thoughtfully selected titles that endeavour to encompass the world of contemporary writers, thinkers, researchers, and makers

04/12/2025

Tomorrow night 05.12.25. 6.30–8.30pm come and join us for a special pre Christmas sale in the bookshop and café. Browse the tables, pick up a gem (or three) and enjoy a glass of mulled w**e from our café bar while you do it.

Future Makers is up and running, and we’ve launched our first few collections. Future Makers is a year long programme th...
18/12/2024

Future Makers is up and running, and we’ve launched our first few collections. Future Makers is a year long programme that invites 12 local makers and designers to create responses to our exhibition programme. Working with makers and designers not only invests in people and community, but also is sustainability, and offers our audience a chance to connect with our exhibitions and events meaningfully.

1. Rachel Ashcroft .of.the.woods responding to Barry LeVa. Ashcroft has created vases that have been hand carved and then burnt to create a dark, inky black. The woodworker worked with the nature of the wood, and used an action (burning) in parallel to Barry LeVa’s work with glass.

2. Rachel Ashcroft cont’d

3. Holly Allen .inch.nailsss in response to Barry LeVa. Allen has taken LeVa’s use of mark making and documentation of chance and applied them to the surface of a set of nails. Each set comes in a tiny art crate, has 10 nails, a cuticle pusher, nail glue, and a small nail file.

4. Dominique Saag in response to our upcoming Portia Zvavhera’s exhibition. Saag was inspired by the way the Zimbabwean artist depicted dreams with textile motifs. Saag experimented with eco-resins to create a technique to suspend crocheted panels into vases and bowls that look as if they are underwater.

5. Ames Truscott in response to Barry LeVa’s glass-based. The glass blower has created baubles that have been blown traditionally, and then submerged to create a cracked effect in the structure of the glass. The cracking of the glass parallels LeVa’s shattered glass pieces.

6. Second Cashmere in response to this year’s Deep Time, a experimental music festival. This year’s Deep Time explored Basquiat and John Cage’s show in the 80’s. Second Cashmere created a template to evoke the paint on a cashmere jumper Basquiat wore. They experimented and perfected a process to transfer the pattern to hats and gloves made of second hand cashmere panels.

All products are available in our shop! Though some have already sold through! We will restock in the new year though!

Celebrate the season with good books, design-led objects and delightful holiday decor.If you’re starting your Christmas ...
19/11/2024

Celebrate the season with good books, design-led objects and delightful holiday decor.

If you’re starting your Christmas shopping is here to make a day of it! Beautiful gifts, great food, and an exhibition to discover.

Read our Substack about our makers programme, and where it’s going!
13/08/2024

Read our Substack about our makers programme, and where it’s going!

Thank you to and for such an engaging discussion last evening. Shirley was such a phenomenal chair, and Mark answered ...
13/01/2024

Thank you to and for such an engaging discussion last evening. Shirley was such a phenomenal chair, and Mark answered each question so thoughtfully. Mark’s book ‘Narrative Thread: Conversations on Fashion Collections’ is a tender set of portraits built from sartorial means. Mark’s inquisitive approach lays bare the wardrobes of a dynamic list of fashion legends. It’s a must read.

Events like this remind us of how important books are. They are catalysts for new thinking, they are connectors of people, and they sit as important pauses helping us all to stop and reframe how we look at the world.

So pleased this event came together, it was a pleasure to host. A big thank you to as well who were the starting point of this event!

Our next event in the Bookshop’s programme thread: Clothes from our past shape who we are, and who we will be. Why do we...
24/11/2023

Our next event in the Bookshop’s programme thread:
Clothes from our past shape who we are, and who we will be. Why do we hold on to certain garments and what do they tell us and others about our lives?
Mark C. O'Flaherty asks 14 individuals who work with or use clothes in a unique way: how has fashion created something significant in your life? Through fascinating conversations, and photoshoots of their private collections, in New York, London and Milan, he constructs a portrait of each person through their intimate relationships with fashion, featuring The Idiosyncratic Fashionistas, Charlie Casely-Hayford, John Matheson (McQueen Vault), Sandy Powell, Stephen Jones, Carla Sozzani, Winn Austin, Carmen Haid, Susanne Bartsch, Karlo Steel, Karim Rashid, Steven Philip, and Desmond is Amazing. How have these people used fashion as a vessel for memory or identity to develop their own narratives, and what does our relationship with clothing say about its changing nature as a commodity? With a foreword by influential fashion tastemaker Amanda Harlech, and opening conversations with three of fashion's most respected scholars, Valerie Steele, Andre Walker and Claire Wilcox, Narrative Thread is an eye-opening resource for our understanding of fashion's past and present - and its continuing importance in our lives.
Mark C. O’Flaherty is a London-based interiors and portrait photographer with one foot in New York (and other limbs across Europe). He has worked as a luxury interiors photographer for Issey Miyake, Hermès, Knoll, Nobu, Diane von Furstenberg, Established & Sons, Richard James and Rupert Bevan, as well as international editions of AD, World of Interiors, Financial Times Weekend, HTSI, Elle Decoration, Marie Claire Maison, Ideat, Vogue Living, MiLK Decoration, Interview, Sunday Times Style and The Times. He also writes about design regularly for many of the above publications as well as The New York Times.
Edinburgh born Shirley Manson is a grammy-nominated songwriter and lead singer of the critically acclaimed alternative rock band Garbage. She is also a part time writer, actress and podcaster in her free time.

have created a special Christmas offer with their bespoke wrapping paper and beautiful guide book. Their pre-wrapped gu...
20/11/2023

have created a special Christmas offer with their bespoke wrapping paper and beautiful guide book. Their pre-wrapped guide will make a thoughtful gift to anyone who loves Edinburgh, and eco-consciousness. The sumptuous guide is made from recycled coffee cups.

Allison Everett, our Buyer and retail manager has written a piece on good gallery shops for link in bio.
31/08/2023

Allison Everett, our Buyer and retail manager has written a piece on good gallery shops for link in bio.

popped into so nice to see you!
12/08/2023

popped into so nice to see you!

In response to the new Fruitmarket exhibition Leonor Antunes, the apparent length of a floor area, we have commissioned ...
14/07/2023

In response to the new Fruitmarket exhibition Leonor Antunes, the apparent length of a floor area, we have commissioned a bespoke jewellery collection by Studio Katherine James. James is a Leeds-based artist known for her subversive chainmail technique. She creates sculptures and contemporary jewellery which liberate the aesthetic language of typically gendered materials.

The Antunes Collection is available to buy in the gallery and via our online shop - link in bio.

‘I was inspired by Antunes’ practice of measuring and using these units throughout her sculptures as a reference to the spaces created or occupied by the women she is researching. Most of the pieces I have made have come from a starting point of converting from one material to another. I have measured the standard units I regularly use in my practice which are various sized circular links of silver, and instead included this unit in rubber or a length of chain. Sometimes I have reintroduced this new measurement or converted material to the original, challenging myself to find ways in which they can work together and interact in a wearable way.

I have been thinking about the way Antunes disrupts modernist grids through her use of unlikely materials, knots and hinges. The chainmail technique I usually adopt in my practice can be very regimented and ordered in its purest form. Like Antunes, I am interested in finding ways to disrupt this order. Previously this has led me to introduce lace-like patterns into its creation or apply the technique as sparsely as possible to purposefully border chaos and order, legibility and asymmetry. Antunes’ approach gave me a fresh perspective to consider new ways of disrupting the ordered nature of my craft. I have mixed rubber and silver links and worked across two directional planes simultaneously to created the “mingled” pieces. The interaction between two materials with identical forms but opposite material characteristics creates a logically made aesthetic mess. The chainmail technique switches directions as it is either built up across the width of a couple of small rubber links or along the length of a larger one.’ - Katherine James

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