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Eva Rothschild: The Void Presses The Wall
This exhibition has ended.
Major show by London-based Irish sculptor Eva Rothschild across all three galleries: bronze, plaster, steel and concrete works staging bodily encounters with space.
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In the lower gallery, a stack of printed mattresses climbs from floor to ceiling, and pressed underneath it is one rounded stone. It's called The Grit, and it is The Princess and the Pea at the scale of a room.
The Scotsman calls this Rothschild's biggest UK show in two decades: new and recent sculpture across all three of Fruitmarket's spaces. Downstairs goes soft, with hoodies stiffened in resin hanging from the ceiling. Upstairs is black and white, rebar and gloss paint, plus Amphi, the spray-painted blocks she made for Ireland at the 2019 Venice Biennale. You are allowed to sit on it. In the brick-walled Warehouse, the film Safe follows teenage boys climbing and dancing over a yellow pyramid she built in a Dagenham park.
The List called Safe "glorious", and The Arts Desk saw an artist refusing to "play it safe". The Scotsman's catch: a passive viewer may find the works passive too. Entry is free, 11am to 6pm, and Sunday 11 October is the last day.
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Eva Rothschild's bronze, plaster, steel and concrete sculptures take over all three galleries, built to be walked around and between. Free, and right beside Waverley, which makes a delayed train good news.
Look for
The Grit
In the lower gallery, a floor-to-ceiling tower of patterned mattresses bulges over a rounded stone, The Princess and the Pea built full size.
Houdini
Several hoodies strung together and hardened in resin stretch down from the ceiling and pool on the floor.
Amphi
Upstairs, a heap of rough, resin-coated blocks washed in spray paint, made for the 2019 Venice Biennale, and one of the works visitors may sit on.
Wink
Two curvy black ceramic forms on a white wall, one matt and one glossy; tilt your head sideways and they turn into a pair of eyes.
Safe
A new film in the brick-walled Warehouse of teenage boys hanging, dancing and playing football around a yellow pyramid climbing frame in a Dagenham park.
Good for
- Cheap Culture
- Rainy Days
Skip if
You want art that explains itself: The Scotsman warns a passive viewer may find the works passive too.
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- FruitmarketStefan Schäfer, Lich / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0
- Ade Adesina: BardAde Adesina, 'Borders', 2025. Photo: Neil Corall
- Gifted: New Acquisitions at the City Art CentreJessie M. King, Fraunchyse (detail), c.1907. City of Edinburgh Museums & Galleries (Photo: Fine Art Society)
- Colours of the Past: A Creative Writing ExhibitionCourtesy of The Writers' Museum
- Stills: Centre for PhotographyKirsty S. Ross / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 4.0
- City Art CentreMacfack / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0
- The Writers' MuseumStefan Schäfer, Lich (Wikimedia Commons), CC BY-SA 3.0
- Museum of ChildhoodPretzelles / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0