Edinburgh Art Galleries Sunday Meetup Group

The Rupture is an international collaborative project bringing together Talbot Rice Gallery University of Edinburgh, Inside-Out Art Museum in Beijing, and the Museum of Contemporary Art and Design in Manila. The project responds in real-time to a world undergoing profound political, social and economic change, echoing Mark Carney's declaration "we are in the midst of a rupture,” in his 2026 Davos address.
At a time of profound global uncertainty, The Rupture: No condition is permanent asks what it means to live through the breakdown of established systems, rules-based order and global relationships. Amidst the rise of generative AI, neo-colonial threats, the reality of war and growing economic inequality, we also face the escalating effects of climate change, causing extreme weather and planetary events around the world. Bringing together artists from different cultural contexts, the project explores the changing reality of our time from a position of hope. Across the collaboration, artists give voice to the voiceless, draw our attention to the means of our manipulation, reveal hidden constructs beneath our lives and share their lived experience of this rupture. In abstract and complex ways, they insist that the world is ours to change — that no condition is permanent.
N.B. This is a Saturday event as the TR is generally closed on Sundays.

This is a major solo show by Aberdeen-based printmaker Ade Adesina (b.1980. Nigeria), bringing together an expansive collection of the artist’s monumental woodcuts, etchings, linocuts and screen-prints, and including a newly commissioned print produced specially for Edinburgh.

Exploring urgent global themes, including climate change and colonial histories, Adesina draws from the past and present, to imagine possible futures. His works carefully balance beauty with a darker underbelly, revealing the impact of human intervention on the natural world.

Informed by his African roots, combined with the influence of British culture and global travels, Adesina’s practice is steeped in the traditions of Fine Art printmaking. On first glance his work appears as classical landscapes or still lifes, however they invite and reward closer looking, as complex narratives and entangled iconography is revealed.

Something a bit different from our usual events, this is a chance to visit the recently reopened, completely restored Palm Houses in the Royal Botanic Garden.
An oasis in the city, filled with ferns, palms, and breathtaking glass-domed roofs, the Palm Houses house interesting, rare and threatened species like the Norfolk Island tree fern.
Although the Front Range glasshouses are still closed to the public for restoration work, tickets to visit the iconic Palm Houses are now available.
Ticket prices from £4.70 - £5.50. Please book your own ticket and meet us there.