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Andy Goldsworthy: Fifty Years

25 September 2025

After our month off we are back to explore one of the standout exhibitions of the Edinburgh Art Festival, Andy Goldsworthy: Fifty Years. Featuring over 200 works, the show includes stunning installations made in response to the iconic Royal Scottish Academy building, as well as drawings, photographs, films, sketchbooks and archival items dating back to the mid-1970s. To provide insight into the work we will be joined by Chief Curator Patrick Elliott. 

Goldsworthy is internationally recognised for his work with natural materials such as clay, stones, reeds, branches, leaves, snow and ice. For over 50 years, he has created a unique and highly influential body of work that speaks of our relationship with the land.  

Andy Goldsworthy: Fifty Years has been conceived by the artist as a single immersive artwork in response to the space, materials and character of the RSA building. The interrelationship of humans and the working land is a recurrent theme in Goldsworthy’s art and in the exhibition. He often presents the land as a hard, hostile and brutal place. Fences and barriers feature prominently, in the form of rusted barbed wire stretched across a room, and a massive, cracked clay wall. As in nature, beauty and danger co-exist. 

Garry Fabian Miller

28 October 2005 at 6pm

‘The pictures I make are of nothing which exists in the world . . . What I am trying to suggest is a state of mind which lifts the spirits and gives strength and some kind of clarity.’

Garry Fabian Miller, 2003

Garry Fabian Miller was born in Bristol in 1957. Much of his early work was landscape-based and focused on the horizon between the sky and land or sea. Since 1985, he has been producing optically mesmerising photographic works without the use of a camera or film. Instead he works directly with light, using techniques pioneered in the 19th century by William Henry Fox Talbot.

All his works are made by passing light through objects, or through filters of oil or coloured water, onto photo-sensitive paper. Its a simple, semi-controlled process, but one that constantly surprises.

The images Miller creates are essentially abstract, but there is a certain familiarity about them. They can represent a moment when day is either beginning or ending – a quality of light that we have all witnessed.

For his third exhibition at the Ingleby Gallery, the artist presents his most recent series of works Exposure, made in response to time spent on the Hebridean Island of Tiree. He first visited this remote community in 1974 as a teenager when he made his very first photographs.

Garry Fabian Miller is one of the most progressive artists working with photography today. His work has been the subject of a major exhibition at the Rencontres dArles, Europes major festival of photography in the south of France. A 256-page monograph on his work, Illumine, was published earlier in the year by Merrell.

The Ingleby Gallery has also published a book, Exposure, to accompany the exhibition.

We will be talking to Caroline Broadhurst, Gallery Manager at the Ingleby Gallery, about this incredible body of new work.