Current and coming soon
The Lost Portrait of Robert Burns by Sir Henry Raeburn
Currently on loan and free to view at the National Gallery of Scotland on the Mound, Edinburgh
Find out more about the recent rediscovery of the Sir Henry Raeburn’s lost portrait of Robert Burns.
Face to Face: Imagining and Re-imagining Robert Burns
Opening soon
An exhibition of 200+ images of the Poet: paintings, prints, postcards, plates, sculptures, objets d’art and much more.
Previous exhibitions & events
Ring of Truth
Our summer exhibition for the Edinburgh Art Festival
8 August – 24 August 2025
Contemporary artists and musicians respond to a group of extraordinary Coptic music manuscripts. Visit our page of ongoing resources and news.
SUN GOD FRAUD SQUAD
Summer Listening Party
Wednesday, 13th August 4-7pm Drop in, free
Garagespace, 6 George Square Lane, Edinburgh EH8 9LJ
Part of Blackie House Ring of Truth exhibition in partnership with EAF25, all are welcome to this free one-off event at Garagespace by the Meadows. This pop-up party celebrates the launch of the vinyl album, SUN GOD FRAUD SQUAD, which accompanies the main exhibition. This is a unique opportunity to meet the artists, musicians and writers involved with this project where the new album will be played in full alongside works by visual artists Eddie Summerton and Alan Grieve, with a DJ set by Volens Chorus to conclude the gathering.
Remember me
17 March – 30 June 2025
Friendship albums and sentimentalia from the collections of Gloria Finn Dale and William Zachs
‘Song composed in August’
11 August 2024 – 1 July 2025
Our festival 2024 mural at Garagespace
Literary Quartets
1 August 2024 – 28 February 2025
For fifteen authors: a book they wrote, a book they owned, an example of their handwriting, a portrait, and an object.
Reveal
2023, at Royal Scottish Academy
Three artists, Rowan Dahl, Alan Grieve and Academician Derrick Guild, creating works in response to two of the most important illustrated books ever printed: Albrecht Dürer’s The Apocalypse (1498) and Francisco de Goya’s Los Caprichos (1799)
Beethoven, Burns and the Folksong
2022-2023
Exploring the collaboration between Beethoven, Robert Burns and George Thomson
The Book of the Sky
2018
Artists’ books and installations by Julie Johnstone alongside items from the collection, exploring the weather and the sky.
Earlier exhibitions
Our gallery space opened with an exhibition about Sir Walter Scott. Other exhibitions have featured Robert Burns and David Hume.