Jill Smith's Zodiac Journey

For Fruitmarket’s fiftieth birthday year artist Jill Smith carried out a series of actions spread over the islands of the Outer Hebrides where she lives. She has used the structure of the zodiac calendar – running from Virgo to Leo and ending on Fruitmarket’s ‘birthday’ – to mark fifty years from when we opened in 1974, shortly before she became the first woman to exhibit here, in 1975.

Now that the work on the islands is complete, Jill is bringing the journey into Fruitmarket as an installation, using recordings of her diaries, objects from her actions, and the images taken by photographer Mhairi Law to share the experience of her year. The installation takes the form of a looped slideshow that lasts about 90 minutes. Drop in, or sit for a while and immerse yourself in a very personal experience of the Zodiac calendar in beautiful Hebridean landscapes.