Book to attend and you will receive an invitation from Jill Smith.

The pioneer of the picnic as an artform is throwing Fruitmarket a zodiac party.

This evening Jill Smith will be serving us each a slice of cake, star sign by sign, in a final action to her Zodiac Journey, starting at 7pm. Jill is working with Fruitmarket’s chefs to make twelve colourful cakes for Virgos, Librans, Scorpios, Sagittarians, Capricorns, Aquarians, Pisceans, Ariens, Taureans, Gemini, Cancerians, and Leos alike. You are invited to wear a colour related to your element. See Jill’s invitation for a list of colours.

Jill expects the action to last approximately 45 minutes. The action will be followed by a chance to see Jill’s exhibition and to celebrate her and with Fruitmarket at the close of our 50^th year.

Jill Smith’s year-long commission for Fruitmarket’s fiftieth birthday year, has been 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, using recordings of her diaries, objects from her actions, and the images taken by photographer Mhairi Law to share the experience of her year. This exhibition of Jill’s Zodiac journey is viewable in Fruitmarket’s Warehouse from Tuesday 10 to Sunday 15 December.

Find out more about Jill Smith’s Zodiac Journey here