Inverleith House
Built in 1774, Inverleith House has been a private residence, the family home for past RBGE Regius Keepers, the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art and now provides an exhibition space at the heart of our Edinburgh Garden.
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Designed in 1773 by David Henderson, Inverleith House was built in 1774 for Sir James Rocheid (1715-1787) as his family home and the centre-piece of his estate at a total cost of £4,109.
Around 1820 a part of the Inverleith estate was sold to become the new location for the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh (RBGE). The house was gifted to the Crown in 1877 together with the surrounding land for the purpose of extending the activities of RBGE and for the enjoyment of the public. After restoration work following a fire, Inverleith House became the official residence of the Regius Keeper (Director) of RBGE.
From 1960 to 1984, it housed the new Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, until it moved to it's current site in the building of the former John Watson's Institution in west Edinburgh.
On 4 December 1970 the house was listed as a historic building in category B, with Historic Scotland id 28081. An extension was built in 1974. Since 1986 Inverleith House has been used as exhibition space by RBGE.
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Past Exhibitions
*Amanda Cobbett, Amanda Thomson, Annalee Davis, Cynthia Fan, Hannah Imlach, Işık Güner, Jacqui Pestell, Janise Yntema, Karine Polwart, Laurie Clark, Pippa Murphy, Sarah Roberts, Sharon Tingey, Shiraz Bayjoo, Sonia Mehra Chawla and Wendy McMurdo.
Fungi Forms
*Cooking Sections and Sakiya
Rhododendrons: Riddle, Obsession, Threat *
*Alison Turnbull, Simon Starling, Yan Wang Preston
*Louise Martin, Fiona Hutchison, Chrissie Freeth, Tanya Nonthando Wilson, Patrick Stratton, Fiona Rutherford, Anne Stabell, Martin Nannestad Jørgensen, Nakahira Misako, Angela Maddock, Elaine Wilson, Zhanna Petrenko, Anna Olsson, Maija Fox, Anne Bjørn, Ghislaine Bazir, Jo McDonald, Katja Beckman, Rachel Johnston
Florilegium: A Gathering of Flowers*
*Natalia Alatortseva, Julia Asenbaum, Claire Banks, Rattikorn Bunsprakasit, Giovanna Cera, Annie Chen, Paresh Churi, Jessica Daigle, Annalee Davis, Sansanee Deekrajang, Maria Alice de Rezende, Sandra Doyle, Janet Dyer, Gülnur Ekşi, Akiko Fraser, Keiko Fujita, Işik Güner, Yoko Harada, Marianne Hazlewood, Cheryl Hodges, Sarah Howard, Mariko Ikeda, Mieko Ishikawa, Neera Studio, Thutploy Kaewpradub, Hideko Kamoshita, Sandunmali Kulasekara, Pornlert Laorsuwan, Nicola Macartney, Lyndsay Mann, Mike Way, Mhorag McDowall, Wendy McMurdo, Lee Mingwei, Eunike Nugroho, Wichanee Pongpawasuit, Jane Roxburgh, Lizzie Sanders, Wendy Smith, Narongsak Sukkaewmanee, Anna Suprunenko, Dianne Sutherland, Borthwick Bird & Botanical Art, Nataya Udompat, Sunanda Widel, Michie, Tapita Yomnage, Tom Nolan, Cynthia Fan, Jacqui Pestell, Marion Sandwith, Sarah Walker, Ochre Botanical Studios, Hazel France, Angus Ross
Cordis Prize for Tapestry *
*Anna Olsson, Anna Ray, Anne Stabell, Birgitta Hallberg, Brita Breen, Emma Jo Webster, Jessica Brouder, Joanne Soroka, Katharine Swailes, Linda Green, Li'via Pa'pai, Louise Martin, Philip Sanderson, Rachel Johnston, Susan Mowatt, Yasuko Fujino
Art in Healthcare
Andy & Peter Holden
Jackie Morris & Robert Macfarlane
*Laura Aldridge, R.K. Greville, Oliver Osborne, Charlie Billingham, Gio Marconi, Bobby Niven, Jacqui Pestell, Ben Rivers
*Jesse Wine, Pablo Bronstein, Caroline Achaintre, Nicholas Deshayes, Simon Fujiwara, Martino Gamper, Anthea Hamilton, Charlotte Prodget, James Richards, Patrick Staff, Bedwyr Williams
* Cerys Wynn Evans, Roni Horn, Karla Black, Louise Bourgeois, Juergen Teller, Dan Colen, Nicholas Party, Jim Lambie, William Eggleston, Richard Tuttle, Isa Genzken, Ian Hamilton Findlay, Raoul de Keyser, Alex Dordoy, Robert Ryman, Alan Johnston, Andy Warhol, Marc Camille Chaimowicz, Raoul Dufy, Douglas Gordon
Ciara Phillips; Nature Printed; Rory McEwen
* Franz West, Douglas Gordon, Marina Faust, Sarah Lucas, Albert Oehlen, Michaelangelo Pistoletto, Rudolf Polanszky, Andreas Reiter Raabe, Anselm Reyle, Heimo Zobernig
Neville Rae
Rosita McKenzie
What is Life? *
*Christine Borland, Graham Fagen, Simon Starling
Jeremy Millar
John Cage and Merce Cunningham
Rosita McKenzie
David G.A. Stephenson
Rose Frain
Rosita McKenzie and Rebecca Marr
Carl Andre, Adam Barker-Mill, Lothar Baumgarten, Graham Fagen, Douglas Gordon, Alan Johnston, Callum Innes, Agnes Martin, Rory McEwen, Thomas Struth, Cy Twombly, Ruth Vollmer, Lawrence Weiner, Franz West, Richard Wright
Cerys Wyn Evans
Andy MacDonald
Dom Hans van der Laan
*Art and Language, Martin Boyce, Glenn Brown, Martin Creed, Liam Gillick, Lucy Gunning, Graham Gussin, Anna Hunt
Bloomberg New Contemporaries *
*John Askew, Anna Barriball, Jennifer Beattie, Richard Bradbury, Gail Burton, Don Bury, Josephine Butler, Justin Carter, Phil Collins, Mike Cooter, Robert Currie, Eric, Alastair Hadley, Llana Halperin, Lucy Harrison, Sharon Hughes, James Ireland, Nicalaj Bendix, Skyum Larsen, Jeffrey Ty Lee, Johannes Maier, Andrew Mania, Marta Marce, Nathaniel Mellors, Miyako Narita, Mick Peter, Ben Pruskin, Jewyo Rhii, Hideatsu Shiba, Tomoaki Suzuki, Melanie Titmuss, Beata Veszely, Emily Wardill, Edward Weldon
Graham Fagen
Scotland's Gardens Scheme Summer Exhibition
Agnes Martin
John McLaughlin
Paul Morrison
Richard Wright
Absolut Open
Paul Keir
Indian Botanical Drawings 1790-1850
David Austin
Susan Derges
Flora of China 2
Family *
* Sam Taylor-Wood, Simon Starling, Callum Innes, Liisa Roberts, Richard Billingham, Damien Hirst, Rachael Whiteread, Tatsuo Miyajima, Tim Head, Richard Hamilton, Marc Quinn, Paul Miller (AKA. D.J. Spooky), Douglas Gordon, Emma Kay, Georgina Starr
Adam Barker-Mill
Roger Ackling
In Visible Light
Theories of the Decorative *
* Fabiàn Marcaccio, Ingo Meller, Beatriz Milhazes, David Reed, Phillip Taaffe, Juan Uslé, Leslie Wayne
The British Art Show 4 *
* Matt Collishaw, Anya Gallaccio, Douglas Gordon, Damien Hirst
Scotland's Gardens Scheme Summer Exhibition
* Keith Haring, Ed Ruscha, Andy Warhol and Catriona Grant, Gary Rough & David Shrigley
Raymond Booth
A Postcard from New Guinena
Flora Dancia
Michael Porter
Donald Urquhart
Treasures from the Royal Horticultural Society
Beatrix Potter
Celia Rosser
Seed of Memory
Tim Stead
Walter Hood Fitch
Peter Randall-Page
Herman de Vries
Flora Photographica
A History of Garden Tools
Margaret Mee
Margaret Stones
Herman de Vries
Pierre-Joseph Redoute
The Avant Garden
Emerging Forms
The Discovery Dome
Sjord Buisman
Andy Goldsworthy
The Botanical Cabinet
Susanna Stuart-Smith
George Wyllie
Anna Atkins
Rory McEwen
Brinsley Burbridge
Post Office Floral Stamps
A Fascination for Fungi
John Hope
Margaret Stones
Heather Angel