Jill Smith's Zodiac Journey

Jill Smith's Zodiac Journey celebrates Fruitmarket's 50th year. Carried out in the Outer Hebrides, where Smith has made her home, this 'ritual journey' - Smith's term for her works that consist of a series of actions spread over time and multiple locations - presents personal characterisations of the star signs, at times interwoven with references to the festivals of the Celtic year. This publication presents Smith’s diary of the year, from Virgo 2023 to Leo 2024, alongside commissioned documentary photographs from Mhairi Law. An introduction from curator Iain Morrison, and a list of Smith’s ritual journeys from 1982 to the present, put on record the life and practice that this pioneering performance artist has been undertaking, away from the gaze of the mainstream artworld, since the early 1980s.

This book will be launched in December 2024 and posted to you then.