Jupiter Artland are delighted to share the first elements of an exciting and broad ranging 2025 programme. In Spring, Jupiter Artland will present a new commission by Jonathan Baldock, opening on 10 May. Baldock’s sculptural work combines earthly delights with surreal mythologies, through his sensitive and evocative approach to exploring queer and working-class histories. Later in the summer, a newly commissioned film by Guy Oliver will open to coincide with Edinburgh Art Festival 2025. Oliver’s film takes the turn of the millennium as its starting point, tracing social, cultural and personal histories and interrogating notions of masculinity.
Exciting changes are also planned for earlier in the springtime; the park reopens on Friday 18 April for Easter weekend. Visitors will be welcomed to experience works by artists Tracey Emin, Joana Vasconcelos, Anthony Gormley, Anya Gallaccio, Rachel Maclean, Phyllida Barlow, Charles Jencks, Cornelia Parker and more, across 100 acres of beautiful woodland and meadow.
The annual JUPITER RISING x EAF is set to return on Saturday 16 August 2025 – the one-night festival stages experimental music, performance, poetry and art in the iconic Artland landscape. The programme celebrates underrepresented artistic voices, championing queer artists through innovative and site-responsive live music, DJ sets, talks and performance art. The programme will be revealed in spring.
In autumn, meanwhile, JUPITER+ will bring a newly commissioned artwork to a high street location in Scotland, following on from Rachel Maclean’s immersive Don’t Buy Mi in Perth (2022) and Ayr (2023), and Anya Gallaccio’s iconic Stroke in Paisley (2024). JUPITER+ sees world-class artworks brought to locations and communities across the country. The off-site programme is powered by the belief that everyone should have access to the best of international art on their doorstep and Jupiter’s mission to inspire the next generation of artists in Scotland. The artist will be announced in the new year.
More details can be revealed as follows.
Joana Vasconcelos, Gateway (2019).
Courtesy of Jupiter Artland. Photo Alan Pollok-Morris.
Jonathan Baldock with Kiss from a Rose, (2023). Courtesy the artist and Stephen Friedman Gallery. Photo © Mark Reeves, courtesy Yorkshire Sculpture Park.
JONATHAN BALDOCK
10 May – 28 September 2025
Working across sculpture, installation and performance, Jonathan Baldock’s works are saturated with humour and wit, alongside an uncanny, macabre quality that channels his interest in myth and folklore. His work often takes a biographical form, while addressing the trauma, stress, sensuality, mortality, and spirituality around our relationship to the body and the space it inhabits.
Baldock uses clay, wood, metal, fabrics such as linen, felt, hessian and wool, alongside woven basketry and hand embroidery. He combines colours, textures, sounds and scents to form evocative installations. Concerned with removing the functional aspects of the materials he uses, Baldock works in a performative way through his sculptural assemblages; he brings the viewer, the object and the space they occupy into question as a ritual act or theatre.
Baldock’s new work will be exhibited in the Ballroom until September, with earlier works exploring his wider practice in the Steadings Gallery until July. Artist-designed merchandise, accompanying the exhibition, will be available exclusively through Jupiter Artland’s shop.
Guy Oliver, We Put The Unction Into Erectile Dysfunction, (2022).
Still from the video, courtesy the artist.
GUY OLIVER
7 August – 28 September 2025
Guy Oliver’s interdisciplinary practice employs video alongside text, painting, collage and performance. He has a long-standing interest in issues around male identity, notions of failure and the concept of the tragi-comic. His work deftly weaves together references from social and cultural histories, music, advertising and internet subcultures, embodied through a cast of characters and personas. Costumes, archival family photos, props, mannequins and tender watercolours bring his film-worlds into the gallery space. These devices are used to address uncomfortable, complex, difficult and urgent subject matter.
Alongside Oliver’s dark humour and cutting critique, viewers find an astute and sensitive portrayal of fragility and vulnerability. His newly commissioned film will be shown in the Steadings Gallery from August to September.
Alima Askew performs at Jupiter Rising x EAF (2024).
Courtesy the artist. Photo Neil Hanna.
Jupiter Artland’s 2025 programme promises a year of innovation, creativity, and celebration, offering visitors an immersive art experience in one of the UK’s most beautiful and inspiring outdoor galleries. With exhibitions, new commissions, a festival, and much more, it’s set to be an unmissable season of contemporary art in Scotland!
JUPITER ARTLAND is an award-winning, contemporary sculpture park, located just outside Edinburgh. Set over 100 acres of meadow, woodland and indoor gallery spaces, Jupiter Artland has to date commissioned over 35 permanent site-specific sculptures from the world’s leading artists including Alec Finlay, Andy Goldsworthy, Anish Kapoor, Antony Gormley, Anya Gallaccio, Charles Jencks, Christian Boltanski, Cornelia Parker, Helen Chadwick, Henry Castle, Ian Hamilton Finlay, Joana Vasconcelos, Laura Ford, Marc Quinn, Nathan Coley, Nicolas Party, Pablo Bronstein, Peter Liversidge, Phyllida Barlow, Rachel Maclean, Sara Barker, Shane Waltener, Tania Kovats, and Tracey Emin. A curated annual programme of exhibitions and events from leading visionary artists and emerging talents, as well as public talks, assemblies, and an active live art programme, make Jupiter Artland a thriving location for new ideas. Central to Jupiter Artland’s vision is to engage Every Child in Scotland with art through its learning and outreach programme offering free school visits, digital projects, and hands-on activities for learners of all ages. Jupiter Artland was founded in 2009 by Robert and Nicky Wilson and since then has grown into one of the UK’s most significant places to see outdoor sculpture.
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