Jobs & Opportunities

We are looking for friendly, attentive and reliable waiting staff to join our team. We pride ourselves on creating a fair and friendly workplace with an attractive package of staff benefits. This role will be a floor service role with no bar skills required.

We will only consider applications from people with a minimum of 6 months’ restaurant table service experience.

Fruitmarket’s cafe is popular with our exhibition audiences and with busy commuters, local residents, and tourists. Working hours will largely be during our regular opening hours (which are 9am to 6pm, 7 days a week) but the role also involves working events outside of these hours. We are seeking a team member who will be passionate about table service and maintaining and improving the guest experience in the cafe.

The ideal candidate will be seeking between 12 and 30 hours per week and will need to be available at least 4 days out of 7.

For an informal discussion about the role please contact Craig on 0131 226 8195.

To Apply

Download the job description
Download the equalities monitoring form

Please read the job description and submit a CV with a statement outlining that you have the skills for the post, and complete the equalities monitoring information. We will also accept a CV and statement in video or audio file. The application should be emailed to jobs@fruitmarket.co.uk with Waiting Staff as the email subject heading.

Application deadline: Monday 19.10.26 at 9am. 

We will contact shortlisted candidates directly. If you have not heard from us by Friday 23.10.26 then your application has not been shortlisted.

We are seeking a PhD intern to assist with the research and editorial work for the publication ‘Surrealism from Below’ that will accompany a major group exhibition curated by Dawn Ades and Gavin Grindon at Fruitmarket opening in Summer 2027.

This internship opportunity is funded by the Scottish Graduate School for Arts & Humanities (SGSAH). SGSAH will pay the equivalent of an UKRI stipend rate for the duration of your internship or residency and can help with travel and accommodation costs. To apply, you must be a second or third year PhD student in the arts and humanities, registered at a Scottish Higher Education Institution.

The placement can be up to 2 months long (full time equivalent). The internship must be completed between January and April 2027 and at least one working day should include Monday, Tuesday or Wednesday.  Exact hours and working pattern to be discussed with the successful candidate.

For more information and to apply visit the see SGSAH website

Deadline for applications 5pm, 23.10.26. Interviews during weeks commencing 9.11.26 and 16.11.26.

Project details
Opened in 1974, Fruitmarket is a space for contemporary culture in central Edinburgh, developing and presenting a diverse programme of exhibitions, commissions, publications, performances, events and engagement activities. Our award-winning publications are an important space for artists and audiences. They are created to extend the life, reach, and impact of our creative programmes and projects and to give artists and curators a tool to further communicate with audiences and develop their careers. All publications are edited, designed and production-managed in-house, working directly with artists, estates and foundations, curators and writers.

The exhibition ‘Surrealism from Below’ (July – October 2027) explores surrealism and dada’s global relationship with protest and activism. Most accounts of surrealism and dada’s politics address ‘politics’ as an abstract theme, but this exhibition will instead look ‘from below’ at concrete links to real social movements. The exhibition covers a selection of works which range from the surrealist collections of our exhibition partners, the National Galleries of Scotland, to today’s cutting-edge work in contemporary activist art and a selection of rarely seen radical protest artists and activists of the 1960s–2000s. The publication that accompanies the exhibition will include new essays by curators Dawn Ades and Gavin Grindon, an introduction by Fruitmarket Director Fiona Bradley, as well as many texts and images by the artists and activists in the exhibition. This complex publication requires careful research, editing and proofing.

Working closely with our Deputy Director as part of the publishing team, the Research Assistant will help to source, collate and proof the images and texts to be reproduced in the book ‘Surrealism from Below.’ This editorial work will be completed between January and April 2027, at the end of which the book will go to press, to be published in time for the exhibition opening in July 2027.

We are looking for a researcher with an interest in and enthusiasm for the book’s subject matter and a meticulous approach to research and editing. Some knowledge of French, German and Spanish will be an advantage, as much of the material in the book will be translated from these languages.

Artists and activist groups featured will include: Act Up, Andre Breton, Black Mask, Claude Cahun, George Grosz, John Heartfield, Darren Cullen, Guerilla Girls, Sam Haile, Hannah Hoch, Raoul Hausmann, Peter Kennard, Man Ray, Joan Miro, Situationist International, Gee Vaucher, Yes Men, plus more to be confirmed.

Fruitmarket aims to reach people who have been underrepresented in audiences, in our team and in the sector and have prioritised increasing representation of disabled people, people who are black or from POC communities. Fruitmarket welcomes all people no matter their age, race, gender, sex, sexual orientation, religion or belief, class, cultural background, disability, marital status, pregnancy or maternity status.

We are looking for an experienced chef to join our team on a permanent basis. We encourage applications from chefs with at least 12 months’ experience and will consider applications for full-time or part-time work. The right candidate will be punctual, organised and hard working. You will be aid £14.42 per hour plus equal share of gratuities.

Fruitmarket cafe is popular with our exhibition audiences and with commuters, local residents, and tourists. We pride ourselves on creating a fair and friendly workplace with an attractive package of staff benefits.

Working hours will usually be between 8am and 6pm daily but the role also involves working occasional events outside of these hours.

For an informal discussion about the role please contact Head Chef, Martin Collins on 0131 226 8195.

To Apply

Download the job description
Download the equalities monitoring form

Please read the job description and submit a CV with a statement outlining that you have the skills for the post, and complete the equalities monitoring information.

We will also accept a CV and statement in video or audio file.

The application should be emailed to jobs@fruitmarket.co.uk with Fruitmarket Chef as the email subject heading.

Application deadline: Monday 19.10.26 at 9am,

We will contact shortlisted candidates directly. If you have not heard from us by Tuesday 20.10.26 then your application has not been shortlisted.