On 5 February 2026, the award-winning sculpture park Jupiter Artland will reopen to launch a year of ambitious exhibitions and commissions that place landscape, power and identity at the centre of contemporary debate.
With artistic excellence and social purpose inseparable, the Spring and Summer programme brings together Scotland-based and international artists in a series of exhibitions, performances and events. Through Jupiter’s distinctive philanthropic model, where 100 percent of admission supports its Learning Foundation, every visitor directly contributes to creating opportunities for the next generation of artists and creative voices across Scotland.
From April, Extraction brings together work by Carol Rhodes, john gerrard, Marguerite Humeau, Siobhan McLaughlin and John Latham to explore how energy systems shape culture and land, set against Jupiter’s own layered history of shale oil, North Sea pipelines and on-site renewables.
For Edinburgh Art Festival 2026, Glasgow-based Irish artist Sgàire Wood presents a major solo exhibition in the Steadings Gallery and co-curates Jupiter Rising x EAF, transforming the park with a night of performance, music and spectacle.
EXTRACTION
11 April – 26 July, Ballroom & Steadings Galleries
Extraction is an exhibition exploring the cultural, psychological and environmental legacies of energy systems. It brings together works by Carol Rhodes, john gerrard, Marguerite Humeau, Siobhan McLaughlin and John Latham. Their practices are presented in dialogue with the unique landscape of Jupiter Artland, where the traces of three distinct energy eras exist simultaneously: the nineteenth-century shale oil industry, the twentieth-century North Sea petroleum economy and contemporary renewable infrastructure.
Rather than presenting energy history as linear progress, Extraction reveals a repetitive cycle built on belief, optimism and inevitability. Each energy era produces material wealth, cultural identity and technological confidence.
Each eventually becomes residue, memory or monument. Debates around energy transition are dominated by technological narratives and political urgency.
This exhibition instead investigates and reflects upon the emotional and ideological structure of energy systems, considering labour, identity and landscape without nostalgia or triumphalism.
After the erosion of energy systems, what remains is infrastructure, waste, altered land and symbolic fragments. Jupiter’s own landscape is also part of the exhibition – walking around the sculpture park, visitors can encounter views as they gaze in various directions out from the the artland; the historic shale bings – Scotland’s first oil industry – and the landing site for the Forties oil pipeline out to the North Sea, as well as the solar-field which powers Jupiter’s site.
Extraction is not a survey, commemoration or an environmental warning, but a lens offering clarity on how societies build and unbuild worlds through energy. It invites the viewer to recognise themselves inside a cycle rather than at its conclusion, to reconsider progress, permanence and the future.
john gerrard, Flare (Oceania), (2022). Simulation. Courtesy of the artist.
SGÀIRE WOOD
14 August – 18 October, Steadings Gallery (for Edinburgh Art Festival EAF26)
Jupiter Artland will present a solo exhibition of new work by Glasgow-based Irish artist and performer Sgàire Wood. With its origins in drag, fashion photography and multi-artform nightlife scenes, Wood’s practice is concerned with the layers of meaning behind everyday images, visual performances of identity, pop-cultural symbolism, authenticity and artifice.
Well-known for her humorous performance work combining dance, make-up and costume design, this show represents an exciting step for Wood into sculpture and immersive installation.
Sgàire Wood, Tiger (2024). Photo by Spit Turner
In this new body of work, Wood utilises traditional heraldic imagery to examine notions of heritage, belonging and the violence embedded in visual culture at large, specifically positioning urban wildlife as representations of the precarity and oppression faced by minorities amidst the rise of fascism.
Mythical heraldic creatures like the martlet – a footless bird purported to live its entire life in flight – symbolise a ceaseless struggle and sense of placelessness under our present political conditions of hostility and violence.
Wood critically questions the systems of belief historically associated with this visual culture and our current political urgencies, all while leaving room for humour, hope and the possibilities of belonging and solidarity.
Wood’s work has often been situated in nightlife spaces – she has performed at clubs, events, galleries and festivals across Europe, as well as co-founding the much-missed Glasgow queer club Bonjour.
This exhibition brings her multi-faceted practice into Jupiter’s Steadings Gallery, to create a poignant meditation on identity and inheritance.
Jupiter Rising x EAF
Saturday 22 August
Alongside this commission, Jupiter Rising x EAF returns on Saturday 22 August with Sgàire Wood as co-curator. Sgàiraoke, her hybrid of performance art and karaoke, has been a regular and much-loved feature of Jupiter Rising since the early days of the festival.
Expect the usual art-drenched chaos, late night dancing, music and stunning performance in the woodlands of Jupiter, all imbued with the glamour, allure and experiment at the core of Wood’s practice.
Full line up and pre-sale tickets to be shared in Spring 2026.
Currently on:
February 2026 at Jupiter offers a final chance to see Georg Wilson’s The Earth Exhales in the Ballroom Gallery, alongside workshops inspired by Georg’s work – exploring poetry, collaboration and seasonal change, tickets limited and available online.
Tai Shani’s The Spell or The Dream continues in the orchard through to autumn, evolving with light and the landscape.
To Love and To Cherish by Florence Peake in the Glasshouse, our transformative new commission, can also be experienced as part of private hire for weddings and special occasions throughout the year.
The permanent collection at Jupiter Artland which includes major works by Anish Kapoor, Antony Gormley, Anya Gallaccio, Charles Jencks, Christian Boltanski, Cornelia Parker, Helen Chadwick, Joana Vasconcelos, Tracey Emin and others, remains on view throughout every season.
