After 1974 the focus of the gallery changed away from a continuous programme of exhibitions towards educational projects, such as ‘Edinburgh Arts’ journeys, and symposia and dialogue with artists and those interested in studying the contemporary arts. We still presented exhibitions and theatre from time to time, often sharing costs with other organisations. The gallery’s third move of premises, to Monteith House on the Royal Mile, was the venue for an exhibition celebrating the tenth anniversary of the gallery and we produced a detailed record of what had been achieved. Two moves of premises later we took on (with the indirect assistance of the City Council) Blackfriars Church. It was a three-storey building which had formerly been a printing works but had been unoccupied for some time. Nick and Limme Groves-Raines, the architects, made it wind and watertight for us at their own expense. Many people donated to the cost of running this building as an art gallery. Joseph Beuys contributed £18,000 from the sale of the Edinburgh ‘Poorhouse Doors’ which he had turned into a sculpture (now in the National Gallery in Berlin). George Riches, Chairman of Phaidon Press, held a fundraising dinner for us. Dr Arthur Sachler contributed four magnificent exhibitions to the Edinburgh Festival from his own collections : Piranesi Etchings, Pre-Columbian Ceramics, Chinese Watercolours, Smithsonian. Artists such as John David Mooney, Edward Dwurnik, Paula Rego and Maggi Hambling exhibited in the gallery and Caroline Tisdall contributed her collection of Beuys ‘Bits & Pieces’ (Beuys himself wanted to come and work in the gallery but died before he could do so). Our final exhibition was Günther Uecker’s ‘Pictland Garden’ (which received Scottish Arts Council support) but when the opportunity arose to sell the building to the Italian Foreign Ministry we had to take it. Trying to operate without a revenue grant had become too much. The Edinburgh City Council came to the rescue with the offer of the redundant St Mary’s school in Albany Street. We operated a full programme there of exhibitions and theatre for several years. In 1998 the council required us to move at short notice as the school site was to be re-developed. We were already committed to presenting a full Edinburgh Festival programme, including productions by the European Youth Parliament. The only available alternative venue was New Parliament House which we had to rent at considerable expense. Since then we have been operating from a small office building in the complex (with no exhibition space) at full commercial rent.