Royal Scottish Academy (RSA)

The Royal Scottish Academy of Art & Architecture has a proud tradition of promoting contemporary art in Scotland through engaging and diverse exhibitions and fantastic scholarship, award & residency opportunities.

We’re thrilled to announce that Derrick Guild RSA and Olivia Irvine have each received an RSA Blackadder Houston Mid-Car...
14/01/2025

We’re thrilled to announce that Derrick Guild RSA and Olivia Irvine have each received an RSA Blackadder Houston Mid-Career Travel Award! The award grants £5,000 to carry out the research, development and production of a new body of work through a period of international travel.

Derrick Guild RSA’s work references the European still life paintings of the 15th-19th centuries. He’ll use the award funds to visit the Netherlands, viewing the ongoing public accessed restoration of Paulus Potter's 1647 painting, The Young Bull.

Olivia Irvine uses a combination of the imagined and the observed to create her paintings, and she’ll use the award funds to visit South America, researching how literature has influenced the theatricality and dream-like sensibilities of contemporary South American painting.

🔗Read more about Guild and Irvine's plans, and about what the award means to them over on our website: bit.ly/3Cf8saH

📸Derrick Guild RSA, photo Sylvie Guild; Olivia Irvine

We’re delighted to announce that Edinburgh-based artist Moyna Flannigan has received the RSA Blackadder Houston Mid-Care...
13/01/2025

We’re delighted to announce that Edinburgh-based artist Moyna Flannigan has received the RSA Blackadder Houston Mid-Career Painting Award. Funded by the RSA Blackadder Houston Bequest, the £20,000 award intends to enable a committed painter to devote themselves exclusively to painting for a period of up to 26 weeks.

Flannigan’s practice centres on the representation of women in painting. Her works are an amalgamation of memory, experience and imagination, drawn from history, mythology and popular culture.

She said: ‘I’m really delighted to receive this painting award from the RSA, and especially pleased that it comes from the legacy of Elizabeth Blackadder and John Houston who were such generous teachers when I was a student at Edinburgh College of Art. Now that I teach there myself, and I am at a different stage in my painting life, I am conscious, as perhaps they were, that painting helps me to teach, and teaching helps me to paint.’

🔗Read more about Moyna’s practice, and what the award means to her over on our website: bit.ly/3Cf8saH

NOW OPEN: Cauld Blaws the WindEscape the Edinburgh chill and join us in the Academicians' Gallery to explore our new exh...
11/01/2025

NOW OPEN: Cauld Blaws the Wind

Escape the Edinburgh chill and join us in the Academicians' Gallery to explore our new exhibition. Featuring works by Henry Kondracki, Elizabeth Blackadder, Marion Smith, Ade Adesina and more, the show offers a blast of warmth for these cold winter days.

🗓️11 January - 9 February 2025: bit.ly/4fRiwEz
🖼️David Mach HRSA, Froth

Last chance to apply!🚨As we approach our bicentenary in 2026, we’re looking for a Project Manager to join our team and d...
10/01/2025

Last chance to apply!🚨

As we approach our bicentenary in 2026, we’re looking for a Project Manager to join our team and develop Partners Across Scotland, a nationwide project that celebrates our 200-year history. You should have strong knowledge of the Scottish gallery and museum sectors, and experience in delivering large projects.

📅Deadline: Tuesday 14 January, 10pm
🔗Find out more: bit.ly/3LSYihg

📷Julie Howden

Phoebe Anna Traquair is best known for her role in the Celtic Revival in Scotland. A powerhouse of imagination, her tape...
09/01/2025

Phoebe Anna Traquair is best known for her role in the Celtic Revival in Scotland. A powerhouse of imagination, her tapestries and Edinburgh murals are famous, but she was also a brilliant enamellist.

House of Life, which she bequeathed to the Academy, is a lasting memorial to her election as an Honorary Academician in 1920. You can currently view this work in Gallery VII when you visit Benno Schotz and A Scots Miscellany.

🔎 On view until Sunday 19 January: bit.ly/41933fF

Are you graduating from a Scottish art school this year?🎓Applications are now open for four of our student awards. Cover...
08/01/2025

Are you graduating from a Scottish art school this year?🎓

Applications are now open for four of our student awards. Covering a variety of mediums including painting, architecture, sculpture, and printmaking, these awards offer graduating and postgraduate students up to £3,000 for a period of travel and research.

🔗Apply now: bit.ly/4bIFop8
🗓️ Deadline: Sunday 23 March
🖼️ Siri Burt, My Liquids are Wetter Than Yours

📣We're hiring!📣We're looking for Gallery Assistants to join our team to support us with our two biggest exhibitions of t...
06/01/2025

📣We're hiring!📣

We're looking for Gallery Assistants to join our team to support us with our two biggest exhibitions of the year - RSA New Contemporaries and the 199th RSA Annual Exhibition.

You'll assist with exhibition installation, participate in gallery tours, provide exhibition supervision and ensure that high standards of presentation are always maintained in the gallery.

🔗Find out more via our website: bit.ly/3LSYihg
🗓️Deadline: Sunday 26 January

If you’d like to learn more about Benno Schotz RSA, then be sure to join us for our free exhibition tour next week!Explo...
05/01/2025

If you’d like to learn more about Benno Schotz RSA, then be sure to join us for our free exhibition tour next week!

Explore Schotz’s incredible journey—from his childhood spent in his father’s watchmaking studio, to his early days at Glasgow School of Art. Learn more about his breakthrough solo show in 1926, and his rise as Scotland’s leading portrait sculptor.

📆Thursday 9 January, 12pm
🎟️Free, booking recommended: bit.ly/4gbEmDN

COMING SOON: Cauld Blaws the WindWith its title borrowed from Rabbie Burns’ Up in the Morning Early, Cauld Blaws the Win...
04/01/2025

COMING SOON: Cauld Blaws the Wind

With its title borrowed from Rabbie Burns’ Up in the Morning Early, Cauld Blaws the Wind promises to offer a blast of warmth for these cold winter days. On view, you’ll find works by Henry Kondracki, Elizabeth Blackadder, Marion Smith, Ade Adesina and more: bit.ly/401hKAi

🗓️11 January - 9 February 2025
🖼️Adrian Wiszniewski RSA, Unicorn II

New year, new job?We’re looking for a Project Manager to join our team ahead of our bicentenary in 2026. You’ll be respo...
03/01/2025

New year, new job?

We’re looking for a Project Manager to join our team ahead of our bicentenary in 2026. You’ll be responsible for managing Partners Across Scotland, a celebratory project involving over 50 organisations across the nation. You should have a strong understanding of the Scottish cultural sector and a keen interest in the promotion of art and architecture.

📅Deadline: Tuesday 14 January, 10pm
🔗Find out more: bit.ly/3LSYihg

Happy Hogmanay from the RSA! ✨In 2024, with your support, we distributed over £450,000 through awards, residencies, scho...
31/12/2024

Happy Hogmanay from the RSA! ✨

In 2024, with your support, we distributed over £450,000 through awards, residencies, scholarships, bursaries and sales opportunities to artists and architects all over Scotland. Whether you’re dancing the night away or celebrating from home, we hope you have a wonderful evening, and we look forward to welcoming you back into the galleries in 2025.

🖼️ Willie Rodger RSA, Punch and Polly, 1997

⭐Artist Opportunity⭐Now in its 199th year, our Annual Exhibition is the most extensive yearly presentation of contempora...
30/12/2024

⭐Artist Opportunity⭐

Now in its 199th year, our Annual Exhibition is the most extensive yearly presentation of contemporary art and architecture in Scotland, and submissions are currently open for 2025!

🔗Apply now: bit.ly/3HCWO8Q
📆Deadline: 6 February 2025, 5pm

Born in East Bengal, Fanindra Nath Bose left India at the age of 16 to continue his studies in Italy. Eventually moving ...
29/12/2024

Born in East Bengal, Fanindra Nath Bose left India at the age of 16 to continue his studies in Italy. Eventually moving to Edinburgh, he enrolled at Edinburgh School of Art, and would go on to study at the RSA Life School and join the first cohort of students to enrol at the newly opened Edinburgh College of Art in 1908.

Bose holds the distinction of being the first Asian artist to be elected to the Academy, and he was also the first Indian sculptor to gain recognition in Great Britain.

🔎You can explore Bose’s work now in our current exhibition, Benno Schotz and A Scots Miscellany: bit.ly/41933fF
📍Online and in the gallery

Merry Christmas from the Royal Scottish Academy! As another busy year of awards, events, and exhibitions comes to a clos...
24/12/2024

Merry Christmas from the Royal Scottish Academy! As another busy year of awards, events, and exhibitions comes to a close, we want to thank you for your continued support in 2024🎄

As we prepare to look ahead to 2025, we thought we’d delve back into the Collection once more and share a few of the Christmas cards we’ve produced over the years. The first official RSA Christmas card was sent in 1979, and the first member commissioned to design it was David Pugh Evans RSA, inspired by neon signs he encountered during a trip to the USA. Signed by Sir Robin Philipson PPRSA, it marked the start of this lovely tradition.

In 1998, William Baillie PPRSA commissioned Duncan Shanks RSA to create Flurry, a beautiful Christmas collage, and in 2000, Joyce Cairns’ Christmas Trilogy took centre stage. This year, our Christmas card features Voyager by Orkney-based artist Samantha Clark, who received the inaugural RSA MacRobert Art Award for Painting. You can explore her work in our upcoming exhibition, In Orcadia.

🖼️ David Pugh Evans RSA
🖼️ Duncan Shanks, Flurry (detail)
🖼️ Joyce Cairns, Christmas Trilogy
🖼️ Samantha Clark, Voyager

‘It was a really quick decision that first brought me to Scotland. A friend had a room available in Aberdeen and I remem...
23/12/2024

‘It was a really quick decision that first brought me to Scotland. A friend had a room available in Aberdeen and I remember getting out of the car in Garthdee and thinking, wow I’m in Scotland! In April I made a late entry to Gray’s School of Art and that was the start of my Scottish odyssey.’

Born in Nigeria, Ade Adesina moved to the UK in the early 2000s. He was the first RSA New Contemporary to be elected as an Academician, and you can learn about his printmaking practice and views on art in Scotland today at our upcoming symposium, A Miscellany of Migrants.

📅Thursday 16 January, 6pm
🎟️Book now: bit.ly/3B3qqMX

Our William Gillies: Modernism and Nation exhibition tour is currently on view at Perth Art Gallery!Throughout his caree...
21/12/2024

Our William Gillies: Modernism and Nation exhibition tour is currently on view at Perth Art Gallery!

Throughout his career, Gillies explored a number of different approaches, absorbing European modernism and redirecting it through an art that was intimately connected to his life. He experimented with cubism after studying in Paris in 1923, and the revelatory discovery of Edvard Munch in 1931 opened further doors to Expressionism, abstraction and the art of Paul Klee. The results emerged over the following thirty years, and across his work in portraiture, still life and landscape, he attempted to find a voice for his isolation.

📍 Perth Art Gallery
📆 15 November 2024 to 2 March 2025

📷Culture Perth and Kinross, photo Sally Jubb

We’re hiring!We’re looking for a Project Manager to join our team to manage and develop the RSA Partners Across Scotland...
20/12/2024

We’re hiring!

We’re looking for a Project Manager to join our team to manage and develop the RSA Partners Across Scotland bicentenary project. The project will include over 50 partner organisations who are celebrating their connection with the RSA over our 200-year history. If you’re an experienced arts or museum and gallery professional with a strong background in project management, then we want to hear from you!

📆Deadline: Tuesday 14 January, 10pm
🔗Find out more: bit.ly/3LSYihg

There are just a few days left to explore the Christmas Show. A celebration of our Academicians, the exhibition showcase...
19/12/2024

There are just a few days left to explore the Christmas Show. A celebration of our Academicians, the exhibition showcases over 100 brilliant works and is the perfect opportunity to pick up a last-minute gift. Alongside paintings, prints and sculptures by acclaimed Scottish artists, we also have selection of publications and greetings cards available – or why not gift an RSA Friends Membership to the art lover in your life?

Please note: Benno Schotz and A Scots Miscellany will be closed from Tuesday 24 - Tuesday 31 December, reopening on Wednesday 1 January 2025 at 12pm, and the RSA office will be closed from Saturday 21 December 2024 - Sunday 5 January 2025.

🕔 We’re open until 5pm

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