The Fleming Collection

The Fleming Collection The Fleming Collection is the finest collection of Scottish art outside of public institutions.

The collection operates as a museum-without-walls, facilitating public loans of artwork as a way to promote Scottish art.

"Being asked to pick just ten milestone moments in a 200-year history is no mean feat! Of course, I can look back at my ...
16/06/2026

"Being asked to pick just ten milestone moments in a 200-year history is no mean feat! Of course, I can look back at my 24 years with the Academy and find ten points just from that period alone."

For the Royal Scottish Academy's () bicentenary celebrations RSA200, its director Colin Greenslade () put together ten defining points in its two hundred year history for this summer's Scottish Art News magazine, an RSA Special.

Read Greenslade's article online now on Scottish Art News. Link in bio. 🔗

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Birthday celebrations begin in the gallery. Artwork Ross Sinclair RSA (Elect). Courtesy of the RSA
Academy Late 2025. Performance by Ellis Ludlow during New Contemporaries 2025, photo Andy Catlin. Courtesy of the RSA
Helen Frankenthaler poster, 2003. Courtesy of the RSA
Richard Wilson, Installation shot, Gallery VIII, Art of Our Time exhibition showing Richard Wilson’s work 20:50, 1987. Courtesy of the RSA
Robbie Bushe RSA. 2023 recipient of the RSA Blackadder Houston Mid- Career Painting Award. Photo © Helen Pugh. Courtesy of the RSA
Magdalena Abakanowicz, King Arthur’s Court, part of 10 Dialogues. Courtesy of the RSA
Kate Downie RSA, View of RSA building, 2025. Courtesy of the RSA
35th Annual Exhibition, 1861. Courtesy of the RSA
RSA Academicians Signing Book. Courtesy of the RSA

🎨 The Fleming Collection champions contemporary art in Scotland. Each week, we spotlight an artist who has lived or work...
14/06/2026

🎨 The Fleming Collection champions contemporary art in Scotland. Each week, we spotlight an artist who has lived or worked here and created bold, innovative work.

Victoria Crowe (), based in the Scottish Borders and in Venice, is one of Scotland’s leading painters whose work is instantly recognisable while simultaneously defying precise categorisation.

Crowe's full range of her painting covers landscape, still lifes, portraits, self-portraits and interiors and is represented in many public and private collections across the country.

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Victoria Crowe. Pentland Thaw (2025). © The Artist.
Victoria Crowe. Solstice Moon. © The Artist.
Victoria Crowe. Border Hill. © The Artist.
Victoria Crowe. Professor Peter Higgs. © The Artist.

13/06/2026

🖌️ A Wee Bit of Art...

This week: Ethel Wright's 'The Music Room, Portrait of Una Dugdale' (c. 1912), presented by our Emeritus Curator James Knox at The Arc in Wi******er. Wright was part of a group of female painters at the heart of the Scottish Colourists SJ Peploe and JD Fergusson’s circle in France, whose achievements have been largely overlooked.

Read Know's article about these 'Forgotten Colourists' on Scottish Art News. Link in comments. 🔗 (Also featured in our upcoming summer print issue of Scottish Art News!)

"The foundation of the colourist movement was forged in Paris in the years prior to World War I and at the heart of SJ P...
13/06/2026

"The foundation of the colourist movement was forged in Paris in the years prior to World War I and at the heart of SJ Peploe and JD Fergusson’s circle in France were a group of female artists whose achievements have been largely overlooked.But the opening of the Scottish Colourists: Radical Perspectives exhibition at The Arc in Wi******er this summer provides a fresh opportunity to celebrate their talent."

To celebrate the opening of the 'Scottish Colourists: Radical Perspectives' at The Arc in Wi******er today, our Emeritus Curator James Knox explores the groundbreaking work of the 'Forgotten Colourists': Ethel Wright, Jessica Dismorr, Anne Estelle Rice and Margaret Morris.

Read the article on Scottish Art News. Link in comments. 🔗 (Also featured in our upcoming summer print issue of Scottish Art News!)
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Ethel Wright. The Music Room, Portrait of Una Dugdale c. 1912.
Jessica Dismorr. Landscape with Figures (1911–12). Sheffield Museums.
Anne Estelle Rice. Cote d’Azur (c.1915). Culture Perth & Kinross Museums & Galleries
Anne Estelle Rice. Seascape with Sailing Boats (c.1912). University of Hull Art Collection.
Margaret Morris. Portrait of Flossie Jolley (1924). The Fleming Collection.
Margaret Morris. Red Bowl (c.1920). Culture Perth & Kinross Museums & Galleries.

"Histories of q***r artists often focus on an escape from a provincial family home, with the artist finding personal and...
12/06/2026

"Histories of q***r artists often focus on an escape from a provincial family home, with the artist finding personal and professional fulfilment in an exciting larger city. This is an alluring, and often accurate, narrative but one which elides the potential freedoms contained within a small place."

"Catterline was not only a home, workplace and source of material for Eardley’s paintings but almost a creative collaborator. Elements of the shore, sea and grasses cling to her works from this period. The same views are repeated, each with renewed curiosity."

The Fleming Collection's new show at Berwick’s Granary Gallery, part of the Royal Scottish Academy (RSA)200 celebrations, highlights paintings from Joan Eardley’s years at Catterline on the Aberdeenshire coast. Historian Keava McMillan explores what drew a le***an painter to live, work and create in this isolated fishing village.

Read the article on Scottish Art News. Link in comments. 🔗 (Also featured in our upcoming summer print issue of Scottish Art News!)

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Joan Eardley. Winter Sea III (1959). © Estate of Joan Eardley. All Rights Reserved, DACS 2020
Joan Eardley. Wild Sea (c. 1958). © Estate of Joan Eardley. All Rights Reserved, DACS 2020
Joan Eardley, Summer Storm © Estate of Joan Eardley. All Rights Reserved, DACS 2020
Joan Eardley. Field of Barley by the Sea (c. 1962). © Estate of Joan Eardley. All Rights Reserved, DACS 2020
Lil Neilson, Salmon Nets Drying
Joan Eardley. Rag and Bone Shop (Unknown). © Estate of Joan Eardley. All Rights Reserved, DACS 2020

"Within a wider landscape of shrinking arts funding and reduced curatorial opportunities in Scotland, the Fellowship res...
11/06/2026

"Within a wider landscape of shrinking arts funding and reduced curatorial opportunities in Scotland, the Fellowship responds to growing sectoral precarity, particularly for practitioners facing structural barriers linked to race, class, gender and disability."

"Here, “inference” operates as a curatorial method tracing how histories persist through fragments, opacity and archival absence, while also approaching Black abstraction as both structural condition and aesthetic practice."

For the inaugural Jerwood Curatorial Fellowship at Glasgow School of Art (), Black Waters, a collaborative curatorial research incubator led by Zoë Zo, Zoë Tumika & Zoë Guthrie and Żżo Charlery, traces how Black histories remain embedded yet obscured within the structures of Glasgow; a city shaped through colonial trade, maritime circulation and the afterlives of empire.

Read Shalmali Shetty's () review of the exhibition 'Inference to the Veil' on Scottish Art News. Link in bio. 🔗

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Citation References © Matthew Arthur Williams
Barbara Walker - Vanishing Point 13 (Veronese) (2020) © Matthew Arthur Williams
Lubaina Himid CBE, RA - A Rake’s Progress Hole in her Stocking (4) (2022) © Matthew Arthur Williams
Michael Armitage - Dream and Refuge (2020) © Matthew Arthur Williams
Hock Aun Teh - Painting of Jamaica Street Bridge (1971) © Matthew Arthur Williams
Citation References © Matthew Arthur Williams

🖼️📦 Fleming Collection Artworks on Loan!See S. J. Peploe's 'Still Life' (1928) and 'A Vase of Pink Roses' (c. 1925), now...
08/06/2026

🖼️📦 Fleming Collection Artworks on Loan!

See S. J. Peploe's 'Still Life' (1928) and 'A Vase of Pink Roses' (c. 1925), now on display at Kirkcudbright Galleries ().

The two works feature in Kirkcudbright Galleries 2026 Summer Exhibition 'COLOUR: The Palette of S.J. Peploe,' which brings together over 60 paintings by S. J. Peploe. Peploe was celebrated worldwide as one of the leading Scottish Colourists, skilled at portraits and landscapes as his much admired and hugely popular still life paintings.

Plan your visit:

🏛️ Kirkcudbright Galleries, Kirkcudbright
🗓️ 6 June - 4 October 2026
🎟️ Free

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Samuel John Peploe. Still Life (1928). The Fleming Collection.
Samuel John Peploe. A Vase of Pink Roses (c. 1925). The Fleming Collection.

🎨 The Fleming Collection champions contemporary art in Scotland. Each week, we spotlight an artist who has lived or work...
07/06/2026

🎨 The Fleming Collection champions contemporary art in Scotland. Each week, we spotlight an artist who has lived or worked here and created bold, innovative work.

Ellis Bairstow (.bairstow) is a photographic artist based in Glasgow whose practice focuses on socio-economic and political issues connected to lived experience within design systems and architecture.

Bairstow's research-driven work, which currently investigates Scottish housing, in particular the post-war tower blocks of Glasgow, considers the social histories embedded within architecture and how these continue to shape contemporary Scottish life.

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Ellis Bairstow. Vertical Glasgow (2025) [cropped]. © The Artist.
Ellis Bairstow. Vertical Glasgow (2025) [cropped]. © The Artist.
Ellis Bairstow. People In space (2023-ongoing). © The Artist.
Ellis Bairstow. People In space (2023-ongoing). © The Artist.

"Across the time-period marked out, cultural discourse has repeatedly borne out the messages that McMurdo’s photography ...
02/06/2026

"Across the time-period marked out, cultural discourse has repeatedly borne out the messages that McMurdo’s photography subtly encodes. Digital technology has opened up strange portals in our hearts and minds, fundamentally changing the way we parse reality, relate to others and form bonds, digest and process information."

Ahead of her solo exhibition 'The Digital Mirror' at the National Galleries of Scotland's Portrait gallery, Greg Thomas meets the groundbreaking photographer Wendy McMurdo.

Read Thomas' conversation with McMurdo on Scottish Art News. Link in comments. 🔗

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Wendy McMurdo, Girl with Bears, Royal Museum of Scotland, Edinburgh, 1999. National Galleries of Scotland © Wendy McMurdo. All rights reserved, DACS 2026. Courtesy Patricia Fleming Gallery, Glasgow.
Wendy McMurdo. The Digital Mirror. Photo Credit Stewart Armitt. Courtesy of Patricia Fleming Gallery, Glasgow.
Wendy McMurdo, Avatar (i), 2008. Image courtesy of the artist and Patricia Fleming Gallery, Glasgow © Wendy McMurdo. All rights reserved, DACS 2026. Courtesy of Patricia Fleming Gallery, Glasgow.
Wendy McMurdo, In A Shaded Place, Catherine Cowan, Merlin Theatre Sheffield 1995. courtesy of Patricia Fleming Gallery, Glasgow.
Wendy McMurdo, Lets Go to a Place, Young Girl (iv) 2016. Courtesy of Patricia Fleming Gallery, Glasgow.

🎨 The Fleming Collection champions contemporary art in Scotland. Each week, we spotlight an artist who has lived or work...
31/05/2026

🎨 The Fleming Collection champions contemporary art in Scotland. Each week, we spotlight an artist who has lived or worked here and created bold, innovative work.

Emilia Evans Munton () is visual artist and curator, working between London and Glasgow, creating large-scale and often interactive sculpture.

Munton's material-driven practice encompasses themes of wit and nostalgia and is largely influenced by her own childhood. It explores, both from a personal and universal perspective, the equally tender and harsh qualities of nostalgia.

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Emilia Evans Munton. Remember I’m Still Here (2025). © The Artist.
Emilia Evans Munton. Is That All There Is To A Fire (2025). Photography by Robin Mair. © The Artist.
Emilia Evans Munton. Rubber Band Monster. Work in Progress (2024). © The Artist.
Emilia Evans Munton. Keep (2026). Photography by Callum Harrison. © The Artist.
Emilia Evans Munton. The Kid (2024). © The Artist.

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