The Fleming Collection

30/08/2026

🎨 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.

Saoirse Amira Anis is a Dundee-based artist whose practice extends across sculpture, performance, photography, film, writing and drawing.

Anis' work is informed by Black q***r literature, her personal ancestry, and her own body as it moves through the world. She incorporates bodily knowledge and care into each facet of her work, considering the ways in which the body holds ancestral and lived memories.

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Saoirse Amira Anis. breach of a fraying body (2023). Photography by Erika Stevenson and Tom Nolan. © The Artist.
Saoirse Amira Anis. breach of a fraying body (2023). Photography by Ruth Clark. © The Artist.
Saoirse Amira Anis. breach of a fraying body (2023). Photography by Ruth Clark. © The Artist.
Saoirse Amira Anis. Holding Barzakh (2022). Photography by Sally Jubb. © The Artist.
Saoirse Amira Anis. Holding Barzakh (2022). Photography by Sally Jubb. © The Artist.

27/08/2026

"At the core of many such projects are the closely entwined aims of extricating photography from the spiralling demands of the attention economy, and reestablishing a sense of wonder at the natural world."

The saturation of ephemeral, digital photography and the disastrous consequences of the climate crisis are prompting many artists and photographers to turn to sustainable, alternative photographic processes.

Greg Thomas explores some recent cameraless and eco-friendly projects happening in Scotland.

Read Greg's article on Scottish Art News. Link in bio. 🔗

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Alexander Hamilton. Pishwanton Cyanotype. Courtesy of Studies in Photography. © The Artist.
Paul Kenny. Rust Never Sleeps. Downpatrick Head No. 6 (2009). Courtesy of Studies in Photography © The Artist.
Andreas Scholz. And So I Watch You From Afar. Courtesy of Studies in Photography. © The Artist.
Constanza Dessain. Reabsorbsion I-II (II) (2025). Courtesy of Studies in Photography. © The Artist.

26/08/2026

⭐️ With the last weekend of Edinburgh Art Festival fast approaching, have a look at some of its highlights!

25/08/2026

Read Beth Williamson’s review of the exhibition on Scottish Art News. Link in comments. 🔗

23/08/2026

🎨 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.

Eve Giltinan Allais () is a visual artist from London and based in Glasgow whose practice encompasses drawing, film and site specific installations.

Allais' work responds to the everyday, its patterns and routines. She is drawn to how small, overlooked and ordinary moments may become strange, funny and full of suspense once attention is paid to them. Through drawing and moving image, the work acts as a record of this moment; not to explain it, but to bear witness to it.

Allais is currently exhibiting some of her work in the group exhibition 'Off the Charts' as part of Edinburgh Art Festival () where four emerging artists selected for the inaugural Blackie House Graduate Awards respond to a selection of maps, globes and books held in the Blackie House Library and Museum ().

21/08/2026

Last month the poet and critic Greg Thomas introduced a sale of works, in collaboration with Lund Humphries, to raise money for the first book on Ian Hamilton Finlay - a culmination of a five-year project, supported by the Fleming Collection - foregrounding the voices of his many skilled collaborators: the artists and artisans who helped him realise his creative vision.

There are now new reductions to share on remaining items. Eight of Robin Gillanders's large-scale, framed photo-prints, from his 1998 National Gallery of Scotland dual-header show Little Sparta and Collaborations are available for purchase.

Find out more via the link in comments. 🔗

17/08/2026

“His paintings capture Scotland’s atmosphere,” she says. “They’re always beautiful and always relevant. There hasn’t been a book or a big exhibition for a while, so I just feel it’s worth putting a reminder out there about who he is and what he achieved. A show will reach out to a new and younger audience, and hopefully inspire people to look at the work.”

William McTaggart’s grandaughter, singer-songer Elsa McTaggart, brings show about acclaimed Scottish artist’s life to the Edinburgh Fringe this August. Susan Mansfield finds out more.

Read Mansfield's article on Scottish Art News. Link in comments. 🔗

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Elsa McTaggart. Capturing the Light. Elsa McTaggart. Image Credit: Ralph Tonge.
Elsa McTaggart. Capturing the Light. Elsa McTaggart. Image Credit: Ralph Tonge.
William McTaggart. A Day's Fishing Morning. The Fleming Collection.
William McTaggart. Macrihanish, Bay Voyach. The Fleming Collection.

16/08/2026

🎨 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.

Jonathan Owen is an Edinburgh-based artist and practice-led researcher whose work primarily encompasses sculpture and drawing.

Owen’s work involves the systematic transformation of readymade objects and images. His interest lays in making by reducing and removing, and in the controlled collapse of existing objects as a method of production and reactivation.

In partnership with Ingleby Gallery, the National Trust for Scotland is currently presenting Owen's new installation of marble busts at Holmwood House in Glasgow, available to view from 16 April to 1 November 2026.

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Jonathan Owen. Untitled (2024). Courtesy of Ingleby Gallery. © The Artist.
Jonathan Owen. Untitled (2025). Courtesy of Ingleby Gallery. © The Artist.
Jonathan Owen. Eraser Drawing (Tapestry) (2020). Courtesy of Ingleby Gallery. © The Artist.
Jonathan Owen. Eraser Drawing (The Lion in Winter) (2020). Courtesy of Ingleby Gallery. © The Artist.

11/08/2026

11/08/2026

"As the popularity of Blackadder’s work runs on apace in all forms, A Life in Colour provides a unique opportunity to bask in the spare intricacy and deceptive complexities of her work. 'I think it’s the chance to re-examine her work as well as the perceptions that people have of it,' says Robertson."

Dovecot Studios’ current exhibition explores Elizabeth Blackadder’s fascination with colour, through paintings, drawings, tapestries and rugs.

Neil Cooper meets Head of Dovecot’s Tapestry Studio, Naomi Robertson, who explains how the exhibition is challenging perceptions of Blackadder’s work.

Read Cooper's article on Scottish Art News. Link in comments. 🔗

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Dovecot Studios after Elizabeth Blackadder, The Red Bouquet [cropped] (2026).
Dovecot Studios after Elizabeth Blackadder, Red Still Life - Dragon Fruit and Oysters [cropped] (2023).
Dovecot Studios after Elizabeth Blackadder, Still Life with Chequered Box [cropped] (2023).