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.

🎉 Happy 200th anniversary to the Royal Scottish Academy ()! To celebrate, enjoy a vibrant selection of paintings by RSA ...
27/05/2026

🎉 Happy 200th anniversary to the Royal Scottish Academy ()! To celebrate, enjoy a vibrant selection of paintings by RSA Academicians held by the Fleming Collection!

Founded on this day 200 years ago as Scotland’s national academy of art, the RSA has spent two centuries championing creativity, art and architecture and is celebrating its bicentenary with an exciting programme of exhibitions and events across the country.

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Alison Watt. The Bathers (c. 1988). The Fleming Collection. Ⓒ The Artist.
Anne Redpath. Window in Menton (1948). The Fleming Collection. Ⓒ The Artist's Estate. All Rights Reserved 2019/Bridgeman Images.
Elizabeth Blackadder. Church at Ericeira (1969). The Fleming Collection. Ⓒ The Artist's Estate. All Rights Reserved 2019/Bridgeman Images.
William McTaggart. The Village, Whitehouse (1875). The Fleming Collection.

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🎨 The Fleming Collection champions contemporary art in Scotland. Each week, we spotlight an artist who has lived or work...
24/05/2026

🎨 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.

Kirstin Mackinnon is a figurative painter from Glasgow with a particular interest in portraiture predominantly created from life in oils.

Mackinnon's practice centres around investigating gender representation in contemporary art, encouraging the viewer to consider how different genders are viewed, represented and portrayed in art.

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Kirstin Mackinnon. A Painter Worth Taking Seriously? (2024). © The Artist.
Kirstin Mackinnon. The Blanket Room (2024). © The Artist.
Kirstin Mackinnon. If The Art Market Asks (2024). © The Artist.
Kirstin Mackinnon. Please Sign Your Work (2024). © The Artist.

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🖼️📦 Fleming Collection Artworks on Loan! See Robert Colquhoun's 'Head Study' (c. 1953) and 'Head of Absalom' (c. 1960), ...
23/05/2026

🖼️📦 Fleming Collection Artworks on Loan!

See Robert Colquhoun's 'Head Study' (c. 1953) and 'Head of Absalom' (c. 1960), as well as Robert MacBryde's 'Still Life I' (1960), now at display at the Nottingham Castle Museum & Art Gallery.

The three works feature in an exclusive new temporary exhibition, 'Robert MacBryde and Robert Colquhoun: Artists, Lovers, Outsiders,' on tour from Charleston and curated by curator and award-winning author Damian Barr. It celebrates the lives and works of Robert MacBryde and Robert Colquhoun.

Plan your visit to see 'Robert MacBryde and Robert Colquhoun: Artists, Lovers, Outsiders':

🏛️ Nottingham Castle Museum & Art Gallery
⏳ 2 May - 6 September 2026
🎟️ £18 (Annual Pass for Nottingham Castle)

🎞️ John Hartley | Nottingham Castle Museum & Art Gallery
🎞️ John Hartley | Nottingham Castle Museum & Art Gallery
🎞️ Robert MacBryde. Still Life I (1960). The Fleming Collection. © The Estate of Robert MacBryde. All rights reserved, DACS 2020.
🎞️Robert Colquhoun. Head of Absalom (1960). The Fleming Collection. Ⓒ The Artist's Estate. All Rights Reserved 2019/Bridgeman Images.
🎞 Robert Colquhoun. Head Study (c. 1953). The Fleming Collection. Ⓒ The Artist's Estate. All Rights Reserved 2019/Bridgeman Images.

"On a sunny afternoon last week in Venice, supporters of Scottish contemporary art gathered to celebrate the country’s r...
21/05/2026

"On a sunny afternoon last week in Venice, supporters of Scottish contemporary art gathered to celebrate the country’s return to the Venice Biennale. It’s been four years since the last exhibition in the city, a “pause” in which Creative Scotland conducted a review of the project which has been bringing Scottish work to Venice since 2003."

"Now Scotland + Venice is back at the biggest festival of contemporary art in the world for its next three iterations, and among the curators, artists, funders and supporters gathered in the garden of its new exhibition space, the mood was one of jubilation."

Read Susan Mansfield's observations on Scotland's return to the Venice Biennale on Scottish Art News. Link in comments. 🔗

🎞️ Bugarin + Castle, Nocturnal Amusements, part of the exhibition Shame Parade curated by Mount Stuart Trust for Scotland + Venice at La Biennale di Venezia in 2026. Image by Dimitri D’Ippolito. Courtesy of the artists and Scotland + Venice.
🎞️ Bugarin + Castle, Nocturnal Amusements, part of the exhibition Shame Parade curated by Mount Stuart Trust for Scotland + Venice at La Biennale di Venezia in 2026. Image by Dimitri D’Ippolito. Courtesy of the artists and Scotland + Venice.
🎞️ Bugarin + Castle, Installation view of At Certayne Tymes, part of the exhibition Shame Parade curated by Mount Stuart Trust for Scotland + Venice at La Biennale di Venezia in 2026. Image by Dimitri D’Ippolito. Courtesy of the artists and Scotland + Venice.
🎞️ Bugarin + Castle on the occasion of Shame Parade opening at Scotland + Venice during the 61st International Art Exhibition - La Biennale di Venezia. Image by Dimitri D’Ippolito. Courtesy of the Artists and Scotland + Venice.

🎉 Happy Birthday Joan Eardley! To celebrate, enjoy these wonderful paintings by Eardley held by the Fleming Collection!E...
18/05/2026

🎉 Happy Birthday Joan Eardley! To celebrate, enjoy these wonderful paintings by Eardley held by the Fleming Collection!

Eardley, born on this day in 1921, was one of the most original and admired British artists of her generation, known for her raw, yet tender, depictions of children in 1950s Glasgow as well as her loose and expressive landscapes painted around Catterline in the north east of Scotland.

If you're a fan of Eardley, don't miss our upcoming exhibition at the Maltings this summer, titled 'Joan Eardley: The Sea at Catterline', which explores Eardley's dramatic seascapes.

Plan your visit:

🏛️ Granary Gallery, Berwick-upon-Tweed
⏳ 6 June – 11 October 2026 | Wednesday – Sunday | 11am - 4pm
🎟️ Standard: £7.50

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1. Joan Eardley. Rag and Bone Shop (Unknown). © Estate of Joan Eardley. All Rights Reserved, DACS 2020.
2. Joan Eardley. Field of Barley by the Sea (c. 1962). © Estate of Joan Eardley. All Rights Reserved, DACS 2020.
3. Joan Eardley. Wild Sea (c. 1958). © Estate of Joan Eardley. All Rights Reserved, DACS 2020.
4. Joan Eardley. Summer Storm (c. 1958). © Estate of Joan Eardley. All Rights Reserved, DACS 2020.
5. Joan Eardley. Winter Sea III (1959). © Estate of Joan Eardley. All Rights Reserved, DACS 2020.

🎨 The Fleming Collection champions contemporary art in Scotland. Each week, we spotlight an artist who has lived or work...
17/05/2026

🎨 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.

Keith McIntyre is an artist based on the Isle of Berneray in the Outer Hebrides whose practice operates across a wide range of different creative disciplines, including painting, drawing and printmaking.

McIntyre has a special interest in theatrical presentations and, in recent years, has made many large-scale drawings, allowing the paper artefact to become a dioramic space for creative play and intervention.

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1. Keith McIntyre. HAVANA (1998 + 2000). © The Artist.
2. Keith McIntyre. Darwin's Barnacle (2009). © The Artist.
3. Keith McIntyre. Recent Current-next. © The Artist.
4. Keith McIntyre. The Carnival-paintings. © The Artist.

"This is about Scotland. It's about the Philippines, it's about transness, and Scottish experience. This is not about so...
16/05/2026

"This is about Scotland. It's about the Philippines, it's about transness, and Scottish experience. This is not about something that's disconnected from the world. It's very much about being part of the world.”

For the 61st International Art Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia 2026, Bugarin + Castle are representing Scotland, in a project curated by Mount Stuart Trust and commissioned by Scotland + Venice.

Bugarin + Castle’s commission is a multi-layered new project that uses the concept of the parade as a lens to explore complex emotional legacies of shame, sound and voice, drawing on q***r histories, Scottish archives and Filipino cultural heritage.

Read Lena Kammerer's () conversation with the artist duo on Scottish Art News. Link in comments. 🔗

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(1) Bugarin + Castle on the occasion of Shame Parade opening at Scotland + Venice during the 61st International Art Exhibition - La Biennale di Venezia. Image by Dimitri D’Ippolito. Courtesy of the Artists and Scotland + Venice.
(2) Bugarin + Castle, Submit to Sound, part of the exhibition Shame Parade curated by Mount Stuart Trust for Scotland + Venice at La Biennale di Venezia in 2026. Film curated by Mount Stuart and produced by Forma. Image by Dimitri D’Ippolito. Courtesy of the artists and Scotland + Venice.
(3) Bugarin + Castle, Submit to Sound, part of the exhibition Shame Parade curated by Mount Stuart Trust for Scotland + Venice at La Biennale di Venezia in 2026. Film curated by Mount Stuart and produced by Forma. Image by Dimitri D’Ippolito. Courtesy of the artists and Scotland + Venice.
(4) Bugarin + Castle, Nocturnal Amusements, part of the exhibition Shame Parade curated by Mount Stuart Trust for Scotland + Venice at La Biennale di Venezia in 2026. Image by Dimitri D’Ippolito. Courtesy of the artists and Scotland + Venice.

🎨 The Fleming Collection champions contemporary art in Scotland. Each week, we spotlight an artist who has lived or work...
10/05/2026

🎨 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.

Kayleigh Sarah McGuinness is a Glaswegian visual artist whose research-led practice centres around heritage, material culture and women's histories.

McGuinness' work explores celtic heritage and ancestral voices through ‘doing’ and ‘making’ with the act of repetitive wrapping motions constituting a recurring thread in her installations.

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Kayleigh Sarah McGuinness. Muir Mòr. © The Artist.
Kayleigh Sarah McGuinness. Rising Tides, Sail Britain Group Show (2024). © The Artist.
Kayleigh Sarah McGuinness. Dùthchas (2023). © The Artist.
Kayleigh Sarah McGuinness. Ceangal, ‘connection’ (2024). © The Artist.

🖼️ This week's Fleming Collection highlights: Robert MacBryde's Still Life I (1960) and Robert Colquhoun's Head of Absal...
08/05/2026

🖼️ This week's Fleming Collection highlights: Robert MacBryde's Still Life I (1960) and Robert Colquhoun's Head of Absalom (1960).

Robert Colquhoun and Robert MacBryde met at the Glasgow school of Art where they soon became lovers and collaborators. By the 1950s, their Cubist-inspired work was greatly acclaimed and they played a vital role in British art, influencing contemporaries including Francis Bacon, Lucian Freud and John Minton.

Damian Barr stunningly reimagined the lives of the two Ayrshire artists in his vivid novel 'The Two Roberts'. This Sunday (10 May), Barr is in conversation with Pauline McLean at the Boswell Book Festival to discuss his profoundly moving portrait of devotion and obsession, art and class.

Find out more and buy your tickets via the link in comments. 🔗

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Robert MacBryde. Still Life I (1960). The Fleming Collection. © The Estate of Robert MacBryde. All rights reserved, DACS 2020.
Robert Colquhoun. Head of Absalom (1960). The Fleming Collection. Ⓒ The Artist's Estate. All Rights Reserved 2019/Bridgeman Images.

📣 Exhibition Announcement!This summer, the breakthrough touring exhibition 'The Scottish Colourists: Radical Perspective...
05/05/2026

📣 Exhibition Announcement!

This summer, the breakthrough touring exhibition 'The Scottish Colourists: Radical Perspectives', developed by the Fleming Collection, is coming to The Arc () in Wi******er.

The four artists known as the Scottish Colourists: SJ Peploe, JD Fergusson, Leslie Hunter, and FCB Cadell, are acknowledged as one of the most talented, experimental, and distinctive groups in twentieth-century British art.

The exhibition sets the radical Scots in the context of their British, Irish, and European contemporaries, featuring Fauve painter, André Derain, and Bloomsbury Group innovators Vanessa Bell and Duncan Grant, as well as examples from Walter Sickert’s Fitzroy Street Group.

Plan your visit:

🏛️ The Arc, Wi******er
⏳ 13 June – 16 September 2026 | Monday - Saturday: 9.30 - 17.00 ; Sunday: 11.00 - 17.00
🎟️ Standard: £5.45

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Samuel John Peploe. Luxembourg Gardens (c. 1910). © The Fleming Collection.
John Duncan Fergusson. Jean Maconochie. © The Fleming Collection.
George Leslie Hunter (c. 1928). Peonies in a Chinese Vase. © The Fleming Collection.
Francis Campbell Boileau Cadell. Loch Creran, Argyll. © The Fleming Collection.

🎨 The Fleming Collection champions contemporary art in Scotland. Each week, we spotlight an artist who has lived or work...
03/05/2026

🎨 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.

Susie Rose Dalton (), who is originally from Northern Ireland but has spent much of the last decade in Scotland, works primarily with clay, informed by her background in archaeology.

Dalton's aim, whose practice also extends to video, performance, and painting, is to materialise memory, accepting the inevitability of our brief time on earth, while honouring how we spend that time - from the mundane to the monumental.

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1. Susie Rose Dalton. From the solo exhibition: Personally I Would Never Do That (2020-2022). © The Artist.
2. Susie Rose Dalton. flare (2021). © The Artist.
3. Susie Rose Dalton. From the project: reasonable wear and tear (2023). © The Artist.
4. Susie Rose Dalton. every waking moment (2021). © The Artist.

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