RSA New Contemporaries 2025
Now in its 16th year, RSA New Contemporaries 2025 showcases the work by 63 graduates selected from the 2024 Scottish undergraduate degree shows. Exhibition prizes worth a total value of over £25,000 are on offer, including the £15,000 Glenfiddich Artist in Residence Prize, supported by William Grant and Sons
RSA New Contemporaries Installation
The seven day long installation of the Royal Scottish Academy New Contemporaries exhibition has begun. The exhibition will feature 63 graduates selected from the 2024 degree shows of the Scottish Art colleges and schools.
The Scottish Colourists - Radical Perspectives
A bold use of colour is at the forefront of the colourist movement and this curated display of artworks, showcased within the stunning Victorian vaulted ceiling of Dovecot Studios. The exhibition is supported by a series of displays on the Dovecot Balcony Gallery of contemporary Scottish artists working with colour in creative and challenging ways in media including watercolour, acrylic, oil, wood and textile
Patterns of the Past
Ammna Sheikh is a British/Pakistani artist whose practice celebrates the richness of her Pakistani cultural heritage. Her solo exhibition, Patterns of the Past at the Upright Gallery in Edinburgh, explores the handmade, generational techniques and histories that have been carefully passed down in her family over the past 70 years
Benno Schotz and A Scots Miscellany
The Royal Scottish Academy presents Benno Schotz and A Scots Miscellany, an exhibition inspired by the extensive studio gift left to the Academy by the family of sculptor Benno Schotz RSA (1891-1984). It highlights international artists and Academicians who have chosen to make Scotland their home
Frontiers: Painting in Scotland Now
Frontiers: Painting in Scotland Now explores the ways in which artists are pushing the boundaries of the medium of painting and reveal it to be a vital connection between the traditions of the past and ambitions for the future of the visual arts in Scotland.
New Contemporaries 2024
RSA New Contemporaries, supported by Walter Scott & Partners Ltd, represents the Royal Scottish Academy’s commitment to supporting and promoting contemporary art and architecture in Scotland. As a result of a postponed exhibition during the COVID-19 pandemic, this edition of RSA New Contemporaries will be particularly expansive, with the cohorts of 2022 and 2023 both being represented
RSA Exhibition 2023
Now in its 197th year, the RSA Annual Exhibition provides a platform for contemporary painting, sculpture, film, printmaking, photography and installation, alongside work by some of the country’s leading architects. The exhibition at the Royal Scottish Academy Galleries in Edinburgh runs from 6 May - 11 June 2023.
Scottish Gallery New Exhibitions
Edinburgh’s Scottish Gallery launches three new exhibitions. An exhibition of paintings by the artist Helen Glassford, Encounters; The artist and sculptor Lizzie Farey has created a new series of wall pieces and 3D sculptural work, The Song of the Willow. Colin Brown’s new exhibition, Primavera, pays homage to the 18th century Belgian flower painter Pierre-Joseph Redouté.