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.
In Orcadia
The Royal Scottish Academy presents In Orcadia, an exhibition of artwork inspired by Orkney's landscape and natural environment. The exhibition includes a new body of work from Samantha Clark, the inaugural winner of the RSA MacRobert Art Award for Painting. The exhibition runs from 25 January to 2 March at RSA Galleries on The Mound in Edinburgh.
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
William Gillies - Modernism and Nation
The Royal Scottish Academy in Edinburgh presents a new exhibition about William Gillies. The exhibition coincides with the publication of William Gillies: Modernism and Nation in British Art by Andrew McPherson, charting the artist’s ‘extraordinary story’.