Maclaurin Art Gallery

Home
United Kingdom
Ayr
Maclaurin Art Gallery

Situated in the grounds of Rozelle estate in Ayr. Contemporary art gallery with regular exhibitions. Please continue to keep safe and consider others too.
(1)

The gallery is following Government guidance in relation to face coverings and they should be considered when entering public and crowded areas. We look forward to your visit. THANK YOU!

02/09/2026

We’re heading into changeover time here at the gallery and we want to let you know some of what’s coming up in our programme!

The 32nd Annual Save the Children Exhibition launches on Sunday 27 September and it won’t be long before we start gathering in the artwork! Many of your favourite local artists exhibit in this show and there’s always a wide variety to suit all tastes, so lookout for it launching and mark it in your diary! It runs until Sunday 25 October.

Next up, we are excited to have artist and printmaker, Lisa Hooper with her solo exhibition, PRINTING WILDLIFE. Lisa has exhibited with us before and her work is clean, contemporary, perfectly capturing native wildlife and their habitats. This will launch from Saturday 7 November and take us into the New Year, running until Sunday 31 January.

**Please remember that both The Maclaurin and Rozelle House galleries will be closed this weekend – FRIDAY 4 AND SATURDAY 5 SEPTEMBER due to the Air Show. Normal hours resume on Sunday.**

RSA200 continues in Rozelle House until 13 September. Rozelle House will also be taking part in Doors Open Day, Ayrshire on 12 & 13th September.
Catch it all soon!

Destination South Ayrshire

28/08/2026

Happy weekend when it lands!
Call in to Maclaurin Art Gallery for an art fix and see our exhibitions.

This is the last chance to see RSA200 Well Connected exhibition (finishes 30 August) and our Printmaking History show will end 4 September.

Stay tuned for what's coming next and remember that Rozelle House Galleries has their RSA200 show running slightly longer than ours. Plenty of art for all!

24/08/2026

This week gives us the last opportunity to see Well Connected: The Royal Scottish Academy (RSA) and The Maclaurin Collection. It's a very special exhibition helping celebrate the RSA200 years. With fabulous artwork on loan from Edinburgh, alongside the same artists' works from the Maclaurin Collection. See it before it goes... or call in and see it again! 😄 Entry is FREE and we are open 7 days.

22/08/2026

**TEMPORARY GALLERY CLOSURE**

The Maclaurin and Rozelle House Galleries will be closed all day on FRIDAY 4TH AND SATURDAY 5TH SEPTEMBER and will reopen as normal on Sunday 6th September.

We apologise for any inconvenience this may cause.

29/07/2026

Our Printmaking exhibition in gallery one runs until 4 September. Our curators Michael Clark and Ian McNicol have carefully selected traditional printmaking pieces from the Maclaurin's permanent collection and explain some of the processes involved. We also have a few works borrowed from private collectors in this exhibition too. Call in and see them!

We are open 7 days and entry is free.

23/07/2026

Our guest artist during the RSA200 exhibition is BRONWEN SLEIGH RSA.

Born in 1980 and raised in Mid-Wales, Bronwen Sleigh received her BA from the Glasgow School of Art and MA from the Royal College of Art. She has worked for The Royal College of Art, The Royal Academy Schools as a Print Fellow and at Edinburgh Printmakers as their etching technician and collaborating printer. The artist has exhibited widely both in the UK and overseas, as well as attending several artists residencies including at The Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity, Canada and Cove Park, Scotland. Her work is held in numerous collections around the world. Sleigh lives and works in the Highlands.

A visual artist who works in printmaking, drawing and sculpture, taking inspiration from manmade structures set within a wide variety of landscapes.
Sleigh’s work asks questions about the built environment. Through drawing, she investigates attitudes to space as expressed through architecture and its relationship to the landscape. Process is integral to her practice - her drawings and sculptures inform each other, moving from 2D to 3D and back again. The labour intensive multiple processes of making bring abstraction to the original subject. Her work explores space rather than describing it, challenging perceptions of the ordinary by presenting it in an unfamiliar way.

You can find Bronwen's work in gallery 2, forming part of the Well Connected: The Royal Scottish Academy and The Maclaurin Collection exhibition. On until 30 August.

Image: Ferry Road, hand coloured etching, Bronwen Sleigh RSA.

14/07/2026

Another sunny day full of quality artwork! Here's a roundup of what's on the walls here this summer.
Entry is free and we're open 7 days. Come in and have a look around!

**Well Connected: The Royal Scottish Academy and The Maclaurin Collection.

**Printmaking, A Recent History.

06/07/2026

There's so much to see in the galleries right now!

Here's an image from gallery 4 - featuring the artwork of Dame Barbara Rae RA and sculptor Benno Schotz. All part of RSA200 Well Connected: The Royal Scottish Academy and the Maclaurin Collection exhibition.

With artwork on loan from RSA hanging alongside work from our permanent collection, it's a treat for all to see!

Entry is FREE and we are open 7 days a week.

Royal Scottish Academy (RSA)

25/06/2026

More images from our dual opening at the weekend. There's SO much to see right now in the galleries and, as things are hotting up today, we are open...and cool...and displaying great art 🤩☀️

Destination South Ayrshire

19/06/2026

It was a wonderful launch today. The entire team have worked extremely hard to bring you not one but two very special RSA200 Celebrating Together exhibitions and we are delighted to reveal them at last! Both shows were opened by Councillor Alec Clark, Portfolio holder for Culture, along with the galleries Programme and Engagement Officer Erin Crossan and Michael Clark, Trustee and curator for the Maclaurin Trust. Guest artists and Academicians Ade Adesina, Frances Walker and Bronwen Sleigh showcase their stunning work alongside the Maclaurin Collection, South Ayrshire Council's Collection and some key pieces on loan from RSA. An additional bonus... we also have in gallery one "Printmaking; A Recent History" carefully put together by curators lan McNicol and Michael Clark. Officially open from tomorrow (20th), we are open 7 days and entry is FREE!

Address

Rozelle Estate, Monument Road
Ayr
KA74NQ

Website

http://www.themaclaurin.org.uk/

Alerts

Be the first to know and let us send you an email when Maclaurin Art Gallery posts news and promotions. Your email address will not be used for any other purpose, and you can unsubscribe at any time.

Contact The Museum

Send a message to Maclaurin Art Gallery:

Want your museum to be the top-listed Museum in Ayr?