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The Royal Scottish Academy of Art & Architecture has a proud tradition of promoting contemporary art in Scotland through engaging and diverse exhibitions and fantastic scholarship, award & residency opportunities.

02/06/2026

From Ayrshire to Argyll, the Black Isle to Orkney, our Celebrating Together programme continues to bring creativity to communities across Scotland!

This month includes a host of new openings, including Graham Fagen RSA: The Kilmarnock Edition at The Dick Institute, Colour – The Palette of S.J. Peploe RSA at Kirkcudbright Galleries and Joan Eardley RSA at The Granary Gallery. From Saturday 13 June, Mach Squared brings work by David Mach HRSA and Robert Mach to Tighnabruaich Gallery, and the Friends of the Sivell Murals open Lessons from a Remarkably Well-illustrated Anatomy Textbook on Tuesday 16 June. Celebrate the legacy of Dame Elizabeth Blackadder RSA at Dovecot Studios, discover new work by Erin McQuarrie at The Pier Arts Centre in Orkney, and in the Borders, Past, Present, Future at Hawick Museum & Gallery traces the region’s rich connections with the RSA.

With exhibitions opening across Scotland throughout June, there’s lots of ways to join our bicentenary celebrations!

🔎 Read more: bit.ly/43dGTZo

01/06/2026

Now live! The 2026 RSA Elizabeth Lornie Photography Award📷

Born in Leith, Elizabeth Lornie was known for her generosity, philanthropic spirit and lifelong passion for photography. The 2026 RSA Elizabeth Lornie Photography Award grants £5,000 for a photographer to enable them to research, develop and produce a new body of work. The recipient will have an exhibition of work at the Academy and their work will be entered into the RSA Collection.

🔗Find out more and apply on our website: bit.ly/4kn1FNf
📷 Caroline Douglas

31/05/2026

Have you visited the 200th Annual Exhibition?

There’s just two weeks left of Scotland’s largest and longest running exhibition of contemporary art and architecture. Don’t miss your chance to explore over 750 artworks in a huge range of mediums: www.rsaannualexhibition.org/

📆On view until Sunday 14 June
🎟️The 200th Annual Exhibition is sponsored by LGT Wealth Management, and entry is free!

29/05/2026

We are delighted to announce that Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art and Design graduate Fay Cardigan has received the 2026 RSA Barns-Graham Travel Award!🎉

Fay plans to use the £2,000 funds to travel to Faenza, Italy, where she will explore contemporary ceramics. Building on her painting practice, Fay will experiment with offcuts and broken ceramic fragments to reinterpret and construct new forms, joining them together to create new narratives and images to use as subjects for painting.

🔗 Visit our website to find out more: bit.ly/4dGHXtx

28/05/2026

What a wonderful time we had at our 200th birthday party!

It was a jam-packed day of artists talks, getting creative, learning all about Celebrating Together and the RSA Friends – and we think it’s safe to say we put the ‘art’ in party hats! We’d like to thank everyone who joined us yesterday, and anyone who has supported the Royal Scottish Academy, our visitors, artists, Academicians, partners, donors and Friends. Your support enables us to continue championing contemporary art and architecture through exhibitions, awards, residencies and opportunities for artists at every stage of their careers.

❤️If you would like to help support the next chapter of the RSA, please consider making a donation to our bicentenary programme. Every contribution helps us continue supporting creativity in Scotland for generations to come.

27/05/2026

Today marks a remarkable milestone in Scotland’s cultural history as we celebrate 200 years of the Royal Scottish Academy!🎉

Founded on 27 May 1826, the RSA has spent two centuries championing artists and architects, supporting creative practice and bringing creativity to audiences across Scotland and beyond. From our very first Annual Exhibition to today’s bicentenary celebrations, we continue to connect past, present and future generations through art and architecture.

🥳Join the celebrations by exploring our exhibitions, events and bicentenary programme: www.royalscottishacademy.org

26/05/2026

Tomorrow we’re turning 200! 🎉🥳

We’ll be celebrating in the gallery at our Big Birthday Party, and we’d be delighted if you would join us. Alongside an exciting programme of events, the celebration is a chance to explore the 200th Annual Exhibition. With over 700 works on view across the RSA galleries and our online viewing rooms, we’ve got something for everyone.

📆The Annual Exhibition is on view until 14 June
🎟️Entry is free: www.rsaannualexhibition.org

25/05/2026

Since the John Kinross Memorial Fund was established in 1981, it has supported over 500 emerging artists and architects and distributed more than £920,000 in funding. Today, we’re delighted to announce the twelve artists are architects selected as our 2026 RSA John Kinross Scholars:

Liam Mcgee | Meg Buick | Matilde Maria Melodia | Loren Brundrett | Finley Yates | Mitsuki Nakatani | Theodora Zoi | Vicki Scaife | Puyi Guo | Reece Martin | Irene Chapman | Dominic Skinner

Florence has been an inspiration to generations of artists and architects, and our scholars will each receive £3,000 to experience its magnificent history, study its art and architecture, learn the language and create a visual record of their experience.

🔗 Visit our website to find out more: bit.ly/4dGHXtx

23/05/2026

John Houston and Elizabeth Blackadder worked as lecturers at Edinburgh College of Art, and the long university holidays enabled the couple to travel. They made their first visit to Japan in 1985, and the country had a huge impact on both artists’ work.

Houston portrayed the world not as he saw it, but as he felt it. Inspired by Kyoto’s bamboo groves and atmospheric Zen gardens, his Japanese paintings and prints became deeply personal visualisations of memory.

Discover how Japan shaped Houston’s work, his collaborations with Glasgow Print Studio and the lasting legacy he shared with Elizabeth Blackadder RSA in our latest blog post exploring Houston in Japan. Plus, several of the works featured are currently on display in the Academicians’ Gallery as part of Far Afield, our new exhibition celebrating the enduring relationship between travel and artistic practice.

🌏Read more on our website: bit.ly/4tUj2Jh

22/05/2026

We’re delighted to announce Steven MacIver as the inaugural recipient of the £5,000 RSA David McClure Centenary Travel Award at the 200th Annual Exhibition.

Funded by the family of David McClure RSA in celebration of the centenary of his birth, this new award supports an artist to undertake a period of European travel for research, development and the creation of new work. MacIver received the award for his painting Twenty-Eight Years Later, which highlights two stadiums that are connected by the Scotland vs Brazil fixtures at the 1998 and 2026 FIFA World Cups. The work reflects on time, memory and personal and collective history.

David McClure RSA’s own practice was shaped by travel, with scholarship-supported journeys across Europe playing a lasting role in the development of his career.

🖼️ View Twenty-Eight Years Later in the galleries now: www.rsaannualexhibition.org

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