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This was Harrison’s first serious attempt at working in ceramic, overcoming a fear of failure she began exploring the fallibility of the body.

The piece is titled Jasperware vase and cover with Pegasus finial and with reliefs of Apollo and the Muses, made at the factory of Josiah Wedgwood, Etruria, Staffordshire, ca. 1790. It's part of a larger body of work collectively titled ‘Untitled (things)’.

Today's #OnlineArtExchange with @artukdotorg.bsky.social is all about emotion for @chippenhammuseum.bsky.social's Subversive Forms: Revolutionary Approaches to Clay.

Our pick is Jessica Harrison’s Diploma work.

All mediums are welcome, and there are more than 25 awards on offer, including three new opportunities for 2026 totalling over £15,000.

Whether you’re an emerging creative or an established artist, this is the year to get involved.

✍️ Apply now: bit.ly/3HCWO8Q

🚨 Applications are now open for the 200th RSA Annual Exhibition!

Next May, the iconic RSA galleries will be transformed as we open the doors to the most ambitious Annual Exhibition yet, and we want you to be part of it.

We’re looking at dramatic artworks for this week’s #OnlineArtExchange with @artukdotorg.bsky.social. As sunsets go, you can’t get much more dramatic than this!

This work is Evening, Strathspey by Joseph Denovan Adam RSA. Adam specialised in painting the Highland landscape and local farm life.

We're celebrating spooky season for this week's #OnlineArtExchange with @artukdotorg.bsky.social!

Our pick is William Stewart MacGeorge RSA's Hallowe'en!👻🎃🐈‍⬛

We’re celebrating Autumn this week for @artukdotorg.bsky.social’s #OnlineArtExchange 🍂

Our pick is The Evergreen: A Northern Seasonal, The Book of Autumn. This influential journal was published by Sir Patrick Geddes HRSA and includes a number of illustrations by Academicians.

Once listed as being by an artist unknown, this painting’s true creator was uncovered in 2018 by our Documentation Officer. Research revealed it entered the collection around 1910 and matched a work recorded in our Council Minutes, a donation by J. Collins Francis of a painting by Joseph Ebsworth.

We’re looking at ghosts and ethereal art for this week’s #OnlineArtExchange with @artukdotorg.bsky.social.👻

Our pick is Joseph Ebsworth’s 'Like a dog he hunts in visions - Then a hand shall pass before thee'.

Today's #OnlineArtExchange with @artukdotorg.bsky.social is all about glamour! 💃

We've selected William Gillies RSA's Portrait of Margery Porter 2. This is one of a number of portraits by Gillies of Miss Annie Margaret Porter, the daughter of friends of his and a niece of Samuel Peploe RSA.

We’re celebrating The Harris' reopening for this week’s #OnlineArtExchange with @artukdotorg.bsky.social!

Our pick is Herbert James Gunn’s portrait of our past President, William Oliphant Hutchison. The Harris has another portrait by James Gunn in their Collection, ‘Pauline in the Yellow Dress’.

'Outstanding artist and advocate for the arts' who led Royal Scottish Academy dies Dr Ian McKenzie Smith was born in Montrose

'Outstanding artist, leader and advocate for the arts' who led Royal Scottish Academy dies aged 90
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We’re looking at impressive buildings for this week’s #OnlineArtExchange with @artukdotorg.bsky.social.

Our pick is John McAslan RSA’s King’s Cross Station Refurbishment. This architectural drawing is McAslan’s Diploma Deposit!

Justine Watt received the Glenfiddich Artist in Residence Award at RSA New Contemporaries 2025. Six months on, we’re catching up with her to hear about her residency, discarded whisky barrels and an upcoming move to Dumfries and Galloway.

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📷 Photo credit John Paul

We've selected this work by an unknown artist for @artukdotorg.bsky.social's #OnlineArtExchange.

This oil on board painting is a copy after Albert Moore's Dreamers, and is dated between 1876 and 1901!

Opening this Saturday, Ceòl na Tìr-dhàimh | The Music of Home celebrates the work of Scottish artist George Macpherson RSA: bit.ly/4pdB8V8

📍 The Academicians’ Gallery
🗓️ 13 September – 15 October

We're celebrating ceramics for this week's #OnlineArtExchange with @artukdotorg.bsky.social!

We're selected Feeders by Penelope Matheson. She deposited this glazed ceramic bowl into our Collection following her John Kinross Scholarship.

Today’s #OnlineArtExchange with @artukdotorg.bsky.social is all about Wales!

Our pick is Welsh Village and Welsh Castle by William Wilson RSA. The original copper printing plates were drawn by Wilson, and these impressions were taken by Leena Nammari RSA!

This week’s #OnlineArtExchange with @artukdotorg.bsky.social is all about religious art, and our pick is St Cuthbert and the Otters by Elizabeth Strachan Dempster ARSA.

It’s time for this week’s #OnlineArtExchange with @artukdotorg.bsky.social, and the theme is film and cinema! 🎥🍿

We’ve chosen Mecca, Leith by David Pugh Evans RSA. This striking building was originally The State Cinema, which opened in 1938.

We are delighted to announce that Mark H Lawrence has received the 2025 RSA MacRobert Art Award for Painting! Mark will receive £20,000 to fund a 12-month period of research and development.

🔗Read more about his plans over on our website: bit.ly/4kW2vjs

This week’s #OnlineArtExchange with @artukdotorg.bsky.social is all about self portraits!

We’ve selected John MacLaren Barclay RSA’s Self Portrait. Barclay became an Associate Member of the Academy in 1863 and an Academician in 1871, plus he served as RSA Treasurer from 1884 – 1886!

Paul Furneaux RSA’s work is inspired by the Japanese landscape, its shifting light, weather patterns and atmosphere. Explore his work in person, including Rain City III, now in the Academicians’ Gallery.

🔗 On view until Sunday 27 July: bit.ly/3G9NHzj

‘It had rained heavily the day before and now it was even heavier. The almost roar of water rushing down hillsides, spilling over roads and branching into paddy fields, along channels and eventually to the raging river.’

We’re celebrating summer for this week’s #OnlineArtExchange with @artukdotorg.bsky.social!

We’ve selected Sir James Guthrie PPRSA’s Midsummer. The setting for the painting is James Whitelaw Hamilton RSA’s garden at Thornton Lodge, Helensburgh!☀️

Calling all photographers! 📷🎞️

We’re currently accepting applications for the RSA Elizabeth Lornie Photography Award. Open to artists working in photography in Scotland, the award grants £5,000 for the research, development and production of a new body of work: bit.ly/4kn1F…

📷 Alicia Bruce

It’s wildlife week for the #OnlineArtExchange with
@artukdotorg.bsky.social! 🫏

Our pick is Donegal Group by John Charles Lamont ARSA, this work was deposited into our collection as part of the 2020 Benno Schotz gift.

We’re looking at contemporary art that depicts the modern female form for this week’s #OnlineArtExchange with @artukdotorg.bsky.social.

Our pick is Self Portrait in Garden by Delia Baillie RSA, this work was completed during Baillie’s 1999 RSA John Kinross Travel Scholarship.

This week's #OnlineArtExchange with @artukdotorg.bsky.social is all about the ocean!

Our pick is Waves by Gordon Bryce RSA🌊