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Run by artists, for artists. Founded in 1826, the Royal Scottish Academy supports art and architecture in Scotland.
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, 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.
🔗 Keep reading: bit.ly/468kn6x
📷 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.
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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.’
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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🌊
Today's #OnlineArtExchange with @artukdotorg.bsky.social is all about landscapes!
Our pick is Frances Walker RSA's Gunna Sound. We exhibited this monotype in 2010!🏞️
This week’s #OnlineArtExchange with @artukdotorg.bsky.social is all about birds! Our pick is this illustration from Patrick Syme RSA’s A treatise on British song-birds.
Syme was born in Edinburgh in 1774, and was a founding member of the RSA!🐦⬛
Outside of the RSA with people walking
In 2026 @royalscottishacad.bsky.social, one of the oldest and most prestigious cultural institutions in Scotland, will be 200 years old! 🎉
We’re taking part in the birthday celebrations by sharing stories, Curations and content on Art UK, keep an eye out for more soon! #RSA200
Still life painting showing a bottle, vases and apples.
In 2026, the @royalscottishacad.bsky.social one of the oldest and most prestigious cultural institutions in Scotland, will be 200 years old! We’re taking part in the birthday celebrations with a exhibition in the Sir Duncan Rice Library Gallery in 2026 – watch this space!
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In 2026, @royalscottishacad.bsky.social, one of the oldest and most prestigious cultural institutions in Scotland, will be 200 years old!
CHARTS + the Argyll Collection are delighted to be part of the celebrations.
Keep an eye on our socials for updates!
#RSA200 @argyllandbute.bsky.social
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In 2026, the Royal Scottish Academy, one of the oldest and most prestigious cultural institutions in Scotland, will be 200 years old! We’re looking forward to taking part in the birthday celebrations - watch this space for more info very soon!
@royalscottishacad.bsky.social #RSA200
🎉We’re excited to announce RSA200: Celebrating Together, a year-long celebration marking our 200th anniversary! We're bringing together over 70 cultural partners, showcasing the past, present and future of Scottish art and architecture.
🎈Find out more: bit.ly/3FaCP3T
Our pick for today's #OnlineArtExchange with @artukdotorg.bsky.social is Margaret Wright's Portrait of a Woman in a Black Hat.
Wright was a member of the Edinburgh Ladies' Art Club, and this work was gifted to us in the 1973 Gillies Bequest!
This week's #OnlineArtExchange with @artukdotorg is all about art beyond the canvas!
Our pick is this photolithograph print by James Cumming RSA, Actual Scale of head of Foreground Figures in Mural.
In this week's Zap events guide...
🎨 The @royalscottishacad.bsky.social Annual Exhibition
🎵 Malin Lewis at Rum Shack, Queen's Park Spring Weekender
📽️ Folk Film Gathering + Alchemy festivals
www.theskinny.co.uk/things-to-do... #edinburgh #glasgow #scotland
