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Royal Scottish Academy @royalscottishacad.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

We're celebrating autumn for this week's #OnlineArtExchange with @artukdotorg.bsky.social! 🍂🍁Our pick is Pittendrigh Macgillivray RSA's Autumn Wind. This illustration is from Sir Patrick Geddes HRSA's Book of Autumn.

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Royal Scottish Academy @royalscottishacad.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Today's #OnlineArtExchange with @artukdotorg.bsky.social is all about gold, silver and bronze! 🏅Our pick is our silver RSA Academicians' medal, which was designed by Sir Joseph Noel Paton.

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Royal Scottish Academy @royalscottishacad.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

We're looking at rural art for this week's #OnlineArtExchange with @artukdotorg.bsky.social to celebrate the Argyll Collection on Tour: Part of RSA200. Our pick is Sylvia Wishart RSA's Hoy Sound!

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Royal Scottish Academy @royalscottishacad.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Fall, leaves, fall, our new exhibition in the Academicians’ Gallery, takes its title from Emily Brontë’s poem of the same name. Capturing a sense of transition as the Scottish summer gives way to autumn, the show celebrates autumn hues and the September sun: bit.ly/4xqOr7P 🍂 Until 11 October

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Royal Scottish Academy @royalscottishacad.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

This week's #OnlineArtExchange with @artukdotorg.bsky.social is all about dogs! 🐶🐕 We've selected Thomas Duncan RSA's 'The Friends', and we think these two make quite the pair!

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Art UK @artukdotorg.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

We recently visited 'Joan Eardley: The Sea at Catterline' at the Granary Gallery in Berwick-upon-Tweed to explore this important chapter of her career 🌊 #RSA200 Discover more exhibitions near you with our What’s on feed 👉 artuk.org/visit/whats-on

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Royal Scottish Academy @royalscottishacad.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Joyce W. Cairns PPRSA has had a long relationship with printmaking, and her approach echoes the energy of her painting practice. For A Personal Odyssey, she created two new etchings at Peacock Printmakers in collaboration with master printmaker Mike Waight.

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Royal Scottish Academy @royalscottishacad.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

Our pick for this week’s #OnlineArtExchange with @artukdotorg.bsky.social is Francis Grose’s Friar’s Carse, Dumfriesshire.

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Edinburgh Printmakers @edinburghprints.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

Scott Baxter’s brilliantly ambitious print ‘Amoretto’ is currently on display at the Royal Scottish Academy as part of their exhibition Chaos & Control. This piece is a screenprint on proprietary PVC iridescent tiles. It encourages you to approach it from different angles and to get up close!

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Royal Scottish Academy @royalscottishacad.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

This week's #OnlineArtExchange with @artukdotorg.bsky.social is all about nature and animals. We've selected Roland Corbin's Cats in Boboli. Corbin took this image in Italy during his John Kinross Scholarship🐈

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Royal Scottish Academy @royalscottishacad.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

America is the theme for this week’s #OnlineArtExchange with @artukdotorg.bsky.social, and we’ve selected Lily McDougall’s American Pillars!

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Royal Scottish Academy @royalscottishacad.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

We're looking at machines for this week's #OnlineArtExchange with @artukdotorg.bsky.social! We've selected Benjamin Whitney's Waterwheel. Whitney was a John Kinross Scholar, and spent 13 weeks in Florence in 2014.

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Royal Scottish Academy @royalscottishacad.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

This week's #OnlineArtExchange with @artukdotorg.bsky.social is all about discovery. We're focusing on the medical kind with our pick, a plate from our first edition Vesalius!

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Royal Scottish Academy @royalscottishacad.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

We're thinking football for this week's #OnlineArtExchange with @artukdotorg.bsky.social!⚽ Whilst William Lamb ARSA and John Houston RSA both played football, our pick is Peter Womersley ARSA and the stadium he designed for Gala Fairydean FC, Galashiels.

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Royal Scottish Academy @royalscottishacad.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

Today's #OnlineArtExchange with @artukdotorg.bsky.social is all about Wallpaper! Our pick is this design by Paul Westcombe, which is from a sketchbook filled by the artist during his RSA John Kinross Travel Scholarship to Italy in 2003!

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Royal Scottish Academy @royalscottishacad.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

For today’s #OnlineArtExchange with @artukdotorg.bsky.social, we’re looking at Myths and Legends. Our pick is John Maxwell RSA’s The Apple. One of only three known forays made by Maxwell into printmaking, the subject of this etching is ambiguous, but has been suggested to represent the Temptation.🍎

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Royal Scottish Academy @royalscottishacad.bsky.social · 27/04/2026

COMING SOON: Far Afield Our next exhibition in the Academicians Gallery brings together artworks by our Members created on location and through travel: bit.ly/41YKxWn 📅 9 May - 14 June 2026 📍 The Academicians Gallery 🖼️ Elspeth Lamb RSA, Temple on Awaji

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Royal Scottish Academy @royalscottishacad.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

Applications are now open for the RSA William Littlejohn Award! Funded by the William Littlejohn Bequest, the award grants £2000 for excellence and innovation in water-based media, allowing the recipient to research, develop and produce of a new body of work in a water-based medium.

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Royal Scottish Academy @royalscottishacad.bsky.social · 12/03/2026

COMING SOON | David Evans: Sunday, 5pm Renowned for his atmospheric hyperrealist paintings of seemingly mundane interior views, still lifes, building facades and street scenes, Evans transformed the every day into moments of quiet intensity. 🗓️ 21 March - 26 April 2026 📍The Academicians Gallery

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Royal Scottish Academy @royalscottishacad.bsky.social · 05/03/2026

We’re looking at art that explores home for this week’s #OnlineArtExchange with @artukdotorg.bsky.social. 📸Our pick is Paul Duke’s No Ruined Stone. Duke received the RSA Morton Award in 2016. This work references the housing scheme where he was born and lived until the age of 19.

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Royal Scottish Academy @royalscottishacad.bsky.social · 26/02/2026

This week’s #OnlineArtExchange is all about renewal for 'Ashes to Fashion' at @ulstermuseum.org. Our pick is Florence Textile Sovereignty #1 and #2 by Siti Zulkifle.

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Art UK @artukdotorg.bsky.social · 20/02/2026

Scotland's art collections are full of surprises. Read about some o Scotland’s strangest acquisitions in this new story 👉 artuk.org/discover/stories/scotland… 🧑‍🎨 John Emms (1843-1912) 📷 National Galleries of Scotland

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Royal Scottish Academy @royalscottishacad.bsky.social · 19/02/2026

We’re celebrating the land and sea for this week’s #OnlineArtExchange with @artukdotorg.bsky.social. 🌊Our pick is From Yesnaby by Samantha Clark. Clark is based in Orkney and influenced by the dynamic movement of weather and sea. She received the RSA William Littlejohn Award in 2021.

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Royal Scottish Academy @royalscottishacad.bsky.social · 05/02/2026

This week’s #OnlineArtExchange with @artukdotorg.bsky.social is all about winter sports. Our pick is Snow by Mabel Royds (even though snowball rolling isn't an official sport!). Royds began teaching at ECA in 1911, working alongside Ernest Lumsden RSA, who she married in 1913.

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Art UK @artukdotorg.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

This year, Gray's School of Art in Aberdeen celebrates its 140th anniversary 🙌 Read about how the school transformed Scottish arts education 👉 artuk.org/discover/stories/top-mark… © Aberdeen City Council. 📷 Mike Davidson

Visitors observing artworks in a gallery with wooden flooring and white and black walls.

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Royal Scottish Academy @royalscottishacad.bsky.social · 29/01/2026

We’re looking at light and dark for this week’s #OnlineArtExchange with @artukdotorg.bsky.social. Our pick is Philip Braham RSA’s Diploma Work, ‘First Light, Torlum Hill’, which was painted in the artist's studio in Crieff from studies taken at nearby Torlum Wood.

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Royal Scottish Academy @royalscottishacad.bsky.social · 22/01/2026

This week's #OnlineArtExchange with @artukdotorg.bsky.social is all about Motherhood. Our pick is Bill Scott PPRSA's Mother and Child. This work will be on view in our new exhibition Origin Stories, opening this Saturday!

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Scottish Society for Art History @ssahistory.bsky.social · 15/01/2026

Our annual conference is less than a month away! We are looking forward to this year's conference, "Scottish Art and the Academy" in partnership with the @royalscottishacad.bsky.social as part of RSA200: Celebrating Together - a series of events to mark the Academy's 200th anniversary in 2026

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Royal Scottish Academy @royalscottishacad.bsky.social · 15/01/2026

This week’s #OnlineArtExchange with @artukdotorg.bsky.social is all about bold and colourful art! Our pick is Jacqueline Kerr’s City Altar. Jacqueline, a printmaking graduate of Edinburgh College of Art, spent time in Italy in 1993 on a John Kinross Travel Scholarship.

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Edinburgh Printmakers @edinburghprints.bsky.social · 13/12/2025

✨RSA Residencies: Deadline 18 January f.mtr.cool/ielhfeoglh We are thrilled to be a partner venue with the Royal Scottish Academy once again for RSA Residencies!

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Royal Scottish Academy @royalscottishacad.bsky.social · 11/12/2025

The theme for this week’s #OnlineArtExchange with @artukdotorg.bsky.social is Sisterhood. We’ve selected Kathryn Findlay RSA’s Diploma work, Model for Art Foundation. Findlay was our first female Architect member!

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Royal Scottish Academy @royalscottishacad.bsky.social · 20/11/2025

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.

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Royal Scottish Academy @royalscottishacad.bsky.social · 07/11/2025

🚨 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.

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Royal Scottish Academy @royalscottishacad.bsky.social · 06/11/2025

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.

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Royal Scottish Academy @royalscottishacad.bsky.social · 30/10/2025

We're celebrating spooky season for this week's #OnlineArtExchange with @artukdotorg.bsky.social! Our pick is William Stewart MacGeorge RSA's Hallowe'en!👻🎃🐈‍⬛

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Royal Scottish Academy @royalscottishacad.bsky.social · 23/10/2025

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.

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Royal Scottish Academy @royalscottishacad.bsky.social · 16/10/2025

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'.

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Royal Scottish Academy @royalscottishacad.bsky.social · 09/10/2025

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.

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Royal Scottish Academy @royalscottishacad.bsky.social · 02/10/2025

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’.

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The Scotsman @scotsman.com · 29/09/2025

'Outstanding artist, leader and advocate for the arts' who led Royal Scottish Academy dies aged 90 www.scotsman.com/arts-and-cul...

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'Outstanding artist and advocate for the arts' who led Royal Scottish Academy dies

Dr Ian McKenzie Smith was born in Montrose

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Royal Scottish Academy @royalscottishacad.bsky.social · 18/09/2025

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!

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Royal Scottish Academy @royalscottishacad.bsky.social · 18/09/2025

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

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Royal Scottish Academy @royalscottishacad.bsky.social · 10/09/2025

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

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Royal Scottish Academy @royalscottishacad.bsky.social · 04/09/2025

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.

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Royal Scottish Academy @royalscottishacad.bsky.social · 14/08/2025

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!

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Royal Scottish Academy @royalscottishacad.bsky.social · 07/08/2025

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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Royal Scottish Academy @royalscottishacad.bsky.social · 24/07/2025

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.

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