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After Gillies
3 February - 3 March 2024Continuing our celebration of Sir William Gillies RA RSA (1898-1973) we are delighted to present an exhibition exploring Gillies’ enduring influence on the current Membership of the Royal Scottish Academy.Read more -
Borders Art Fair
17 - 19 March 2023The Royal Scottish Academy is delighted to be guest curating the Spotlight Area at this year's Borders Art Fair, featuring artworks by Academicians including George Donald, Kate Downie, Joyce W....Read more -
Summer in the City
25 June - 22 July 2022The Academicians' Gallery | Free Summer in the City brings together recent works by Royal Scottish Academicians for the summer months. Featuring works by Henry Kondracki, Elspeth Lamb, Ade Adesina,...Read more -
The Christmas Show
27 November - 18 December 2021This winter we are delighted to once again present our Christmas Show. Featuring over a hundred works by our Royal Scottish Academicians, many at affordable prices, the exhibition will be a wonderful opportunity to peruse Christmas gifts or acquire a new work for your own collection.Read more -
Our Infinite Land
22 June - 21 July 2019The Academicians' Gallery Free entry The Royal Scottish Academy is pleased to present Our Infinite Land . Taking Hugh MacDiarmid’s decrial ‘Scotland small? Our multiform, our infinite Scotland small?’ as...Read more -
Aviary
19 January - 17 February 2019The Academicians’ Gallery Free entry Sweet bird! thy bower is ever green, Thy sky is ever clear; Thou hast no sorrow in thy song. No winter in thy year! Michael...Read more -
Winter Flowers
20 January - 8 March 2018RSA Lower Galleries Free entry In 2015, an Anne Redpath lithograph was purchased for the RSA Collection. Winters Flowers was made by Anne in collaboration with Harley Brothers in Edinburgh....Read more -
The Curious Eye II
4 - 30 June 2016RSA Lower Galleries Free entry For a 360 panorama view of the exhibition please click here and scroll with mouse. In 2007 John Busby proposed and co-curated The Curious Eye;...Read more -
In Japan
Highlights of Academicians' projects in contemporary Japan 30 July - 17 September 2011RSA Finlay & Projects Room Free entry For a 360° panorama of the show click here. Artists have long been fascinated with Japanese art and culture. This exhibition examines projects...Read more -
George Donald RSA
New Paintings 10 May - 30 June 2008RSA Friends Room Exhibition “In 2005, George Donald travelled from Vietnam to Australia, across the South Pacific, to Tahiti and Easter Island. From 1960’s newsreel images of the battered Mekong...Read more -
The Curious Eye
14 July - 27 September 2007RSA Friends Room & Library Artists are naturally curious and, in all cultures since cave painting, curiosity about the natural world has been a springing point for the creative imagination....Read more -
The Body in the Library
George Donald RSA and Early Anatomists 11 April - 25 July 2005The RSA Library Since the Renaissance the study of anatomy and the human figure has been the central element in an artist’s training. Although no longer a universal practice, George...Read more