Finlay Room and Members' Lobby, RSA Lower Galleries
Mon-Sat 10am-5pm, Sun 12-5pm
Free entry
This autumn we are pleased to present an exhibition of paintings by Academician Graeme Todd (1962 – 2022).
Born in Glasgow and brought up in Cumbernauld, Graeme moved to Dundee at the age of 17 to study painting at Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art. He went on to secure a position as lecturer in Drawing and Painting at Edinburgh College of Art, where he became regarded as one of ECA's most inspirational painting tutors over the past thirty years.
Throughout his years of teaching, he continued to exhibit widely throughout the UK and abroad, with notable solo exhibitions at the Fruitmarket Gallery (Edinburgh), Kunsthaus Glarus (Switzerland), Oskaka Contemporary Art Centre (Japan) and Leeds Metropolitan.
Influenced by Japanese art and nineteenth-century Romantic painting, Graeme painted in a spontaneous and intuitive manner, building up layers of marks in a variety of different materials. His compositions play with ideas of spatial awareness and the boundaries between real and imagined landscapes.
An exhibition catalogue with text from Edward Summerton RSA and Andrew Mummery is available to purchase online and in the gallery.
