Exhibitions

RSA Open Exhibition 2013

23 November 2013 - 26 January 2014 RSA Lower Galleries Free entry For a 360° panorama of the show click here. Please use your mouse to scroll around the gallery. Click here to see a video introducing the RSA OPEN exhibition and some of the exhibitors! Drawing from artists across the whole of Scotland and... Read more

IN PERSPEXTIVE

12 October - 7 November 2013 Read more

Resident 13

14 September - 27 October 2013 RSA Lower Galleries Free entry For a 360° panorama of the show click here. Resident 13 features a dynamic group of artists selected from the most recent RSA Residencies for Scotland, Sabhal Mor Ostaig resdiencies, as well as 10 RSA John Kinross Scholars who have recently returned from their... Read more

Kate Downie RSA

Walk Through Resonant Landscape 31 August - 6 October 2013 Finlay Room, RSA Lower Galleries Free entry In 2010 Kate Downie was awarded the RSA William Gillies Bequest Award to travel to Beijing and Shanghai to work with ink painting masters and develop her own practice in this unique medium. Following on from this experience, in 2011 Downie successfully applied... Read more

21 Revolutions

Two Decades of Changing Minds at Glasgow Women's' Library 20 July - 8 September 2013 Projects Room, RSA Lower Galleries Free entry For a 360° panorama of the show click here. Featuring specially commissioned new prints works by 21 artists, using the Glasgow Women's Library collection as inspiration, this exhibition will present a hugely interesting and diverse selection of work by some of the most... Read more

Collectors' Choice

An Investigation into Collecting Contemporary Art 20 July - 8 September 2013 RSA Lower Galleries Free entry For a 360° panorama of the show click here. This year brings a plethora of public participation activities to the very core of the exhibition-making at the RSA. In Spring, we developed the exhibition 'EGO' for the Friends of the RSA Coffee Room and... Read more

Richard Murphy RSA

Of its Time and Place 15 July - 21 August 2013 Finlay Room, RSA Lower Galleries Free entry To coincide with the 21st anniversary of Richard Murphy Architects, this exhibition builds from the 10th anniversary exhibition of the Edinburgh-based architecture practice, which was held at the Fruitmarket Gallery in 2001. The exhibitions consists of models and a 25-minute digital presentation featuring... Read more

187th RSA Annual Exhibition 2013

25 May - 2 July 2013 Upper and Lower Galleries Entry by donation The RSA Annual Exhibition is a focal point of the RSA programme and showcases work from RSA Academicians the length and breadth of Scotland. Now in it's 187th year, it continues to provide a platform for contemporary paintings, sculpture, film, printmaking, photography and... Read more

RSA New Contemporaries 2013

13 April - 8 May 2013 RSA Upper and Lower Galleries Admission £4/£2 Concession Publication £5 RSA New Contemporaries is a curated annual exhibition which focuses on the finest emerging artists & architects in Scotland. Now in its fifth year, this exciting show has evolved out of the long standing and much anticipated RSA Annual Student... Read more

Sculptors' Prints

23 February - 31 March 2013 Projects and Finlay Room, RSA Lower Galleries Free entry An investigation into printmaking by sculptor members of the Royal Scottish Academy. Many sculptors make prints. The hands-on nature of printmaking, coupled with an often very graphic 3-dimensional drawing technique, brings many sculptors to realise their work in print. Whether this... Read more

Portfolio

Treasures from the Diploma Collection at the Royal Scottish Academy 6 - 14 February 2013 Projects and Finlay Room, RSA Lower Galleries Free entry For a 360° panorama of the show click here. An exhibition curated by Dr Tom Normand HRSA and Sandy Wood, RSA Collections Curator, to celebrate the publication of the new book Portfolio: Treasures from the Diploma Collection at the Royal Scottish... Read more

Scottish Painters and Limners

Part 2 – From the RSA Collections 7 January - 25 March 2013 Friends' Room Open Mondays 10am - 5pm or by arrangement, call 0131 225 3922 A Diamond Jubilee Celebration - Part 2: Gibb to Blackadder The second instalment of this exhibition celebrating the Queen's Diamond Jubilee, from the Royal Scottish Academy's Nationally Significant Collection, explores the work of the artists who... Read more

Derek Clarke at 100

1 - 31 January 2013 Projects Room, RSA Lower Galleries Free entry For a 360° panorama of the show click here. A celebratory exhibition looking at the long and illustrious career of our oldest current member. Born in Longthorpe near Peterborough on the last day of 1912, Derek was educated at Ampleforth College and attended... Read more

RSA Open 2012

24 November 2012 - 31 January 2013 RSA Lower Galleries Free entry Drawing from artists across the whole of Scotland and beyond, this exhibition in the RSA's Lower Galleries showcases a wide range of small and medium sized works (80cm in any direction) selected through open submission and includes paintings, drawings, sculptures, prints and photographs. Eagerly anticipated... Read more