During the last General Assembly meeting of 2024, our Members elected four new Academicians: Claire Barclay, Ken Currie, Barry McGlashan and Caroline Walker.
Claire Barclay RSA (Elect) works predominantly with sculpture and print and is recognized for her large-scale installations informed by the contexts in which they temporarily exist. Her work engages a wide range of hand making and machine fabrication processes to explore the nature of materials, methods of production, and relationships between people and objects.
Ken Currie RSA (Elect) rose to attention within a generation of painters known as the ‘New Glasgow Boys’ in the 1980s. He is renowned for his unsettling portrayal of the human figure. His rich, luminous paintings depict mysterious rites, rituals, and quasi-medical practices, offering a meditation on violence in its many guises.
Barry McGlashan RSA (Elect)’s paintings take place between the memories of places visited, old photographs, passages from literature, and remembered scenes from films, with the constant being his interest in the materiality of paint and surface.
Caroline Walker RSA (Elect)’s paintings explore the performance of gender identity, femininity, and question the norms of depicting women and the female form across a range of socio-economic contexts. Blurring the boundary between objectivity and lived experience, Walker highlights the often-overlooked jobs performed by women and the psychologically charged spaces they inhabit.
