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!

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

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.

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

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!

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.

🚨 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.

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.

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

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.

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'.

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.

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’.

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

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!

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

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

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.

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!

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.

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.

We are delighted to announce that Mark H Lawrence has received the 2025 RSA MacRobert Art Award for Painting! Mark will receive £20,000 to fund a 12-month period of research and development. 🔗Read more about his plans over on our website: bit.ly/4kW2vjs

This week’s #OnlineArtExchange with @artukdotorg.bsky.social is all about self portraits! We’ve selected John MacLaren Barclay RSA’s Self Portrait. Barclay became an Associate Member of the Academy in 1863 and an Academician in 1871, plus he served as RSA Treasurer from 1884 – 1886!

‘It had rained heavily the day before and now it was even heavier. The almost roar of water rushing down hillsides, spilling over roads and branching into paddy fields, along channels and eventually to the raging river.’

We’re celebrating summer for this week’s #OnlineArtExchange with @artukdotorg.bsky.social! We’ve selected Sir James Guthrie PPRSA’s Midsummer. The setting for the painting is James Whitelaw Hamilton RSA’s garden at Thornton Lodge, Helensburgh!☀️

Calling all photographers! 📷🎞️ We’re currently accepting applications for the RSA Elizabeth Lornie Photography Award. Open to artists working in photography in Scotland, the award grants £5,000 for the research, development and production of a new body of work: bit.ly/4kn1F… 📷 Alicia Bruce

It’s wildlife week for the #OnlineArtExchange with @artukdotorg.bsky.social! 🫏 Our pick is Donegal Group by John Charles Lamont ARSA, this work was deposited into our collection as part of the 2020 Benno Schotz gift.

We’re looking at contemporary art that depicts the modern female form for this week’s #OnlineArtExchange with @artukdotorg.bsky.social. Our pick is Self Portrait in Garden by Delia Baillie RSA, this work was completed during Baillie’s 1999 RSA John Kinross Travel Scholarship.

This week's #OnlineArtExchange with @artukdotorg.bsky.social is all about the ocean! Our pick is Waves by Gordon Bryce RSA🌊

Today's #OnlineArtExchange with @artukdotorg.bsky.social is all about landscapes! Our pick is Frances Walker RSA's Gunna Sound. We exhibited this monotype in 2010!🏞️

This week’s #OnlineArtExchange with @artukdotorg.bsky.social is all about birds! Our pick is this illustration from Patrick Syme RSA’s A treatise on British song-birds. Syme was born in Edinburgh in 1774, and was a founding member of the RSA!🐦‍⬛

In 2026 @royalscottishacad.bsky.social, one of the oldest and most prestigious cultural institutions in Scotland, will be 200 years old! 🎉 We’re taking part in the birthday celebrations by sharing stories, Curations and content on Art UK, keep an eye out for more soon! #RSA200

In 2026, the @royalscottishacad.bsky.social one of the oldest and most prestigious cultural institutions in Scotland, will be 200 years old! We’re taking part in the birthday celebrations with a exhibition in the Sir Duncan Rice Library Gallery in 2026 – watch this space!

In 2026, the Royal Scottish Academy, one of the oldest and most prestigious cultural institutions in Scotland, will be 200 years old! We’re looking forward to taking part in the birthday celebrations - watch this space for more info very soon! @royalscottishacad.bsky.social #RSA200

🎉We’re excited to announce RSA200: Celebrating Together, a year-long celebration marking our 200th anniversary! We're bringing together over 70 cultural partners, showcasing the past, present and future of Scottish art and architecture. 🎈Find out more: bit.ly/3FaCP3T

Our pick for today's #OnlineArtExchange with @artukdotorg.bsky.social is Margaret Wright's Portrait of a Woman in a Black Hat. Wright was a member of the Edinburgh Ladies' Art Club, and this work was gifted to us in the 1973 Gillies Bequest!

This week's #OnlineArtExchange with @artukdotorg is all about art beyond the canvas! Our pick is this photolithograph print by James Cumming RSA, Actual Scale of head of Foreground Figures in Mural.

In this week's Zap events guide... 🎨 The @royalscottishacad.bsky.social Annual Exhibition 🎵 Malin Lewis at Rum Shack, Queen's Park Spring Weekender 📽️ Folk Film Gathering + Alchemy festivals www.theskinny.co.uk/things-to-do... #edinburgh #glasgow #scotland

📣 IN SCOTLAND THIS WEEK 📣 🎵 Record Store Day at @monorailmusic.bsky.social, @sgr-recordcafe.bsky.social, @voxboxmusic.bsky.social + others 🌃 @royalscottishacad.bsky.social academy late 🪩 HOUSEGUEST, Mojxmma and more!

Each month, we’re sitting down with one of our Academicians to discuss their practice, influences and upcoming projects. This month, we're talking to Christopher Platt RSA about failing his third year of university, StudioKAP, and the future of architecture. 🔗 Read now: bit.ly/42jhn42

The @royalscottishacad.bsky.social New Contemporaries 2025 exhibition is now open - congratulations to the 17 ECA alumni whose work is included! Read more about it on our website now: www.eca.ed.ac.uk/news/rsa-new... The exhibition runs until 16 April.

In this week's Zap! events guide... - @royalscottishacad.bsky.social New Contemporaries - Palestinian archive from The Majazz Project at Glad Cafe + a 🇵🇸 fundraiser at Sett Studios - Glasgow Comedy Festival, gigs from Lauren Mayberry, aya, mokusla + more

Fun #ArtExplorer evening at the New Contemporaries exhibition @royalscottishacad.bsky.social - lots of bold and ambitious work by artists setting out on their career. On until 16th April. Definitely worth a visit!

There's just a few days left to apply to our Student Awards. Covering a variety of mediums, these awards offer graduating and postgraduate students up to £3,000 for a period of travel and research. 📅Deadline: Sunday 23 March, 5pm: bit.ly/4bIFop8 🖼️Veronika Desova, Untitled, The Baptistry, Florence

We're delighted to see the Version Galore exhibition returning, with 14 ECA students showcasing their work at @royalscottishacad.bsky.social. Each artist produced work in response to items from the RSA's collection. The exhibition runs until 6 April: www.eca.ed.ac.uk/news/version...

There’s still time to explore In Orcadia at the Royal Scottish Academy. On view, you’ll find a series of paintings by Samantha Clark, the inaugural winner of the £20,000 RSA MacRobert Art Award for Painting. 🗓️On view until Sunday 2 March 🎫Entry is free: bit.ly/40rxuM1

It's a Valentines theme for this week's #OnlineArtExchange with @artukdotorg.bsky.social. Our pick is this screenprint - Love by Ian Hamilton Finlay HRSA❤️

★ ★ ★ ★ The Times ★ ★ ★ ★ The Scotsman A vibrant celebration of the Orkney landscape, In Orcadia showcases works by Samantha Clark, Anne Bevan, Victoria Crowe, Frances Pelly, Dame Barbara Rae and Frances Walker. 🗓️Until Sunday 2 March 🎫Entry is free: bit.ly/40rxuM1

This week’s #OnlineArtExchange with @artukdotorg.bsky.social is all about textile art. Our pick is this work by William Littlejohn RSA, which is from his student days at Dundee College of Art. This would have been created as a design for wallpaper, book covers - or textiles!