For today’s #OnlineArtExchange with @artukdotorg.bsky.social, we’re looking at Myths and Legends. Our pick is John Maxwell RSA’s The Apple. One of only three known forays made by Maxwell into printmaking, the subject of this etching is ambiguous, but has been suggested to represent the Temptation.🍎

COMING SOON: Far Afield Our next exhibition in the Academicians Gallery brings together artworks by our Members created on location and through travel: bit.ly/41YKxWn 📅 9 May - 14 June 2026 📍 The Academicians Gallery 🖼️ Elspeth Lamb RSA, Temple on Awaji

Applications are now open for the RSA William Littlejohn Award! Funded by the William Littlejohn Bequest, the award grants £2000 for excellence and innovation in water-based media, allowing the recipient to research, develop and produce of a new body of work in a water-based medium.

COMING SOON | David Evans: Sunday, 5pm Renowned for his atmospheric hyperrealist paintings of seemingly mundane interior views, still lifes, building facades and street scenes, Evans transformed the every day into moments of quiet intensity. 🗓️ 21 March - 26 April 2026 📍The Academicians Gallery

We’re looking at art that explores home for this week’s #OnlineArtExchange with @artukdotorg.bsky.social. 📸Our pick is Paul Duke’s No Ruined Stone. Duke received the RSA Morton Award in 2016. This work references the housing scheme where he was born and lived until the age of 19.

This week’s #OnlineArtExchange is all about renewal for 'Ashes to Fashion' at @ulstermuseum.org. Our pick is Florence Textile Sovereignty #1 and #2 by Siti Zulkifle.

Scotland's art collections are full of surprises. Read about some o Scotland’s strangest acquisitions in this new story 👉 https://artuk.org/discover/stories/scotlands-strangest-acquisitions-tales-of-taste-chance-and-unlikely-journeys 🧑‍🎨 John Emms (1843-1912) 📷 National Galleries of Scotland

We’re celebrating the land and sea for this week’s #OnlineArtExchange with @artukdotorg.bsky.social. 🌊Our pick is From Yesnaby by Samantha Clark. Clark is based in Orkney and influenced by the dynamic movement of weather and sea. She received the RSA William Littlejohn Award in 2021.

Catch up on our new series 🎥✨ We visited 'From These Parts: Scotland, Art and Identity’ at University of St Andrews' Wardlaw Museum. Assistant Curator Struan Watson explores the work of Dorothy Johnstone and Ken Currie in episode two 👉 https://youtu.be/Xrf1BYyvNPY #RSA200 Royal Scottish Academy

This week’s #OnlineArtExchange with @artukdotorg.bsky.social is all about winter sports. Our pick is Snow by Mabel Royds (even though snowball rolling isn't an official sport!). Royds began teaching at ECA in 1911, working alongside Ernest Lumsden RSA, who she married in 1913.

This year, Gray's School of Art in Aberdeen celebrates its 140th anniversary 🙌 Read about how the school transformed Scottish arts education 👉 https://artuk.org/discover/stories/top-marks-how-the-grays-school-of-art-transformed-scottish-arts-education © Aberdeen City Council. 📷 Mike Davidson

New series 🎥✨ We visited 'From These Parts: Scotland, Art and Identity’ at University of St Andrews' Wardlaw Museum. Assistant Curator Struan Watson explores the work of Dorothy Johnstone and Ken Currie in episode two 👉 https://youtu.be/Xrf1BYyvNPY #RSA200 Royal Scottish Academy

We’re looking at light and dark for this week’s #OnlineArtExchange with @artukdotorg.bsky.social. Our pick is Philip Braham RSA’s Diploma Work, ‘First Light, Torlum Hill’, which was painted in the artist's studio in Crieff from studies taken at nearby Torlum Wood.

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!