Meg Buick
We are delighted to announce our 2026 Student Award winners. We would like to extend a huge thank you to our funding partners for their generosity and support.
RSA John Kinross Scholarships
This year twelve graduates have received RSA John Kinross Scholarships, which fund a period of 6 to 12 weeks in Florence to research and develop their practice. Florence has been an inspiration to generations of artists and architects and this opportunity allows successful applicants to experience its magnificent history, study its art and architecture, learn the language and create a visual record of their experience.
Meg Buick | Liam Mcgee | Finley Yates | Mitsuki Nakatani | Irene Chapman | Puyi Guo | Theodora Zoi | Matilde Maria Melodia | Vicki Scaife | Loren Brundrett | Reece Martin | Dominic Skinner
Fay Cardigan
RSA Barns-Graham Travel Award
Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art and Design graduate Fay Cardigan has received the 2026 RSA Barns-Graham Travel Award. Fay plans to use the £2,000 funds to travel to Faenza, Italy, where she will explore contemporary ceramics. Building on her painting practice, Fay will experiment with offcuts and broken ceramic fragments to reinterpret and construct new forms, joining them together to create new narratives and images to use as subjects for painting.
Quinn Elise Jenkins
RSA Blackadder Houston ECA Travel Awards
Quinn Elise Jenkins and Sophia Rehman have both received a 2026 RSA Blackadder Houston Student Travel Award, which funds a period of international travel for graduating and postgraduate painting students from Edinburgh College of Art (ECA).
Quinn Elise Jenkins is an oil painter and miniaturist interested in surrealism and historical fantasy. With their £3,000 award funds, Quinn will travel to London and visit the Wellcome Collection, the National Maritime Museum, the Horniman Museum, the Viktor Wynd Museum, and more, gathering visual research and exploring the historical parts of the city. This research will ground their work further in an understanding of British culture, early modern history and folk tradition.
Sophia Rehman
Sophia Rehman will travel to Trinidad to explore the traditions of Mas and carnival arts, investigating how storytelling, bricolage and performance can challenge systems of oppression. Drawn to Trinidadian festival practices and the work of artists such as Peter Minshall, Sophia hopes to examine how diasporic communities negotiate displacement, belonging and the romanticisation of heritage within a majority PoC society. She aims to develop a new body of paintings that expands her use of bricolage techniques and explores cultural disconnect.
