RSA Barns-Graham Travel Award: Deadline: Sunday 23 March 2025, 5pm

• Entrants must be painters, printmakers or sculptors.
• Entrants must either be undergraduates graduating in summer 2025 or currently studying at postgraduate level at one of the following Scottish art schools: Gray’s School of Art, Aberdeen, Duncan of Jordanstone Collage of Art, Dundee, Edinburgh College of Art, Glasgow School of Art, and University of the Highlands & Islands.

How to apply

• Applications are made through Submittable.
• Please read the guidelines in full before completing your application:
  • RSA Student Award Guidelines

Application deadline Sunday 23 March 2025, 5pm.

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Wilhelmina Barns-Graham HRSA was born in 1912 in St Andrews, Fife. After attending Edinburgh College of Art (1932-37) she moved to St. Ives in 1940, quickly becoming part of the group which included Ben Nicholson and Barbara Hepworth. She was a founder member of the Penwith Society. She travelled regularly over the next 20 years – Switzerland, Italy, Paris, and Spain. With the exception of a short teaching term at Leeds School of Art (1956 – 57) and three years in London (1960 – 63) she lived and worked in St Ives with regular stays in St Andrews where, in 1992, she received an Honorary Doctorate from the University. In 1999 she was elected an honorary member of the Royal Scottish Academy and The Royal Scottish Society of Painters in Watercolour (RSW); she also received Honorary Doctorates from the Universities of Plymouth and Exeter and in 2001 she was awarded CBE. Her paintings can be found in public collections throughout the UK including the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Arts Council of Great Britain, British Museum, the Tate Gallery, Victoria and Albert Museum, Leeds and Manchester City Art Galleries.

For further information visit The Wilhelmina Barns-Graham Trust website.

Banner image: Shipei Wang, I hear of nothing but a high-pitched screaming silence (detail), acrylic