RSA Blackadder Houston Mid-Career Travel Award: Deadline has passed for 2025

  • About

    Jessica Kirkpatrick, The Monarch

    About

    The RSA Blackadder Houston Mid-Career Travel Award (£5,000) aims to enable a committed fine art painter to carry out the research, development and production of a new body of work through a dedicated period of international travel. Painters may use the funds to take a trip to any location outside the UK.  

     

    The award is funded by the RSA Blackadder Houston Bequest and administered by the Royal Scottish Academy.

     

    We are pleased to announce Jessica Kirkpatrick is the winner of the 2025 award. Find out more about our recent award winners here. 
  • Eligibility
    Elaine Woo MacGregor, Uranias Love (Shanghai Flaneuse)

    Eligibility

    • Entrants must be mid-career painters who are at least 15 years out of art school or can demonstrate at least 15 years of substantive practice.

    • The entrant's practice must be predominantly based in painting, this can be in any medium or subject.
    • Entrants must not currently be in education.
    • Entrants must be born or currently living in Scotland (and have been for at least consecutive 3 years).

     

    How to apply 


    Application deadline for 2025 has now passed and the winner has been announced. 

     

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  • Previous Winners
    John Houston RSA, Red Bridge, Nikko

    Previous Winners

    • Olivia Irvine, 2024
    • Elaine Woo MacGregor, 2023
  • Banner image: Olivia Irvine, Fuzzy Felt Room, oil on canvas