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

  • About

    Catharine Davison, Native Landscape (the Hermitage Native Reserve)

    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 delighted to announce Catharine Davison is the 2026 recipient of the RSA Blackadder Houston Mid-Career Travel Award.
  • 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 

    • Applications are closed for 2026. 

     

     
  • Previous Winners

    Olivia Irvine, Tableware Legacy

    Previous Winners

    • Catharine Davison, 2026
    • Jessica Kirkpatrick, 2025
    • Olivia Irvine, 2024
    • Elaine Woo MacGregor, 2023
  • Banner image: Jessica Kirkpatrick, Rupture, oil on canvas