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  • Aberdeen Art Gallery - Celebrating Together on the Bloomberg Connects app This year, the Royal Scottish Academy, which is commonly...
    Bloomberg Connect, featuring James Guthrie RSA, To Pastures New, detail. Image courtesy Aberdeen City Council (Archives, Gallery & Museums)
    Aberdeen Art Gallery - Celebrating Together on the Bloomberg Connects app
     

    This year, the Royal Scottish Academy, which is commonly known as RSA, reaches a remarkable milestone — two hundred years of supporting Scottish art and architecture. It’s a moment to look back and reflect on the artists who have shaped Scotland’s visual culture, and whose work continues to resonate today.

     

    Aberdeen Art Gallery is home to one of the finest collections in the country.

    For  RSA200 Celebrating Together we’re highlighting works on display by Academicians in a special tour on the Bloomberg Connects digital guide to the Art Gallery. Artists include Joan Eardley RSA, Alison Watt RSA, Frances Walker RSA, James Cowie RSA, Samuel John Peploe RSA, Sir James Guthrie RSA, Callum Innes RSA, Sir John Lavery RSA Glen Onwin RSA and Joyce Cairns RSA as well as others.

     

    Using the Bloomberg Connects digital guide, we’ve created a tour through the gallery that brings these works together and places them within the wider story of the Academy. 

     

    You can listen to our RSA200: Celebrating Together Tour Introduction Here and download the free digital guide to Aberdeen Art Gallery on the Bloomberg Connects app to discover works on display by some 40 members of the Royal Scottish Academy at bloombergconnects.org
  • Previously Gray's School of Art: 140 Years Never make a head bigger than a melon 22 November 2025 - 12...
    Grays School Of Art 140Years installation view, image courtesy of Aberdeen Art Gallery

    Previously 

    Gray's School of Art: 140 Years
    Never make a head bigger than a melon
    22 November 2025 - 12 April 2026
     
    140 years of artist-led education at Gray’s School of Art is being celebrated in a major exhibition at Aberdeen Art Gallery. Discover works by over 50 artists, are all of whom have studied or worked at Gray’s, and including three Past Presidents of the RSA and 20 Academicians.

    The exhibition focuses on the art school environment: on what artists teach, how ideas are passed from generation to generation, and how studio culture continues to evolve. Painting, drawing, printmaking, sculpture, film, video, photography, ceramics and textiles are all on display. There are works by important artist-educators such as James Cowie RSA, Robert Henderson Blyth RSA, Sylvia Wishart RSA, Frances Walker RSA, Joyce Cairns RSA, Fred Stiven ARSA and Ainslie Yule, alongside contributions that correspond with these works by current staff and alumni including David Blyth, Andrew Cranston RSA (Elect), Callum Innes RSA and Tako Taal. Artworks and archival material are drawn from the collections of Aberdeen Archives Gallery & Museums, RGU Art & Heritage Collections, the Royal Scottish Academy and from private lenders.

    Curated by Dr Judith Winter and Sally Reaper, Gray’s School of Art.
  • Into the Light 24 January-24 May 2026 Twin sculptures by Keith Rand RSA from Aberdeen Art Gallery’s collection are the...
    Installation view, Into the Light, image courtesy Aberdeen City Council (Archives, Gallery & Museums)
    Into the Light

    24 January-24 May 2026
    Twin sculptures by Keith Rand RSA from Aberdeen Art Gallery’s collection are the inspiration for Into the Light, an exhibition of new works by Members of Aberdeen Artists Society.

     

    The 14 exhibiting artists have created new works in response to Into the Light Blue and Into the Light Crimson by Keith Rand RSA (1956-2013). Rand’s striking sculptures have prompted a rich and varied selection of responses which explore his time living and working in the North East, his sculptural philosophy and his techniques in wood, colour and form. Rand taught sculpture at Gray’s School of Art in Aberdeen and also worked as a technician at the Scottish Sculpture Workshop (SSW) in Lumsden, Aberdeenshire.

    The exhibiting artists are:
    Corri Black, Ann Bowes, Shelagh Brown, Volha Druhakova, Melanie Guatelli, Amanda Hirst, Rita Kermack, Nicole Luchita, Alisa Magnus, Sue Savege, John Snelling, Bruce Swanson, Courtney Szabo, Fenneke Wolters-Sinke.

     
    Admission free – please donate
  • About Aberdeen Art Gallery

    About Aberdeen Art Gallery

    Aberdeen Art Gallery - part of Aberdeen City Council - is home to one of the finest collections in the country, with a particular strength in collecting contemporary art. The collection is recognised as being of National Significance. It has grown over centuries, and has been shared with the public since 1885, first through the Art Gallery, then the wider service at Aberdeen City & Aberdeenshire Archives, Maritime Museum, Treasure Hub, Provost Skene’s House and Tolbooth Museum. Our purpose is to share the city’s collection in engaging ways. Our vision is to be a place for people to explore Aberdeen’s identity and culture, and its connections to the world.

     

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