20 June - 15 August 2026

Celebrate: 200 Years of the Royal Scottish Academy

Comharraich: 200 Bliadhna de dh’Acadamaidh Rìoghail na h-Alba

To celebrate the RSA’s 200^th year, this exhibition brings together the specially commissioned RSA200 Moving Image Programme alongside works from Academicians within Inverness Museum & Art Gallery’s collection. This show features early and contemporary works by artists Joyce Cairns RSA, Victoria Crowe RSA, Ken CurrieRSA, Daziel + Scullion RSA, Graham Fagan RSA and Will Maclean RSA.

The RSA200 Moving Image Programme has been curated by painter and filmmaker Ronald Forbes RSA to showcase moving image work by Royal Scottish Academicians and RSA award winners. Reflecting artists’ moving image practice in Scotland from the past and present, it includes work from the RSA Collection and work being made today.

The RSA200 Moving Image Programme in the art gallery will change every two weeks:

Saturday 20 June – Saturday 4 July

The Moving Sketchbook

Films based on artists’ sketchbooks and artworks in progress (running time: 37 minutes).

Film is not the means of expression primarily used by these RSA Academicians in their practice, but here they have explored their ideas and thinking with support from film and design practitioners.

Will Maclean RSA and Andy Rice, Casa Berti, 2012 (16:15)

Victoria Crowe RSA, Inflorescence, 2007 (5:00)

Joyce Cairns PPRSA and Andy Rice, Fragments, 2006 (8:06)

Kate Downie RSA, Drawing the Pibroch, 2010 (6:29)

Tuesday 7 – Saturday 18 July

Culture Above and Beyond – Part Two

Films that centre on rural and wilder places (running time: 53 minutes).

A range of films that have a setting that is rural or coastal, rather than urban. This setting is explored visually, revealing the fundamental beauty of nature. These works, in different ways also focus on the profound social and cultural effects of the environment, natural and physical.

Dalziel+Scullion RSA, Source, 2007 (14:49)

Edward Summerton RSA, Dighty Burn, 2011 (5:08)

Graham Fagen RSA, Baile an Or, 2011 (8:04)

Kate Whiteford RSA (with Alex Graham), A' Bheinn / The Mountain, 2009 (24:12)

RSA Academicians’ Showcase

These two packages are not thematic in structure, but rather they celebrate the diversity of types of moving image works produced by Academicians. This includes works by those for whom film is central to their practice, and others by those who only occasionally use the medium. Each programme offers a viewing experience that varies from light -hearted to complex and profound.

Tuesday 21 July – Saturday 1 August

RSA Academicians’ Showcase – Part One (running time: 47 minutes).

Dalziel + Scullion RSA, Raven, 2025 (19:00)

Wendy McMurdo RSA, Olympia, 2011 (5:12) 

Edward Summerton RSA, The Landscape Artist, 2021 (8:17)

Tracy Mackenna RSA, Gaps and Slippages, 2017 (4:23)

Kate Whiteford RSA, Wings of Desire, 2018 (9:42)

Tuesday 4 – Saturday 15 August

RSA Academicians’ Showcase – Part Two (running time: 44 minutes).

Rachel Maclean RSA (Elect), The Lion and the Unicorn, 2012 (11:30)

Graham Fagen RSA, Auld Lang Syne c/w The Slave’s Lament, 2005 (6:58)

Ken Currie RSA, Stone Circle, 2025 (12:00)

Kate Downie RSA, The Little Bridges of Perthshire, 2020 (1:55)

Jo Ganter RSA, Guitar Ellipses, 2020 (0:56)

Ronald Forbes RSA, Hello and Goodbye, 2025 (5:00)