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This autumn the Royal Scottish Academy will celebrate the 40th anniversary of RSA John Kinross Scholarships.

Since the John Kinross Memorial Fund was established in 1981 by John Blyth Kinross CBE HRSA in memory of his father, John Kinross RSA, it has supported over 450 emerging artists and architects and distributed over £730,000 in funds. From its modest beginnings, the scholarship has grown to be the most important travelling award the RSA has ever administered, and the current guidelines continue to reflect the spirit in which it was originally envisioned.

As part of this fortieth anniversary celebration we have been researching into all past Scholars to highlight the breadth and diversity of the practices the Scholarship has supported. Each Scholar was asked three questions by Mary Bourne RSA, curator of the accompanying exhibition Andiamo! Forty Years of the RFSA John Kinross Scholarships to Florence and herself a past Scholar, to establish the impact of their time in Florence on their current practice.

Below we have compiled a full list of of Scholars from the past four decades. For those Scholars we have been able to contact please click on their name to view their responses to the three questions, an image of their current work and work from the time of the Scholarship, many of the latter from the RSA’s own extensive collection.

If you are a past scholar who we have not been able to contact and you wish to add further information please email exhibitions@royalscottishacademy.org.