Each year the Royal Scottish Academy (RSA) John Kinross Scholarship provides ten final year undergraduate and postgraduate art and architecture students with the opportunity to research and develop their practice in Florence.
Florence has been an inspiration to generations of artists, and this award enables scholars to experience the city’s history, study its art and architecture, learn the language and create a visual record of their experience. Upon their return, examples of scholars’ work are deposited with the RSA collections.
Since the John Kinross Memorial Fund was established in 1981 by John Blyth Kinross HRSA in memory of his father, John Kinross RSA, it has supported around 500 emerging artists and architects and distributed over £800,000 in funds. The Scholarship has grown to be the most important travelling award the RSA has ever administered.
The Kinross Collection has evolved with emerging art practice in Scotland. It has tracked the contemporary and often experimental evolution of emerging photography and holds the largest body of photographic work in the wider RSA collections. Some of the best examples are on display here.
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Eve Smith
b.1981
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Johnny Lyons
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James Elliott Dixon
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Jan Pottinger-Glass
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Charis Edward Wells
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Calvin Laing
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Room 1: Royal Scottish Academicians
The Royal Scottish Academy (RSA) is Scotland’s oldest surviving artist-run institution. Since 1826, more than 500 artists and architects have been elected by their peers as ‘Academicians’, making them central... -
Room 2: The Morton Award for lens-based Media
The Morton Award for Lens-based Media occupies a vital place in contemporary Scottish photography. Administered by the Royal Scottish Academy and funded by The Morton Charitable Trust, from 2006 to... -
Room 4: Portraits of Academicians
James Good Tunny (1820–1887) was a professional photographer who established a thriving business in Edinburgh during the 1850s. He recalled that, as a young man in the 1840s, he would... -
Room 5: Armoury
The photographs in this room are reproduced from a remarkable album in the library of the RSA. Around 1850, the British photographer Charles Clifford established a studio in Spain. His... -
Room 6: The Dawn of Photography
Scotland played a leading role in the early years of photography. When, in 1839, William Henry Fox Talbot invented the Calotype process – a method of creating a paper negative... -
Caroline Douglas
Caroline Douglas is an artist and historian of early photography . In her practice she moves across photography, writing and creative archival research to work cross-historically, re-touching the archive, to... -
Irvine & Spence
Disproportionate Impacts & Everyday Agitations This collaborative work from Irvine & Spence was the winner of the RSA Lens-Based Media Award 2024. This was an interim award between the Morton... -
Walter Dalkeith
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Restoration Yard
This gallery space introduces the diverse photographic practice by 19th century and contemporary photographers as part of the wider exhibition at Dalkeith Palace. It features an accessible version of Flannery...
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