Room 3: The John Kinross Scholarship

Each year the RSA John Kinross Scholarship provides 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.