We're celebrating autumn for this week's #OnlineArtExchange with @artukdotorg.bsky.social! 🍂🍁Our pick is Pittendrigh Macgillivray RSA's Autumn Wind. This illustration is from Sir Patrick Geddes HRSA's Book of Autumn.

Today's #OnlineArtExchange with @artukdotorg.bsky.social is all about gold, silver and bronze! 🏅Our pick is our silver RSA Academicians' medal, which was designed by Sir Joseph Noel Paton.

We're looking at rural art for this week's #OnlineArtExchange with @artukdotorg.bsky.social to celebrate the Argyll Collection on Tour: Part of RSA200. Our pick is Sylvia Wishart RSA's Hoy Sound!

Fall, leaves, fall, our new exhibition in the Academicians’ Gallery, takes its title from Emily Brontë’s poem of the same name. Capturing a sense of transition as the Scottish summer gives way to autumn, the show celebrates autumn hues and the September sun: bit.ly/4xqOr7P 🍂 Until 11 October

This week's #OnlineArtExchange with @artukdotorg.bsky.social is all about dogs! 🐶🐕 We've selected Thomas Duncan RSA's 'The Friends', and we think these two make quite the pair!

We recently visited 'Joan Eardley: The Sea at Catterline' at the Granary Gallery in Berwick-upon-Tweed to explore this important chapter of her career 🌊 #RSA200 Discover more exhibitions near you with our What’s on feed 👉 https://artuk.org/visit/whats-on

Joyce W. Cairns PPRSA has had a long relationship with printmaking, and her approach echoes the energy of her painting practice. For A Personal Odyssey, she created two new etchings at Peacock Printmakers in collaboration with master printmaker Mike Waight.

Our pick for this week’s #OnlineArtExchange with @artukdotorg.bsky.social is Francis Grose’s Friar’s Carse, Dumfriesshire.

Scott Baxter’s brilliantly ambitious print ‘Amoretto’ is currently on display at the Royal Scottish Academy as part of their exhibition Chaos & Control.  This piece is a screenprint on proprietary PVC iridescent tiles. It encourages you to approach it from different angles and to get up close!

This week's #OnlineArtExchange with @artukdotorg.bsky.social is all about nature and animals. We've selected Roland Corbin's Cats in Boboli. Corbin took this image in Italy during his John Kinross Scholarship🐈

We’re delighted to announce that Lyndsey Gilmour has received the 2026 RSA MacRobert Art Award for Painting! 🔗Discover what the award means to her over on our website: bit.ly/4f55ftP

Winner announced for the 2026 RSA MacRobert Art Award for Painting

We are delighted to announce that Aberdeenshire based artist Lyndsey Gilmour has received the 2026 RSA MacRobert Art Award for Painting! Funded by the MacRobert Trust, the award provides the time and ...

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America is the theme for this week’s #OnlineArtExchange with @artukdotorg.bsky.social, and we’ve selected Lily McDougall’s American Pillars!

We're looking at machines for this week's #OnlineArtExchange with @artukdotorg.bsky.social! We've selected Benjamin Whitney's Waterwheel. Whitney was a John Kinross Scholar, and spent 13 weeks in Florence in 2014.

This week's #OnlineArtExchange with @artukdotorg.bsky.social is all about discovery. We're focusing on the medical kind with our pick, a plate from our first edition Vesalius!

We're thinking football for this week's #OnlineArtExchange with @artukdotorg.bsky.social!⚽ Whilst William Lamb ARSA and John Houston RSA both played football, our pick is Peter Womersley ARSA and the stadium he designed for Gala Fairydean FC, Galashiels.

Today's #OnlineArtExchange with @artukdotorg.bsky.social is all about Wallpaper! Our pick is this design by Paul Westcombe, which is from a sketchbook filled by the artist during his RSA John Kinross Travel Scholarship to Italy in 2003!

For today’s #OnlineArtExchange with @artukdotorg.bsky.social, we’re looking at Myths and Legends. Our pick is John Maxwell RSA’s The Apple. One of only three known forays made by Maxwell into printmaking, the subject of this etching is ambiguous, but has been suggested to represent the Temptation.🍎

COMING SOON: Far Afield Our next exhibition in the Academicians Gallery brings together artworks by our Members created on location and through travel: bit.ly/41YKxWn 📅 9 May - 14 June 2026 📍 The Academicians Gallery 🖼️ Elspeth Lamb RSA, Temple on Awaji

Applications are now open for the RSA William Littlejohn Award! Funded by the William Littlejohn Bequest, the award grants £2000 for excellence and innovation in water-based media, allowing the recipient to research, develop and produce of a new body of work in a water-based medium.

COMING SOON | David Evans: Sunday, 5pm Renowned for his atmospheric hyperrealist paintings of seemingly mundane interior views, still lifes, building facades and street scenes, Evans transformed the every day into moments of quiet intensity. 🗓️ 21 March - 26 April 2026 📍The Academicians Gallery

We’re looking at art that explores home for this week’s #OnlineArtExchange with @artukdotorg.bsky.social. 📸Our pick is Paul Duke’s No Ruined Stone. Duke received the RSA Morton Award in 2016. This work references the housing scheme where he was born and lived until the age of 19.

This week’s #OnlineArtExchange is all about renewal for 'Ashes to Fashion' at @ulstermuseum.org. Our pick is Florence Textile Sovereignty #1 and #2 by Siti Zulkifle.

Scotland's art collections are full of surprises. Read about some o Scotland’s strangest acquisitions in this new story 👉 https://artuk.org/discover/stories/scotlands-strangest-acquisitions-tales-of-taste-chance-and-unlikely-journeys 🧑‍🎨 John Emms (1843-1912) 📷 National Galleries of Scotland

We’re celebrating the land and sea for this week’s #OnlineArtExchange with @artukdotorg.bsky.social. 🌊Our pick is From Yesnaby by Samantha Clark. Clark is based in Orkney and influenced by the dynamic movement of weather and sea. She received the RSA William Littlejohn Award in 2021.

Catch up on our new series 🎥✨ We visited 'From These Parts: Scotland, Art and Identity’ at University of St Andrews' Wardlaw Museum. Assistant Curator Struan Watson explores the work of Dorothy Johnstone and Ken Currie in episode two 👉 https://youtu.be/Xrf1BYyvNPY #RSA200 Royal Scottish Academy

From These Parts: Scotland, Art and Identity at Wardlaw Museum | Dorothy Johnstone and Ken Currie

In this video, Art UK visits the Wardlaw Museum to view the ‘From These Parts: Scotland, Art and Identity’ exhibition. This exhibition celebrates the 30th anniversary of the Harry and Margery Boswell Collection at the University of St Andrews, and the 200th anniversary of the Royal Scottish Academy of Art and Architecture, Edinburgh.

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This week’s #OnlineArtExchange with @artukdotorg.bsky.social is all about winter sports. Our pick is Snow by Mabel Royds (even though snowball rolling isn't an official sport!). Royds began teaching at ECA in 1911, working alongside Ernest Lumsden RSA, who she married in 1913.

This year, Gray's School of Art in Aberdeen celebrates its 140th anniversary 🙌 Read about how the school transformed Scottish arts education 👉 https://artuk.org/discover/stories/top-marks-how-the-grays-school-of-art-transformed-scottish-arts-education © Aberdeen City Council. 📷 Mike Davidson

New series 🎥✨ We visited 'From These Parts: Scotland, Art and Identity’ at University of St Andrews' Wardlaw Museum. Assistant Curator Struan Watson explores the work of Dorothy Johnstone and Ken Currie in episode two 👉 https://youtu.be/Xrf1BYyvNPY #RSA200 Royal Scottish Academy

From These Parts: Scotland, Art and Identity at Wardlaw Museum | Dorothy Johnstone and Ken Currie

In this video, Art UK visits the Wardlaw Museum to view the ‘From These Parts: Scotland, Art and Identity’ exhibition. This exhibition celebrates the 30th anniversary of the Harry and Margery Boswell Collection at the University of St Andrews, and the 200th anniversary of the Royal Scottish Academy of Art and Architecture, Edinburgh.

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We’re looking at light and dark for this week’s #OnlineArtExchange with @artukdotorg.bsky.social. Our pick is Philip Braham RSA’s Diploma Work, ‘First Light, Torlum Hill’, which was painted in the artist's studio in Crieff from studies taken at nearby Torlum Wood.

This week's #OnlineArtExchange with @artukdotorg.bsky.social is all about Motherhood. Our pick is Bill Scott PPRSA's Mother and Child. This work will be on view in our new exhibition Origin Stories, opening this Saturday!