Spotlight

Tom Speedy graduated from Duncan of Jordanstone (DJCAD), University of Dundee this year (2025). He was nominated by his tutor for our Emerging Art Prize and awarded the prestigious RSA John Kinross Scholarship. He has already held two solo exhibitions and been selected for RSA New Contemporaries in Edinburgh (2026). His painting Adrift was chosen to promote […]

Last night Jan Valik’s solo show opened in Vienna: The Calling. Light breaking through mysterious paintscapes.

Congratulations Emerging Art Prize nominee, Sculpture and Environmental Glasgow School of Art graduate Anna Lewis, who has been awarded the 2025 Newbery Medal – the GSA’s highest undergraduate honour. Anna’s work delicately explores memory, materiality, and the ephemeral through sculpture, textiles, sound, and text. “Anna creates extraordinary objects that are beautifully and precisely crafted,” said […]

Ruth Bateman’s paintings are a rare encounter – Her mark-making resonates below language. You can almost feel the air shift: the shimmer of heat, the sound of crickets in the grass, stars flickering above a line of foliage. Scintillation, saturation, sensation. She has been shortlisted for both the 2024 Contemporary British Painting Prize and Sky […]