Fleming Collection

Greg Thomas’ forthcoming book brings together interviews and testimonies from those who worked with Ian Hamilton Finlay from the 1950s to the 2000s, the culmination of a five-year project, supported by the Fleming Collection. 🔗 Crowdfunding link: tinyurl.com/y737d85d

This week's contemporary artist spotlight: Christopher Ivor Adam 🎨 His prints, paintings, drawings, films, songs and stories draw on imagination and historical records while flitting between Gaelic, Scots and English.

'Thread Memory: Embroidery from Palestine' at the V&A Dundee brings together Palestinian hand-embroidered material culture from the 19th century to the present day. 🔗 Read Shalmali Shetty's review of the exhibition on Scottish Art News here: tinyurl.com/2uky6xs9

Beth Williamson shares why a cultural biography tracing the life, influences and impact of William Johnstone, the enigmatic Scottish artist and educator, was long overdue. 🔗 Read 'Unravelling the riddle of William Johnstone' on Scottish Art News here: tinyurl.com/pcfydwzj

Happy Earth Day from the Fleming Collection! 🌱🌏 This work by Scottish artist Alasdair Wallace portrays a flock of birds, rendered against a pale blue sky above a green landscape punctuated by electric pylons, contrasting the rhythms of nature with the imprint of modern life.

📣 Exhibition Announcement! The Maltings presents Joan Eardley: The Sea at Catterline, an exhibition curated in partnership with The Fleming Collection and part of RSA200: Celebrating Together. 🔗 tinyurl.com/582c3fwr

This week's contemporary artist spotlight: Lisa Speirs-Fleming 🎨 Her prints draw on experiences of motherhood, intertwined with the fragility of mental health, expressed through a surreal and symbolic visual language.

⭐️ Fleming Collection Artwork on Loan! ‘Light Divine Sky 2’ by Zimbabwean-Scottish artist Sekai Machache is now on display at Inverleith House, Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh, as part of their Earth Matters exhibition. 🔗 tinyurl.com/564xdrrz

Reminder: Applications for the Curatorial Research Residency (2026-27), offered by the Fleming-Wyfold Art Foundation and the Paul Mellon Centre (PMC), are closing in a week! 📩 Don't miss your chance to apply! 🔗 tinyurl.com/3d2ueh3h

My look in @flemingartcoll.bsky.social Scottish Art News at From the Clyde to Sarajevo & the Venice Lagoon, which pivots around the work of George Wyllie in honour of the Royal Scottish Academy’s 200th anniversary www.flemingcollection.com/scottish_art... The Wyllieum Greenock until May 31st.

From the Clyde to Sarajevo & The Venice Lagoon, is on display at the Wyllieum in Greenock until 31 May. 🔗 Read Neil Cooper's (@cooperhack1) review of the exhibition on Scottish Art News here: tinyurl.com/ekx86hry

This week's contemporary artist spotlight: Emily McLatchie 🎨 Her practice draws on traditional craftsmanship and natural materials to explore cycles of decay, renewal, and return.

The work of Glasgow-based artist and curator Siobhan McLaughlin will feature in Extraction, a group show at Jupiter Artland this spring. 🔗 Read Jelena Sofronijevic's conversation with the artist here: tinyurl.com/3weya6kj

Happy Easter from the Fleming Collection! 🐣🌼 This work by Scottish artist Gary Anderson depicts a scene featuring four chickens and is titled From Eggs (of Four Chickens). It is characteristic of Anderson’s earlier work, which focused on close observation of the natural world.

This painting, by dance pioneer Margaret Morris, was of one of her young dancers, Flossie Jolley 🩰 Morris was a trailblazing dancer, establishing the Celtic Ballet Club in Glasgow in 1939, followed by the Scottish National Ballet. Encouraged by a supportive network, she became a deft painter too.

This week's contemporary artist spotlight: Amelia Barratt 🎨 Her paintings are often inspired by Glasgow’s urban landscape, with her abstract approach transforming everyday scenes into something strange and mysterious. Her work uncovers beauty in unlikely places.

The Fleming-Wyfold Art Foundation and the Paul Mellon Centre (PMC) are excited to announce a Curatorial Research Residency for 2026-27! 🚨 Applications close on 22 April 2026 at 10am. 🔗 tinyurl.com/3d2ueh3h

Artist and writer Lachlan Goudie explores the history of art through 20 masterpieces in his new book The Secrets of Painting. Read our interview with him about the book here: bit.ly/secretsofpai...

In A Newhaven Fishwife, Glasgow Boy Alexander Ignatius Roche gives the woman an allure that is at odds with her unromantic occupation. Some have interpreted the black cat as a symbol of female sexuality, but it could just as easily be there waiting to steal some freshly caught fish!

This week's contemporary artist spotlight: Siobhan McLaughlin 🎨 Working with remnant textiles and gathered earth pigments, McLaughlin explores themes of place, care and sustainability through painting, printmaking and installation.

Simon Phipps travelled Scotland to photograph 160 of its Brutalist buildings. The resulting exhibition, Brutal Scotland, immerses visitors in the visual and cultural atmosphere of the Brutalist era. Read @neilcooper.bsky.social review on Scottish Art News: bit.ly/brutalscotland

To commemorate their 140th anniversary, Gray's School of Art Aberdeen are celebrating with a new exhibition ‘140 Years - Never make a head bigger than a melon’ 🍈 Now on at @abdnartmuseums.bsky.social, read Lena Kammerer's review here: bit.ly/graysschoolo...

This week's contemporary artist spotlight: Aqsa Arif 🎨 She is a Scottish-Pakistani artist who works in film, printmaking, photography and poetry to construct installations that explore themes of dual heritage, migration and cultural dissonance.

“After hours there can be no trespassing, no entry, no press access; DO NOT FORCE THE DOORS.” Peter Liversidge’s playful new work, The Rules of the Library, now looms large over the reading rooms of @natlibscot.bsky.social. Read @gregchthomas.bsky.social review here: bit.ly/rulesoflib

We are delighted that a work from The Fleming Collection is featured in the newly opened Relative Ties exhibition at Murray Edwards College, Cambridge. Open now until 6 September 2026, don't miss your chance to see this fascinating exhibition: bit.ly/relativeties...

In an ever changing and fragile world, how do you build a home? 🏠 Martha Orbach’s new exhibition at the @womenslibrary.bsky.social, To Build a Home, explores homemaking in a state of constant change. Read Caroline Metcalf’s review here: bit.ly/marthaorbach

By splicing fragments of Arabic and English in her latest exhibition, sound artist Hannah Ellul challenges fixed senses of identity and examines how class and heritage shape the grain of our voices. Read more about the project, on at the Glasgow Project Room until 8 March, here: bit.ly/HannahEllul

Elizabeth Blackadder (1931–2021) was the first woman elected to both the RSA and the Royal Academy. Born in Falkirk, her childhood hobby of labelling plants with Latin names became a lifelong preoccupation with nature. Her celebrated watercolours and prints often featured her favourite flowers 🌸

Keith McIntyre’s new exhibition What Lies Beyond blends Covid isolation in the Hebrides with the digital 'Zoom' aesthetic and Japanese Butoh theatre. This show is a key highlight of this year's RSA 200 celebrations 🥳 read @gregchthomas.bsky.social interview with the artist here: bit.ly/4sbPbv4

Artist Michael Fullerton chatted with @gregchthomas.bsky.social about his new exhibition at the City Art Centre (running until 12 April). They discussed his new portraits of asylum seekers and his career-long focus on screen-printing the historically misunderstood. Read here 👉 bit.ly/4aI1oRb

A new four-volume anthology, Scottish Art in the Industrial Age, 1800-1914, explores the evolution of Scottish art during the ‘long century’. Read Susan Mansfield’s interview with its editors here: bit.ly/3Omvq5H

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Happy Valentine’s Day from the Fleming Collection 💘💞 This lovely painting, Romance, is by Glasgow Boy Edward Arthur Walton. Walton's contemporary James Paterson said of the painting: "[it is] in my opinion perhaps the most perfect thing he ever did.” 🌹

This week's contemporary artist spotlight: Nnena Kalu 🎨 Her distinctive, expressive style has earned widespread recognition in recent years. Her Kalu’s work is currently part of the We Contain Multitudes exhibition at Dundee Contemporary Arts, on show until 26 April 2026 🖼️

Scottish castles feel as much part of the landscape as the hills and heather 🌿 Here is a selection of majestic castles from The Fleming Collection 🏰

A jazz musician as well as a painter, artist Alan Davie approached his practice through the spirit improvisation and intuition. This work, painted early in his career, is rooted in the still life tradition, but hints at Davie’s later engagement with myth, zen philosophy and surrealism.

This week's contemporary artist spotlight: Monya Flannigan 🎨 Moyna Flannigan (b. 1962) is a Scottish artist born in Kirkcaldy. Of her work, she said: “To a casual observer these images might seem completely disconnected, but for me they have associations to my life, my interests and to memory.” 💫

Happy St Brigid’s Day 🍃 In Irish and Scottish mythology, today is the turning pointing in winter, when the Cailleach loosens her grip on the land and the maiden goddess Brigid’s influence begins 🌱 In artist William Yule’s ‘Spring’, the new season is symbolised by a young girl in a green dress.

Eight incredible paintings from the 16th and 17th centuries have travelled from Buckingham Palace in London for display in the Palace of Holyroodhouse in Edinburgh 🎨 Read writer Shalmali Shetty's review: bit.ly/49TLfaX

Scottish Colourist S.J. Peploe was born #OnThisDay in 1871 🥳 By the time of his death in 1935, aged 64, Peploe was hailed as ‘the real leader of the forward movement in Scotland.’

The Fleming Collection wishes you a very merry Burns Night! 🎉🥃 This work, by artist June Crisfield-Chapman, depicts scenes from Burns’ masterpiece poem, Tam O’Shanter 🎻

Featuring more than eighty photographs, the Still Glasgow exhibition at the Gallery of Modern Art Glasgow, views the city through the lenses of residents and visitors across the decades 📸 Our writer Lena Kammerer selected five works in the exhibition not to miss: bit.ly/stillglasgow...

This week's contemporary artist spotlight: Andrew Gannon. His practice plays with assumptions about disability objects, asking if a prosthetic is not functional or cosmetic, then what is it – who is it for?

A legend tells of King Canute the Great placing his throne by the sea to prove that even a king could not command the tides, reminding his courtiers that only God was all-powerful. Scottish artist Helen Flockhart reimagines the story in this vivid painting, now part of The Fleming Collection.

It’s been very chilly across the UK this week ❄️ Here are some beautiful wintery scenes from The Fleming Collection 🌨️

This week’s spotlight: Catherine Eckersall 🖼️ Eckersall’s practice is heavily influenced by Scottish and Irish folklore and landscape. She paints what is there but not seen: the intimate connection between people and the natural environments that surround them.

2026 is shaping up to be an exceptional year for Scottish art 🎨 From landmark anniversaries to bold new exhibitions, here are the biggest shows on our radar for the next 12 months. Read here: bit.ly/scottisharte...

Lost in a good book 📖 Here are a few of our favourite readers from the Fleming Collection!

If you’re looking for something to fill the last days of the festive break, head to the fantastic Thread That Pulls exhibition at the @nationalgalleries.bsky.social on The Mound, Edinburgh. We've rounded up some absolute must-see artworks featured in the exhibition: bit.ly/49cQdPD