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Mark Astaire and winner Maria McStay

Astaire Art Prize winner announced for 2025

Maria McStay's work had a real 'Wow' factor, which won over the judges.

The front of a doll's house, decorated with ornate green patterns

Tallulah Batley, La Maison Vert Mixed Media Dollhouse (MDF, plastic, emulsion, acrylic, misc dollhouse furniture)

Tallulah Batley

RSA New Contemporaries 2025 opens with artworks from 17 ECA alumni

Works selected from the 2024 Graduate Show are exhibited at the annual showcase.

A painting on the wall features a monk with a woven basket over his head; a length of rope lies over the top of the painting and coils down to the floor. On shelves, and on the floor, are similar woven baskets, some with small clay faces on the front. Straw sits around the baskets on the floor. Further clay faces also sit on the shelves.

Emilie Fielding, The Bees Were Here, 2025. Installation view. Courtesy Talbot Rice Gallery, the University of Edinburgh

Trading Zone 2025 - from endometriosis to medieval re-enactment

The exhibition of student work at the Talbot Rice Gallery shows an exciting breadth of inspiration.

A close up image of a painted landscape. There are two rocky monoliths with swirling clouds behind. The colours are of a red and pinkish hue. Text reads Version Galore All Art comes from other Art

Close up from Cailleach (after James Giles) - by Lyndsay McColl

Version Galore returns to the RSA, showcasing ECA students’ work

Third year students are exhibiting their responses to items from the RSA's collection.

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Research

Research as inquiry and experiment

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A photo of Charlene Scott's work displayed at the 2023 Graduate Show, on an off-white wall. Four framed artworks are side-by-side, each in a neutral, off-white tone, with different textures and patterns.

Image: Charlene Scott

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Exhibition Talbot Rice Gallery Exhibitions Talbot Rice Gallery: Walker & Bromwich / Searching for a Change of Consciousness The spring exhibition at the Talbot Rice Gallery.

Zoe Walker and Neil Bromwich

Talbot Rice Gallery, Old College, South Bridge, Edinburgh, EH8 9YL

A shallow pond with reeds growing out, set within a grey walled garden. The wall has a hole cut in it and painted tears either side. Plants also grow up against the wall.

Lecture Geddes Fellow Lecture Series Geddes Fellow Lecture | Olivier Goethals How to play with opportunities, how to use, re-use and be useful.

Olivier Goethals

Edinburgh College of Art Main Building, Main Lecture Theatre (E22), 74 Lauriston Place, Edinburgh, EH3 9DF

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Performance / concert Open Mic Nights Open Mic Night - March Join the Reid School of Music for an evening of original music, live at the Wee Red Bar!

Wee Red Bar, ECA Main Building and Hunter Building, 74 Lauriston Place, Edinburgh, EH3 9DF