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Charlotte Roseberry's collaboration with British Airways. Image: British Airways

Charlotte’s design is flying high with British Airways

Painting alumna Charlotte Roseberry's collaboration with BA sees her work featured on a new limited-edition range of amenity kits.

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Students learning how to use equipment in a studio. Credit: Alex Nevill

New MFA Film Art will explore filmmaking in an artistic context

Students will split their time between ECA and Paris College of Art.

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Ally McKay with her illustrated map of Edinburgh

Ally illustrates University buildings for the Gift Shop

BA (Hons) Illustration alumna Ally McKay has been commissioned to create beautiful gifts and mementos featuring University landmarks.

The group stand in the Sculpture Court at ECA.

The students and retailers gather at ECA for their first meeting. Image: Tony Marsh Film & Photography

Tony Marsh Film & Photography

Leading retailers collaborate with fashion students

The partnership with luxury shopping destination Multrees Walk will offer a window on the commercial fashion world.

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ECA research podcast: Artful Inquiry

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Research

Research as inquiry and experiment

ECA is a vibrant and internationally-engaged interdisciplinary hub for creative innovation embedded within the world-leading University of Edinburgh.

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Image: Charlene Scott

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ECA's sculpture court set up with stalls for the annual winter fair. Students and members of the public mill about in the space looking at artwork, zines, prints and much more.

Exhibition ECA Events ECA Illustration Winter Fair and Exhibition Buy work and meet the artists in the fabulous Sculpture Court at Edinburgh College of Art at this year's Illustration winter fair.

Sculpture Court, Edinburgh College of Art Main Building, Lauriston Place, Edinburgh, EH3 9DF

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Performance / concert Open Mic Night Open Mic Night - November 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

A renaissance painting of the nativity with Mary and Joseph as the central figures of the painting, and many other people round about.

Seminar History of Art Research Seminar Series The Construction of Meaning: Painted Architecture in Rogier van der Weyden’s Nativities This seminar is co-presented by the School of History of Art and ESALA.

Dr-Ing. Dipl. Holzwirt Thomas Eißing and Dr Nathalie-Josephine von Möllendorff

Online and on campus at Hunter Building Lecture Theatre (O.17), 74 Lauriston Place, EH3 9DF