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A student wearing a blue and white patterned dress and red gloves is looking at a ceramic object on a tray on a desk in front of them. They are standing in front of an ornate fireplace and the room is panelled with wood.

'Lobster in a China Shop', performance with porcelain sculpture by San Zhang, at Hospitalfield, March 2025.

Postgraduate Art students take their learning on the road

MA Contemporary Art Practice students have taken part in a pop-up exhibition at the Botanic Gardens, Edinburgh, and a residency at Hospitalfield, Arbroath.

A photograph of Justine, wearing a dark-coloured suit and striped top, standing in the gallery at the Royal Scottish Academy, in the middle of her sculpture. It is made of a series of giant wooden, interconnected hoops, some painted red, some a natural wood colour. At their highest, the tallest of the hoops are around twice her height.

Justine Watt with her sculpture 'Once you get sawdust in your eye it is difficult to get it out'. Photo: Julie Howden/Royal Scottish Academy

Julie Howden/Royal Scottish Academy

RSA New Contemporaries Awards recognise eight ECA alumni

Winners include Justine Watt (pictured), who takes the prestigious Glenfiddich Artist in Residence Award.

Mark and Maria stand beside a board with a logo reading Astaire Art Prize 2025. Both are smiling, and Maria is holding a certificate

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

Sally Jubb

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.

A close up of a dark frame sitting on a light box. Highly coloured transparencies are inside the frame. Storm Gallery by METIS (Mark Dorrian + Adrian Hawker) with Richard Collins

ECA staff exhibit in New York

Mark Dorrian and Adrian Hawker’s work in collaboration with technical services’ Richard Collins will be on display until 21 March 2025.

Catriona Kane, the winner of the Tovey Memorial prize, stands in front of a black Steinway and Sons grand piano, holding a bunch of flowers and smiling.

Clarsach player Catriona Kane wins the 2025 Tovey Memorial Prize Competition

The prize is awarded annually to the Undergraduate Music student who shows the greatest promise in composition or instrumental/vocal performance.

The poster for Edinburgh Meets Munich - the words are arranged in block capitals in a step-style down the poster

Edinburgh Meets Munich - poster

Edinburgh Meets Munich – Jewellery & Silversmithing staff and students to exhibit in Germany

A team of 17 will travel to take part in the event.

A large scale painting by Hattie Quigley. A sculpture of a cake sits to the bottom right beside the painting. Work by Hattie Quigley

Final year Painting student wins solo exhibition at Summerhall Arts venue

Hattie Quigley’s work encompasses themes of femininity, food, female desire, and engages with weight loss jabs and right-wing politics.

Thomas, wearing a black jumper, stands in his studio, looking at the camera. The white walls are adorned with paintings on sheets of various sizes. Behind him is a table, with a typewriter on it.

Thomas in the studio

‘So motivating’ – Painting student Thomas describes how Supporting Act creative bursary helped his practice

Final year student say the award granted him a final year free of financial pressures.

The front cover of Building Modern Scotland - a photograph of mid century new build houses, and young people with bicycles outside

Building Modern Scotland - new book available via Open Access

The book chronicles the history of Scotland’s twentieth-century new towns.