Edinburgh graduates win big at RSA New Contemporaries

ECA graduates taking part in the RSA’s annual exhibition have been recognised with awards following the opening of the exhibition, including the prestigious £15,000 Glenfiddich Artist in Residence Award.

Significant bequest from former ECA lecturers will fund new opportunities for painting students

A new bequest from the estate of ECA alumni and former lecturers Dame Elizabeth Blackadder RSA and John Houston RSA OBE will fund an extensive programme of support for artists in Scotland, including new funding awards for ECA students.

Student composer Paloma Leon wins the 2023 Tovey Memorial Prize

Congratulations to third year BMus Music student Paloma Leon who was awarded first place in the Reid School of Music's Tovey Memorial Prize Competition 2023.

Funding boost for music project supporting people with Long COVID

Scottish Opera’s Breath Cycle II project led by ECA’s Dr Gareth Williams will continue to support people with Long COVID through singing and songwriting workshops, thanks to new Scottish Government health and social care funding.

ESALA graduate wins multiple awards for project reimagining Leith’s New Kirkgate

MA (Hons) Architecture graduate Inka Eismar has been recognised with multiple awards for her 2022 project, Common Ground, which reimagines Leith’s New Kirkgate as a ‘thriving civic space’.

Winning illustration promotes book collecting competition across the University

Congratulations to Edinburgh College of Art BA (Hons) Illustration student Aner Wang, whose illustration has been selected to appear on promotional materials for a University-wide book collecting competition.

Travelling exhibition highlights campaigns for fair housing conditions in Scotland

Four postgraduate students on ECA's MSc by Research in Collections and Curating Practices programme have collaborated with the Travelling Gallery and the University of Edinburgh Art Collection on a new mobile art exhibition about community-led struggles for safe, affordable housing in Scotland.

Stormy Edinburgh weather provides inspiration for Jewellery student's winning glasses design

Third-year ECA Jewellery and Silversmithing student Holly Munro was selected to design a unique pair of glasses inspired by the city of Edinburgh for spectacle brand, Cubitts. Her winning frame design, inspired by a stormy day in Edinburgh’s National Museum of Scotland, is now on sale in Cubitts’ Edinburgh Old Town store.

ECA academic explores sustainable filmmaking with new film, Itu Ninu

Dr Itandehui Jansen, Lecturer in Film & TV at Edinburgh College of Art (ECA), has been researching sustainable film practices as part of her new film, Itu Ninu.

Edinburgh Professors to lead AHRC Programme on AI

Professors Shannon Vallor and Ewa Luger are to direct the £3.5 million programme ‘Enabling a Responsible AI Ecosystem’ in collaboration with the Ada Lovelace Institute.

ECA illustration students collaborate with Scottish charity

Students from Edinburgh College of Art’s BA (Hons) and MA (Hons) Illustration programmes have collaborated with Children in Scotland, attending its annual conference to create live graphic recordings for delegates, and creating illustrations for the next issue of its biannual publication, Insight.

ECA joins Aardman Academy university partnership programme

The new global scheme supports students and academic staff with online and in person animation training