News

Selecting subject areas and topics will automatically filter the items in view.

Subject area

Topic

Four people sitting on the edge of a stage in discussion, one holding a microphone. Audience members in front of them are listening; behind them is a projected backdrop of colourful illustrations

Alumni opened the day with inspiring talks - L-R Lucy Roscoe, Alexander Naughton, Ryan Hamill & Rachel Hill

Drawn Back - Illustration alumni symposium: A day of creativity, connection, and collaboration

ECA illustrators from different eras have gathered together to inspire one another and work together.

A digital illustration of a children's play area - a boy in the foreground is holding a toy plane and running, behind him another child is wearing a horse outfit

Let's play - Jessica Zhan

Jessica Zhan

Celebrating success for ESALA students and staff

A 2024 graduate has been highly commended at the AJ Awards, while several students and staff were recognised at the Architecture and Design Scotland and Royal Incorporation of Architects in Scotland (RIAS) Scottish Student Awards for Architecture

Two students are wheeling a large architectural model along a paved pathway Image: Andong Guo, Bolun Hua and Shiyu Zhang

Architectural model goes on show at University’s Kings Buildings campus

The intricate model’s design was informed by data gleaned from Berlin’s biosphere and was first displayed as part of the 2024 Graduate Show.

A watercolour painting of a concrete dam in the middle of a mountainous landscape.

A General Impression of Luichart Dam: F A Weemys

Architects’ bold vision for Highlands reassessed

Visionary plans to transform the Scottish Highlands – first unveiled 80 years ago – were recently showcased in a compelling exhibition informed by an ESALA scholar.

A photograph of a terrace in Edinburgh's New Town, showing a variety of shapes and styles of window

Different types of windows

W. Victoria Lee

A tale of two conservations: Retrofitting historic windows in Edinburgh

ESALA academic’s new publication clarifies the process involved to help homeowners sensitively improve the energy efficiency of their historic windows.

Kirsteen and Heather are standing at a table, poring over a large book together. There is a microphone on the table, along with piles of other books and documents

Kirsteen Borland and Heather Claridge during the Voices of Experience conversations that will form the foundation of ‘Work Experience: ways of remembering (a) working life’. Image: Jude Barber

Image: Jude Barber

Royal Society of Edinburgh grants for ECA researchers

Projects that will benefit include a study of the recognition and remembering of everyday working lives; the establishment of a network to compare concertina-fold books from different times and cultures; and an exploration of the art and experience of musical accompaniment.

John Lawrie, 2nd from the right with staff from the ECA Glass programme 2016. John is wearing beige trousers and a blue blazer and waistcoat. He has white hair and glasses, and is smiling cheerfully.

John Lawrie, 2nd from the right, with staff from the ECA Glass programme in 2016

John Lawrie: 1928 - 2024

The glassmaking pioneer who both studied and taught at ECA, has passed away at the age of 95.

Four items lying on a polystyrene tray. They look like fishing floats or bobbers, half of the float is bright yellow, the other looks like a speckled egg

Tackle (With Care), detail, quail egg bobbers on polystyrene, 2024, by Hanna Lehtinen

Class of 2024 scoop numerous awards

Across RSA New Contemporaries, New Designers, and beyond - students graduating from ECA this summer have been making their mark.

A circular pot. It is is white, with some shading and patterns towards the top.

Evie Mae Harding, Five Diaries 2020-2022 (2024), Raku clay pot, saga fired. One of a set of five, each wrapped in one of five shredded diaries recording 2020-2022.

Image by University of Edinburgh Cultural Heritage Digitisation Service

University Art Collection acquires graduate works through Purchase Prize

Work by three of this summer's graduating students will be added to the University's collection.

A black and white photo of Wilhemina Barns-Graham in her Porthmeor Studio in 1947

Wilhemina Barns-Graham in her Porthmeor Studio in 1947

Image: The Wilhelmina Barns-Graham Trust

Wilhelmina Barns-Graham Trust launches new awards to support aspiring artists at ECA

The Trust will support Art students through two newly established awards.

Ella Williams sits beside her framed artwork. The work consists of numerous small paintings, in a large white frame.

Ella Williams and Studies from Ferrier's The Inheritance

Ella’s winning tribute to pioneering author Susan Ferrier

An ECA student's new work celebrating the 19th century writer is to be permanently displayed in an Edinburgh hotel.

An image from the animation - a grey and black, very furry, slightly wild looking cat, is staring into the camera with bright yellow eyes

A still from Will Anderson's Award-winning animation for Pictoplasma

Success at animation and documentary festivals

ECA alumni have won plaudits at festivals in Annecy and Sheffield