Delighted to announce that applications are now open for a fully-funded AHRC CDP PhD studentship with me Edinburgh College of Art with V&A on The Extractive Museum: The formation, evolution & dispersal of the Museum of Practical Geology collections, 1835-c.1901 eca.ed.ac.uk/scholarship/ah…

Delighted to see some of my Fine Art (MA Hons) students among them! Congrats to all the fabulous graduates!!

We don't like to remind you but exams start soon 😐 So it's a good time to make sure you're aware of all study spaces across the University, including libraries, study hubs, extra study space for the exam period, etc. 👉ed.ac.uk/information-se… #ThrowbackThursday #Exams #study

💬 Join us for the Inaugural Lecture by Professor Richard Anderson of ESALA - How Architects make History: El Lissitzky Multiplies

📅 Wed 24 Apr 5.15pm

📍 E22 Lecture Theatre, ECA – free and open to all, in person & online

🔗 edin.ac/3viY4vn

Just announced 🎆

Delve into the history of the old college with our two brand new upcoming events

🗣️ Uneven Evolutions Talk Series: Simon Buck
🔎 Closet for the Curious: CRC Edition

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Great project here - ECA students working with SCADR and @ChildrenInScot to help explain data and data research to the U12s:

Congrats to Ammna Sheikh! Ammna was also one of the 2023 ECA Graduate Show Purchase Prize awardees as well. We are delighted to represent Ammna's pratice in the collection and so thrilled for this news EdinburghPrintmakers

🎉 CONGRATULATIONS to the 11 ECA graduates who picked up awards at this year’s Royal Scottish Academy New Contemporaries Exhibition!

👀 Read more: eca.ed.ac.uk/news/eca-gradu…

Image: Ammna Sheikh, The Richer A Persian, The Finer His Rugs, 2023

There's still time to sign up for our online seminar TONIGHT 5-6 PM (BST - London time) Edinburgh College of Art EdinburghArtHistory! Join us to hear about the Jewish Neue Frau in Weimar Berlin Ellie McCartney 🪩 and Gabriele Stötzer’s photo books #SaraBlaylock . Register: bit.ly/rfgvc-2024

Meet our placement student Arthur Zheng! Arthur is studying History of Art, Theory & Display at the University of Edinburgh Edinburgh College of Art He is working on an evaluation of the social and artistic impact of the ‘Gray Day’ event to analyse the way the event celebrates culture.🙌

Don’t forget that we’re looking for a new Lecturer in Pre-Modern Art History Edinburgh College of Art EdinburghArtHistory - the job closes next week! jobs.ac.uk/job/DGU945/lec…

A new story is live on our website, just in time for #WorldArtDay !
During his placement, Cameron researched a painting from our collection previously known as 'Portrait of an Unknown Man'. He has now identified him as James I and VI!
Find out more here: culturenlmuseums.co.uk/story/james-vi…

Yip, so lovely to have Edinburgh College of Art students involved in this way. Really helps bring the publication to life.

Lovely to look back on these Children in Scotland Insight covers, created by our students over the years👀

💬 Join us for the Inaugural Lecture by Professor Richard Anderson of ESALA - How Architects make History: El Lissitzky Multiplies

📅 Wed 24 Apr 5.15pm

📍 E22 Lecture Theatre, ECA – free and open to all, in person & online

🔗 edin.ac/3viY4vn

🎉 Good luck to Molly Williams-Prentice, 4th yr ECA fashion student, finalist in the BFC Student Fabric Initiative, selected from across UK BA & MA fashion courses.

Molly’s knit technique embeds hundreds of petals & home-grown grasses - the garment took more than 80hrs to make.

In Edinburgh this evening at the superb Playfair Library for the Edinburgh Science Tam Dalyell Prize Lecture - given by my good friend Dr. James Cook Edinburgh College of Art The University of Edinburgh for the acoustic & visual reconstruction of the chapel at Linlithgow Palace - a project I collaborated on.

Exciting week ahead as we begin the second half of our 2024 series Edinburgh College of Art EdinburghArtHistory! We welcome Ellie McCartney 🪩 & #SaraBlaylock this Weds 17th April at 5 PM BST to discuss research on ‘Challenging Feminine Identities’ 🙌🌟 Link to register: bit.ly/rfgvc-2024

We recently welcomed a group of P5, 6 & 7 pupils from West Barns Primary School to Talbot Rice Gallery as part of Making Art in Schools.

The young people visited our Talbot Rice Residents exhibition and used their imagination to interpret the artworks in their own ways.

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👀 Here's an interesting read...

History of Art postgrad Ruoyan Guo writes a blog post for NorthLan Heritage about this portrait of industrialist William Cameron, by Daniel MacNee, former President of Royal Scottish Academy.