RSA 200 @ Glasgow Print Studio

To celebrate the bicentenary of the Royal Scottish Academy, Glasgow Print Studio presents an exhibition of work by four RSA Academicians:

Through their distinctive use of narrative, fable, mythology and representation, these four artists create searching and complex interpretations of their subjects. While their worlds of inquiry are diverse, they are united by a striking depth of interpretative, psychological and imaginative impact.

Caroline Walker RSA (elect) is known for her accomplished paintings of the everyday lives of women. Working almost exclusively with female subjects, her paintings explore the social, cultural and economic experiences of women in contemporary society, often focusing on overlooked or unseen forms of labour.

Born in Dunfermline in 1982, Walker studied Painting at Glasgow School of Art, graduating in 2004, and completed an MA in Painting at the Royal College of Art in 2009.

Recent solo exhibitions include Mothering at The Hepworth Wakefield, Pallant House Gallery and Newlyn Art Gallery & The Exchange; The Holiday Park at GRIMM, New York; and Nurture at Ingleby Gallery, Edinburgh. Her work is held in major public collections including Tate, National Galleries of Scotland and the Museum of Fine Arts Houston.

Born in Aberdeen in 1974, Barry McGlashan RSA (elect) is a painter known for his luminous, dream-like landscapes that blur the boundaries between reality, folklore and memory. His paintings draw on memories of places, old photographs, literature, film and art history, transforming these sources through painterly distortion to explore the fragility and mutability of recollection.

McGlashan studied painting at Gray's School of Art, Aberdeen, graduating in 1996, and later taught in its drawing and painting department. Recent solo exhibitions include Frestonian Gallery, London; Maya Frodeman Gallery, Wyoming; Art SG, Singapore; and Annarumma Gallery, Naples.

McGlashan lives and works in Edinburgh and is represented by Frestonian Gallery, London.

Robbie Bushe RSA is an Edinburgh-based painter whose densely worked narrative paintings explore how people inhabit and share the spaces around them. Architecture becomes a container for lives, with buildings opened up, rearranged and reimagined to bring private and public worlds together.

Bushe studied Drawing and Painting at Edinburgh College of Art and was elected to the Royal Scottish Academy in 2017. A John Moores Painting Prize winner in 2021, he received the RSA Houston Blackadder Mid-Career Painting Prize in 2023. He is also a member of Contemporary British Painting. Recent solo exhibitions include Living Rooms at Irving Gallery, Oxford, and Ghosts in the Garden at Open Eye Gallery, Edinburgh.

Based in Glasgow, Rachel Maclean RSA (elect) graduated from Edinburgh College of Art in 2009 and came to public attention through New Contemporaries that year. Working primarily with green-screen video and film, her satirical practice restages myths and fairy tales to explore issues of national identity, class and gender.

Maclean has presented major solo exhibitions internationally, including at Arsenal Contemporary, New York; the National Gallery, London; Zabludowicz Collection, London; Talbot Rice Gallery, Edinburgh; Dublin City Gallery The Hugh Lane; and Tate Britain. She represented Scotland + Venice at the 2017 Venice Biennale with Spite Your Face.

Her work A Whole New World won the Margaret Tait Award in 2013, and she has twice been shortlisted for the Jarman Award. She has also created film and television commissions for the BBC and Channel 4.

"This exhibition is an exciting opportunity for us to introduce our audience to the work of four remarkable artists and RSA Academicians, each of whom takes an arresting individual path through the intersection of imagery and stories, into realities that may be constructed, staged, unstable or ambiguous.

It is also a celebration of Glasgow Print Studio's long-standing relationship with the RSA - a vital institution at the heart of Scottish cultural activity - as part of its year-long 200th anniversary celebrations.

Collaboration and dialogue between institutions are foundational to artistic development and public engagement. Bringing artists from other media into contact with printmaking and printmaking audiences opens new points of contact between different approaches, while also considering potential future publication projects with artists whose practices we have long admired."

James Murphy, Commercial Director, Glasgow Print Studio