Our art collection has over 1300 works. These are mainly by Scottish artists and cover the period, 1950 to the present day. As well as having significant bodies of work from established figures such as Alan Davie, Wilhelmina Barns-Graham and Barbara Rae, we support emerging and mid – career artists by adding to our collection each year. The majority of artworks have been gifted or loaned, alongside purchased, supported by grant funding and donations.
All artworks require a level of care, from conservation, maintenance, curation, insurance and storage. As a charity, we need to support these essential on-going costs in relation to the collection. Sponsoring an artwork is a way of getting to know the collection and contributing to its future development.
There are four levels of sponsorship which you can select either for yourself, or as a gift.
Bronze – Your sponsorship will be acknowledged on the website alongside the reason you chose this artwork, if this feels appropriate. You will also be provided with a certificate.
Cost – £50 or £5 per month for a minimum of 1 year.
Silver – Your sponsorship will be acknowledged on the website alongside the reason you chose this artwork, if this feels appropriate. You will also be provided with a certificate and an A4 print of your selected artwork (or a chosen alternative depending on copyright permissions).
Cost – £100
Gold – Your sponsorship will be acknowledged on the website alongside the reason you chose this artwork, if this feels appropriate. You will also be provided with a certificate and an A4 print of your selected artwork (or a chosen alternative depending on copyright permissions). You will receive one year’s friends’ membership.
Cost – £200
Platinum – Your sponsorship will be acknowledged on the website alongside the reason you chose this artwork, if this feels appropriate. You will also be provided with a certificate and an A4 print of your selected artwork (or a chosen alternative depending on copyright permissions). You will receive one year’s friends’ membership. You will also be invited for a bespoke private tour of works from our collection for yourself and a guest.
Cost – £300
The following artworks are currently available to sponsor:
Ade Adesina RSA
Mirage
Linocut (1/30)
2013
76 x 112 cm
Born in Nigeria in 1980, Adesina studied Fine Art at Gray’s School of Art, Aberdeen (2008-12), where he continues to live and work.
His artworks explore themes of climate change, deforestation and energy consumption, alongside objects, places and scenes from his African heritage and British Culture. He uses traditional printmaking methods, creating large scale monumental linocuts, woodcuts and etchings.
Mirage shows an expansive field, deep with trenches carved by agricultural machinery, leading the eye to the ripples on the Firth of Forth estuary, towards fish farm enclosures, framed by the rail and road bridges, leading to Edinburgh Castle in the distance. A scene that comments on the lasting effects farming and industry have on the natural environment, against an iconic and familiar view.
Frances Walker RSA
Kincardine Coast
Screenprint (16/40)
1997
42 x 94cm
Frances Walker RSA, born 1930 in Kirkcaldy, is a painter and printmaker who studied at Edinburgh College of Art and went onto teach in the Outer Hebrides before taking up a position as Lecturer in Drawing and Painting at Gray’s School of Art, Aberdeen. She was also a founding member of Peacock Printmakers, Aberdeen.
Walker’s experience of teaching art in the Hebrides led to a life-long love of wild and desolate places. She strives to depict the most remote landscapes, featuring coastal reaches, craggy rocks and deserted beaches. Walker divides her time between Aberdeen and the Western Isles, especially Tiree.
Kincardine Coast captures a quiet area of the depicts Fife Coastal Path in Fife, running along the Firth of Forth, a screenprint, combining layers of colour and mark making.
Emily Learmont
A Swimming Pool
Oil on canvas
1992
100 x 84cm
Born in Edinburgh in 1969, Emily Learmont studied at Glasgow School of Art and the Royal Academy schools in London.
Emily Learmont is currently an AHRC-funded Collaborative Doctoral Partnership candidate in the School of History of Art at the University of Edinburgh and the National Galleries of Scotland.
Many of Learmont’s works aim to capture their surrounding world, observing people and activity that takes place. A Swimming Pool is part of a series of paintings inspired by weekly swimming sessions at Drumsheugh Pool to help recovery from long term illness.
Rowan Rosie
Fluro Pink
Oil and acrylic on board
2016
100 x 120cm
Rowan Rosie graduated in 2016 from Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art & Design, Dundee and was the winner of the Art in Healthcare Graduate Award
Rowan’s artwork is an exploration of material and paints, alongside a celebration of colour, the abstract compositions aim to capture the experience of space and light. Using many materials such as light reflective paint, copper, fluorescent acrylic, iridescent papers, led lighting tubes, genuine gesso, glitter to layer colour and textures.
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Sponsored by: Gillian Irons for Ken Irons "Jean was my mum, Ken was my dad. To me, this painting tells a story of their journey, of love, pride and happy memories. Always artistic, and determined, my mum graduated from art school in her 60's. With dad
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Sponsored by: Frances Cooper "This piece was sponsored because, as well as being an attractive work in its own right which caught my eye, it appealed because of family connections with Aberdeen, over many generations"
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Sponsored by: Suzanne Reid for Allan Doig "I sponsor Nettie III for a friend who did a lot of work with Children First and would love the thought that he’s still linked to making a wee difference for young people. I am sure children enjoy
Sponsored by: Trevor Jones for Sarah Lowe
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Sponsored by: Lisa McMurray for Flo Knox
Sponsored by: Liz and Mike Fraser "Being a patient or visiting someone in hospital can be a challenging and worrying time. Like many people, we know this from personal experience! The hospital environment, by its nature, can be very clinical and intimidating. Having paintings and
