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Manifesto

Visual Arts Scotland is now a leading platform for national and international contemporary fine and applied artists. Originally an organisation for women artists, the society since the 1980s has championed craft makers, designers and applied arts practitioners, as well as contemporary fine art practice.

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Recent Highlights

Featured Update

Inches Carr Award 2022 | Shortlist

We are delighted to announce the shortlist for the fourth Visual Arts Scotland: Inches Carr Craft Creative Development Award 2022. The Award enables one of the selected makers to develop an aspect of their work, giving them £5000 towards the development of...

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Featured Update

REVERB - Annual Exhibition Update

It is with a heavy heart that we announce the Visual Arts Scotland Annual Exhibition at the Royal Scottish Academy will not be presented as a physical exhibition this January 2022. The VAS Council have discussed at length issues around holding the Annual...

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From One To Another | Cornwall x Scotland

From One To Another | Cornwall x Scotland

Jan 18th 2022
Late last year we invited two artists to participate in From One To Another, a partnership with the Wilhelmina Barns-Graham Trust, Borlase Smart John Wells Trust in Cornwall and Marchmont House. This project was developed in recognition of Wilhelmina Barns-Graham’s...

See this thread by @NeukCollective - Neuk Manifesto, sharing a vision to create an art-world which values and bette… https://t.co/VRcC8EMVLt

@VisualArtsScot on November 30th 2021 3:19pm


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Visual Arts Scotland is committed as a society to supporting and exhibiting a diverse range of contemporary Scottish art, in a wide variety of media.

About Visual Arts Scotland Council

Visual Arts Scotland is one of the few organisations that actively promotes and exhibits the work of contemporary visual and applied artists.

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Visual Arts Scotland is a charity registered in Scotland No. SCO 006715. We are not in receipt of any public or core funding and as such are entirely reliant on the support of the artistic community

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We are committed as a society to supporting and exhibiting a diverse range of contemporary Scottish art, in a wide variety of media. Learn more about membership