Previous Opportunities

Visual Arts Scotland (VAS) is delighted to announce the sixth year of residency in partnership with Bothy Project in October 2026.

This opportunity offers a Visual Arts Scotland member the chance to spend a week-long residency at Sweeney’s Bothy, a simple off grid building in unique surroundings on the stunning Isle of Eigg, part of the Scottish Inner Hebrides.

Visual Arts Scotland (VAS) presents Strata, a new exhibition of wall-based works exploring landscape through layering, material, and time.

Opening this June at Wasps Artists’ Studios Inverness Creative Academy, the exhibition brings together artists whose practices engage with the processes that shape land and matter alike.

We are thrilled to announce that we will be piloting a new Mentorship programme to begin this summer. We are calling on all VAS members interested in acting as either a mentor or a mentee. 

Visual Arts Scotland (VAS) is delighted to announce a fifth month-long funded residency partnership with the Wilhelmina Barns-Graham Trust, the third with Linkshouse, Part of the Pier Arts Centre Orkney.

Visual Arts Scotland are delighted to return to the Scottish Ornithologist Club, Aberlady from April to June 2026 for our ‘Natural Collection’ exhibition.

This opportunity gives artists to explore multiple ideas around the chair, as identity, as a symbol of loss and grief, systems of hierarchy and power, and also around form and function. Submissions are welcome across all disciplines.

This collaboration will be an open call to WASPS and VAS members at all stages of their careers and of all disciplines. The open call will be released in Late Autumn 2025 and selection and notifications sent out in February 2026.

Visual Arts Scotland invites artists and makers to apply for inclusion in 2026 Annual Members Exhibition, an exhibition exploring how folklore evolves through craft, imagination, and community.

Open call for maker and artist makers to take part in ‘Holding Conversations’, our ongoing exhibition project exploring the vessel as both object and metaphor.