Memoranda
Seacourt Print Workshop
15 May - 25 July 2026
Seacourt print Workshop is delighted to announce that they will be hosting the first solo show in Ireland of work by Ade Adesina.
Dear Earth
Kirkcaldy Galleries
21 March - 13 September 2026
St Andrews Museum
30 September 2026 - 6 March 2027
Fife Contemporary is marking its 20th anniversary in 2026 with Dear Earth, an exhibition exploring how artists are responding to the increased fragility of the world around us.
For the past 20 years Fife Contemporary have been producing exhibitions of contemporary art and craft for artists and for the public in Fife. Across this time attention to sustainability and care for the planet has permeated our programme, which has often featured artists exploring sustainable practices and addressing themes such as climate justice, overconsumption and environmental change.
Dear Earth features work by Ade Adesina, Helen O’Brien, Jeni Reid, Jenny Pope, Naomi Mcintosh, Scott Hunter, Susie Johnston, Will Carey and Zoe Hamill. Each of these artists have reflected on their own relationship to a fragile and precarious world, and through their practice have found a way to respond. Brought together with different perspectives from across Scotland, they explore an experience many of us can relate to.
Royal Scottish Academy 200: Celebrating Together with Frances Walker and
Ade Adesina
Rozelle House, Ayr
20 June - 13 September 2026
In 2026 the Royal Scottish Academy celebrates its 200th anniversary with RSA200: Celebrating Together. This partnership project will bring hundreds of artists, partners, galleries and institutions together for an extraordinary year of exhibitions, events and performances.
South Ayrshire Council’s Museums and Gallery service is taking part and the exhibition at Rozelle House celebrates two prominent Royal Scottish Academy artists, Frances Walker RSA and Ade Adesina RSA, as part of the RSA200 national programme.
The exhibition will feature one-of-a-kind artwork on loan from the Royal Scottish Academy as well as several other collections across Scotland.
Our guest artists both work with themes of environment & landscape, and work predominantly with printmaking in their works.
Frances Walker RSA
‘Coastal Glimpses’ was a series of works featuring the Ayrshire coastline, made in the mid-1990s by Frances Walker for Ayr Hospital, though it is not in any local collections. Rozelle House is delighted to be able to show the entirety of the series for the first time since its initial creation, alongside other loaned works by the artist from several collections across Scotland. A newly commissioned edition of posters will be specially created for the exhibition in collaboration with Peacock: a workshop for art and will be available for sale at the gallery.
Ade Adesina RSA
This will be the first time RSA Academician, Ade Adesina, RGI, RE, LG, will be showing work in the region. Adesina produces exceptionally detailed, large scale print works with themes of environment and global concerns. He combines depictions of objects, places and scenes from both his African heritage and British culture through traditional printmaking techniques. Ade visited the galleries in spring during the development of the project.
A new edition of prints has been specially commissioned and created for the exhibition and will be available for purchase at Rozelle House.
