New Scottish Artists with The Fleming-Wyfold Art Foundation at DRAF Studio

19 April–5 May 2017
Roberts Institute of Art

DRAF Studio hosts a curated selection of works from Scottish art schools by the Fleming-Wyfold Art Foundation.

New Scottish Artists presents artists graduating in 2016 from Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art and Design (Dundee), Edinburgh College of Art, Glasgow School of Art and Gray’s School of Art (Aberdeen).

With works by Camille Bernard, Kitty Hall, Clara Hastrup, Felix Carr, Laura Gaiger, Frances Rokhlin and George Ridgway.

The exhibition also showcases the work of Camille Bernard, this year’s winner of the Fleming-Wyfold Bursary. The Fleming-Wyfold Bursary is an annual award for an artist exhibiting in the graduate shows of the five Scottish art schools. The winner receives £10,000 with an additional £4,000 production fee for a new work, and a year’s mentoring with independent curator Susanna Beaumont.

The judges were James Knox (Director, Fleming-Wyfold Art Foundation), Vincent Honoré (Director, DRAF); Susanna Beaumont (independent curator), Sara Barker (artist) and Julie Ann Delaney (Curator, Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art).

The Fleming–Wyfold Bursary and exhibition New Scottish Artists are run in collaboration with the Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh.

The Fleming-Wyfold Art Foundation

The Fleming-Wyfold Art Foundation owes its existence to the formation of the finest collection of Scottish art outside public institutions, comprising over 600 works from the seventeenth century to the present day. The Collection dates back to 1968 when investment bank Robert Fleming & Co, which had been founded by Dundonian, Robert Fleming, in 1873, began to acquire Scottish art to hang in its offices worldwide. Following the sale of the bank in 2000, the Collection was vested, under the guidance of the family, in the Fleming-Wyfold Art Foundation. The Wyfold name was adjoined to commemorate the life of the last Lord Wyfold, a grandson of Robert Fleming.