Celebrating International Cat Day with Two Works from The Fleming Collection

08.08.2026

Agnes Miller Parker. The Uncivilised Cat (1930). The Fleming Collection.

Two artworks within the Fleming Collection include black cats; A Newhaven Fishwife, (c. 1901) by Alexander Roche and The Uncivilised Cat, (1930) by Agnes Miller Parker. Caroline Metcalf explores their symbolic role, from a source of supernatural power to women’s independence.

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Lubaina Himid on Belonging in Places Elsewhere

By Shalmali Shetty, 06.08.2026

Lubaina Himid. Chefs. Commissioned by The British Council. Image by Eva Herzog.

Lubaina Himid’s richly layered, immersive installation at the British Pavilion in Venice reflects on the continuous negotiation of belonging facing those who come from elsewhere. Shalmali Shetty visits.

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Interview: Katie Paterson

By Susan Mansfield, 28.07.2026

Afterlife, Katie Paterson (2026) created in collaboration with architects Zeller & Moye, at Collective Gallery, Edinburgh © Eoin Carey25

In her new exhibition Afterlife at Collective Katie Paterson presents a work so ambitious it sounds almost impossible, writes Susan Mansfield.

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Spirit Animals: Michael Visocchi’s Monument to the Lost Whales of South Georgia

By Greg Thomas, 23.07.2026

Michael Visocchi. Key Table SG (2025). Courtesy of the Artist.

Since 2020 Michael Visocchi has been developing the world’s most remote permanent art installation. Commissioned by the South Georgia Heritage Trust, the work commemorates the loss of 175,000 whales at South Georgia between 1905 and 1965. Greg Thomas meets the artist…

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The Newhaven Fishwives at the forefront of social documentary photography

By Sara Stevenson, 13.07.2026

David Octavius Hill and Robert Adamson, Elizabeth Johnston Hall smiling, modern print from a failed negative taken between 1843 and 1847, Special Collections, Glasgow University Library

With the publication of her book, Hill & Adamson’s Fisherwomen and Men of the Firth of Forth, cultural historian Sara Stevenson highlights a striking image taken in the 1840s that was part of the first ever social documentary series of photography

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The Fleming Collection acquires significant post-war work by Scottish avant-garde artist William Gear (1915-1997)

By Theodore Albano, 12.07.2026

William Gear, ‘Interieur Forme Blanche’, (1949). Image © The Fleming Collection

The Fleming Collection recently acquired ‘Interieur Forme Blanche’ (1949) by Scottish avant-garde artist William Gear (1915-1997). Director Theodore Albano explores Gear's life and his influences to better understand this important work...

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