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The Sun and The Moon: Art Inspired by the Celestial

The Sun and The Moon: Art Inspired by the Celestial is a major exhibition exploring how the two most powerful phenomena in the sky have inspired creativity, curiosity, and belief throughout human history and across different cultures. Occupying two floors of the Saatchi Gallery and spanning nine major exhibition spaces, the show presents artworks, installations, and objects that reveal how artists have responded to the Sun and the Moon. The Fleming Collection is lending two artworks for the show: Sun Sang (1969) by Ian Fleming and Deep Divine Sky 2 (2021) by Sekai Machache.

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Robert MacBryde and Robert Colquhoun: Artists, Lovers, Outsiders

Nottingham Castle Museum & Art Gallery is proud to host the exclusive new temporary exhibition Robert MacBryde and Robert Colquhoun: Artists, Lovers, Outsiders, on tour from Charleston, celebrating the lives and works of Robert MacBryde and Robert Colquhoun.

Thanks to public response and passion for Robert MacBryde and Robert Colquhoun’s work, over 100 works from the exhibition, many works never before seen by the public, have been transported across the UK and arrive in Nottingham Castle Museum and Art Gallery for Saturday 2 May 2026. The Fleming Collection has loaned the following three artworks: Robert Colquhoun's Head Study (c. 1953), Robert MacBryde's Still Life I (1960) and Robert Colquhoun's Head of Absalom (1960).

Curator and award-winning author Damian Barr says:

“Robert and Bobby were, briefly, two of the most famous artists in the world: photographed in Vogue magazine, filmed by Ken Russel and collected by the Tate, Nottingham Castle, and many others.  Now they are almost forgotten and more remembered for their tragically short lives, if at all.  It has been a joy and a responsibility reappraising teh work of this pioneering couple, once nicknamed ‘MacBraque and McPicasso’.”

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Relative Ties: Mabel Nicholson, Nancy Nicholson, EQ Nicholson and Louisa Creed

Relative Ties celebrates over a century of artistic innovation and inheritance, tracing the work of four women from the celebrated Nicholson family — Mabel Nicholson, Nancy Nicholson, EQ Nicholson and Louisa Creed. The exhibition explores how creativity is woven together through three generations of women artists. Spanning a period of 100 years, Relative Ties brings together artworks, interior designs, paper ephemera, wallpapers, fabrics, and stencils and other tools to offer a unique insight into the working lives of these artists.

The Fleming Collection's wonderful Mabel Pryde Nicholson's "The Artist's Daughter, Nancy, as a Harelquin", 1910, will be on display.

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Can We Stop Killing Each Other?: Eyewitness

Why are people across the world so fascinated by the dramatisation of killing? From Shakespearean tragedy to Hitchcock’s Psycho, the spectacle of violence is central to performance traditions around the world. Through an exploration of historical and contemporary works by international artists, grappling with the horrors of homicide, Eyewitness considers how violent stage and screen narratives can invite questions about our own morality, cultural codes and religious beliefs.

The Fleming Collection is thrilled to be loaning William Orchardson's 1874 masterpiece, Ophelia to the exhibition. 

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The Art of Observation

Scientists and anatomists have long depended on the power of art to give a legible visual form to knowledge.  Scientific drawing is a crucial skill in various scientific fields, particularly in biology, where it helps in accurately representing observations and data.

This exhibition is part of the University of Stirling Collection's year of Art & Science

The Fleming Collection is lending Eduardo Paolozzi's iconic 1995 bronze "Newton Measuring the World".

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The Story of a Fairy Family

This exhibition will be an opportunity to explore the unrepresented histories of Kirkcudbright as an artists’ colony, sharing research which uncovers the stories of the bohemian lives of the artists who spent their summers here in the early 20th century, with a focus on Dorothy Johnstone, Vera Holme and Anne Finlay. Artworks created in the artists’ colony will be exhibited alongside key archival photographs, a hand drawn book, diaries, letters, and poetry, which will contextualise the relationships between these artists.

The Fleming Collection is lending Dorothy Johnstone's wonderful 1918 portrait of her dear friend Cecile Walton, "Portrait of Cecile Walton"

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Homesickness and Hope: Stories of Hebridean Emigration, Lochaber No More- The Last of the Clan

Homesickness and Hope showcases the stories of those who left the Hebrides islands' shores behind and highlights this importnat aspect of Hebridean History. On loan from the Fleming Collection are John Watson Nicol's Lochaber No More, to be seen at Musuem nan Eilean (Benbecula) and Thomas Faed's The Last of the Clan, on show at Musuem Nan Eilean (Stornaway).

Learn more about the Emigration conference taking place in Stornaway from September 30th - October 1st, 2025

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The Scottish Colourists: Radical Perspectives

Discover the groundbreaking exhibition in partnership with Dovecot Studios, Edinburgh, which for the first time showcases the Scottish Colourists in the context of their European contemporaries, interrogating how this international generation of radical painters forged a new language of colour in the early 20th century. 

The Scottish Colourists — SJ Peploe, JD Fergusson, GL Hunter, and FCB Cadell — are widely recognised as pioneers of early 20th-century Scottish art. Often exhibited as a quartet, their work will now be shown in the company of key figures such as Matisse and Derain, as well as the Bloomsbury Group’s Vanessa Bell and Duncan Grant. The exhibition also explores a possible ‘Celtic’ influence through the works of Welsh artists Augustus John and John Dickson Innes, and Ireland’s Roderic O’Connor.

Join us on a journey through the avant-garde movement as conventions are challenged around who should be considered the leading radical painters from 1905 to the outbreak of World War I in 1914. This exploration culminates in the formation of the Scottish Colourists as a distinct group in the 1920s and 30s, highlighting the influence of French colour and Scottish light on their work as painters of landscape, still life and interiors.

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Waters Rising

Waters Rising traces stories and objects connected to flooding from Scotland and abroad, from biblical accounts to Ancient Egypt to North America, and more recent events closer to home. Exploring the growing threat of the global climate emergency whilst examining the impact of flooding and extreme weather events on communities, businesses, and infrastructure in Perth and Kinross, the exhibition also includes photos, memories, and stories from local people.

Putting the local experience in a global context, Waters Rising features an Egyptian sarcophagus with Nile flood damage, a rare illuminated bible from the thirteenth century, ceremonial brass bowls commemorating the Hindu flood myth of Vasudeva and Krishna, eighteenth and nineteenth-century etchings and mezzotints of Noah’s Great Flood, and more contemporary works from renowned Indigenous Canadian artist Norval Morrisseau, and Scottish artists Will Maclean and Alan Kilpatrick. Visitors will be inspired to take action through stories and objects from the climate movement in Scotland today.

See The Fleming Collection's works "Redy Ley Marker" by Will Maclean, and Alan Kilpatrick's series "Where the Brahamaputra Meets the Clyde".

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Romance to Realities: The Northern Landscape and Shifting Identities

A new exhibition at the Laing Art Gallery, comprising of the Fleming Collection and Laing's holdings explores over 200 years of landscape painting in the North of England and Scotland, focusing on the diverse and dramatic landscapes of the regions and how artists have depicted not only the world around us, but also our place within it.   

For centuries, the landscapes of the North have fascinated artists and this exhibition will focus on how these landscapes —urban, rural, land, sea, and sky— have changed. From the Romanticised visions of early artists to the more complex and sometimes harsh realities captured in later works, the paintings reveal not just the physical changes in the land, but also shifts in societal values and human experience.