The Royal Scottish Academy Annual Exhibition 2024 is a leading platform for contemporary art and architecture in the UK, bringing together work by both established and emerging artists, including RSA Academicians, invited artists and those selected through open submission.
In this year’s edition, many of the artists and architects included in the exhibition, through their works and projects, foreground a necessity — now widely felt as an urgency — to protect the natural world in which we live.
Yet this is not the only concern. In observing the works on display, it becomes evident that the artists’ attention is also directed towards highlighting, more broadly, a sense of unease surrounding contemporary life. From my perspective, the exhibition invites a deeper reflection on how we have arrived at this point and, more importantly, what might be done to remedy it.
Perhaps, as the quotation from Voltaire included in the exhibition catalogue suggests —
“ We must cultivate our garden.”
My work Untitled #21 was selected for inclusion in this year’s exhibition.
