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Fleming Collection @flemingartcoll.bsky.social · 12h

Sir William Quiller Orchardson's 1874 painting, Ophelia, is a prime example of his skill in blending literary narrative with psychological drama.

See the painting at @sainsburycentre.bsky.social's Eyewitness exhibition until 17 May, 2026 🥀

Sir William Quiller Orchardson (1832-1910), ‘Ophelia’ (c. 1874). The Fleming Collection.
Ophelia sits sadly on the edge of a river. Her white dress is scattered with flowers, foreshadowing her death as described in Shakespeare's play.

Fleming Collection @flemingartcoll.bsky.social · 2d

The 2025 Folkestone Triennial, How Lies the Land?, brings a distinctly Scottish perspective to this landmark exhibition of contemporary art.

Susan Mansfield talks with curator Sorcha Carey about Scottish artists, new commissions, and the stories shaping Folkestone.

👉 bit.ly/howliestheland

Fleming Collection @flemingartcoll.bsky.social · 5d

This week we're spotlighting Scottish contemporary artist #LeahMoodie 🎨

Moodie creates dreamlike, emotionally charged scenes on translucent PVC shower curtains, giving her work a ghostly, layered quality 💫

Leah Moodie, 'Self Portrait in a Vintage Top' (2025). © the artist. A portrait of a woman with blue hair and a floral top, framed by delicate painted blossoms, her arms raised gracefully above her head.

Leah Moodie, 'I got lost in my own thoughts' (2024). © the artist.
A hand pins a sheer blue cloth with a butterfly resting on it, casting the shadowy silhouette of a figure beneath.

Leah Moodie, 'Matinee' (2024). © the artist.
A figure in striped shirt shines a flashlight toward a playful dog, casting bold blue and yellow light across the scene.

Leah Moodie, 'Did you get what you came for?' (2024). © the artist.
A blue-tinted face gazes out from behind blinds as a dog bares its teeth below, framed by a fluttering moth and leafy green plant.

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Fleming Collection @flemingartcoll.bsky.social · 9d

Turn that frown upside down – it’s National Smile Day! 😁

Here are some timeless smiles captured on canvas in The Fleming Collection 🎨

A man and a woman in rustic 19th-century clothing share a warm, playful moment inside a dimly lit cottage. The man stands leaning toward the seated woman, smiling and touching his chin thoughtfully, while she looks up at him with a broad smile. A basket with scraps of fabric sits at her feet, and domestic items surround them, creating a cosy interior scene.

A pencil and coloured drawing of two men standing side by side against a white background. One figure on the left is outlined in fine pencil with minimal shading, while the man on the right is more solidly rendered in a black suit with a yellow shirt. Both have halos of light blue and yellow around their heads. Loose red, yellow, and orange scribbled lines swirl around them, adding energy to the composition.

Edward Atkinson Hornel (1864-1933), 'Children at Play' (cropped) (c.1893). The Fleming Collection.
Children laugh and play on a sunny hillside, surrounded by bright flowers and lush greenery.

A painted portrait of a bald man with glasses, dressed in a dark suit and red tie, seated with arms crossed against a richly coloured red and brown background.

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Fleming Collection @flemingartcoll.bsky.social · 12d

‘Lochaber No More’ captures the human cost of the Highland Clearances.

Today, our Director Theodore Albano is at Saoghal Mòr Farsaing, the Outer Hebrides Emigration Conference, exploring how artists have portrayed emigration.

If you’re attending, please come and say hello!

Fleming Collection @flemingartcoll.bsky.social · 16d

This week we're spotlighting Scottish contemporary artist Karla Black 🫧

Her practice blurs the line between painting, sculpture, and performance, questioning what art can be and where beauty is found ✨

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Fleming Collection @flemingartcoll.bsky.social · 19d

Artists Helen Douglas and Jake Harvey invite viewers into a “compressed universe” in their exhibition 'Meeting Point: within the Lewisian' at Taigh Chearsabhagh, North Uist.

Read writer @gregchthomas.bsky.social review here 👉 bit.ly/meeting-poin...

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Fleming Collection @flemingartcoll.bsky.social · 22d

It’s feeling autumnal outside 🍂

Here are a few works from the Fleming Collection to match the season 🍁

William McTaggart (1835-1910), 'The Village, Whitehouse', (c. 1875). The Fleming Collection.

Anne Redpath (1895–1965), 'Frosty Morning, Trow Mill', (c. 1936). The Fleming Collection.

Sir David Murray (1849-1933), 'Woodsman and Horse in an Autumn Landscape', (c. 1886). The Fleming Collection.

Adam Thomson (1885-1976), 'Haystacks and Woodland', (c. unknown). Ⓒ The Artist's Estate. The Fleming Collection.

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Fleming Collection @flemingartcoll.bsky.social · 24d

"It was about people from a working-class community turning the cameras around and photographing out the way." 📸

Read @neilcooper.bsky.social chat with Alistair McCallum about the latest Street Level Photoworks exhibition.

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Three young boys from Glasgow, late 80s/ early 90s. Part of the Glaswegians - Cranhill Arts, Alistair McCallum and Jane Carroll at Street Level Pathworks, Glasgow.

Photos from Glaswegians - Cranhill Arts, Alistair McCallum and Jane Carroll exhibition at Street Level Photoworks, Glasgow.

Billy Bragg In Cranhill, MayDay, 1989. Photograph Charlie Crawford, Cranhill Arts.

Exhibition view of “Glaswegians” at Street Level Photoworks, Glasgow. Colourful banners and posters by Alistair McCallum and Jane Carroll, including protest imagery against the poll tax and trade union struggles, are displayed on gallery walls, with a large illustrated textile banner hanging in the centre.

Fleming Collection @flemingartcoll.bsky.social · 26d

Today, we're spotlighting Scottish environmental artist Elizabeth Ogilvie, whose work often thematises climate change, calling for greater awareness and consideration towards our natural environment.

Ogilvie’s work was recently part of our #ThisFragileEarth exhibition at @artatstirling.bsky.social

Elizabeth Ogilvie (b. 1946), ‘Into the Oceanic, Outdoor Projections (Production Still)’, (c. unknown). © the artist. The Fleming Collection.

Elizabeth Ogilvie (b. 1946), ‘Clear Waves Diary’, (c. unknown). The Fleming Collection.

Elizabeth Ogilvie (b. 1946), ‘Sea Journals (triptych, centre panel)’ (c. 1988). © the artist. Image credit: Museums & Galleries Edinburgh – City of Edinburgh Council.

Elizabeth Ogilvie (b. 1946), ‘Sea Paper’, (c. 1987). © the artist. National Theatre of Scotland.

Fleming Collection @flemingartcoll.bsky.social · Sep 12

Today is National Mindfulness Day, and we are turning to art for a moment of pause 🌿

Take time to slow down and enjoy this selection of calming landscapes from The Fleming Collection ☁️

#TheFlemingCollection #ScottishArt #MindfulnessDay

Samuel Bough, ‘Summer Evening, Cadzow’, (c. 1877). The Fleming Collection

James Fullarton, 'Cattle at Sunset', (c. 1985). Ⓒ James Fullarton. The Fleming Collection.

Joseph Farquharson, 'When Snow the Pasture Sheets', (c. 1915). The Fleming Collection.

Craigie Aitchison, 'Wayney Going to Heaven', (c. 1989). Ⓒ The Artist's Estate. All Rights Reserved 2019Bridgeman Images. The Fleming Collection.

Fleming Collection @flemingartcoll.bsky.social · Sep 9

Today we're spotlighting artist Graham Fagen 🎨

Graham made these prints after discovering that Robert Burns had once booked passage to Jamaica, intending to work as an overseer on a plantation that used enslaved people.

Angered, Fagen made this hidden history known through his prints.

Graham Fagan, ‘The Nancy’, (c.2006). The Fleming Collection. © Graham Fagen. All Rights Reserved, DACS 2020.

Graham Fagan, ‘The Roselle’, (c.2006). The Fleming Collection. © Graham Fagen. All Rights Reserved, DACS 2020.

Graham Fagan, ‘The Bell’, (c.2006). The Fleming Collection. © Graham Fagen. All Rights Reserved, DACS 2020.

Fleming Collection @flemingartcoll.bsky.social · Sep 4

✨ Read Susan Mansfield’s conversation with Sophie Camu Lindsay – the curator transforming a riverside barn in Fife into one of Scotland’s most exciting art spaces.

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1. Space to Breathe, exhibition install photo, courtesy of Sophie Camu Lindsay.

Alexander Lindsay, 'Smoke Nebula II' (2025). Courtesy of the artist.

Susan Derges, 'Full Moon Spawn', (2007). Courtesy of the artist.

Anais Tondeur, 'Linum Strictum Exclusion Zone, Chernobyl, Ukraine, Radiation Level: 1.7 microsieverts'. From the series Chernobyl Herbarium, 2011-present. Courtesy of the artist

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Fleming Collection @flemingartcoll.bsky.social · Sep 2

This week, we're spotlighting Glen Onwin (b. Edinburgh, 1947) 🎨

Inspired by salt marshes, his art blends nature, science, and alchemy. From Revenges of Nature (1988) to later works on acidification and sea dumping, his practice explores environmental change, making it powerfully relevant today.

Glen Onwin, ‘Photosynthesis, Open the Kingdom’, (1987). The Fleming Collection.

Glen Onwin, ‘Hermetic Evaporate, Light - Hermetic Evaporate, Dark’, (2013). The Fleming Collection.

Glen Onwin, ‘Twofold Trinity, Sulphur-Carbon’, (2016-2017). The Fleming Collection.

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Fleming Collection @flemingartcoll.bsky.social · Sep 2

Hello from the Fleming Collection! 👋

We're excited to share our collection of Scottish artworks on Bluesky 🎨

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