president Archives - Alice Strang https://alicestrang.co.uk/tag/president/ Modern and Contemporary Art Sun, 08 Sep 2024 16:21:44 +0000 en-GB hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://alicestrang.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/cropped-alice_strang150925-32x32.jpg president Archives - Alice Strang https://alicestrang.co.uk/tag/president/ 32 32 Four of the First: Women Pioneers at the Royal Scottish Academy https://alicestrang.co.uk/four-of-the-first-women-pioneers-at-the-royal-scottish-academy/ Fri, 27 Nov 2020 07:14:02 +0000 https://alicestrang.co.uk/?p=421 Four of the First: Women Pioneers at the Royal Scottish Academy

Joyce W. Cairns (b.1947) was elected the first female President of the Royal Scottish Academy of Art and Architecture on 28 November 2018. To mark the second anniversary of this historic occasion, I look at…

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]]> The First Women of the Royal Scottish Academy https://alicestrang.co.uk/the-first-women-of-the-royal-scottish-academy/ Thu, 26 Nov 2020 16:56:00 +0000 https://alicestrang.co.uk/?p=416 The First Women of the Royal Scottish Academy

I am delighted that my essay, ‘The First Women of the Royal Scottish Academy’ has been published on the Academy’s website today. It looks at the eight ‘first women’ of the Academy, from Christina Robertson…

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]]> Joyce W. Cairns: First Female RSA President https://alicestrang.co.uk/joyce-w-cairns-first-female-rsa-president/ Sun, 22 Nov 2020 09:12:48 +0000 https://alicestrang.co.uk/?p=411 Joyce W. Cairns: First Female RSA President

There’s a great feature in today’s Sunday National newspaper marking the second anniversary of the artist Joyce W. Cairns becoming the first female president of the Royal Scottish Academy of Art and Architecture. My essay…

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