The RGI Kelly Gallery

The Royal Glasgow Institute (RGI) is an independent organisation promoting, supporting, and encouraging Scotland’s contemporary art and artists. It one of the oldest organisations of its kind in the UK. The RGI organise a range of events including open exhibitions, performances, educational outreach activities, workshops, and an annual film festival. The RGI also traditionally hosts one of Scotland’s largest Annual Exhibitions in an array of spaces annually.

Through various opportunities, we support artists at various stages of their career providing a central platform for an array exhibitions, events, and performances at the RGI Kelly Gallery at 118 Douglas Street.

Artforms available

Craft
Design
Drawing
Installation
Mixed Media
Painting
Performance Art
Photography
Print
Sculpture

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RGI Kelly Gallery, 118 Douglas Street, Glasgow, G2 4ET

Loans Available

£100 to £2,500 – 10 months

Accessibility

- Accessible car parking
- Service animals welcome
- Wheelchair access/ step-free access

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Telephone 0141 258 1080

Website www.royalglasgowinstitute.org

Latest News & Events

18 Feb 20 < 1 min read

Exhibition: Embody without Burden

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27 Jul 20 < 1 min read

Online Exhibition: Thoughts are Free

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29 Sep 20 < 1 min read

Window Works by Sean Ellcombe

The RGI Kelly Gallery | Glasgow

7 Dec 20 < 1 min read

Interactions of Colour: Small Works, Big on Colour

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10 Mar 21 2 min read

Herstory: A Decade On

Date of event: 06/03/21 - 22/03/21

The RGI Kelly Gallery | Glasgow

12 Apr 21 2 min read

Artist of the month: Lynne Cameron

The RGI Kelly Gallery | Glasgow

Artists

Dame Elizabeth Blackadder OBE RA RSA RSW RGI
Reinhard Behrens RSW RGI
Marj Bond RSW RGI
Patricia Cain PhD PS NEAC RGI
June Carey RSW RGI
James Cosgrove RSW RGI PAI
Jim Dunbar RSW ARWS RGI
Norman Edgar RGI
Sean Ellcombe
Helen Flockhart RGI
Ronald Forbes RSA RGI
Archie Forrest RGI
Charlotte Hayes
John Inglis PRSW HAWI RGI
Jennifer Irvine RGI RSW
Thyme James
Shona Kinloch RGI
Norman Kirkham RGI
Kathryn Kynoch RGI
Elspeth Lamb RSA RGI
Simon Laurie RSW RGI
Rosalind Lawless RGI
Jock MacInnes RGI
Neil Macdonald RSW RGI PAI
William Maclean MBE RSA RSW RGI
Neil MacPherson RSA RSW RGI
Charles MacQueen RSW RGI
Archibald Dunbar McIntosh RSW RGI
Tom McKendrick RSW RGI

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#OATAKEOVER by @theaviary_art Born under African

#OATAKEOVER by @theaviary_art

Born under African skies, Ruth Bond has worked and travelled in many countries across the globe, absorbing cultures, colours, textures and especially the beauty of the natural world. Over the last 16 years, the combination of these have inspired her design work (she's an award-winning interior designer) and now the light and the subtle colours of the coasts of Northumberland and the Western Isles of Scotland infuse her paintings, with some of the most dramatic skies and strikingly beautiful beaches in the world.

"I believe that in order to paint I need to see and experience the places myself".

Ruth is lucky to have a base in the picturesque and extremely popular village of Alnmouth and regularly walks the coastal paths from Druridge Bay up to Holy Island with her Border Collie, Skye. In 2017 she paid the first of many visits to the Outer Hebrides, where she realised that the colours of the natural landscape appeared again in the colour combinations of the renowned Harris Tweeds.

Image: Deluge Drear – Isle Of Lewis, 2020, Ruth Bond/@ruthbondart, oil on canvas (Framed), 40cm x 40cm, £1,400 (£140 a month over 10 months with the @own.art 0% interest-free finance option)

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#OATAKEOVER by @theaviary_art Tim's main concern

#OATAKEOVER by @theaviary_art

Tim's main concern within his work is exploring the colour field. Although vivid, Tim's works are invariably balanced, using a signature colour palette of extremely bright and intense hues, which makes his work distinctly recognisable. His explorations in tone and texture are mainly depicted through portraiture and architectural paintings. He uses a variety of mediums within his work combining oil, acrylic, spray, enamel and graffiti inks. Tim subverts traditional and contemporary methods of applying these mediums using brushes, different aperture caps and marker paint mops to orchestrate purposeful marks, strokes, drips, scrapes and smears across the canvas whilst constructing his exciting and dynamic artworks.

Although working with figurative and architectural themes, the subject matter within his work becomes almost inconsequential. Using found and made images as a starting point. Tim builds layers of pigment, adding abstract fragments as well as bold marks, broken lines and liberal strokes to create contours and features, be they of building facades, silver screen legends or his more intimate family scenes. Doing this captures something more interesting than a literal representation. This visceral connection to colour is palpably intuitive to Tim, using it as an expression of internal contemplations.

Image: St Pauls, 2019, Tim Fowler/@timjfowler, acrylic on canvas, 84cm x 119cm, £3,000 (£300 a month over 10 months with the @own.art 0% interest-free finance option)

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#OATAKEOVER by @theaviary_art Gerda Roper's work

#OATAKEOVER by @theaviary_art

Gerda Roper's work is characterised by her use of accessible, human, and deeply absorbing imagery, her gentle humour, and intense and acute levels of observation of people, situations and encounters. Her work is distinguished by highly skilled draughtsmanship and deft paint handling, which she utilises to create paintings that allow the viewer to suspend belief and enter into other realities. This is achieved with great subtlety and a very individual lightness of touch in the use of scale and palette. We find the paintings absorbing because the artist has so carefully observed and felt the realities of the situations and people that she depicts, and as result, the experience of engaging with them is uniquely rich and rewarding.

Image: L'heure Blue, 2020, Gerda Roper/@gerdaroper, oil on canvas (framed), 62cm x 62cm, £4,000 (£400 a month over 10 months with the @own.art 0% interest free finance option)

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It's a wonderful week for galleries now that they

It's a wonderful week for galleries now that they are opening up their doors! And it's an even better week for #OwnArt as we welcome @theaviary_art for their second #OATAKEOVER!

Join us in celebrations as they're now open to the public and will be WOWing your Instagram feed this week with a selection of fantastic artworks on offer in the gallery. It's good to say IN the gallery because you can now go and browse their artworks IN THE GALLERY!

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Whilst we're all still nesting, make some room for

Whilst we're all still nesting, make some room for some beautiful new porcelain 🏺

MARGARET FRITH
PORCELAIN GINGER JAR
13 cm x 12 cm

£110.00 or £11.00 a month over 10 months, interest-free with #OwnArt

Available to buy at @the_round_house_at_foston.

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Own this serene piece of art, split the cost and c

Own this serene piece of art, split the cost and call it a night 🛏️

DAVID COBLEY
'ON THE BED'
Oil
91.44 cm x 91.44 cm

£8,950.00 or £895.00 a month over 10 months, interest-free, with #OwnArt

@davidhcobley available to buy at @redraggallery.

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This acrylic oasis is bold and powerful. We want i

This acrylic oasis is bold and powerful. We want it on t-shirts and cushions and wallpaper! We want it on everything! You can have the original for only £99.50 a month!

ESTE MACLEOD
'OASIS'
Acrylic
50.8 cm x 50.8 cm

£995.00 or £99.50 a month over 10 months, interest-free with #OwnArt

@estemacleod available to buy at @redraggallery.

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For just £40 a month, this would be the perfect g

For just £40 a month, this would be the perfect gift to introduce some colour to someone's day!

ADHAM FARAMAWY
'THIS FEELS AWESOME 1'
Print
63.5 cm x 42.3 cm

£400.00 or £40.00 a month over 10 months, interest-free, with #OwnArt

@adham_faramawy available to buy at @royalacademyarts.

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