The RSA welcomes Claire Barclay and Caroline Walker

During the last General Assembly meeting of 2024, Royal Scottish Academy members elected four new Academicians: Claire Barclay, Ken Currie, Barry McGlashan and Caroline Walker.

Claire Barclay RSA (Elect) works predominantly with sculpture and print and is recognised for her large-scale installations informed by the contexts in which they temporarily exist. Her work engages a wide range of hand making and machine fabrication processes to explore the nature of materials, methods of production, and relationships between people and objects. 

Caroline Walker RSA (Elect)’s paintings explore the performance of gender identity, femininity, and question the norms of depicting women and the female form across a range of socio-economic contexts. Blurring the boundary between objectivity and lived experience, Walker highlights the often-overlooked jobs performed by women and the psychologically charged spaces they inhabit.