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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 four of the ‘First Women’ of the Academy.

The Royal Scottish Academy

The mission of the Royal Scottish Academy is ‘to support and promote the creation, understanding and enjoyment of the visual arts in Scotland’. It was established in Edinburgh in 1826 and is the country’s longest-running artist-led institution. Many of its activities are based in the Royal Scottish Academy Building on The Mound in the centre of the capital.

The Founding Membership

The Academy’s founding membership consisted of eleven Academicians, or ‘Full Members’ (RSA), all of whom where men. The most common route to join thereafter was by election as an ‘Associate Member’ (ARSA). Prospective candidates had to be proposed and seconded by existing Academicians and Associates. If successful, some later wen