RIA Residency

2026

residency

This year, we are welcoming four artists to the Roberts Institute of Art Residency in Scotland.

While at Cortachy Castle, our residents will have access to a dedicated studio space and the surrounding landscape to explore, experiment and develop their practice. We tailor each residency to the artist’s individual needs, fostering a supportive environment that encourages exploration. During their stay, residents will be connected with practitioners and institutions from across Scotland’s rich cultural field.

Elinor Stanley (April—May)

Elinor Stanley (b. 1992, London, UK) lives and works in London.

Stanley uses painting to explore psychological experience, allowing the figurative focus of an image to shift and destabilise. Her work is characterised by high-intensity colour, exaggerated scale and distorted perspective, with repeated bodies and oversized heads creating a sense of movement and disorientation.

Humour and economy are central to her practice. Relationships between figures are shaped through deliberate manipulations of scale, perspective and speed where naked figures are caught in exchanges of tenderness, humour and cruelty.

Gina Kuschke (May—June)

Gina Kuschke (b. 1992, Cape Town, South Africa) lives and works in London, UK.

Kuschke’s abstract painting practice draws on personal history, migration and a sustained engagement with landscape. Growing up between South Africa and London, she spent extended periods in coastal and savannah environments, cultivating a close attentiveness to how natural forms register time and change.

This sensitivity to place informs her gestural approach to painting. Her work brings together observations of the external environment with internal experience, mapping memory and movement through abstract form.

Oliver Osborne (July)

Oliver Osborne (b. 1985, Edinburgh, Scotland) lives and works in Berlin, Germany.

Osborne works across figuration and abstraction in his paintings, returning repeatedly to specific subjects over time. Through subtle shifts in composition, light and shadow, he explores how images evolve and how painting can remain open and responsive.

His subjects range from figures drawn from art history to members of his own family. Working across silk-screen, monochromatic abstraction and photorealistic oil painting, Osborne’s practice is varied but cohesive. Each work stands as a distinct response, even when based on the same motif.

Eva Rothschild (Autumn)

Eva Rothschild (b. 1971, Dublin, Ireland) lives and works in London, UK.

Over the past twenty-five years, Rothschild has established a wide-ranging sculptural practice, from small-scale exhibitions to major public commissions worldwide. Her work is informed by modernist sculpture, as well as by classical architecture, magic and the contemporary built environment.

She works with a broad range of materials, including bronze, ceramic, polystyrene and plaster, and describes her approach as ‘expansive’. Rothschild’s sculptures often feature recurring forms — such as stacked elements, geometric structures and linear arrangements — while examining how objects can hold presence, meaning and authority.

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