Catherine Ross, Callum Innes, Andrew Cranston | Aberdeen Art Gallery

Gray’s School of Art: 140 Years – Never make a head bigger than a melon

Gray’s School of Art: 140 Years – Never make a head bigger than a melon

Aberdeen Art Gallery,

Schoolhill

Aberdeen, AB10 1FQ

UK

 

22 November 2025 - 12 April 2026

Opening hours: Monday - Saturday, 10am-5pm, Sunday 11am - 4pm

Entry free

 

Works by Catherine Ross, Callum Innes and Andrew Cranston are currently on show at Aberdeen Art Gallery, celebrating 140 years of artist-led education at Gray's School of Art. 

 

The exhibition features the work of over 50 artists, all of whom studied or worked at Gray's. The exhibition’s subtitle, Never make a head bigger than a melon, recalls advice given to Gray’s drawing students by Orcadian painter and educator Sylvia Wishart. Both practical and metaphorical, generations of students were guided by this humorous lesson in proportion, humility and attention.

 

For more information, please visit the link below.

 

November 27, 2025