News
Thursday 11 December 2025
Sandy Bremner, an environmental advocate with an unquestionable passion for the North East of Scotland, has been awarded an Honorary Degree from Robert Gordon University (RGU) during the final graduation ceremony of 2025.
Thursday 04 December 2025
Robert Gordon University (RGU) is among six universities that have joined forces to launch a pioneering initiative that will strengthen commercialisation and innovation across Scotland’s modern and smaller universities and the college sector.
Thursday 27 November 2025
The positive legacy of the late honorary graduate and Denis Law Legacy Trust trustee Lynne Smith will continue with the launch of a new scholarship in her name at RGU.
Tuesday 25 November 2025
140 years of artist-led education at Gray’s School of Art is being celebrated in a major new exhibition at Aberdeen Art Gallery. Featuring works by over 50 artists – all of whom studied or worked at Gray’s – the exhibition focuses on the art school environment: on what artists teach, how ideas are passed from generation to generation, and how studio culture continues to evolve.
Wednesday 19 November 2025
Experts from RGU have designed a guide aimed at improving the digital skills of students.
To mark Global Recycling Day on March 18, people across the North East are being encouraged to get involved in a new campaign to create a sustainable ‘Support Your City’ icon for Aberdeen.
Gray’s School of Art has secured major grant funding from Creative Scotland to support new or existing networks of creative practitioners in the north east, including Orkney and Shetland.
Look Again at Gray’s School of Art, Robert Gordon University (RGU), is backing Culture Aberdeen’s #SaveCulture campaign, to stop Aberdeen City Council going ahead with major funding cuts to the cultural sector.
Gray’s creative unit, Look Again and the community interest charity, ‘We Are Here Scotland’ are working together on a new project to support BPoC (Black People and People of Colour) artists in Scotland.
Robert Gordon University and The University of Aberdeen have come together to co-host Aberdeen’s inaugural Cultural Summit to explore cultural provision in the North East.
Gray’s School of Art’s Look Again team is launching a new project to shed light on Aberdeen’s changing LGBTQIA+ community. The project highlights lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, intersex and asexual (LGBTQIA+) people from across the North East.
Gray’s School of Art at Robert Gordon University (RGU), is launching a new creative development programme called ‘Engage’ with weekend workshops, portfolio building courses and a new Young Art School, for 11–15-year-olds in the North East.
Designers from Gray’s School of Art, at Robert Gordon University (RGU), have created a highly visible, city centre plastic recycling hub, the first of its kind in Scotland.
Robert Gordon University is launching its latest Creative Entrepreneurship Programme to support creative businesses across Scotland.
Dozens of feline sculptures will go on display this weekend in Gray’s School of Arts’ Look Again Project Space, as part of a new exhibition called EDITIONS.
Opinion: Writing in the Press and Journal, Sally Reaper, Co-Director for Gray's creative unit, Look Again, explains how we can bring the soul back to city centres by re-imagining urban spaces and investing in creative communities.
Gray’s School of Art, at Robert Gordon University (RGU), is leading a major project to re-energise Aberdeen city centre by transforming vacant city centre shops into lively and engaging spaces for creatives to flourish.