Events

The RBSA Summer Show is the biggest open call exhibition of the year, with the show being displayed over all three floors of the Gallery. Open to all artists over...

The first RBSA Watercolour Prize for over a decade celebrates work created using water-based media; including watercolour, ink, gouache, and acrylic paint. Despite early use as a medium in its...

The RBSA Gallery is proud to present the first ever RBSA Young Artists Prize. This exhibition was open to children aged between 4 and 17 from across the city of...

Comprising more than 20 works on paper, including a series of large-scale multi-layered portraits, and exploratory drawings, Curtis Holder: Portraits Of Brotherhood reflects the artist’s core aim: to use line...

This exhibition opens on Thursday 18 September at 6.00pm. In This Time is both a celebration of and a catch up with the current cohort of RBSA Graduate Artists. Having...

This exhibition opens on Thursday 18 September 6.00pm. Mapping the Archive, Birmingham's Journey Through the RBSA Permanent Collection focuses on the changing face of Birmingham's cityscape, travelling through its architectural...

The Royal Society of Painter-Printmakers is one of the world's premier organisations representing the work and interests of printmakers. All Members of the Society are practising professional printmakers, elected by...

Debbie Baird and Brian Wood are figurative oil painters who studied together and have previously exhibited with other artists in London. Both artists share an interest in expressing the essence...

Cristina Gardiner ARBSA is a landscape painter whose work crosses between abstraction and representation, borne from strong emotions in response to place. In her exhibition Transitory Landscapes, Cristina draws on...

Founded in 1879, the Birmingham Art Circle has strong links with the Royal Birmingham Society of Artists, and many of its artists are also Members of the RBSA. The elected...

The ever changing RBSA Membership is given the opportunity to exhibit current work every year in the Society's flagship show, the RBSA Annual Exhibition. In 2025, the Society welcomed 16...

The annual RBSA Friends Exhibition gives artists with a Friends subscription the opportunity to exhibit their work in the RBSA Gallery and get to know the Society and its Membership....