This Fragile Earth exhibition launch

Join the University of Stirling Art Collection and the Fleming Collection to celebrate the launch of This Fragile Earth: How Scottish Artists Anticipated the Climate Crisis.

This exhibition focuses on a group of pioneering Scottish artists who as early as the 1970s and 1980s were responding to the threat of climate change. They are painters Frances Walker (born 1930) and James Morrison (1932-2020); visual artists and constructivists, Will MacLean (born 1941) and Glen Onwin (born 1947); artist/filmmaker Elizabeth Ogilvie (born 1946); and expeditionary artist and photographer Thomas Joshua Cooper (born 1946.

We'll meet in the Crush Hall, Pathfoot Building from 18:00 to toast the new exhibition and hear from the curatorial team.
This exhibition is a collaboration between the University of Stirling Art Collection and the Fleming Collection and is the key exhibition in the Human Experience series, on display in Pathfoot.

About Human Experience

Each academic year, all of the Art Collection’s exhibitions, events and workshops are directly inspired by one of the University research themes. In 2024-25 our chosen focus Human Experience will examine topics such as displacement, climate change, social deprivation and COVID-19, highlighting the resilience of the human spirit and our ability to continue to create art through and about troubling times.

For details of other exhibitions and events being run alongside this theme, view our What’s On page.

About the University of Stirling Art Collection

The University of Stirling Art Collection holds a significant collection of Scottish Contemporary Art, housed primarily within The Pathfoot Building. The Art Collection works to make arts and culture a part of daily life for staff, students, and visitors to the University.

Through a mix of exhibitions, events, talks, and workshops we aim to make knowledge visible and enable creative exchanges between art, research and teaching.

About the Fleming-Wyfold Art Foundation

The Fleming-Wyfold Art Foundation owes its existence to the formation of the finest collection of Scottish art outside public institutions, comprising over 600 works from the 17th-century to the present day.

The Collection dates to 1968 when investment bank Robert Fleming & Co, began to acquire Scottish art to hang in its offices worldwide to reflect its Dundonian roots. Following the sale of the bank in 2000, the Collection was vested in the Foundation.

Today, the Fleming-Wyfold Art Foundation is endowed to care and enhance the Collection and to promote an understanding and awareness of Scottish art and creativity across the UK and beyond through a programme of cultural diplomacy, touring exhibitions, individual loans, events, publishing and education.

Since its ‘Museum without Walls’ program of touring exhibitions was launched in 2017, over 190,000 visitors have viewed Scottish art from the Fleming Collection at 19 exhibitions staged at major regional museums and art galleries across the UK.