| RGIs |

The award of RGI is made to artists for artistic merit and their dedication to the Institute.

There is a corpus of fifty such awards. Any vacancy is filled through persons being proposed, demonstrating work, and being elected at a specially convened meeting of RGIs.

The constitution mentions:

• An elected RGI must be a member of the Institute
• The member must have exhibited regularly
• In addition to artistic merit the member has given considerable support to the Institute

There is also a category of Honorary RGIs.

• The Rt Hon The Lord Macfarlane of Bearsden KT DL FRSE LLD HRIAS HRSA
• Sir Anthony Wheeler OBE PPRSA HRA HFRBS FRIAS FRIBA HRHA
• Pat Lally HRHA
• S Barclay Lennie
• Eric Hagman CBE CA
• John Byrne
• Liz Lochhead