Creative school pupils and artists from community groups across Midlothian gathered at Lowden, SQA’s new offices near Dalkeith, to see their work exhibited for the first time. The artwork, which decorates the meeting rooms and public spaces at Lowden was created as part of the Midlothian Art Challenge competition.

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The competition encouraged pupils from local primary and secondary schools and members of community art groups to stretch their creative skills and produce a piece of work inspired by a famous Scot. The exhibition included caricatures, portraits, landscapes, abstracts and collages which represent Scottish icons including Robert Burns, designers Charles Rennie Mackintosh and Margaret MacDonald, patriot Sir William Wallace and Sir James Young Simpson, the physician who discovered the anaesthetic properties of chloroform.