Since its foundation in 1907, the Edinburgh College of Art has both taught and inspired many of Britian's finest artists. Now, in its centenary year, a major retrospective of works by the ECA's most distinguished alumni and academics has gone on display for the first time. Eighteen months in the making, the exhibition celebrates the College’s extraordinary heritage and legacy. Drawn from the city collection, the Fleming collection, the College's own possessions and individual artists themselves, Ten Decades not only offers a fascinating insight into the history of the ECA, but the development of Scottish contemporary art through the 20th century.

The exhibition is spread over three floors of the Edinburgh Art Centre, with each floor covering roughly three decades of the ECA's history. Work on display from the college's early years is mostly formal portrait studies and still life, but the whiff of artistic rebellion is never far away. Provocative paintings by Eric Robertson and Dorothy Johnstone stand out just as much today as they must have done when they were first publicly displayed in 1919, although The Scotsman are unlikely to be questioning their moral standing this time around.

A wide range of more contemporary works are also on display, including paintings by David McClure and John Bellany, who are amongst the most well known of the college's alumni to be featured. Bellany's The Obsession, his famed portrait of Port Seton fishermen, is almost worth making the trip for alone.

Ten Decades is a fitting testament to the raw talent the ECA has nurtured over the years, and the great works of art that have been produced as a result.