ONE of the biggest art shows ever staged in Scotland, a £1 million celebration of the last 25 years of award-winning success for Scottish based and trained contemporary artists, is to be staged across five months next year.

In an unprecedented collaboration involving Glasgow's galleries and museums, the National Galleries of Scotland (NGS) and Creative Scotland, the Generation series of exhibitions will be held in major venues in both cities as well as around the country.

It will aim to engage and inform the general public about a generation of Scottish artists, many of whom are based or were trained in Glasgow and have had national and international success.

Goma and the Tramway in Glasgow and the RSA building, National Scottish Portrait Gallery and National Gallery of Modern Art in Edinburgh will host major solo and group shows with the best of recent Scottish art.

Funded by £750,000 from Creative Scotland, dozens of associate shows will be held from the Orkney Isles to the Borders.

Key and iconic"works will be on display at the show, which will run from June to October next year, including noteworthy works such as Douglas Gordon's 24 Hour Psycho or his acclaimed film about Zinedine Zidane, with historic works borrowed from collectors and collections around the world.

The Turner Prize-winning success of Glasgow-based or trained artists such as Douglas Gordon, Martin Boyce, Richard Wright, Susan Philipsz, Simon Starling and Martin Creed will form a significant representation in the show, as well as the work of nearly 100 other artists who have achieved success. These include this year's Turner Prize nominee David Shrigley, and others such as Ross Sinclair, Lorna MacIntyre, Toby Paterson and Cathy Wilkes.

Generation will feature work by artists who came to attention working in Scotland between 1989 and 2014.

Simon Groom, the director of modern and contemporary art at the NGS, said: "This is a landmark exhibition that has not been attempted anywhere else by a single nation."