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Barbara Rae studied at Edinburgh College of Art from 1961 until 1965. She spent a postgraduate year at the college and won a travelling scholarship that took her to Spain and France in 1966. She then obtained a post graduate teaching qualification at Moray House in Edinburgh in 1967 and worked as an art teacher at secondary school level from 1968 until 1972. From 1972 until 1974 she was a lecturer at Aberdeen College of Education before becoming a lecturer in drawing and Painting at Glasgow School of Art from 1975 until 1996. Barbara Rae has won various RSA awards including the Stuart Prize in 1965, the Guthrie Medal in 1977 and the Sir William Gillies Award in 1983 which enabled her to work on the Islands of Eigg and Rhum. She also won a Scottish Arts Council Grant in 1985 and travelled to Spain and New Mexico. She has exhibited at the RSA from 1966 becoming and Associate Member in 1980 and an Academician in 1992. She became a Member of the Royal Academy in London in 1996 and a Commander of the British Empire in 1998.