Douglas King completed his MA in Creative and Cultural Studies in 2006. Since then he worked with a number of community groups while setting up his own business, 14c Studio, specialising in graphic and web design as well as…Read On
Year: 2011
Come see us in London at the Impact Art Fair
During the weekend of the 20-22 May 2011, Project Ability will have a stand in London’s Impact Art Fair. The Impact Art Fair profiles work from artists loosely described as ‘marginalised’ or ‘outsider’. With so many emerging talents…Read On
The Theatre of the Self: A Play of Parts
Project Ability and Pum Dunbar are pleased to present an exhibition of mobiles, collage and paintings in progress created from a year-long Project Ability Residency funded by Creative Scotland’s Career Development Fund. Pum is an artist whose creative practice is…Read On
Thank you BBC Children in Need!
Project Ability’s Create programme for children and young people would like to say a big thank you to BBC Children in Need for supporting our Saturday Visual Art workshops. BBC Children in Need have offered continued support to…Read On
Papercutting workshops
Abi Pirani, artist in residence at Project Ability for the month of April, organised a series of papercutting workshops last week for a few Connect artists. The artists involved learnt about papercutting techniques and created their own colourful pieces. For…Read On
Meet the volunteers: Ross Byers
Our volunteers are a great addition to the team and we want to let you know a bit more about them. This series of blogs starts with the talented Ross Byers. Ross completed his Bachelor of Contemporary Arts Degree in Tasmania, Australia in…Read On
Bookings are now open for the next block of Aspire visual art workshops
Bookings are now open for the next block of Aspire visual art workshops starting week of the 9th May 2011. There is a choice between 1 hour classes on Monday’s and Tuesday’s and 2 hour classes on…Read On
Abi Pirani, artist in residence – April 2011
Abi Pirani is finishing her month long residence at Project Ability this week. She makes incredibly detailed and delicate papercut works, and will be giving three papercutting workshops to Connect participants this week. To know more about Abi…Read On
Project Ability is closed for the holidays!
We are closed Friday 22nd through to Monday 25th April. The office and workshop is open on the 26th, 27th and 28th April. We are closed again from the 29th April to the 2nd May. Business as usual on the 3rd May. …Read On
Photography workshops with Neil Ramsay
For the last couple of weeks, a few Connect artists have been learning the basics of photography with volunteer Neil Ramsay. Neil’s approach is one of simplicity: the artists are learning without having to use expensive or specialist…Read On
