. Inspiring Art ShopSupportDonate It’s In the Detail Nils McDiarmid Leslie Thompson Robin Wise with audio descriptions by Sally Hirst The following selection of work from the exhibition has been audio described by…Read On
Year: 2015
Artwork of the Week
For this week’s Artwork of the Week, we have chosen one of the photographs by Ida Arentoft which we will be exhibiting in our gallery from this evening. A striking image, encapsulating the essence of Ida and Simon McAuley’s exhibition…Read On
Unlimited information session in London
On Friday 29th July artist Cameron Morgan attended an Unlimited Commission information session at the British Council in London. Cameron travelled down the day before, met up with artist / researcher and friend of Project Ability Janekta Platun for fish…Read On
Writing workshop at Glasgow Sculpture Studios
The Project Ability walking group had a visit to the Glasgow Sculpture Studios recently and took part in a writing workshop led by our good friend Joanna Peace. The artists posted some of their writings on the ReConnect blog. Jane Fisher…Read On
Meet the Volunteers – Philippa Kuligowski
It’s Volunteers Week, and we would like to take this opportunity to let all our volunteers know how valuable they are! We regularly celebrate our volunteers via our Meet the Volunteers, and this week we’d like to introduce you to…Read On
Gartnavel visual arts workshops
Project Ability recently started a series of workshops in Gartnavel Royal Hospital. Tutor Meredith Crone tells us more about what patients have been working on. “On the 1st May Project Ability started a block of visual art workshops for patients…Read On
ReConnect paint mixing workshops
A group of ReConnect artists has been taking part in a paint mixing workshop for the last few weeks. Tutored by Simon McAuley, the artists explore the possibilities of colour mixing, and are achieveing very interesting results through experimentation. Instead…Read On
A new social history project for C-Change and Project Ability
Have you lived in a long stay hospital or similar type of institution? Do you have a story to tell? Project Ability and C-Change are working together to capture stories from people with learning disabilities who lived in long stay hospitals…Read On
Artwork of the Week – ‘Fishermen’ by David Bradley
This week we are very pleased to bring you a new suite of paintings, ‘Fishermen’ acrylic on board by ReConnect artist David Bradley. David’s work is a diary-like chronicle of his observations of the people and situations that surround him,…Read On
Walking Group – Week 11: GSS
The walking group headed off to The Whisky Bond again last week for the second of two workshops designed in response to the current exhibition by Iman Issa. As with the previous workshop, the visit began with a viewing of…Read On
