Our new art and social drop-in club, the Thursday Night Social, will start on the 18th February, 6.30pm-8pm. Thanks to some funding from the Autism Innovation and Improvement Fund, we have set up this new weekly event for adults and…Read On
Year: 2016
We need your vote!
We are delighted to announce that we are one of the four organisations shortlisted for the Johnstone’s Trade Community Spirit competition! We now need your votes in order to win a redecoration makeover of our facility worth up to £10,000,…Read On
Shop Item of the Week – ‘Puffin’s Lunch’ by Christina SooJa Massey
This week we bring you a real gem of a painting entitled ‘Puffin’s Lunch’ by the talented Christina SooJa Massey. Christina creates her art in our studios as part of our ReConnect programme, prolifically producing work of an excellent quality….Read On
Artwork of the week – by Ralph Douglas
Artwork of the week features this beautiful rendition of ‘A Hind’s Daughter’. This painting, which measures 50 x 60cm was painted by Project Ability artist Ralph Douglas. Ralph’s usual delicate application of paint and beautiful brush work gives this ‘Hind’s…Read On
Kevin Cantwell in Converge 2016
We are delighted to announce that two pieces of work by Kevin Cantwell produced during his ReSearch residency at Project Ability have been selected for the Visual Arts Scotland exhibition Converge 2016. Artists were invited to submit one or more…Read On
Board Members Wanted
Project Ability is a leading visual arts charity which has developed and delivers an innovative workshop and studio practice for children and young people with disabilities, adults with learning disabilities and adults with lived experience of mental illness. Our year…Read On
Tanya Raabe-Webber on her exhibition at Project Ability
“I was really looking forward to coming back to Project Ability to see what they had done with the work I’d made during my residency back in March 2015 and I wasn’t disappointed! The exhibition of the portraits I’d made…Read On
Artwork of the week – ‘The Rural Life’ by Carole Lee
The Rural Life by Carole Lee is pen on paper and measures 42 x59cm. This telling ‘portrait’ of Scotland outside of the city is filled with Scottish humour and culture. As with all of Carole’s drawings, it is a document of…Read On
New studio equipment thanks to the People’s Postcode Lottery
Project Ability is delighted to receive an award from the People’s Postcode Lottery towards purchasing some new equipment for the studio. After years of hard use, our tables, chairs and easels are beginning to break down. With this funding we…Read On
TV Classics Part 1 – Second block
Cameron Morgan and Jason Pyper Davis are back in our studios for the second block of TV Classics Part 1, one of this year’s Unlimited commissions. From September to December 2015, the artist and tutor researched, prepped and worked on…Read On
