Today’s Learning Disability Awareness Week featured artist is quite the woman! The amazing Jacqui Smyth, by Aspire tutor Alison Mitchell. “Jacqui Smyth has been working recently on a series of drawings inspired by the music, sleeve art and photographs of…Read On
After the fun of our paper making workshops two weeks ago, pupils visiting Linn Park Adventure Playground were able to explore more of the area’s rich heritage by looking at hand dying techniques. They were inspired to create these beautiful,…Read On
Today, for our Learning Disability Awaraness Week 2017 daily feature, we would like to focus on one of our longest attending artists, the delightful Mr Tom Muir. “On a Tuesday morning when I arrive at the Project Ability studios to…Read On
“Adnan Mohamed – better known in the art workshop as Adi – has been coming along to Project Ability’s Aspire group for a couple of years now. You might say he’s a relative newcomer then, but one who already makes…Read On
This week marks Learning Disability Awareness Week 2017, and we thought it would be the perfect occasion to focus on some of our amazing Aspire artists. We asked Project Ability tutors to choose an artist and write something about them…Read On
This week is Mental Health Awareness Week! An annual campaign, this year’s theme is ‘Surviving or Thriving?‘ To mark the week, we visited Project Ability’s ReConnect studio, and spoke to a couple of our artists about the ways in which…Read On
This week’s Artwork of the Week is Tuesday Morning by Lucy Payne. This beautiful drawing is part of a new collection of studio portraits by Lucy Payne currently on display in Drawing People Drawing in Project Ability’s gallery. In Tuesday…Read On
Thanks to generous support from Heritage Lottery and the money raised by National Lottery players, the first of Project Ability’s heritage workshops in partnership with Linn Park Adventure Playground got off to a great start last week. Inspired by the…Read On
To celebrate Paisley’s bid for UK City of Culture 2021 Project Ability has been working with three Renfrewshire Schools on an exciting project, inspired by the shape, colours and patterns of the city’s iconic Paisley Pattern. Pupils from Mary Russell…Read On
We are delighted to announce that we have bagged £4200 from a Tesco funding scheme! Tesco teamed up with Groundwork to launch its Bags of Help funding initiative, which sees grants of up to £5,000, £2,000 and £1,000 – all…Read On
