Come celebrate with Glasgow Ceramics Studio for the opening of their new community open access studio with a day of free workshops, tours, open studios, demonstrations and a pop-up gallery of members’ work. Glasgow Ceramics Studio is taking part in Glasgow Open Doors Day 2022, all information for booking the free clay experience workshops, details of the tours and the open studios can be found in the event link. Booking is essential for clay workshops; bookings go live on 1st September on a first come basis. No booking through our studio, only via Glasgow Doors Open Day. Click the link here for full details of the event and how to book a workshop space.

Glasgow Ceramics Studios are opening their doors to give a rare glimpse of the studio spaces and members work. There will be free demonstrations and bookable workshops taking place as well as ceramic artists showing and discussing their work and how the studio runs. Glasgow Ceramics Studios are celebrating their new open access studio, funded initially by Creative Scotland and a private donor, and a full program of workshops, open access membership and schemes that support groups and individuals to work with clay. They are excited to welcome you to their studios and to take part in a free workshop. As part of the Doors Open Day theme, City in Flux, there will be an informal talk about the history of the building and Dennistoun. Formerly Will’s Tobacco Factory, built in 1953, Hanson Street Studios was redeveloped in 2001 to become Scotland’s first purpose-built studio and events complex for up to 200 artists with a large events/gallery space.

Free Workshop 1 @11.30am-1pm for 12 people: Come along and enjoy a hand building workshop with Melanie O’Donnell. You will have the opportunity to make a small vessel and learn about various forms of decoration including stamping, low relief and slip painting.

Free Workshop 2 @2pm-3.30pm for 12 people: Come along and enjoy a tile making workshop with Alison Gray. You will have the opportunity to create your own handmade tile, using texture, sgraffito and low relief techniques

Studio tour 1 @ 12:30pm: Led by our current Interns Eilidh and Amos, Glasgow Ceramics Studios are opening their doors to give a rare glimpse of the studio spaces and members work. There will be free demonstrations and ceramic artists on hand, showing and discussing their work and how the main studio and the open access studio runs.

Studio tour 2 @ 2:30pm: Led by our long-time member Louise McVey, again you will tour both studios, meet members and their work and hear about the history of the former Will’s Tobacco Factory, built in 1953.There will be work for sale in our pop-up gallery – appearing in the studio for Doors Open Day only (and other selected events), which will return back online to Instagram after the launch for Doors Open Day.

The tenants of Perth Creative Exchange are opening the doors to their studios Wednesday 7–Sunday 11 September, 10am–5pm each day. Eighteen artists from the building will be welcoming you in to their creative spaces over the course of the weekend including jewellers, painters, printmakers, ceramicists and more. See below for the full list of participating artists and what they do.

The tenants at Meadow Mill Studios in Dundee are opening their doors for visitors on the first weekend of August 2022.

Meadow Mills houses the largest collective of artists in Dundee. Nearly sixty studios over three floors provide working accommodation for potters, jewellers, painters, designers, illustrators, sculptors, and many more. Come and take a peek behind the scenes Tayside’s colourful creative centre.

Open Studio With Plants

10am -6pm, 16 – 18 June, 2022

WASPS STUDIOS, PATRIOTHALL  / STUDIO G1 + GARDEN / EDINBURGH / EH3 5AY

This Open Studio Weekend seeks to cultivate our creativity and connection to the non -human world. Encouraging a coming together to discuss and be curious about our place in the biosphere at this time of climate urgency.

** Please also join us for a conversation in the round with environmental specialists at: 6pm on Friday, 17 June, 2022.  

Invited guests include:

VICKY ALLEN  –  Senior Features Writer, The Herald

FIONA HOUSTON  –  Founder and SeaEO, Mara Seaweed

LUCINDA RIVERS  –  Director, Unicef UK

SARAN SOHI  –  Senior Lecturer, Edinburgh University Biochar Research Group

ROBERT YOUNGER  –  Solicitor, Fish Legal

STEVEN AND FFION BLENCH  –  Chalk Plaster

Conversations will also be encouraged at all times during the Open Studio.

Plants are for sale to raise funds for environmental projects in the community.

Creative works are for sale to support their maker’s creativity in whatever way they need.

For more information visit https://www.alisongrantstudio.com/drawing-down-the-sun

On Saturday 14 and Sunday 15 May Glasgow’s former fish market The Briggait will open its doors to the public for a Glasgow Open Studios event, providing rare access to the many artists, makers and creative industries who now work there.

This is the first time in three years that The Briggait’s studio complex has been open to the public, with over 30 studios and 40 artists looking to welcome inquisitive visitors to the Grade A listed property.

Visit studios, participate in workshops and chat with the artists who work here. It’s free to attend and a fun day out!

For more information on The Briggait our friend Norrie at Lost Glasgow has written a compact history of the building. You can read this here.

Wasps is in the process of developing the redundant spaces at The Briggait. More information here.

We look forward to welcoming you to the Glasgow Open Studio event at The Briggait.

All three Wasps studio buildings in Edinburgh are joining forces for an Open Studios weekend. Open Studios are a great opportunity to meet artists in their studios, talk about their practices, and buy their work directly from them. With pop-up cafes, demos and children’s activities.

Albion Road Studios has 22 studios over two floors and currently provides workspace for 33 artists. It forms part of the Albion Road Business Centre, situated next door to Hibernian Football ground at Easter Road. The studios sit among a cluster of artisan companies and makers that constitute the business centre.

Participating studio artists:

Katherine Aarrestad, Drew Bain, Ronnie Buchan, Louise Fraser, Douglas Fraser, Hazel Frost, Nicola Galloway, Rona Innes, Karen Kirkwood, Aimee McCulloch, Emily Moore, Ashley More, Jenny Pope, Sharon Quigley, Allan Robertson, Arran Ross, Graeme Swanson, Olivia Turner, Natalie Wood

All three Wasps studio buildings in Edinburgh are joining forces for an Open Studios weekend. Open Studios are a great opportunity to meet artists in their studios, talk about their practices, and buy their work directly from them. With pop-up cafes, demos and children’s activities.

Wasps has operated Patriothall Studios, a red-brick former industrial building in the heart of Stockbridge, since 1984. It is now home to over 50 artists and features a gallery space which supports an annual programme of exhibitions.

Participating studio artists:

Claire Arbuthnott, Julio Arpon, Stella Auchinleck, Gillian Finlay, David Forster, Brian Frost, Paul Furneaux, Alison Grant, Fiona Hutchison, Lucy Jones, Joanna Kessel, Jill Macleod, Gerry McGowan, Craig Mitchell, Keiko Mukaide, Gillian Murray, Angela Reilly, Catherine Sargeant, Fiona Shivas, Elaine Speirs, Mary Trodden, Gail Turpin, Kamini Vellodi, Miriam Vickers, Simon Ward, Cornelius Wright