Forgan Arts Centre

Forgan Arts Centre Forgan Arts Centre is a home for traditional and contemporary arts and crafts and community events l
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Forgan Arts Centre is a home for the development of contemporary and traditional art and craft and community events. Our programme of courses and workshops are artist led and span practices from pottery and ceramics, to stained glass and upholstery as well as drawing, painting, and photography. Courses are from 4-10 weeks long supported by one-off workshops and masterclasses. I’m April 2022 we mov

ed to The Leng Home estate in Newport-on-Tay, North East Fife. The estate comprises three buildings set in nearly three acres of gardens and woodland. The grounds host 20 allotments and a shared community growing plot and are free to roam and explore all year round. The main centre has nine artist studio spaces and rooms available for rent.

🪢Turn recycled materials into a functional basket with Eilidh Weir (All That Is BRAW) in our upcoming coiled rope basket...
17/06/2026

🪢Turn recycled materials into a functional basket with Eilidh Weir (All That Is BRAW) in our upcoming coiled rope basket workshop!

Inspired by traditional coiling techniques used around the world in basketry for centuries, we will tackle the modern problem of waste textiles. Using fabric scraps, old clothes and salvaged rope, we will wrap, coil and stitch our ropes to create a sturdy basket or bowl.

📆Saturday 4 July, 10am-4pm
📍Forgan Arts Centre, Newport-on-Tay
🎟 Tickets here: https://www.forganartscentre.co.uk/whats-on/coiled-rope-basket-workshop/

🪡Bring your own textiles to recycle or choose from Eilidh’s stash, your colour choices and shaping will ensure your basket is one of a kind.

CHILDREN’S ART COMPETITION🎨✏Create a character and a catchy slogan to encourage active travel locally. Entries should:- ...
17/06/2026

CHILDREN’S ART COMPETITION🎨

✏Create a character and a catchy slogan to encourage active travel locally.

Entries should:
- Promote any mode of people-powered transport - wheeling, cycling, walking
- Inspire people in a positive way to get active & ditch the car when they can.
- Be fun, colourful & creative, on A4 paper.

You can create yours at home, school, or join us at Coorie Cafe on Sat 20 June, 4 July & 18 July or at Play.Ground on Fri 19 June, 3 & 17 July to make use of our art supplies! We’ll use as many characters and slogans as we can in our active travel campaign later this summer - on posters and online.

Deadline: Fri 24 July
Please write your name, age and email address on the back of your entry and drop it off at Forgan Arts Centre, 59 Kirk Road, Newport-on-Tay or send digitally to [email protected]

⭐Thanks to Eli from Newport Primary for our first entry.

🌸We are delighted to announce the four artists that are leading our Children's Art Club this Summer.Join Nicki Bradwell ...
14/06/2026

🌸We are delighted to announce the four artists that are leading our Children's Art Club this Summer.

Join Nicki Bradwell for a week connecting with art and nature. Artist Alice Dansey-Wright will share printing, painting, sculpting and construction techniques for a week of making inspired by Model Villages. Frieda Ford will host a week of costume and puppetry inspired by the beings (both magical and real) that surround Forgan Arts Centre and in August Eva Jack will get hands-on with history, where we will bury a time capsule in the garden.

✨Children’s Art Club is our artist-led creative programme for 5–12-year-olds that runs during school holidays. With a different Lead Artist each week, participants are introduced to different art forms and creative thinking that encourages them to fully express themselves in a joyful space. Art activities often connect to our outdoor spaces as well as inside and think about our themes of art, ecology and sustainability. Activity planned by the lead artist encourages thinking, playfulness and creativity by exploring different art forms and responding to the children’s interests.

Booking open now on our website: https://www.forganartscentre.co.uk/classes/children-families/

About the Artists
Nicki Bradwell is an artist who loves sharing joyful, curiosity-driven days and is enthusiastic about art, design and nature study. Nicki's approach is rooted in exploration, imagination, and real-world relevance.

Alice Dansey-Wright is an artist-educator and designer whose work includes model making, mural painting, illustration and textiles. She is currently Artist in Residence at a Primary school in Edinburgh through the Creative Connections programme at the Fruitmarket Gallery.

Frieda Ford is a socially engaged artist with a particular interest in textiles, costume, puppetry and performance. Her work centres around collaboration focussing on folklore and storytelling.

Eva Jack is an artist and creative facilitator based in Glasgow. She is interested in walking and collecting as a way to explore place and memory.

Images courtesy of artists
1. Eva Jack
2. Nicki Bradwell
3. Alice Dansey-Wright
4. Frieda Ford

⭐Musician Spotlight: Emma Po***ckOn Sat 1 August from 2-9pm we’ll be celebrating Lughnasadh [pronounced LOO-nah-sah] at ...
11/06/2026

⭐Musician Spotlight: Emma Po***ck

On Sat 1 August from 2-9pm we’ll be celebrating Lughnasadh [pronounced LOO-nah-sah] at Forgan Arts Centre! Secure your tickets and buy today via our website, link in bio.

✨Our line up for this year includes singer-songwriter (and founding member of The Delgado & Chemikal Underground) Emma Po***ck.

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Recently we caught up with Emma to ask - on the theme of movement and gathering - 🌾’What energy, stories, or sounds are you bringing with you to the stage this year?’ 🌾

“I released my fourth solo album ‘Begging The Night To Take Hold’ in September 2025 and have been bringing the songs to life on stage with my current trio of guitar, keys and cello since then. I am very lucky to play with the fantastic musicians Graeme Smilie (keys/bass) and Pete Harvey (cello), and as well as the new album we delve into new arrangements of older songs from the first 3 albums.

Playing Lughnasadh Festival is a lovely event to look forward to during the summer and I also hope to get the chance to explore Newport-on-Tay whilst there as I’ve only visited once before.”

🎟Tickets for Lughnasadh now available to buy here: https://www.forganartscentre.co.uk/whats-on/lughnasadh-2026/

💙Forgan Arts Centre is taking steps to create a carer friendly community. Our Care Makers project, led by artist Ruby Pe...
10/06/2026

💙Forgan Arts Centre is taking steps to create a carer friendly community.

Our Care Makers project, led by artist Ruby Pester, is a series of dedicated therapeutic art workshops using earth-based materials such as clay, metal, wood, paper and textiles which investigate the more-than-human microworlds and ecologies within the garden.

There are around 4000 recognised unpaid carers in Fife alone and many more that don’t see themselves as carers, just a loving family member or friend. Behind every one of those numbers is a person balancing their own life alongside a caring role that often goes unseen and constantly under challenges from governmental policies and cuts.

Over the last few months our community have worked with artists Coral Brooke, Rhona W Paterson and Slaghammers Collective to provide time and space to be creative. The collaborative work made during these sessions will be held in the garden at Forgan Arts Centre.

‘I have never missed a session. Everyone is so welcoming and I'm now feeling I have some 'carer' friends. This is not just crafting, this has invaluable layers. This is my 'respite' and gives me space so I can care better...’
‘I have done many things out of my comfort zone-until now-these activities are my comfort zone.’
Feedback from group participants.

💙Thanks to Inspiring Scotland Creative Communities for funding this project.

📸Image 1 credit Kevin Linnett

⭐️We are delighted to award two DJCAD graduates with access to our pottery studio and classes next term.Congratulations ...
05/06/2026

⭐️We are delighted to award two DJCAD graduates with access to our pottery studio and classes next term.

Congratulations Laurie Lindow and Flora Ann Fraser on your recent degree show presentations, we look forward to welcoming you to Forgan Arts Centre. The students were awarded for their skills and craft in the use of ceramics to encapsulate everyday life and visual storytelling.

About .byfaf
Flora Fraser is a landscape artist exploring shared experiences in Scotland’s wild places. They paint the beauty found between people and place, on mountaintops, beside loch edges, and along misty trails. From portraits in nature to prints made after long hikes, Flora’s work celebrates the joy and belonging of moving through the Scottish Highlands with others.

About
Laurie Lindow is a ceramic artist and graduate of Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art and Design. Their work functions as a sort of sculptural diary, in which they recreate whatever they are drawn to through the medium of clay. Material is deeply important to Laurie, and they find beauty in the tactility of clay and the transformative power of the ceramic medium.

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Images 1-2: Flora Ann Fraser
Image 3: Laurie Lindow

Free Dr Bike session, Saturday 6 June 🚲Join us at Forgan Arts Centre this Saturday, 12.30-3.30pm, for a free Dr Bike ses...
02/06/2026

Free Dr Bike session, Saturday 6 June 🚲

Join us at Forgan Arts Centre this Saturday, 12.30-3.30pm, for a free Dr Bike session with Dundee Cycle Hub. We’ll be offering complimentary bike checks and advice on maintaining your bike. We’ll have a qualified mechanic on site who can perform tune ups and quick fixes with advice provided for anything that can’t be fixed on site.

⭐Musician Spotlight: Pictish TrailWe are bang on two months away from our annual Lughnasadh Art and Music Festival, on S...
01/06/2026

⭐Musician Spotlight: Pictish Trail

We are bang on two months away from our annual Lughnasadh Art and Music Festival, on Sat 1 August from 2-9pm! Have you got your tickets yet? Grab yours now via our website!

✨To kick off our musician spotlights in the run up to the festival we are happy to introduce electro-acoustic-psych-pop master Pictish Trail with his full band.

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Recently we caught up with Pictish Trail to ask - on the theme of movement and gathering - 🌾'What energy, stories, or sounds are you bringing with you to the stage this year?' 🌾

“I’ll be arriving at Lughnasadh after several months harvesting premium-grade slime from emotional detritus, late-night existential dread, strange service-station encounters, broken synthesizers, and the general psychic residue of touring around the UK in a van full of cables. It’s been a surprisingly abundant season for ooze.

Fittingly, I’ll be bringing songs from my new album Life Slime - a record about transformation, mess, catharsis, and trying to find something beautiful in the sludge. I’ve got the full band with me, so expect shimmering electronics, overdriven acoustic guitars, motorik wig-outs, tender folk-pop moments, and the general sensation of accidentally wandering into a glowing bog disco at dusk.

Very excited to gather with fellow harvesters of strange energies in Newport-on-Tay.”

🎟Tickets for Lughnasadh now available to buy here: https://www.forganartscentre.co.uk/whats-on/lughnasadh-2026/

📸Image credit Caine Hemmingway

Looking for someone to take this piano off our hands, free and must be willing to collect from the Forgan Arts Centre!🎹...
29/05/2026

Looking for someone to take this piano off our hands, free and must be willing to collect from the Forgan Arts Centre!🎹

First come, first served. Elysian upright. Requires re-tuning

🌸Join us next Saturday for our Annual General Meeting!📆Saturday 6 June, 10am-12.30pm📍Forgan Arts Centre, Newport-on-Tay🎟...
28/05/2026

🌸Join us next Saturday for our Annual General Meeting!

📆Saturday 6 June, 10am-12.30pm
📍Forgan Arts Centre, Newport-on-Tay
🎟Free but ticketed, grab yours via our website

Come along and learn about our current and future plans, and to participate in our Annual General Meeting. We are constituted as a membership organisation; this means our members play a pivotal role in the development of th centre and future strategies. There will be garden activities, cake and fun interwoven with AGM business!

🚲Dr Bike with Dundee Cycle Hub
Following the Annual General Meeting, there will be a free-to-attend Dr. Bike Session with Dundee Cycle Hub! Learn to care for your bike or have our trained mechanic do a service, quick repair or tune up to ensure you’re cycling safely. You can also trial our e-cargo bike which is free to borrow through our Green Bike Borrowing Scheme.

Membership
We are constituted as a membership organisation. Anyone aged over 15 years can be a member for free. Members have the power to influence and shape the future of Forgan Arts Centre and we rely on them to share their ideas and concerns with us. We value our existing membership and hope to grow and diversify it. If you would like to be a member, please contact us.

We have three categories of member:
→ Ordinary Member: resides within the Tay Bridgehead Ward and is over the age of 16 years. This type of member has voting rights.
→ Associate Member: resides outwith the Tay Bridgehead Ward and is over the age of 16 years.
→ Junior Member: is between the age of 12-15 years.

Only Ordinary Members are able to vote and will be issued a voting token upon arrival. All members can contribute to the discussion and their ideas, concerns and feedback will be listened to.

There will be some creative activities set up for children in one of the classrooms, with a Play Worker. Children are also welcome to join the meeting and conversations and give their feedback.

📸Image credit Kevin Linnett

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59 Kirk Road
Newport-on-Tay
DD68JB

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+441382542062

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