Work made by artist Brian Sinclair in his Gaada weekly workshops has been selected to appear in an exhibition as part of ArtWorks Together at Wentworth Woodhouse, Yorkshire.

Gaada is excited to have reaffirmed core funding support from Creative Scotland and Shetland Charitable Trust for it’s 2023/24 visual art programme

Happy Summer! We will be taking a short break from 3rd - 24th July. Before we head off for summer break, we wanted to share the wealth of happenings at the Toogs Artist Workshop. We have had such a busy year so far, and we can’t quite believe that we’re not even half way through!

Julie Dennison reflects on her newly released artist publication ‘Da Holmliwatters’ which was commissioned by Gaada in 2021, alongside four fellow writers, artists and community groups, to respond to Walter Scott’s unfinished Shetland By Numbers project.

Gaada has been included as a case study in a practical guide to Fair Work which has been published today by Culture Radar and Creative Scotland.

It’s All Okay is a new exhibition by Shetland artist Helen Tulloch which opens in Gaada’s outdoor exhibition space.

Kokkilorie is a new artist book by poet Jen Hadfield which celebrates the month of June through a series of prompts.

Join us online for Gaada’s next talk by Rosanna Martin, a Cornwall based ceramic artist and founder of experimental brick-making project Brickfield.

For his 2022/23 Bursary, artist Stuart Thomson shares how he used the A.I. image generation tool, Dall-e, to produce a zine exploring text prompts and emerging images in the style of Harry Clarke.

Shetland based artists are invited to a collaboration day in the Toogs Artist Workshop under the collective banner of Brigði: A bridge of Plankton Blooms & Basking Sharks.

Shetland artist Laura Hughes shares her journey through the Workshop Bursary award

It’s official. Gaada has purchased it’s formerly leased building, Da Auld Methodist Kirk. As of today the building has formally been renamed Toogs Artist Workshop, ahead of the Workshop’s relaunch in the coming months.

Recent graduate + artist Elouise Spooner shares her experience producing a new risograph publication during her Gaada Workshop Bursary.

Join us online for Gaada’s next artist talk by artists Miriam Sentler and Wouter Osterholt who will be telling us about their interdisciplinary research initiative Deep Time Agency.

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Glasgow based artist Cameron Morgan recently visited the Toogs Artist Workshop for a day of etching and risography!

The next exhibition in Display, outside the Toogs Artist Workshop is by recent Gaada Bursary recipient, artist Sammy Paloma.

Rosalie Schweiker is first artist-in-residence at the Toogs Workshop, in Burra.

We have recently hosted Assemble in Shetland to begin the intial phase to transform Gaada’s current building into an ambitious and accessible artist-run making facility and project space.

Vivian Ross-Smith awarded a Freelands Studio Fellowship