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Children drawing at a table in Create Space

Create Space

Take a look at our Create Space opening times for December.
Lego dots arranged on a board and inked up with white ink

Sip and Print: Lego Printing

Join us in February for a creative, social session in January where you can get together over a drink and learn the art of Lego printing.

Collection of Lego Dot prints

Sip and Print: Lego Printing

Join us for a creative, social session in January where you can get together over a drink and learn the art of Lego printing.

Lego Dot printing

Sip and Print: Lego Printing

Join us in March for a creative, social session in January where you can get together over a drink and learn the art of Lego printing.

Selection of wood blocks engraved with different designs

Wood Engraving

Thu 13 February, Thu 20 February, Thu 27 February & Thu 6 March
Black and white photos of DCA taken with a pinhole camera hanging up to dry

Create Your Own Pinhole Camera

Sun 23 February
Group of people beaing shown around DCA Print Studio

Print Studio Tour

Thu 9 January
Riso printing machine in DCA Print Studio surrounded by computer ink drums and riso prints

Riso Printing (Beginners)

Thu 13 March & Thu 20 March
Table covered in colourful Riso prints

Riso Printing (Beginners)

Wed 15 January & Wed 22 January
Seelction of etching plates and prints featuring feathers

Soft Ground Etching with Feathers

Sat 25 January

Selection of four prints made by Aquatint Etching

Aquatint Etching

Tue 18 March, Tue 25 March & Tue 1 April
Selection of wood blocks, one engraved with a cactus design, and wood engraving tools

Introduction to Wood Engraving

Sun 2 February
Child and adult signing prints at Family Art Lab

Family Art Lab: Soft Impressions

Please book a ticket for everyone who is coming                  Suitable for all ages 3+ with grown ups Family Art Labs offer relaxed time and space…
An image of a monochrome photograph of a person that has been distorted

In the Evening There is Feeling: Listening with Su Shaw

Led by guest artist Su Shaw and DCA’s Exhibitions team, In the Evening There is Feeling is DCA’s reading and listening group. It takes its name from Gertrude…
Parents wearing red aprons and holding a baby who is covered in purple paint

Messy Play for 0-3s

January 2025
A woman in a beautiful turquoise dress stands in front of a golden statue in Aida

Pre-Opera Talk: Aida

Enhance your experience of Live from the Met: Aida by attending a pre-opera talk with Andrew Roger, tutor of opera appreciation courses at the University…
A crowd lift a cheering cast member onto their shoulders in Fidelio

Pre-Opera Talk: Fidelio

Enhance your experience of Live from the Met: Fidelio by attending a pre-opera talk with Andrew Roger, tutor of opera appreciation courses at the University…
A group of singers on stage in beautiful costumes for Il Barbiere di Siviglia

Pre-Opera Talk: Il Barbiere di Siviglia

Enhance your experience of Live from the Met: Il Barbiere di Siviglia by attending a pre-opera talk with Andrew Roger, tutor of opera appreciation courses…
A beautiful stage set shows a tree with a winding staircase around it, two lovers sit together at its base

Pre-Opera Talk: Le Nozze di Figaro

Enhance your experience of Live from the Met: Le Nozze di Figaro by attending a pre-opera talk with Andrew Roger, tutor of opera appreciation courses…
A girl with blonde hair and a black dress on a dramatic black stage set

Pre-Opera Talk: Salome

Enhance your experience of Live from the Met: Salome by attending a pre-opera talk with Andrew Roger, tutor of opera appreciation courses at the University…
A gallery space with wallpaper suspended from the ceiling and a mural on the wall, with framed pictures on the floor

Helen Cammock, Ingrid Pollard and Camara Taylor

Soft Impressions This major cross-generational exhibition will span both gallery spaces and includes new and existing print work from the early 2000s…
The front of the DCA Building.

Moving Image at DCA  

DCA’s Gallery 1 will transform into an artist’s moving image space, with a selection of film works by artists including Oladélé Ajiboyé Bamgboyé and Francis…
Developer showing a child how to play their game at Drop in and play

Drop in and Play

Drop in and Play is back for January 2025! Try out a range of new games and meet the creatives behind them at this free, drop-in event from 12:30 - 15:30.
Dyed bly fabric with white pattern

Craft Sunday: Shibori Accessories with Syrah Jay

Sun 23 February
Animation still – two boys looking around a garden – one of the boys is glowing from within, his skin lit up warmly

Tony, Shelly and the Magic Light – Schools Screening

Eleven-year-old Tony was born with a unique ability – he glows! This Czech animation will charm film fans ages 7+.
A huge puppet girl walks at sunset, surrounded by puppet birds

The Walk – Schools Screening

For ages 10+, a documentary telling the story of Amal, the 12-foot-tall puppet who travelled across Europe in 2021.
A multicoloured painting hung on a white wall. colours bleed into each other in the painting

We Contain Multitudes

A group show featuring work by Andrew Gannon, Daisy Lafarge, Jo Longhurst and Nnena Kalu. Across textiles, photography, sculpture and drawing, the exhibition…
A poster image with a print of a surprised looking black woman wearing a headscarf and a bright pink background

Artist's Choice Screening: The Watermelon Woman

Selected by artist Helen Cammock as her Artist’s Choice Screening.  Fae Richards was a beautiful yet obscured Black actress from the 1930s.…
Black and white lino cuts hanging up to dry in DCA Print Studio

Introduction to Lino Cutting

Tue 14 January & Tue 21 January
Tutor helping a person to pull a screen print while other class members watch

Introduction to Screen Printing

Tue 18 February, Tue 25 February & Tue 4 March
Two people smiling as they prepare a screen for printing in DCA Print Studio

Introduction to Screen Printing

Sat 18 January
Two mono prints made using flowers, plants, net and string

Introduction to Mono Printing

Sat 1 February
Collection of paper made using pulp

Introduction to Papermaking

Sat 15 February
Person painting letters on a sign with yellow lettering

Signwriting

Sat 22 & Sun 23 March
Person revealing a Japanese Woodblock print of birds

Japanese Woodblock Printing

Sat 29 & Sun 30 March
People loking through a pile of handmade books

Bookbinding: Non-adhesive Techniques

Starts Wed 29 January
Person using the GoccoPro machine to transfer and image onto screen printing mesh

GoccoPro Screen Printing

Wed 5 February, Wed 12 February & Wed 19 February
Class bowl with green leaves in it, hanging in a macrame plant hanger

Craft Sunday: Macramé Plant Hangers with Le Petit Moose

Sun 26 January
Rolls of patterned wall paper draped over a pole in a gallery space

In the Evening There is Feeling: Reading 'English Magic'

Led by DCA’s Exhibitions team, In the Evening There is Feeling  is DCA’s reading and listening group. It takes its name from Gertrude Stein’s 1914 book Tender Buttons and…
Parent and child sitting in the cinema

Family Activity at DCA

Find out what's on for families during December and download our Family Activity Calendar
Learning artist helping a fmily to screen print in Create Space

Learning

See, think, make and do at DCA
Our Infant Changing Space, decorated with paintings of flowers and green walls.

A new look for our infant feeding and changing space

We're excited to share the new look for our infant feeding area, designed in collaboration with Dundee International Women’s Centre.
Peruvian flag and completed activit sheets on the wall of Create Space

Activity Sheets Inspired by Claudia Martínez Garay

Design your own tufting, create a coat of arms and more
Pots with pens, pencils and crayons beside trays of My Family Rug activity sheets in DCA Create Space

Activity Sheets Inspired by Sukaina Kubba

Design your own family rug
Dunning Primary pupils test out new animation technologies.

Dunning Primary test drive new Animating Science resources

As our Animating Science project with University of Dundee’s School of Life Sciences comes to an end, Dunning Primary test out new teaching resources…
Small cut out figures of a sound person, camera person and actor

Activity Sheets Inspired by Michelle Williams Gamaker

Explore film characters and create your own film set
Families sitting at tables in Gallery 1 doing creative activities

Creative Fun at Spring Holiday Pop-up 2024

Take a look at the prints, artwork and fun created at DCA during the school holidays
Text reading 'see, think, make, do' on a blue background surrounded by colourful shapes

Learn about our Learning team

See what the team get up to
Zineb Sedira working on a silk screen in DCA Print Studio

Experimenting with Print: Zineb Sedira in DCA Print Studio

Exhibiting artist Zineb Sedira returns to DCA

A group of people choose paints in DCA Print Studio.

Print Studio

State-of-the-art facilities for printmaking, photography and digital design
Students in blue t-shirts make stop motion animation films at DCA

Arranging a Group Visit

We welcome groups of all ages to our Galleries, Create Space, Cinema and Print Studio throughout the year.If you are interested in bringing a group to…
Children sitting around tables in Gallery 1 doing art making. The wall behind them is covered in children's artwork

Business Support

Business partnerships with DCA
A print studio with a large screen-printing screen and drier visible colourful ink pots in the background

DCA Print Studio x Jerwood Residency

We’re delighted to offer one early career UK artist a fully funded four-week residency based in DCA Print Studio.

DCA Galleries during Fiona Banner's exhibition - a high table is covered in melting wax candles, large words written in grey concrete sit on the floor, and a vertical banner of colourful string hangs from the wall.

Fiona Banner/Ann Lislegaard

Your Plinth is My Lap/The Space Between Us
A gallery full of dark blue light, with a film projected on a wall showing a figure lying on its back with a cloud of insects above it.

Gallery

Contemporary art exhibitions in our two beautiful gallery spaces
The Centrespace is set up with a table for 10 people. The projector screen shows a website.

Centrespace

A flexible, accessible combination of spaces, with a capacity of 150.
DCA Building from the front

Getting around the building

Explore our acclaimed, welcoming civic space
In DCA Galleries, there are two metallic, rocket shaped objects sitting in the middle of the room.

Olafur Eliasson

Your position surrounded and your surroundings positioned
DCA Meeting Room. A large table is set up.

Venue Hire

DCA is the perfect venue for your event

Meeting Room

Highly equipped, flexible and licensed for up to 70 delegates.
A large white sculpture in the corner with the image of a dog against the

Our 2025/26 Exhibitions programme

We're delighted to announce details of our forthcoming exhibitions programme
Three large freestanding photographs of rock formations displayed in the gallery.

Zineb Sedira

Can't You See the Sea Changing?
Photograph shows an installation in a brightly lit gallery with white walls and grey floor. There are large black pleated curtains hanging in the space, nearly to the ceiling. These are hung in broad sweeping diagonals across the large floorspace. On the wall to the right is a photograph framed.

Mary McIntyre

Places We Think We Know
A floor based work is shown in gallery one. The walls are white and the gallery floor is painted grey. On top of this, a sculptural floor is lain in blocks, raising the floor over most of the gallery. This work is brightly coloured, with pastel blue green, yellow orange and pink, in abstract shapes.

Andrew Lacon

Fragments
Photograph shows an installation in gallery 2, with natural light. Stright ahead on the back wall is patterned wall coverings with orange blocks in a grid on a greaty background. Sheets of metal painted white hang from the ceiling overhead. On the floor ahead of us at the back are cast bricks. To the left is a black long strip of rubber leading to the auxiliary space.

Kate V Robertson

This Mess is Kept Afloat
DCA Gallerie during Roman Signer's exhibition. A red kayak can be seen in the middle of the room, along with a red tent.

Roman Signer

Installations
A white greenhouse sits in DCA Galleries. The greenhouse is filled with sunflowers and other flowers.

Summer Exhibitions 2009

GANGHUT, Susanne Nørregård Nielsen, and Rob Hunter & John Louden
Sculptures from Camilla Løw's exhibition. Black cubes are stacked on top of each other, with yellow and blue coloured rectangular frames placed on top of them.

Camilla Løw

Straight Letters
Selected images from Grönlund\Nisunen's exhibition in DCA Galleries. A huge, white, curved shape fills the gallery, almost to the height of the ceiling. In another image, orange geometric lines cover a wall.

Grönlund\Nisunen

Grönlund\Nisunen
A wide shot of DCA Galleries during Somewhere Everywhere Nowhere. Canvases are hanging on the wall.

Somewhere Everywhere Nowhere

Collections sans Frontières III

Images from Nahum Tevet/Ergin Çavuşoğlu's exhibition show a large structure made out of frames of plywood, which are painted different colours.

Nahum Tevet/Ergin Çavuşoğlu

Seven Walks / Entanglement
Framed paintings of gardens with trees.

George Shaw

What I Did This Summer
A black, hanging tapestry in DCA Galleries created by Sukaina Kubba. It has floral patterns on it created with a 3D pen.

Sukaina Kubba

Turn Me Into a Flower
Close up of Tay Series II Small Silk Scarf with blue, purple and pink painterly marks

Tay Series: Talking silk scarves with Joanna Craig

Explore our capsule collection of silk scarves created by local artist and designer Joanna Craig and inspired by Dundee and the Tay.
Someone doing Japanese Brush Calligraphy in DCA Print Studio

Celebrating Kimono: Kyoto to Catwalk

Join us for special screenings and Japanese-inspired courses to coincide with V&A Dundee's exhibition.
Row of illustrated Christmas crackers on a green background

Christmas at DCA

Enjoy the festivities at DCA with workshops, events and screenings.
A print studio with a large screen-printing screen and drier visible colourful ink pots in the background

DCA Print Studio x Jerwood Residencies returns

DCA Print Studio x Jerwood Residency

The exterior of DCA

We need your support

Our funding is at risk in Dundee City Council's budget consultation
Children attend Discovery Film Festival

Support DCA

Every penny you give makes a difference
Children drawing at a table in Create Space

Gifts in Wills

Support DCA for future generations
Installation documentation showing a hanging hammock form to the left hand side of the image, a colourful sculpture composed of painted found materials and circle motifs, braided together in strands. In the background to the left of the bright gallery, on a white wall, is a rectangular artwork mainly white, purple, orange and blue.

Rachel Eulena Williams

Hair and Body

A hanging artwork on the right hand side of the image has watercolour figures and writing. To the left of the image can be seen another hanging work strung across the gallery. On a small wooden plinth to the left hand side of the image is a textile work.

Emma Talbot

Ghost Calls
From Hiraki Sawa's exhibition. A blue, dome-like structure which has been separated by wire into segments, hangs from the ceiling. In the background, a screen shows a picture of an orange camera.

Hiraki Sawa

Lenticular
a white gallery space with colourful tuftings on the wall and bright mural in the centre

Claudia Martínez Garay

Every seed is awakened
The exterior of DCA from the Nethergate

Paid work experience placements

Work experience placements at DCA in our Learning and Print Studio teams specifically for people from global majority backgrounds.