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Photo enlargers in the darkroom at DCA Print Studio

Black and White Photography: Darkroom for Beginners

Sat 6 & Sun 7 December 2025
Person holding up photographic negatives

Black and White Photography: Darkroom for Beginners

Sat 21 & Sun 22 March 2026
Black and white photograph of a rocky shore

Photography Forum

Last Saturday of every month (excluding December / runs on Sat 24 in January 2026)
Black and white photos of DCA taken with a pinhole camera hanging up to dry

Create Your Own Pinhole Camera

Sat 1 November 2025
Black and white chemigram with a heart shape

Kitchen Darkroom Photography

Sun 8 March 2026
Person smiling a they take a picture with a digital camer

Introduction to Digital Photography

Sat 21 & Sun 22 February 2026
Person holding a digital camera and looking at the screen on the back of it which shows an image of a flower

Introduction to Digital Photography

Sat 15 & Sun 16 November 2025
Selection of wood blocks engraved with different designs

Wood Engraving

Thu 5, Thu 12, Thu 19 & Thu 26 February 2026
Wood engraving or jars

Wood Engraving

Wed 5, Wed 12, Wed 19 & Wed 26 November 2025
A black-and-white film still shows a man wearing a suit and a hat and a woman with a short haircut walking down a Paris street in the 1960s.

Nouvelle Vague

Richard Linklater (Boyhood) writes a love letter to French cinema in Nouvelle Vague, a delightful black-and-white tribute to the development of Jean-Luc…
A man and woman kiss in a scene from a 1940s film.

Letter from an Unknown Woman

Screening as part of BFI's UK-wide season Too Much: Melodrama on Film. See any 3 titles in the season for £24 when you book them together – simply log…
A man in a leather jacket walks down a rainy street at night

Springsteen: Deliver Me from Nowhere

Starring Jeremy Allen White (The Bear) as Bruce Springsteen, Deliver Me from Nowhere chronicles the making of Springsteen's 1982 Nebraska album. Recorded…
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…
Three people looking at examples of prints created in DCA Print Studio

Introduction to Printmaking

Sat 10 January 2026
Two men stand opposite each other, looking at one another.

NT Live: The Fifth Step

Olivier Award-winner Jack Lowden (Slow Horses, Dunkirk) is joined by Emmy and BAFTA-winner Martin Freeman (The Hobbit, The Responder) in the critically…
Person doing mezzotint printing in DCA Print Studio

Mezzotint

Sat 31 January 2026
A group of people choose paints in DCA Print Studio.

Print Studio

State-of-the-art facilities for printmaking, photography and digital design
An image from Santiago Sierra's exhibition Black Flag shows black and white photography in black frames on white walls.

Santiago Sierra

Black Flag
Paper with coloured in objects that can be found in the kitchen

Activity Sheets Inspired by Acts of Creation: On Art and Motherhood

Create portraits, fill your kitchen table and share a powerful message.

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Last updated Thu 21 September 2023We at Dundee Contemporary Arts (DCA) are committed to maintaining your privacy and looking after the personal information…
From the Ellipsis exhibition. A row of 14 televisions each display blurry black-and-white images.

Ellipsis

Chantal Akerman, Lili Dujourie and Francesca Woodman

An installation view of the exhibition, showing the film on a screen in front of the red seating area. The gallery walls are mottled green.

Saoirse Amira Anis

symphony for a fraying body

A work from Ernesto Neto - white netting is stretched out across a gallery. It is semi-transparent and people can be seen walking through it.

Ernesto Neto

Ernesto Neto
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 multicoloured painting hung on a white wall. colours bleed into each other in the painting

We Contain Multitudes

We take a closer look at one of our upcoming exhibitions and the exciting project behind it.
People looking at shelves of ink in DCA Print Studio

Get Creative in DCA Print Studio: October 2025 - March 2026

Book now for our autumn/winter Print Studio classes.

Three large freestanding photographs of rock formations displayed in the gallery.

Zineb Sedira

Can't You See the Sea Changing?
This image shows a dark gallery with a video projection. In the film we can see a young person stood behind a bar, with two empty chairs pulled up on the other side.

Chikako Yamashiro

Chinbin Western
An architectural model of a building made out of wood.

Grey Gardens

Festival of Architecture
A close-up shot of 3 t-shirts which hang on a rack in DCA Galleries as part of 'Spring / Summer 2015' exhibition. They are neon and have pictures of Maripol on them.

Maripol, Clare Stephenson and Zoe Williams

Spring / Summer 2015
Selected images from Behind Closed Doors at DCA Galleries. One image shows tables with pictures on them. There is also a large framed abstract painting with pink and black in it. In another image, lights hang from the ceiling, along with flat-screen televisions with black-and-white pictures of buildings on them. In another image, there is a framed picture of foliage and buildings. Through a door, a dark image of an industrial building can be seen.

Behind Closed Doors

Monica Bonvicini, Dan Graham, Hans Haacke, Candida Höfer, Hiraki Sawa, Sean Snyder, Vangelis Vlahos, Amelie von Wulffen, Jane & Louise Wilson.
A colourful stall covered in t-shirts with slogans written on them.

Here + Now

Scottish Art 1990 - 2001
DCA Galleries during the Trauma exhibition. People walk around the galleries, looking at sculptures and canvases on the walls.

Trauma

Martin Boyce, Willie Doherty, Kendell Geers, Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Johan Grimonprez, Guillermo Kuitca, Maria Lindberg, Tracey Moffatt, Lucia Nogueira,…
DCA Galleries during Beyond / Photographs - there are white, geometric cubes and shapes on the gallery floors. There is a large brown mural on the white walls.

Beyond / Photographs

Lolly Batty, Luke Fowler, Robert Orchardson, Toby Paterson, Clare Stephenson and Clare Woods / Sophy Rickett
a pink gallery space with paintings prints and photos on the rear wall. In the foreground a small girls uniform and a silk banner

Acts of Creation: On Art and Motherhood 

Curated by Hettie Judah with Hayward Gallery Touring
A film photograph image with a black background shows interlinked hands and arms, holding each other, as if knotted together. The image is slightly blurred.

Matthew Arthur Williams

Soon Come

A photograph of a two channel video installation, with two screens leaned on the floor against a dark orange wall. On the screens can be seen a close up of some rough red rocks. To the left of the image, a black 1980s style radio sits on a white shelf at waist level.

Tako Taal

At the shore, everything touches
Installation image showing a vibrantly painted wall, in orange and fiery tones, at the end of gallery two. To the left an artwork consisting of sewn patchwork denim pieces hang in a grid is suspended from the ceiling. To the back right we can see two vitrines with apexes.

Seized by the Left Hand

Curated by Eoin Dara and Kim McAleese