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Children drawing at a table in Create Space

Create Space

Take a look at our Create Space opening times for September 2025.
a close up of a patterned quilt, with rectangles in blue, green and whilte with black paint strokes

Unfolding ~ Correspondent

We're delighted to present Unfolding ~ Correspondent, an ambitious exhibition and publication project curated by Katherine Murphy.  The project brings…
Black and white photos of DCA taken with a pinhole camera hanging up to dry

Create Your Own Pinhole Camera

Sat 1 November 2025
Painted tray displayed on wall beside framed prints

Craft Sunday: Hand Painted Trays with Moo & May Studio

Create your own decorative hand painted tray.

Selection of hardcover books

Hardcover Bookbinding

Thu 23 October, Thu 30 October, Thu 13 November & Thu 20 November 2025
Wood engraving of a squirrel

Wood Engraving

Tue 9 September, Tue 16 September, Tue 23 September & Tue 30 September
Selection of wood blocks engraved with different designs

Wood Engraving

Thu 5, Thu 12, Thu 19 & Thu 26 February 2026
Riso printing machine in DCA Print Studio surrounded by computer ink drums and riso prints

Riso Printing (Beginners)

Thu 4 December & Thu 11 December 2025
Table covered in colourful Riso prints

Riso Printing (Beginners)

Tue 14 October & Tue 21 October 2025
Empty riso printing ink drums

Riso Printing (Beginners)

Wed 14 January & Wed 21 January 2026
Riso prints on a table beside a Riso Print machine

Riso Printing (Beginners)

Tue 24 March & Tue 31 March 2026
Table with wood engraving tools lines up

Introduction to Wood Engraving

Sun 18 January 2026
Person carving into a wood block

Introduction to Wood Engraving

Sun 19 October 2025
Peolpe working printing presses in DCA Print Studio

Soft Ground Etching with Feathers

Sat 7 March 2026
Seelction of etching plates and prints featuring feathers

Soft Ground Etching with Feathers

Sat 1 November 2025
Abstract aquatint print

Aquatint Etching

Wed 26 November, Wed 3 December & Wed 10 December 2025
Letterpress type in box with letters laid out beside it to spell Merry

Festive Letterpress

Sat 15 November 2025
Person spreading ink

Experimental Relief Etch Printing

Sat 14 & Sun 15 February 2026
Person loading a Riso machine with ink

Riso Printing (Beginners)

Thu 25 September & Thu 2 October
Selection of four prints made by Aquatint Etching

Aquatint Etching

Thu 4 September, Thu 11 September & Thu 18 September 
Aquatin print of a landscape drawing

Aquatint Etching

Wed 18 February, Wed 25 February & Wed 4 March 2026
Sofa area in Create Space

Breast Buddies Dundee

DCA is a new home for Breast Buddies Dundee.

Parents wearing red aprons and holding a baby who is covered in purple paint

Messy Play for 0-3s

September 2025
A bearded man looks at camera while writing on the blackboard and a small boy throws a paper aeroplane

Jump! - Schools Screening

Age 8+. A buddy film with sci-fi touches that will touch young hearts

Person spreading ink on their screen

Introduction to Screen Printing

Sat 6 December 2025
Person showing their screen print

Introduction to Screen Printing

Sat 24 January 2026
Two people smiling as they prepare a screen for printing in DCA Print Studio

Introduction to Screen Printing

Sat 7 March 2026
Person lifting a screen to show their screenprint

Introduction to Screen Printing

Sat 18 October 2025
Person painting letters on a sign with yellow lettering

Signwriting

Sat 21 & Sun 22 March 2026
Sign painted with gold text with open pots of paints and brushes beside it

Signwriting

Sat 25 & Sun 26 October
Two people sitting at a table in DCA Print Studio drawing designs onto lino

Introduction to Lino Cutting

Thu 22 & Thu 29 January 2026
Black and white lino cuts hanging up to dry in DCA Print Studio

Introduction to Lino Cutting

Tue 28 October & Tue 4 November 2025
Person holding up a mono print of plants in front of a desk covered in mono printing ink and equipment

Introduction to Mono Printing

Sat 22 November 2025
Person drawing on a slab of limestone

Introduction to Stone Lithography

Sat 7 & Sun 8 February 2026
Person using the GoccoPro machine to transfer and image onto screen printing mesh

GoccoPro Screen Printing

Tue 24 February, Tue 3 March & Tue 10 March 2026
Japanese woodbloack prints drying on a rack

Japanese Woodblock Printing

Sat 21 & Sun 22 February 2026
Selection of wooden letter blocks

Masterclass: Illuminate a Page with Letterpress

Fri 27, Sat 28 & Sun 29 March 2026
Black and white image of the front of a ship

Battleship Potemkin with Pet Shop Boys score

This is a special centenary edition of Sergei Eisenstein’s legendary Battleship Potemkin featuring the celebrated Tennant / Lowe score performed by Pet…
Men in 18th century clothing stand on stage in Hamilton.

Hamilton (10th Anniversary)

To celebrate the 10th Anniversary of Hamilton, the recording of the original Broadway cast is hitting the big screen for one day only, including a cast…
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…
Person revealing a Japanese Woodblock print of birds

Japanese Woodblock Printing

Sat 27 & Sun 28 September
Basket full of black and white stars made from card

Christmas Crafternoon

Prepare for the festive season with some Christmas crafts.
animated children, one playing a trumpet, with another looking on and another sitting drawing a picture

Short Film as a Key Resource Across CfE

Focusing on the power of short film for use in the classroom, this session will take us through rich teaching and learning possibilities offered by the…
Children and adults playing on Soundplays Signwave installation

Soundplay for 5+

A bookable session for ages 5+ to have fun with sound and light.
Child leaning on a box with pink lights in the top

Soundplay for 0-5s

A bookable session for ages 0 - 5 to have fun with sound and light.
Selection of spoons carved from wood

Craft Sunday: Spoon Carving with Louise Forbes

Sun 14 September
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

Our infant feeding area was designed in collaboration with Dundee International Women’s Centre.
Adult and child making together

Family Activity at DCA

Find out what's on for families during September and download our Family Activity Calendar
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
Display of screenprints on the wall of Gallery 1 for Spring Holiday Pop-up

A creative start to spring with Spring Holiday Pop-up

Families takeover Gallery 1 to kick start the school holidays
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
Paper weavings on a table in Create Space

Activity Sheets Inspired by Soft Impressions

Draw your own Dundee shapes and try weaving with paper
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.
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

Person creating a backdrop for an animation using collaged paper

Animation and printmaking at ST/ART

See the animations and prints created during our ST/ART Spring School 2025.
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 at a table in Create Space doing creative activities

Gifts in Wills

Your memory lives on through a gift to DCA

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
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's media suite, which features two chairs, a round table, microphone and large television display.

Media Suite

DCA's Media Suite is located on Floor -1 and is the ideal space for recording podcasts, interviews and other audio content.

Vote for our Community Greenspace

Dundee Climate Fund 3.0 is here and we'd love for you to vote for our project
DCA Meeting Room. A large table is set up.

Venue Hire

DCA is the perfect venue for your event
DCA Meeting Room. A large table is set up.

Meeting Room

Highly equipped, flexible and licensed for up to 70 delegates.
Sensory bags in the galleries

Sensory bags

Sensory bags are now available in our galleries

View of inks on a shelf in DCA Print Studio

Get Creative in DCA Print Studio: July - September 2025

Upcoming courses and workshops
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
A gallery space with a large fabric banner on the far wall also visible are two entrances to a darkened space. Two further images are visible on walls either side.

Helen Cammock, Ingrid Pollard and Camara Taylor

Soft Impressions
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.
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
ST/ART participants, volunteers and coordinators standing in front of their display of prints in DCA Create Space

Making meaningful prints with ST/ART

Screen printing and Riso printing are explored in our ST/ART Autumn Schools
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.
Children attend Discovery Film Festival

Support DCA

Every penny you give makes a difference
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
Image of The Phantom of The Opera in red with cream eyes

Dundead presents The Phantom of the Opera on Tour

With live score by Andrew Wasylyk and Tommy Perman