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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 2025.
Lego Dot printing

Sip and Print: Lego Printing

Join us in February for a fun, social printing session.
Collection of Lego Dot prints

Sip and Print: Lego Printing

Beat the January blues with a fun, social printing session.
Lego prints of flowers in black ink on pink paper

Sip and Print: Lego Printing

Celebrate spring with a fun, social printing session in March.
Selection of wood blocks engraved with different designs

Wood Engraving

Thu 5, Thu 12, Thu 19 & Thu 26 February 2026
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
Peolpe working printing presses in DCA Print Studio

Soft Ground Etching with Feathers

Sat 7 March 2026
Person spreading ink

Experimental Relief Etch Printing

Sat 14 & Sun 15 February 2026
Aquatin print of a landscape drawing

Aquatint Etching

Wed 18 February, Wed 25 February & Wed 4 March 2026
Family making in DCA Create Space

Family Art Lab: bone stone voice alone (January)

Please book an individual ticket for everyone who is coming - Suitable for all ages with grown ups   Family Art Labs offer relaxed time and space to get…
Sofa area in Create Space

Breast Buddies Dundee

DCA is a new home for Breast Buddies Dundee.

Two horses pull a fuel tanker on a track in a rainforest

Adrián Balseca: In the Forest Ruins

In Gallery 2, Ecuadorian artist Adrián Balseca will present a major new sculptural installation:In the Forest Ruins.The exhibition will develop…
A painting on the wall with female figures the images spread onto the walls

France-Lise McGurn

In late summer, we will present a major new exhibition by Scottish artist France-Lise McGurn. McGurn studied at Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art and…
A pair of silver slippers on a ruby red carpet

Francis Dosoo: Portrait of Dorothy Gale

Francis Dosoo will fill DCA’s gallery 1 with a new installation work which uses the 1978 film The Wiz, a reimagining of The Wizard of Oz, as a point of…
A child plays a video game at Drop in and Play while a game developer watches them and smiles.

Drop in and Play

Join us on Sat 24 January between 12:30 and 15:30 for DCA's free, drop-in gaming event.
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

Glass sculptures on paper with farm machinery in the background

Lauren Gault: bone stone voice alone

bone stone voice alone is a newly commissioned body of work by artist Lauren Gault, curated by May Rosenthal Sloan. The exhibition marks Gault’s first…
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 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
Two people sitting at a table in DCA Print Studio drawing designs onto lino

Introduction to Lino Cutting

Thu 22 & Thu 29 January 2026
Person drawing on a slab of limestone

Introduction to Stone Lithography

Sat 7 & Sun 8 February 2026
Selechtion of small and large brushes with different coloured thread

Craft Sunday: Brush Making with The Bumbling Basketeer

Join Simon Cooper, otherwise known as The Bumbling Basketeer, for a relaxed workshop exploring the craft of brush making.

Person painting letters on a sign with yellow lettering

Signwriting

Sat 21 & Sun 22 March 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
Selection of spoons carved from wood

Craft Sunday: Spoon Carving with Louise Forbes

Join us for a fun filled day and learn how to carve your own spoon with Angus-based designer and maker Louise Forbes.

Baby covered in pain holding up a paintbrush

Messy Play for 0-3s

Messy Play sessions for February 2026
Young girls playing with soundplay equipment

Soundplay for 0-5s

A bookable session for ages 0 - 5 to have fun with sound and light.
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 painting onto a piece of paper using their hands

Messy Play for 0-3s

Messy play sessions for December 2025
Parents wearing red aprons and holding a baby who is covered in purple paint

Messy Play for 0-3s

Messy Play sessions for January 2026
Two babies play with paint at Messy Play.

Messy Play for 0-3s

Messy Play sessions for March 2026
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.
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
Illustrated penguins and Christmas trees

Family Activity at DCA

Find out what's on for families during December and download our Family Activity Calendar
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
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
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…
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
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
Adult and two children in Create Space

Why families love Family Art Lab

We take a look at the benefits families feel from creating art together.
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
A gallery wall with image, a shelf with three books facing forwards on it, two the left two horizontal pictures. Details are unclear.

Unfolding ~ Correspondent

Curated by Katherine Murphy
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

Children make art together during Spring Holiday Pop-up at DCA

Remember a Charity Week

Mon 8 - Sun 14 September 2025
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
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

A child wearing headphones looks up at a monitor while playing a video game at Drop in and Play

Celebrating DCA's partnership with Ninja Kiwi

Working together on Drop in and Play and more
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.
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.
Group of 5 illustrated penguins wearing hats and scarves

Christmas at DCA

Enjoy the festivities at DCA with workshops, events and screenings.
We Contain Multitudes

Funded by the Paul Hamlyn Foundation, We Contain Multitudes is a three-year collaborative project between DCA, Collective and Lux, working towards creating…
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