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Two children painting in Create Space

Create Space

Take a look at our Create Space opening times for July 2025
Pens, pencils and scissors in DCA Create Space

Create Space

Take a look at our Create Space opening times for June 2025
Two children surrounded by toys in DCA Create Space

Bring a Baby: Stay and Play

A dedicated session to give parents and caregivers with babies and children under three a calm space to play and relax together while visiting Acts of…
An inviting space with sofas and plants

Quiet Space

We have created a Quiet Space, next to the exhibition, where you can take the time to pause. There will be comfy seating and a calm environment for…
Wood engraving of a squirrel

Wood Engraving

Tue 9 September, Tue 16 September, Tue 23 September & Tue 30 September
Table covered in colourful Riso prints

Riso Printing (Beginners)

Tue 1 & Tue 8 July
Person spreading ink

Experimental Relief Etch Printing

Sat 28 & Sun 29 June
Hardcover Book Binding with Suminagashi Decoration

Hardcover Bookbinding with Suminagashi Decoration

Wed 6 August, Wed 13 August, Wed 20 August & Wed 27 August
Table with wood engraving tools lines up

Introduction to Wood Engraving

Sun 3 August
Riso printing machine in DCA Print Studio surrounded by computer ink drums and riso prints

Riso Printing (Beginners)

Tue 29 July & Tue 5 August
Person loading a Riso machine with ink

Riso Printing (Beginners)

Thu 25 September & Thu 2 October
Seelction of etching plates and prints featuring feathers

Soft Ground Etching with Feathers

Sat 2 August
Selection of four prints made by Aquatint Etching

Aquatint Etching

Thu 4 September, Thu 11 September & Thu 18 September 
Familiesdoing activity sheets in Create Space

Family Art Lab: Acts of Creation: On Art and Motherhood

Sun 6 July
Sofa area in Create Space

Breast Buddies Dundee

Every Monday
Baby covered in pain holding up a paintbrush

Messy Play for 0-3s

August 2025
Parents wearing red aprons and holding a baby who is covered in purple paint

Messy Play for 0-3s

September 2025
A young woman stands with her arms outstretched, behind four elderly ladies dressed as babushkas touching wine glasses.

The Garden (35mm)

Explore the extraordinary and everyday world of gardens in a specially curated series of films, screening in collaboration with V&A Dundee's major…
A little boy and a worm-like space alien float through a colourful galaxy together.

Elio

What if the thing you were searching for found you first?For centuries, people have called out to the universe looking for answers, and in Disney and…
Three people and one man made out of rocks stand behind a giant number 4, all wearing blue suits with the number 4 on them.

The Fantastic Four: First Steps

Set against the vibrant backdrop of a 1960s-inspired, retro-futuristic world, Marvel Studios’ The Fantastic Four: First Steps introduces Marvel’s First…
A yacht sails down a riverbank, flanked by green trees

Wind, Tide & Oar

Wind, Tide & Oar is a compelling exploration of engineless sailing, shot on analogue film over three years. The film delves into the experiences of…
A little boy and a worm-like monster with a smiley face look at a table covered in sparkling food.

Bring a Baby: Elio

What if the thing you were searching for found you first?For centuries, people have called out to the universe looking for answers, and in Disney and…
Two men wearing white and blue space suits stand next to each other smiling.

Bring a Baby: The Fantastic Four: First Steps

Set against the vibrant backdrop of a 1960s-inspired, retro-futuristic world, Marvel Studios’ The Fantastic Four: First Steps introduces Marvel’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…
Artist drawing onto a slab of limestone

Masterclass: Stone Lithography

Fri 15 – Sun 17 August
A beautiful handcarved wooden fireplace

Tim Stead: Magician With Wood + Q&A

We are delighted to welcome filmmaker Beatrix A. Wood to DCA for a post-screening Q&A discussion.This film is an inspirational story about the innovative…
Two people doing screen printing in DCA Print Studio

Introduction to Screen Printing

Sat 23 August
Close up of hands holding a tub of blue ink and a spatula

Introduction to Screen Printing

Sat 12 July
Sign painted with gold text with open pots of paints and brushes beside it

Signwriting

Sat 26 & Sun 27 July
Person using the GoccoPro machine to transfer and image onto screen printing mesh

GoccoPro Screen Printing

Tue 19 August, Tue 26 August & Tue 2 September
Person revealing a Japanese Woodblock print of birds

Japanese Woodblock Printing

Sat 27 & Sun 28 September
Two people sitting at a table in DCA Print Studio drawing designs onto lino

Introduction to Lino Cutting

Sun 31 August
Tapestry showing the three Forth bridges

Craft Sunday: Landscape Tapestry with Freya Mabel Makes

Sun 27 July
Selection of baskets made from fabric scraps

Craft Sunday: Upcycled Fabric Baskets with Eilidh Weir

Sun 24 August
Table covered in paints and brushes and an image of a sunflower

Watercolour Mono Printing

Sat 30 August
Person working on Illustrator on a Mac computer

Adobe Illustrator

Thu 4 September, Thu 11 September, Thu 18 September & Thu 25 September 
people looking at images on the wall of Create Space

Mothers Who Make: Responding Through Art

A display of art created by mothers in response to Acts of Creation: On Art and Motherhood in DCA Galleries.

A gallery space with the walls painted deep blue with large paintings photography and video works on display

Feeding Your Baby

A day of caring workshops led by Liesel BurischWe're delighted to welcome Liesel Burisch, an expert in queer nursing and family support, to DCA for a…
A gallery space with the walls painted deep blue with large paintings photography and video works on display

How Can I Help?

How to support someone who is planning to nurse or is nursing We're delighted to welcome Liesel Burisch, an expert in queer nursing and family support,…
Two children playing with toys at Stay and Play

Family Activity at DCA

Find out what's on for families during June 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

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
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
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
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
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.
Collage of stills from Elio and images of children in the cinema and doing creative activities

Summer Holidays at DCA

Join us for family films, free creative activities, and more during the school holidays.
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…
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

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.
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
Sensory bags in the galleries

Sensory bags

Sensory bags are now available in our galleries

A little boy wearing a superhero costume stands smiling next to a group of unusual, colourful aliens.

New films from Fri 27 June

See what's on including Elio, Jane Austen Wrecked My Life, 28 Years Later and more.
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
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
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
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
Children sitting at a table in Create Space doing creative activities

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