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Two children painting in Create Space

Create Space

Take a look at our Create Space opening times for May 2025
A one-year-old plays with some blocks with toys and soft play visible in the background

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…
A painting of breast pumps, bottles and milk containers

Relaxed Art Making

Join Tayside based artist and creative collaborator Gillian Adair in our Create Space for a special time carved out for parents and caregivers to respond…
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…
Selection of wood blocks engraved with different designs

Wood Engraving

Starts Thu 5 June
Family making in DCA Create Space

Family Make and Take Weaving Session with Cassie Arnold

A certain kind of magic happens when adults can learn and create alongside children. Join us for an exciting session weaving session with exhibiting artist…
Seelction of etching plates and prints featuring feathers

Soft Ground Etching with Feathers

Sat 24 May
Selection of four prints made by Aquatint Etching

Aquatint Etching

Starts Tue 3 June
Table with wood engraving tools lines up

Introduction to Wood Engraving

Sun 11 May
Table covered in colourful Riso prints

Riso Printing (Beginners)

Tue 24 June & Tue 1 July
Person spreading ink

Experimental Relief Etch Printing

Sat 28 & Sun 29 June
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 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…
Two babies play with paint at Messy Play.

Messy Play for 0-3s

June 2025
Child playing with a tub of pink sand

Messy Play for 0-3s

May 2025
Family making in DCA Create Space

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

Please book a ticket for everyone who is coming along, adults and children. Join us for our Family Art Lab where we offer some relaxed time and space…
Bjork sings on stage in an avant-garde costume

Björk: Cornucopia

Björk: Cornucopia, the highly anticipated concert film recorded live in Lisbon, captures the celebrated artist’s groundbreaking tour that mesmerised audiences…
Pots of different coloured pains for signwriting

Signwriting

Sat 17 & Sun 18 May
Lampshades printed with flower and leaf designs with gold leaf details

Craft Sunday: Hand Printed Lampshades with Helen Ruth

Sun 18 May
Artist drawing onto a slab of limestone

Masterclass: Stone Lithography

Fri 15 – Sun 17 August
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…
Person demonstrating screen printing to other people

Introduction to Screen Printing

Sat 14 June
Two people sitting at a table in DCA Print Studio drawing designs onto lino

Introduction to Lino Cutting

Tue 20 May & Tue 27 May
Hello in there wee one book surrounded by baby scan and tys

Hello in There Wee One Workshop

It’s never too early to start getting to know your baby! Inspired by our book Hello in There Wee One, which is being given to all parents-to-be across…
Women sitting a bathtub in a barn with cows. One cows head is nuzzling the women

In the Evening There is Feeling: Reading Acts of Creation

For this edition of our reading group, In the Evening There is Feeling, we will focus on Hettie Judah’s book Acts of Creation: On Art and Motherhood,…
Children and adults playing on Soundplays Signwave installation

Soundplay Drop-in

Sat 10 May
Two children surrounded by toys in DCA Create Space

Family Activity at DCA

Find out what's on for families during May 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
Children playing with soft shapes

Spring Holiday Pop-up

Fri 28 - Sun 30 March: Join us for a long weekend of family fun
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
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
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
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
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

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'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.
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
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
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
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
Sensory bags in the galleries

Sensory bags

Sensory bags are now available in our galleries

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

Zineb Sedira

Can't You See the Sea Changing?
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
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
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

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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 sitting at a table in Create Space doing creative activities

Gifts in Wills

Support DCA for future generations
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
People attend an event in DCA Centrespace

Hires and Events Assistant

35 hours per week
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.
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.
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