REVEAL Scotland

Award-winning, partially-sighted Scottish landscape painter Keith Salmon has just returned from another successful trip to Germany. Keith spent two weeks in Speyer, one of Germany’s oldest and most beautiful cities located next to the river Rhine. Invited back after a successful residency last summer, which saw him live and work for four months in Speyer’s [...]

Pathways to the Profession Symposium – Addressing the issues inhibiting inclusion of disabled people ‘What if arts directors and casting agents could choose from professionally trained performing talent representing the whole of our society? What if we could hear everybody’s stories and add real breadth of choice and range of life experience to the future [...]

Press to paper Dates: 26 Nov 2011 – 23 Dec 2011 Preview: Thursday 01 December, 6pm – 8pm Location: Project Ability Gallery, Trongate 103 Admission: Free Project Ability’s annual Xmas Show will once again be all about prints! The exhibition will explore a variety of printmaking techniques; screenprinting, monoprinting, drypoint, linocut and lithography compiling the [...]

In a war-torn land, a young woman takes a stand against her city. Antigone’s parents are gone. Her brothers have destroyed each other in battle. And one of them has been branded a traitor – anyone caught burying his body will be punished with death. But Antigone cannot desert that duty to her family. As [...]

Caroline Bowditch has been Scottish Dance Theatre’s Dance Agent for Change for the past three years. Here she talks about playing ‘Devil’s Advocate’ – asking if it’s the dance industry or disabled dancers themselves that need to take the next great leap of faith. My work at Scottish Dance Theatre has taught me many things. [...]

Thomas Cochrane runs Twisty-Headed Man, a mental health arts charity founded in Glasgow in 1987. His policy over the years has been not to refer to the group’s mental health problems in any exhibition or publicity, as he explains to me over a bacon buttie in Partick’s Avanti Cafe. The Twisty-Headed Man Company is a [...]

New Paintings by KEITH SALMON & PAIRED UP Two paintings each from a selected group of artists including… Francis Boag, Helga Chart RSW, Claire harkess RSW, Martin Hill, Eleanor Carlingford, John Johnstone, Jean Martin RSW, Nichola Martin, Christine McArthur RSW, Morag Muir, Anne Skinner, Heather Soutar. OCTOBER 22ND – NOVEMBER 11TH The Queen’s Gallery 160 [...]

“It’s about changing the context of how people look at you – asking the question, what is virtuosic?” You don’t get much more high-profile at present in the Scottish dance scene than Claire Cunningham. Her invention of a whole new vocabulary of dance and movement built on and around her crutches has won her numerous [...]

Ramesh Meyyappan has recently been awarded a year’s residency with Solar Bear theatre company. This is an opportunity to focus on developing his own skills whilst supporting the aims of Solar Bear: to raise the profile of deaf performers in the UK as well as developing a network with the wider international deaf arts community. [...]

Young Talent, now in its eleventh year, is an exhibition of artwork created by children and young people with disabilities. This year, we have a vibrant and eclectic mixture of painting, drawing, printmaking, ceramics and textiles. Young Talent 2011 is a colourful playground of artwork showcasing different techniques and visions, full of innovation, adventure and [...]