Here you’ll find a selection of useful contacts in the Inclusive Arts sector, divided into categories. To add an entry, please email details to revealscotland@artlinkcentral.org
Directory Categories
Organisations
Name: Project Ability
Role: Glasgow-based visual arts organisation with an international reputation for excellence. Creates opportunities for people with disabilities and people with mental health issues, aged 5 years to 80 plus, to express themselves and achieve artistic excellence.
Contact details: Project Ability, 103 Trongate, Glasgow, G1 5HD
Tel: 0141 552 2822
Email: info@project-ability.co.uk
Visit: www.project-ability.co.uk
Name: Drake Music Scotland
Role: Scotland’s leading arts organisation providing music making opportunities for people with disabilities.
Contact details: Drake Music Scotland, SPACE, 11 Harewood Road, Edinburgh, EH16 4NT
Tel: 0131 659 4766
Email: info@drakemusicscotland.org
Visit: www.drakemusicscotland.org
Name: Twisty-Headed Man
Role: Mental health arts charity founded in Glasgow in 1990. Provides high quality arts activities for people experiencing a range of mental health difficulties.
Contact details: Thomas Cochrane – Artist / Filmmaker
Tel: 0141 585 8581
Email: info@twistyhead.co.uk
Visit: www.twistyhead.co.uk
Name: Lung Ha’s Theatre Company
Role: Lung Ha’s Theatre Company exists to provide and inspire opportunities for people with learning disabilities to become actively involved in the performing arts.
Contact details: c/o Lyceum Theatre, 30b Grindlay Street, Edinburgh, EH3 9AX
Tel: 0131 221 9568
Email: info@lunghas.co.uk
Visit: www.lunghas.co.uk
Name: Outside In
Role: Outside In aims to provide a platform for artists who find it difficult to access the art world either because of mental health issues, disability, health or social circumstance.
Contact details: Outside In, c/o Pallant House Gallery 9 North Pallant, Chichester, West Sussex PO19 1TJ
Tel: Jennifer Gilbert – 07735 568 531
Email: outsidein@pallant.org.uk
Visit: www.outsidein.org.uk
Name: Artlink Central
Role: Established in 1988, a charity and arts agency based in Stirling and working across Central Scotland, engaging artists in communities.
Contact details: Artlink Central, Cowane Centre, Cowane Street, Stirling, FK8 1JP
Tel: 01786 450 971
Email: info@artlinkcentral.org
Visit: www.artlinkcentral.org
Name: Flip! Disability Equality in the Arts
Role: Supports organisations of all sizes to embed disability equality within the fabric of their working practice.
Contact details:
Tel: 07776 274 073
Email: contact@flip.org.uk
Visit: www.flip.org.uk
Name: Solar Bear
Role: Solar Bear Ltd is an award-winning theatre company established in 2002 with the aim of developing new multidisciplinary theatre-making processes in order to create exciting, pioneering, accessible theatre of the highest quality for and with people of all ages.
Contact details: The Arches, 253 Argyle Street, Glasgow, G2 8DL
Tel: 0141 221 3240
Email: info@solarbear.org.uk
Visit: www.solarbear.org.uk
Name: Gallery on the Corner
Role: Fully represents and supports inclusive artwork and crafts produced by artists who have a physical or mental health condition or those from a disadvantaged background.
Contact details: 34 Northumberland Street, Edinburgh, EH3 6LS
Tel: 0131 557 8969
Email:
Visit: www.thegalleryonthecorner.org.uk
Dance
Name: Caroline Bowditch
Role: Dance Agent for Change, Scottish Dance Theatre
Contact details: Scottish Dance Theatre, Tay Square, Dundee, DD1 1PB
Tel: 01382 342 600
Email: cbowditch@dundeereptheatre.co.uk
Visit: www.danceagentforchange.co.uk
Read Caroline’s REVEAL profile here
Name: Marc Brew
Role: Performer / Choreographer
Contact details: Sarah Trist Dance Management Agency, 11 Beaufort Road, Kingston upon Thames, KT1 2TH
Tel: 0208 541 5399
Email: marcbrew@hotmail.com
Visit: www.marcbrew.com
Name: Claire Cunningham
Role: Performer / Choreographer
Tel: 07944 881 512
Email: clairecunningham@homecall.co.uk
Visit: www.clairecunningham.co.uk
Name: Ramesh Meyyappan
Role: Producer / Performer
Email: hello@rameshmeyyappan.com
Visit: www.rameshmeyyappan.com
Music
Name: Freeland Barbour
Role: Musician / Composer / Producer
Contact details:
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Visit: http://freelandbarbour.co.uk
Name: Sarah Caltieri
Role: Musician / Actress / Founder of Crazicanes
Contact details: Crazicanes, PO Box 28599, Edinburgh, EH4 9BF
Tel: 0131 332 9745
Email: info@crazicanes.com
Visit: www.crazicanes.com
Name: Sally Clay
Role: Musician / Co-Director, Limelight Studios
Contact details: Limelight Studios, 73-77 Trongate, Glasgow, G1 5HB
Tel: 0141 548 8929
Email: sallyclay@gmail.com
Visit: www.limelight.uk.net
Read Sally’s REVEAL profile here
Name: Alwyn James
Role: Blues Musician / Producer
Tel:
Email: rollwynjames@yahoo.co.uk
Visit: Roll Wyn James on Myspace
Read Alwyn’s REVEAL profile here
Name: Lewis Scott Project
Role: Experimental musician
Contact:
Email:
Visit: Lewis Scott Project on Myspace
Name: Jamie Smith
Role: Musician / Producer / Consultant
Contact details: 0/1, 314 Meadowside Quay Walk, Glasgow, G11 6AY
Tel: 07730 523 008
Email: jamski2004@yahoo.co.uk
Visit: Jamie Smith on Myspace
Name: Rona Topaz
Role: Singer-songwriter / Actress
Contact details:
Tel: 0141 419 0440 / 07792 643 934
Email:
Visit: Rona Topaz on Myspace
Painting
Name: Lynda Frame
Role: Professional artist / Tutor and lecturer
Contact details: Lynda Frame Fine Art, 3 Jamaica Street Studio, Edinburgh, EH3 6HH
Tel: 07824 655 660
Email: art@lyndaframe.com
Visit: http://www.lyndaframe.com/
Name: Lydia Popowich
Role: Visual artist / Community arts worker
Contact details: Forever, 2 Young Crescent, Lybster, Caithness, KW3 6BH
Tel: 07777 601938 or 01593 721318
Email: skidlyd@btinternet.com
Visit: www.lypop.co.uk
Name: Keith Salmon
Role: Freelance artist / painter
Contact details: Studio E, Courtyard Studios, 124–132 Harbour St, Irvine, KA12 8PZ
Tel: 07742 437425 or 01294 216427
Email: keith@keithsalmon.org
Visit: www.keithsalmon.org
Read Keith’s REVEAL profile here
Name: Emma Scott-Smith
Role: Painter / Psychology PhD student
Contact details: Psychology Department, Room 3B90, University of Stirling, Stirling, FK9 4LA
Tel: 01786 466851
Email: emma.scott-smith@stir.ac.uk
Visit: www.emmascott-smith.com
Read Emma’s REVEAL profile here
Theatre
Name: Robert Softley
Role: Actor / Disability Campaigner
Contact:
Tel: 07776 274 073
Email: robert@gale.uk.com
Visit: www.softley.co.uk
Read Robert’s REVEAL profile here
Name: Alison Peebles
Role: Actress / Director
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Email: v.amp@ntlworld.com
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Photography
Name: Craig McGuire
Role: Photographer
Tel: 07984 025 645
Email: craigmcguirephotography@gmail.com
Visit: www.craigmcguire.co.uk
Read Craig’s REVEAL profile here
Name: Rosita McKenzie
Role: Photographer / Disability Consultant
Email: rositamckenzie@blueyonder.co.uk
Visit: www.rositamckenzie.com
Read Rosita’s REVEAL profile here
Writing
Name: Colin Cameron
Role: Writer / Disability Academic
Contact details: School of Health, Community and Education Studies, Northumbria University, Ellison Pl, Newcastle Upon Tyne, NE1 8ST
Tel: 0191 232 6002
Email: colin.cameron@northumbria.ac.uk
Visit: www.northumbria.ac.uk
