In our last working week of the year, it is now a firmly cemented Toogs-tradition to take stock of the achievements in and around Gaada’s orbit (and breathe a collective sigh of relief/realise why we are feeling a little bit exhausted) through our final blog post of 2023:
WHAT DO ARTISTS DO ALL YEAR?

Join us online for Gaada’s next talk by Rosanna Martin, a Cornwall based ceramic artist and founder of experimental brick-making project Brickfield.

Join us in celebrating voar with the first ever Peer Group Pot Luck!

Our first overseas travel blog documenting the first installment of Gaada’s partnership with Norwegian based workshop, Pamflett!

Gaada’s playful pseudonym the Shetland Gay Bird Club has been recognised in a Scottish Parliamentary Motion.

Gaada co-directors Daniel Clark and Amy Gear speak with Scottish Art News.

Join us for an informal Zoom conversation with artist, Rosalie Schweiker.

Gaada will be hosting an Artist Drop In for a-n The Artists Information Company and sharing some of our experience of working in a rural setting.

A summer programme of walks, talks + workshops as part of Gaada’s 2021/22 Visual Art Programme, Safeland.

Artist, Sean Edwards will join us via Zoom to generously share his practice, followed by an informal chat and time for questions.

Gaada director Amy Gear is an invited speaker for Scottish Artist Union’s ‘One Shared Owner’ talk series.

Gaada was featured on BBC Radio 4’s Front Row Programme!

Gaada’s Programme Coordinator, Vivian Ross-Smith, was recently interviewed by Art UK.

STV News recently aired a feature on the Gaada workshop!

We share the process of working with 86 young artists to create a collaborative mural for the Hamnavoe Primary School grounds as part of the Hamnavoe Safe Haven project.

A-N Celebrates their 40th birthday with 40 artists in 40 years. Gaada’s founding directors Daniel Clark and Amy Gear speak about balancing being art organisers and artists at Gaada, and what it means to be artists in Shetland

Gaada founding director, Daniel Clark has been featured in short film by Scotland + Venice 2021 for the 17th International Architecture Exhibition at the V&A Dundee.

Gaada has been mentioned alongside some of Scotland’s leading art organisations in an article published today by The Scotsman.

Karl Johnson shares his thoughts on the Weemin’s Wark Project in this article Activism, Art and Archiving at the Edge.

Glasgow Womans Library are hosting ‘Seeing Things (Together)’ a free event on 26th March at 3:00 pm - 4:30 pm which will focus on Weemin’s Wark.