We are excited to announce the recipients of the 2022/23 Gaada Workshop Bursaries.

We are sending a huge thank you to all the folk who visited the Gaada Workshop this weekend for Doors Open Days.

We are now inviting folk to sign up for Peer Group’s Hairst Gathering on Sat 8 Oct 2022, 10am - 1pm.

We recently spoke with Scottish Contemporary Art Network about Weemin’s Wark and the Up Helly Aa commitee’s recent decision to allow woman and non-binary people to participate in the festival.

We are taking part in Doors Open Days 2022 and look forward to welcoming folk into the Gaada workshop on 24th + 25th September

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

Sally Huband shares her experience and outcomes as a Workshop Bursary recipient

Between 19th August - 29th October, Glasgow Women’s Library are exhibiting artwork from Gaada’s 2020/21 Weemin’s Wark programme.

Shetland artist Brian Sinclair, who attends weekly one-to-one workshops at Gaada, is currently exhibiting at Scalloway restaurant Da Haaf.

Claire Davenport generously writes about her time at Gaada for a Workshop Bursary

Artist Jane Cockayne shares her exploration into risograph for her Workshop Bursary

Gaada is now accepting applications for our 2022/23 Workshop Bursaries progamme

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

Gaada is excited to have reaffirmed core funding support from Creative Scotland and Shetland Charitable Trust for it’s 2022/23 visual art programme.

Andy Anderson shares his experience as a 2021/22 Workshop Bursary recipient

Gaada has been awarded a Scots Language Publication Grant from the Scottish Book Trust to support a collaboration between Shetland writers, Marjolein Robertson and Roseanne Watt.

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

Gaada has awarded Elouise Spooner with a Workshop Bursary Award for her UHI Degree Show work.

We are excited to announce the recipients of Gaada’s Safeland Micro-Commissions

Artist Elie Coutts shares her experience collaborating with Project Ability artist, Cameron Morgan.