The first 2024/25 guest Workshop Bursary blog with screenprinting artist Chloe!

Reflecting on the 2024 instalment of Brigði, an ongoing partnership between artists in Shetland and Norway.

Daniel speaks about collecting on behalf of Gaada at the 2024 Glasgow Zine Fair - one of Scotland’s most exciting annual fairs for artist self-publishing.

Scotland’s museum of design, the V&A Dundee, have launched three exclusive new editions by artist Struan Haswell + Gaada.

Job Opportunity

We are looking for a new print artist and organiser to join our core team!

In our last working week of the year, we share with you exactly what we've been getting up to in 2023!

Every year, the eagerly anticipated October drawing challenge from Shetland digital illustrator, Rhys Mouat, truly ‘powered-up’.

Gaada was recently commissioned by Shared Lives Shetland to develop a branding and design project that enhances the visual identity of this community support service, whilst also championing the work of a local Shetland Artist.

It’s time to announced the 2023/24 recipients of Gaada’s Workshop Bursaries!

Gaada welcomes artists to improved workshop and facilities, opening up new doors to creativity in the isles.

You can now peruse Gaada’s library online

Work made by artist Brian Sinclair in his Gaada weekly workshops has been selected to appear in an exhibition as part of ArtWorks Together at Wentworth Woodhouse, Yorkshire.

Gaada is excited to have reaffirmed core funding support from Creative Scotland and Shetland Charitable Trust for it’s 2023/24 visual art programme

Happy Summer! We will be taking a short break from 3rd - 24th July. Before we head off for summer break, we wanted to share the wealth of happenings at the Toogs Artist Workshop. We have had such a busy year so far, and we can’t quite believe that we’re not even half way through!

Julie Dennison reflects on her newly released artist publication ‘Da Holmliwatters’ which was commissioned by Gaada in 2021, alongside four fellow writers, artists and community groups, to respond to Walter Scott’s unfinished Shetland By Numbers project.

Gaada has been included as a case study in a practical guide to Fair Work which has been published today by Culture Radar and Creative Scotland.

It’s All Okay is a new exhibition by Shetland artist Helen Tulloch which opens in Gaada’s outdoor exhibition space.

Kokkilorie is a new artist book by poet Jen Hadfield which celebrates the month of June through a series of prompts.

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

For his 2022/23 Bursary, artist Stuart Thomson shares how he used the A.I. image generation tool, Dall-e, to produce a zine exploring text prompts and emerging images in the style of Harry Clarke.