Forgan Arts Centre

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Forgan Arts Centre is a home for the development of contemporary and traditional art and craft and community events. Our programme of courses and workshops are artist led and span practices from pottery and ceramics, to stained glass and upholstery as well as drawing, painting, and photography. Courses are from 4-10 weeks long supported by one-off workshops and masterclasses. I’m April 2022 we mov

ed to The Leng Home estate in Newport-on-Tay, North East Fife. The estate comprises three buildings set in nearly three acres of gardens and woodland. The grounds host 20 allotments and a shared community growing plot and are free to roam and explore all year round. The main centre has nine artist studio spaces and rooms available for rent.

Forgan Arts Centre has been awarded £50,020 from the Adapted Cultural and Creative Buildings Fund to undertake essential...
02/09/2026

Forgan Arts Centre has been awarded £50,020 from the Adapted Cultural and Creative Buildings Fund to undertake essential improvements to the Leng Home.

The award will enable Forgan Arts Centre to carry out urgent adaptation works that will safeguard the long‑term use of our building for the community in response to increased extreme weather events cause by our changing climate.

The fund, co‑designed and managed by Creative Scotland and the Scottish Futures Trust, is supporting organisations across the country to make practical improvements to their buildings, strengthen resilience to climate impacts, and generate learning that will inform future investment in Scotland’s cultural and creative estate.

Kenny Christie, Deputy Director of Forgan Arts Centre, said:
“We are incredibly grateful for this targeted investment from Creative Scotland and the Scottish Futures Trust. This support allows us to take meaningful action to protect our building from the growing impacts of climate change. It’s a vital step in ensuring Forgan Arts Centre remains a safe, resilient and inspiring space for our community and for future generations.”

Creative Scotland Fife Council
Photo credit to Ash Chimney Services- Fife

🍂 Happy September! 🍂Summer is slowly giving way to autumn, so why not embrace the cosy season and get creative? Join us ...
02/09/2026

🍂 Happy September! 🍂

Summer is slowly giving way to autumn, so why not embrace the cosy season and get creative? Join us at Forgan Arts Centre this season for classes, making and plenty of creative time.

We’re delighted to let you know that our next term of classes is now open for bookings!

Whether you’re returning to a favourite class or looking to try something new, there’s lots to get stuck into.

⭐New and returning classes include -
➜ Wildings — creative adventures for pre-schoolers and their grown-ups
➜ Quilting as Art with Amy Jones
➜ Oil Painting with Tom Varley

Save the dates for these upcoming workshops...

➜ Raku & Alternative Firings — 14 or 15 November
➜ Children’s Wheel Throwing — 10 October
➜ Mould Making & Casting with Kevin Morris — 18 October

Book your place via our website and make something this autumn!
🔗: https://www.forganartscentre.co.uk/whats-on/

🍁Looking forward to seeing you at Forgan Arts Centre🍁

📣Reminder! We have our first Edge School lesson with artist Christopher Ivor Adam this Saturday.Join us to form our new ...
28/08/2026

📣Reminder! We have our first Edge School lesson with artist Christopher Ivor Adam this Saturday.

Join us to form our new cohort, set collective intentions, and learn the craft of papermaking. Edge School is our new peer-to-peer learning programme for LGBTQIA+ creatives at Forgan Arts Centre.

Edge School: Lesson One – Paper
Saturday 29 August, from 1pm-5pm
Forgan Arts Centre

Together we'll explore papermaking, q***r-coded plants from the garden, and storytelling, creating handmade paper that holds traces of personal histories and shared narratives for the future.

🎟Book your free ticket: https://www.forganartscentre.co.uk/whats-on/edge-school/

Save the date! Further Edge School lessons will be;
→ Sat 26 September, 1pm-5pm
→ Sat 28 November, 1pm-5pm
→ Sat 27 February, 1pm-5pm
→ Sat 24 April, 1pm-5pm
→ Sat 22 May, 1pm-5pm

Mums* - can you carve out some time for a journalling session with The New Mothers’ Writing Circle on Sat 16 Sept? Explo...
24/08/2026

Mums* - can you carve out some time for a journalling session with The New Mothers’ Writing Circle on Sat 16 Sept?

Explore how writing can connect us with each other, and how joy and rest are radical yet essential aspects of care, for our children and the world.

All Mums' Writing Circle
📆Sat 12 September, 10am-12pm
📍Forgan Arts Centre

Expect a relaxed session, as writer/producer Catrin Kemp leads us through prompts, with plenty of time to ponder in the garden. No writing experience needed! Lunch will be provided. We'll have a play worker on hand for older children and babies are welcome in the workshop.

This event is part of our Conflicts of Caring event with M/others Against Genocide on Saturday 12 September but please book separately so that we can tailor the workshops to everyone’s needs and ages of children. The wider event is open to the whole family.

*The term ‘mother’ is inclusive of adopting, fostering, non-birthing q***r mothers and step-mothers.

More here: https://www.forganartscentre.co.uk/whats-on/new-mothers-writing-circle/

📸Image credit Gabrielle Ginns / Pretend Lovers

⭐️Our new term of Summer/Autumn classes have started this week, it’s not too late to book your place!Explore our various...
19/08/2026

⭐️Our new term of Summer/Autumn classes have started this week, it’s not too late to book your place!

Explore our various classes spanning pottery, upholstery, drawing, zine making and so much more via our website.

➡️Swipe to see our highlights from our new term.



🫖Intro to Pottery: Make a Breakfast Set
Led by Sean Kingsley of Butter Wynd Pottery

Join this seven week class and leave with your very own mug, bowl, lidded pot and jug! This course is perfect for complete beginners. All tools and glazes provided.

This course costs £223 per person.

🛋️Upholstery led by Kenny Butchart

Learn how to rescue furniture and give it a new life in this eight week course. Save your furniture from landfill and contribute to a more sustainable future by updating your tired furniture or start a new upcycling project.

This course costs £288 per person.

🏺Family Pottery led by Heather Gilbert

This is a family-friendly course for adults and children to get creative together! Try out hand building techniques and build up to throwing on the wheel. This is a course suitable for children aged 5 years and up with an adult or 10 years and up on their own.

This course costs £51 per adult, £48 for one child and £42 for a second child.

✏️Drawing as Attention
Led by Alison Philp

This eight week course is for adults who want to draw with more care and curiosity. Learn to be present in the world by drawing it slowly and attentively. All materials provided for.

This course costs £229 per person.

📚Zine Club for 12-16 year olds
Led by Keny Drew

Open to 12 to 16 year olds who are passionate about thier hobbies such as art, sport, music, manga and are keen to express themselves through zine making. Work on your own project and build up to working as a group to design Newport Youth Zine. Reproduced and easily distributed around libraries, schools or clubs!

This course costs £56 per young adult.

Join us for an empowering day focused on collective care and connection, with M/others Against Genocide Scotland. Confli...
19/08/2026

Join us for an empowering day focused on collective care and connection, with M/others Against Genocide Scotland.

Conflicts of Caring
📆Sat 12 September, 10am-4pm
📍Forgan Arts Centre

How can we fight for a better world while sustaining each other and ourselves? How can we balance our immediate caring responsibilities with the care we feel for others? How can we love, resist, and keep hope alive?

We’ll be reflecting on our strengths, limitations and challenges, and invite you to come along and lay your struggles, questions and ideas alongside ours. Through stories, journalling, play and discussion, we’ll build resilience and hope together.

🍽 Lunch will be provided but feel free to bring a picnic or something to share. This is a family friendly event and everyone is welcome.

During this event you will be invited to witness the Baby Sock Memorial, created and toured by M/others Against Genocide Scotland. The installation commemorates children aged three and under murdered in Gaza by Israel.

Please book a free ticket in advance to give us an idea of numbers. We will be taking donations for GINA Infant Nutrition Alliance on the day.

More here: https://www.forganartscentre.co.uk/whats-on/conflicts-of-caring/

About
M/others Against Genocide Scotland are activists who embrace artistic practice, recognising its ability to further the liberatory struggle. Using words, images, objects, bodies, they seek the transformative moment when individual emotion metabolises into collective power.

🌱Our Summer / Autumn term of workshops are here!A new season means new opportunities to get creative at Forgan Arts Cent...
13/08/2026

🌱Our Summer / Autumn term of workshops are here!

A new season means new opportunities to get creative at Forgan Arts Centre, this term we focus on Art in the Garden.

➡️ SWIPE through to discover our exciting upcoming workshops and book via our website today.



🥄Spoon Carving with Louise Forbes

Expect happy chatter, hands on fun, all tools and materials provided in this spoon carving workshop. You will learn all the techniques and leave with a spoon youve made yourself.

📆 Saturday 5 September, 10am - 3pm
This class costs £53 per person

🏺Throw Better with Sean Kingsley of Butter Wynd Pottery

Join master potter Sean Kingsley in this one day workshop learning how to throw better and bigger items on the potters wheel.

📆 Saturday 12 September, 10am - 4pm
This class costs £68 per person

💎Storytelling in Clay with Beth Wham

Join visual artist and jewellery maker Beth Wham for a creative day exploring storytelling through the delicate medium of porcelain.

📆 Saturday 28 September, 10am - 4pm
This class costs £71 per person

🪴Drawing the Garden in Charcoal with Tansy Lee Moir

Spend a creative day in the garden taking inspiration from shapes and textures of Forgans garden in autumn. Draw freely in response to your surroundings.

📆 Saturday 3 October, 10am - 4pm
This class costs £52 per person

Become a Studio Member at Forgan Arts Centre🧑‍🎨✨We have been working hard refurbishing some of the rooms at the centre t...
10/08/2026

Become a Studio Member at Forgan Arts Centre🧑‍🎨✨

We have been working hard refurbishing some of the rooms at the centre to let to artists, makers, craftspeople, collectives, or arts organisations. The spaces are bright and airy, all within the main building on the estate. All studios have views across either the gardens or woodland and benefit from excellent natural light.

⭐We currently have 14 studios within the building with talented artists covering a broad range of practices. We welcome applications from artists, makers, craftspeople, collectives, or arts organisations.

To apply please complete the application form, and for all other studio enquiries contact Anna, Studios and Operations Coordinator at [email protected].

More on applying to become a studio member can be found on our website.

‼️Please note studios are unfurnished.
Photos taken by Kevin Linnett

📣Join us for the first Edge School lesson with artist Christopher Ivor Adam as we come together to form our new cohort, ...
06/08/2026

📣Join us for the first Edge School lesson with artist Christopher Ivor Adam as we come together to form our new cohort, set collective intentions, and begin building relationships through shared making.

Edge School: Lesson One – Paper
Saturday 29 August, from 1pm-5pm
Forgan Arts Centre

Together we'll explore papermaking, q***r-coded plants from the garden, and storytelling, creating handmade paper that holds traces of personal histories and shared narratives for the future.

📜Please bring along literature, photographs, letters, drawings, or other paper ephemera that you would like to embed—or "smuggle"—into your handmade paper.

We'll start with a communal lunch of soup before settling into the workshop.
🎟Book your free ticket here: https://www.forganartscentre.co.uk/whats-on/edge-school/

About the Artist
Christopher Ivor Adam is an artist and Gaelic choir leader (b. 1999, Paisley; lives and works in Dundee) makes prints, paintings, drawings, films, songs and stories.

Adam works instinctively to make marks across a range of media, especially oil paint and lithography, creating characters and personalities to tell stories in idioms indigenous to his native Scotland. His work is drawn between imagination and historical records, and flits between Gaelic, Scots and English.

Some recent projects have tackled the link between traditional styles of singing and conspiracy theories; a violent regime seeking to restore Fife’s medieval Gaelic past; and paintings inspired by a fellow shape note singer’s carving of her own gravestone, as practice.

About the Project
Edge School is our new peer-to-peer learning programme for LGBTQIA+ creatives at Forgan Arts Centre. Curated by Rachael Simpson.

Visual identity designed by Dylan Chalmers.
Image two credit Christopher Ivor Adam.

🌱Our last week of Children's Summer Art Club starts on Monday!Join artist Eva Jack for a week of hands-on history, where...
06/08/2026

🌱Our last week of Children's Summer Art Club starts on Monday!

Join artist Eva Jack for a week of hands-on history, where we will bury a time capsule in the garden at Forgan Arts. We will collect and create artefacts and stories, blurring the lines between the real and imagined, the past and future!

Children’s Art Club is our artist-led programme for 5–12 year olds that runs during the school holidays. Each day a different art form is introduced that encourages participating children to think, play and express their creativity.

About the artist
Eva Jack is an artist and creative facilitator based in Glasgow. She is interested in walking and collecting as a way to explore place and memory.

🎟The club costs £38.50 per day, this includes the provision of a wide range of art materials, refreshments and snack. A limited number of free low income places are available.

Book here: https://www.forganartscentre.co.uk/childrens-art-club/

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59 Kirk Road
Newport-on-Tay
DD68JB

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