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📣 We’re delighted to announce this year’s Regional Participatory Arts Fund Projects!

Supporting 12 artist-led projects across Perth, Stirling and rural communities throughout Scotland, the fund will empower communities, foster creative expression, and deepen engagement with mental health through the arts.

From photography and textiles to gardening and willow weaving, this work celebrates voices and experiences that are often underrepresented in Scotland’s cultural landscape.

Thanks to the Baring Foundation and @creativescots for their funding support 💜

#smhaf #smhaf26 #MentalHealthArts #Reflections

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We made a list, wanna see? 👀

The Perth Creative Exchange is stuffed to the gunnels with a kaleidoscope of Artists and Makers. Even we struggle to keep up with the comings and goings! So we made a list. 😍

You can find this glorious list on our Linktree (link in bio) From there you can follow, buy and nosy round their websites!

If you would like to meet some of the artists and explore their studios, come along to our Winter Market this December. Wander yourself up the stairs and you'll find over 15 studios open to the public. You'll be able to look through sketchbooks, chat about processes and inspiration, and buy directly from the artist!

❄️ Winter Market & Open Studios ❄️
At Perth Creative Exchange
5th - 6th December
10am - 5pm

We're pretty smug about our list 😂 Enjoy!

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With this aspect ratio it’s really hard to show our latest mural on instagram - you’d really have to go to Auchterarder to see it but here’s a go as a reel.
25 metres, both walls, panned so it’d actually fit.

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Swipe along to follow the full figure, feet to head →

Following on from yesterday’s post — here’s the other side of the underpass in Auchterarder.
Same 25 metres. Where the first wall was calm and grounded, this one flips it: the plants, the sky, even the figure itself, inverted, on a gradient sliding from grey into an intense red. Stranger, upside down, unsettled. The other half of the two realities the young people built this concept around.
(Quite tricky to photograph this side, as it turns out. No joke — moths and millipedes seem to love this wall. You might even spot some if you look closely.)
Commissioned by ACSR in partnership with Amey. Delivered by @creativecatalystscotland.

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Swipe along to follow the full figure, feet to head →

Over the last few weeks, Martin and I have been painting in this very dark underpass under the A9. 25 metres, feet to head — this is one of two figures lying the full length of the wall.

Inspired by Stranger Things, the young people we worked with used the idea of the Upside Down as a parallel for what it’s like being young in a world built by adults. The design carries that across two walls, two figures, each spanning the full 25 metres. This one is grounded in the real world — calm, reflective, surrounded by nature, on a gradient running green through to red, up onto the ceiling. Its counterpart, on the opposite wall, is the mirror world: stranger, upside down, unsettled, its own gradient fading grey through to an intense red. That’s for the next post.

Young people came up with the concept and steered the design from the start, and over 30 of them helped paint it. Workshops began about a year ago; the painting’s been the last few weeks — in a tunnel with its own weather system, condensation problems from the concrete’s thermal mass that neither of us had seen before.
Commissioned by ACSR in partnership with Amey. Delivered by @creativecatalystscotland.

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Over the last few weeks martin and I have been creating a mural under the A9 with @creativecatalystscotland and the young people of Auchterarder. Can’t wait to share more about it- has been both really fun and an unexpected challenge, and we love a challenge. In the meantime here is a detail we’ve been working on #mural #publicart #auchterarder #spraypaint #portrait

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**UPDATE**

There is only one place left!

**UPDATE**

Well bugger me! It’s been a long day, but I believe I may well finally be packed. The studio is pretty much sorted. It’ll get a good hoover and wipe down tomorrow.

I’ll work tomorrow afternoon for @creativecatalystscotland before packing up the car and heading to the caravan for a whole glorious 4 weeks! Eeeeeek!

In the meantime, what have you got on in August? I’m doing a fabulous bumblebee workshop in my studio space:

Sun 9th August 2026
10.30am until 4.30pm
Cost: £75
@perthcreativeexchange

You shall make:
Bookmark
Notebook
Mounted Art
Lantern
Brooch/Badge

I haven’t really advertised it yet, but already, 3 of the 6 spaces are now gone. So you had better be quick if you fancy joining me! There will be many more workshops, I’m going to aim for 2 a month in August, Sep and October. Each one very different. So watch this space.

Here’s the link to the event:
https://www.facebook.com/share/1EHm7k87vK/?mibextid=wwXIfr

Here’s a link to the tickets:
https://karl-macrae.sumupstore.com/product/bumble-workshop-sunday-9th-august

I would so love to see you there!

Live music, home baking, embroidery and an escape from the outside world. What more could you want?!

#karlmacraehessewhappy
#embroideryonpaper
#mixedmediaembroidery
#embroideryartist
#embroideryworkshop

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Had a lovely afternoon at the opening of our Creative Exchange Exhibition in the Plaza in Perth. Lots of chat, sunshine and doggies. Darcey turned up and embarrassed us as usual by her 'challenging' behaviour 🤪🐾🙄
A big thanks to wandering Morven for all her hard work and commitment to the cause...a magnificent effort!!😁#perthcreativeexchange

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Next up in our talent roll-call is a very special enterprise here at Perth Creative Exchange: Creative Catalyst! 👇🏼

Creative Catalyst is a social enterprise using creativity as a catalyst for building confidence, resilience, and pathways into future learning and work. "All our artwork is made by our young creatives!"

Be sure to check out Perth's talented young creatives' stall at our Spring Weekend 🌱 ...with a wide range of work including photography, lasercut wonders, textiles, digital prints and jewellery . 🖼️

Find more of our young creatives' work on
🌸 Instagram - @creativecatalystscotland
🌷 Facebook - Creative Catalyst Scotland

🌼Spring Market & Open Studios
@perthcreativeexchange

📍Perth Creative Exchange Stormont St PH1 5NW
🗓️ 23rd & 24th May
⏰ 10am - 5pm

Free entry
Accessible
Card and cash accepted
Dog friendly

🌱🎨 Creative Spring Market & Open Studios is organised by a collective of artists from Perth Creative Exchange

#PerthCreativeExchangeOpenStudios
#CreativeExchangePerth
#CreativeCatalystScotland
#waspsstudios
#openstudios
@waspsstudios

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Roving ink-covered reporter, Morven, has caught up with Helen O'Brien aka our amazing in-house social enterprise @creativecatalystscotland for day 4 of our 'find out about @perthcreativeexchange ' video countdown as we approach our big Winter Weekend! ❄️❄️❄️

Do come along and support the young people Creative Catalyst works with - they will have their wares on display and for sale at our Winter Market!

#CreativeCatalystScotland
#Creativity
#PerthCreativeExchang
@waspsstudios
@perthideascentre

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Next up for our Winter Event, we are spotlighting our own Creative Catalyst Scotland who are based here at Perth Creative Exchange!

Creative Catalyst is a social enterprise using creativity as a catalyst for building confidence, resilience, and pathways into future learning and work.
"All our artwork is made by our brilliant young creatives!!"

To see more of what Creative Catalyst does visit:
Insta: @creativecatalystscotland

❄️ Winter Market & Open Studios @perthcreativeexchange
📍 Perth Creative Exchange Stormont St PH1 5NW
🗓️ 6th - 7th December
⏰ 10am - 5pm

Free Entry
Accessible
Cards and Cash accepted
Dog friendly

🎨 Creative Winter Market & Open Studios is organised by a collective of artists from Perth Creative Exchange.

#CreativeCatalystScotland
#CreativeExchangePerth
#PerthCreativeExchangeOpenStudios
#Wintermarket
#WaspsStudios
#OpenStudios
#WhatsOnPerth
@perthcityofcraft
@waspsstudios

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🖤 🤍LAZARUS 🤍🖤
When shadows become architecture, atmosphere becomes material and emptiness becomes fullness.
A new body of work rising from absence.
@cindyhuntleyart
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#rebirth #contextualisedart #rise #lazarus #informedartpractice

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