ARI is the Stage
Apply to exhibit in The Small Gallery, ARI
GHAT has been programming exhibitions in The Small Gallery at Aberdeen Royal Infirmary since 2013 and welcome proposals all year round. This is an excellent opportunity for new graduates and early career artists looking to exhibit their work in a unique space. We...
Water is the Heart of The City Micro-Commission
Micro Commissions for Emerging Performance Artist based in Aberdeen. As part of the 10 years anniversary of The Suttie Arts Space, an emerging choreographer/ performer based in Aberdeen will be commissioned to work on a project with a sound artist to respond to the...
Co-Create – Sharing Event
Tuesday 29th October 2024, 6-8 pm The Gallery at Number 30, 30 The Square, Huntly, Aberdeenshire AB54 8BR Co-Create is a project to support wellbeing for people within Huntly and the surrounding area through creative activity. The initial six-month consultation phase...
Foresterhill: Past, Present and Future – Publication launch and walking tour
Joint Hospitals Scheme: The History of Foresterhill Campus Talk and Publication Launch with Fiona Musk, NHSG Archivist Wednesday 2nd October 2024 6 – 7.30 pm Information Centre, Aberdeen Central Library Dig deep into local history to learn about Aberdeen’s...
Kayleigh Kellas – Bilberry Lane
The Small Gallery, Aberdeen Royal Infirmary 17 August – 10 November 2024 As part of our 10th anniversary programme for The Suttie Art Space, Grampian Hospitals Art Trust invited artist Toni Harrower to curate an exhibition featuring artists who graduated from Moray...
‘Tactile Bodies’ review by Phoebe Banks
Aymee Charlton’s new exhibition “Tactile Bodies” brings a new style of artwork to The Small Gallery. This series of prints on silk feature a display of different colours and patterns, all using natural dyes composed of plant matter. Some are rich reds, purples and...
Graduate Exhibition Award – The Suttie Arts Space
2019-2026
Introducing the Artists II review by Phoebe Banks
The current exhibition at The Suttie Art Space showcases the breadth of creative practices held by Grampian Hospitals Art Trust staff. Walking into Introducing the Artists II, you are immediately taken out of the hospital environment with the jazz berry walls...
Smoke on the Water review by Phoebe Banks
The sharp blue of Emma Caldow’s array of artworks stands out against the muted colours of the hospital corridor. This contrast draws your eye and makes you pause in the busy walkway. Each artwork holds intricate detail, with traces of the coastline with which they’ve...
University of Aberdeen Student Internship
Over the months of March and April, GHAT hosted student Laura Tavendale as an intern in partnership with and funded by the University of Aberdeen. Here is what she had to say about her experience working with us. The GHAT internship captured my attention because of...
Introducing the Artists 2024
The Suttie Arts Space 16.03.24 - 12.05.24 This year we are celebrating 10 years of The Suttie Arts Space, which opened with its first exhibition 'Same Same But Different' in November 2014. For our first exhibition of 2024, we have brought together artwork by Grampian...
Emma Caldow – Smoke on the Water
22 February - 19th May 2024 The Small Gallery, Aberdeen Royal Infirmary Emma Caldow is an emerging Scottish Artist, based in Inverness, who focuses on Site-Specificity and Sustainability. “Working on beaches across Scotland, I am currently exploring the...
Toni Harrower – Travelling Eyes
23rd November 2023 - 18th February 2024 The Small Gallery, Aberdeen Royal Infirmary Toni Harrower is an abstract systems painter who loves working in a range of mediums from oil paint to resin. Since graduating from Gray’s School of Art in 2016, Toni has exhibited...
Sown
21 June – 9 September 2023
The Small Gallery, ARI
The Suttie Arts Space 2014 – 2022
7 January 2023 - 31 March 2023 The Small Gallery, Aberdeen Royal Infirmary This exhibition showcases a selection of posters from The Suttie Art Space exhibition programme from over the last 8 years. These posters reflect the diversity of commissioned artists, curators...
Donna E Briggs Collages
12th October 2022 - Fri 6th January 2023 The Small Gallery, Aberdeen Royal Infirmary Donna E Briggs studied printmaking at Gray’s School of Art and graduated from Robert Gordon University with a BA (Hons) in fine Art – Printmaking. Since then she has exhibited...
Gloss Comfort – Hélène Bellenger and Charlotte Perrin
10 September - 4 December 2022 The Suttie Arts Space After a visit in 2017 by 3 bis f’s Artistic Director, Diane Pigeau, a mutual interest developed to create a project which promotes active and fruitful collaboration between both organisations, by supporting an...
‘A Piece of You, A Piece of Me’ Rhona Jack
8 June 2022 - 4th September 2022 The Small Gallery, Aberdeen Royal Infirmary Rhona Jack is a multi-disciplinary artist based in Dundee who graduated from Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art and Design in 2017. After graduating from Duncan of Jordanstone College of...
From Where Do We See? | Curated by Dr Silvia Casini (2022)
5 May 2022 - 5th June 2022 The Small Gallery, Aberdeen Royal Infirmary Retrospective narratives of biomedical innovation tend to omit the role played by aesthetics and craft skills, framing them as peripheral to science and privileging theory creation over practical...
Introducing the Artists
For this exhibition, we have brought together artwork by Grampian Hospitals Art Trust (GHAT) staff, who are also creative practitioners in their own right. This is a celebration of the artists who organise and deliver various projects across NHS Grampian (NHSG) sites,...
Kinga Elliott: Synaptic-Alluvium-Betrothal
19th February - 1st May 2022 The Small Gallery, ARI Kinga Elliott is a graduate of Gray’s School of Art with a first-class BA(Hons) Painting degree. She won the RGU Arts and Heritage Purchase Prize for Fine Art in 2020 and in the same year was the recipient of...
Gabriele Jogelaite
1 December 2021 to 20 February 2022The Small Gallery, ARI 'My art practice demonstrates systematic ways of working with mediums that explore qualities of line, texture and form. I create two and three-dimensional work that investigates the movement of a mark considers...
All About People
The Suttie Arts Space, ARI ‘All About People’ was first conceived in 2020 with Aberdeen Performing Arts and NHS Grampian Archives to celebrate the centenary of the ‘Joint Hospitals Scheme’. The pioneering hospital scheme was the first to bring public health services...
John Walter Artist Talk
Some pictures of the incredible event we had the pleasure of hosting today. We had a full house for renowned British artist John Walter talk. John walked us through his creative process and influences for his exhibition Co-Factors and even sang us a song! Co-Factors...
Co-Factors, by John Walter
The Suttie Arts Space, Aberdeen Royal Infirmary 14th February – 10th May 2020. Co-Factors is the title of a series of paintings, each measuring five metres wide, from within the larger CAPSID project. CAPSID was a multi-media installation, project...
John Walter Artist Talk (Co-Factors)
John Walter Artist Talk (Co-Factors) Thursday 13th February 2020 2pm The Suttie Arts Space To open the Co-Factors exhibition in The Suttie Arts Space, John Walter will be giving a talk about his work on the CAPSID project. Co-Factors is the title of a series of...
Grampian Hospitals Art Trust Open Exhibition 2019
Grampian Hospitals Art Trust Open Exhibition 2019 The Suttie Arts Space, Aberdeen Royal Infirmary 27th November 2019 to 2nd February 2020. Grampian Hospitals Art Trust (GHAT) has partnered with NHS Grampian Corporate Communications to launch its first Open...
Papermaking with Donna Briggs
The Suttie Arts Space 7 November 2019 It was great to see all the examples of work produced by Donna Briggs papermaking workshop participants. The workshop took inspiration from Kim Welch’s work in ‘Sounding Boards and Landing Boards', and the garden project which is...
Grampian Hospitals Art Trust Open Exhibition 2019 – Open Call
GHAT OPEN CALL HAND IN DATES AND VENUE Digital media - Thursday 7th November 11am - 4pm https://wetransfer.com/ to tamsin.greenlaw@nhs.net (please do not email, large files will not get through NHS firewall) 2 and 3D work - Sat 9th November...
Papermaking workshop with Donna Briggs
Paper Making Workshop The Suttie Arts Space – 5-7 pm 7 November 2019 Join Donna Briggs in a paper making workshop. You will learn a craft that can be traced back as for as 25–220 CE during the Eastern Han period in China. The workshop will take inspiration from Kim...
Afternoon Tea with Meg Miller and Kim Welch
We had a lovely time at the Afternoon Tea with artists Meg Miller and Kim Welch discussing their exhibition ‘'Sounding Boards and Landing Boards’, currently on display at The Suttie Arts Space and The Small Gallery ARI. A huge thank you to everyone that came along and...
Afternoon Tea with Meg Miller and Kim Welch
Come along and join the artists behind the current exhibition 'Sounding Boards and Landing Boards' for afternoon tea in The Suttie Arts Space from 3 pm on Thursday 24th October 2019. Along with tea and cake, enjoy some conversation with Meg and Kim who will chat about...
Sounding Boards and Landing Boards
'Sounding Boards and Landing Boards' The Suttie Arts Space and The Small Gallery, Aberdeen Royal Infirmary 28 September – 17 November 2019 This year Grampian Hospitals Art Trust (GHAT) announced the first of its annual exhibition prize for new...