Plastic Melting & Weaving Mural Unveiling
The end of January saw the installation of the finished Plastic Melting and Weaving Mural in the Suite 16 Community Flat in Broomhill Court. Residents were delighted with the result! […]
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December, 2018, at the Broomhill Art Flat
As Christmas approached, we were wrapping up classes and preparing presents… The folks from the Plastic Melting and Weaving workshop were finalising their masterpiece to be hung in the community […]
A Broomhill Night
On Friday 23rd of February we had our long awaited event, A Broomhill Night, at the Broomhill Community Hub with performances from community members and James Grant, as well as […]
Textiles & Screenprinting Workshop
Artists Susan McInnes and Steph Davidson have been teaching participants various sewing and screen printing techniques to make decoartive covers for acoustic panels at the newly opened Broomhill Community Hub and […]
Textiles & Screen-Printing Workshop
In our Textiles & Screen-printing Workshop, artists Susan McInnes and Steph Davidson have been teaching participants various sewing and screen printing techniques to make decoartive covers for acoustic panels at the […]
Plastic Fantastic End of Second Quarter
It’s been a busy few months here at RIG working in Broomhill on our CCF (Climate Challenge Fund) project, ‘Plastic Fantastic’. We’ve got 2 our of our 4 in-house plastic […]
Creative Plastics Workshop
In this weeks Creative Plastics Workshop, artist and designer Amelia Rowe, showed the participants how to make pompoms out of recycled film from inside VHS tapes! Amelia took loads of […]
Clothes and Costumes Upcycling
Textiles artists and costumer, Susan McInnes has been leading clothing upcycling workshops from the Art Flat as part of our project Plastic Fantastic. Running for the last 10 weeks, the […]
Melting & Weaving Workshop
Artist and designer Amelia Rowe, is leading classes in how to turn difficult-to-recycle materials into useful and decorative objects! The first in this 12 week series of workshops, on Thursday […]
Plastic Fantastic Begins!
The first few blocks of Plastic Fantastic are well underway and upcycled works are beginning to take shape. We’re currently working with three different primary school classes across St. Patrick’s […]
The Broomhill Project 