What we do

Forgan Arts Centre is a home for artistic production, experimentation, and learning in North East Fife.

Purpose

Forgan Arts Centre sits on the edge of the village of Newport-on-Tay in the Tay Bridgehead Ward of North East Fife. It is a community-led arts centre delivering creative activities for the people of Fife, and beyond. Our programme includes art and craft classes, workshops, artist-led projects that respond to community need, artist commissions, residencies, placements, and public events. We provide allotments, artist studios, and professional making facilities. We have on-site accommodation in the Gardener’s Cottage.

Through diverse creative practices, we work with artists while listening to our communities to address individual and collective challenges that resonate locally and globally. We are a part of the local ecology providing access to creativity and a site for the exploration and understanding of the natural environment. We provide a warm welcome and take an approach to accessibility that supports individual need.

History

Forgan Arts Centre was established by members of the local community in 1974 to provide a place for creative learning. It is a membership organisation. We purchased the Leng Home in 2022 via Community Asset Transfer, with enthusiastic support from local people. The estate is the historic home of the Leng family, radically progressive philanthropists, and advocates of accessible educational reform through creativity. We proudly continue this tradition.

The estate comprises three buildings, the Leng Home, the Gardener’s Cottage, and the Kiln House, as well as over three acres of grounds including mature woodland, hedgerows, food growing plots, and accessible lawns. The site is an invaluable heritage asset, and the team are custodians of the grounds, stewarding the land and buildings for the benefit of our communities. Building on five decades of experience delivering creative education, we have developed our programme in relation to our new context at the Leng Home. We are cultivating a site that has people, place, and the planet at its heart.

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The Leng Home estate is Forgan Arts Centre’s home. The site comprises three buildings, the main centre, The Gardener’s Cottage and the Kiln House, all set within three acres of land. The main building is home to multipurpose classrooms and nine artist studios which are suitable for individual artists or collectives across disciplines. Our extensive grounds include mature woodland, curated gardens, purposeful wilderness, allotments, and shared community growing space. The Gardener’s Cottage is undergoing renovation and will be used for artist residencies and respite breaks.

Our Aims:

  • Forgan Arts Centre will advance the arts and lifelong creative practice.
  • Forgan Arts Centre will place the natural environment at the heart of its activities.
  • Forgan Arts Centre will provide a sense of place.
  • Forgan Arts Centre will be a sustainable organisation.
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