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About the Gallery

  • Art, place and purpose

    Dewar’s fruit and vegetable shop - Circa 1900

    Art, place and purpose

    For more than 40 years, Tighnabruaich Gallery has been part of the cultural life of Scotland’s west coast.

     

    Today, the Gallery is the public exhibition home of SCCOCO — a not-for-profit organisation supporting contemporary artists through exhibitions, mentoring, residencies, masterclasses and professional development.

     

    We retain the Tighnabruaich Gallery name because it belongs here. It is established within the village, recognised by generations of visitors and collectors, and rooted in the history of this remarkable place.

     

    A gallery with a history

     

    The Gallery occupies part of Seaside House, a building that has been at the heart of village life since the late nineteenth century.

     

    Long before artworks filled its walls, the premises were home to Dewar’s fruit and vegetable shop, part of a row of businesses serving a growing coastal community.

     

    That history matters to us.

     

    The building has changed purpose over the generations, but it has remained somewhere people enter, meet and discover something. Today, that continues through art.

     

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  • A New Chapter

    Tighnabruaich Gallery from above

    A New Chapter

    Since 2024, Tighnabruaich Gallery has entered a new chapter.

     

    The Gallery is now the exhibition face of SCCOCO, presenting a carefully curated programme that brings established artists into dialogue with distinctive emerging voices.

     

    Our ambition is to show exceptional contemporary art in a way that feels thoughtful, personal and unpretentious — giving work the space it deserves and allowing people the time to experience it for themselves.

     

    For artists, the Gallery provides a serious public platform.

     

    For visitors and collectors, it offers the opportunity to encounter work in person, understand more about the artists who make it and collect original art with confidence.

     

    And because the Gallery is part of SCCOCO, all gallery commission is reinvested directly into the organisation and its wider programme of support for artists.

     

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  • A destination for contemporary art

    Tighnabruaich is inseparable from the experience of visiting the Gallery.

    Set on Argyll’s Secret Coast, overlooking the Kyles of Bute and surrounded by an extraordinary landscape of water, woodland and hills, this is not simply somewhere to pass through on the way to somewhere else.

    It is somewhere to come to.

    We want visiting an exhibition here to feel like part of experiencing the place itself — time spent with remarkable art, in a remarkable setting, without the formality that can sometimes surround contemporary art.

    Whether you arrive already knowing the artist, discover something entirely unexpected, or leave having bought your first original work, you are welcome here.

    Tighnabruaich Gallery by SCCOCO — a destination for contemporary art on Scotland’s west coast.

  • Current and Upcoming Exhibitions at Tighnabruaich Gallery

    Exhibitions
    • Lennox Dunbar RSA - Surface Tension , A major Solo Show from one of Scotland's most respected artists and educators.
      Exhibitions

      Lennox Dunbar RSA - Surface Tension

      A major Solo Show from one of Scotland's most respected artists and educators. 5 - 27 September 2026
      Surface Tension Lennox Dunbar RSA Presented as part of RSA200 , the Royal Scottish Academy’s bicentenary programme, Surface Tension brings the distinctive work of Lennox Dunbar RSA to Tighnabruaich Gallery...
    • Second Glance, Eva Hewitt · Innes MacLellan · Kirstin MacKinnon · Vlada Popescu
      Exhibitions

      Second Glance

      Eva Hewitt · Innes MacLellan · Kirstin MacKinnon · Vlada Popescu 10 October - 1 November 2026
      A year on from their first exhibition together, the four artists of SCCOCO’s inaugural cohort return to Tighnabruaich Gallery. Second Glance is not simply a continuation of Introducing . It...
    • Secret Coast Prize for Fine Art
      Exhibitions

      Secret Coast Prize for Fine Art

      21 November - 13 December 2026
      Following a remarkable inaugural year, the Secret Coast Prize for Fine Art returns for its second edition, building on the momentum of an exhibition that quickly established itself as an...
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