The artist community at Meadow Mill is coming together to host an open studios weekend this 26 and 27 September, as part of Doors Open Days.

Drop by between 10am and 5pm on both days to explore this heritage building and meet the makers in their creative spaces.

Meadow Mill is a former jute mill in the Blackness area of Dundee, which today provides studios to around 100 visual artists and designers from across Tayside. It is the largest facility of its kind in the region.

Formerly known as North Dudhope Mill, the building was opened in 1874 by Urqhuart Lindsay and Co., with around 500 people working there at the peak of Dundee’s textile boom. This jute mill specialised in the spinning and weaving of jute before it was sent on to be used in the city’s other flourishing industries; whaling, fishing and shipbuilding.

Wasps has had a presence at Meadow Mill since 1986, when the first building at Forebank Road reached capacity and the artist community looked elsewhere for more studio accommodation. Today, across three converted floors of the building, there are 58 artist studios occupied by painters, printmakers, textile workers, ceramicists, sculptors, film makers and jewellers.

Description supplied by the event organiser.