A visual and audio exploration of Paisley, Scotland — local life, streets, stories, and everyday observations
Our “Best of Paisley” exhibition is open and free to view on the first floor of Paisley Central Library. Please note the Library is closed on Easter Monday, 6 April. Please get in touch if you are interested in a print of any of the photographs you see. We also have high-quality cards featuring the Abbey and the Mill, available as a set or individually.
At Picturing Paisley, we are nearly ready for our “Best of Paisley” exhibition opening on Monday, 23 March in Paisley Central Library. We have worked with Print Studio Scotland in the Sir James Clark Building to achieve the best possible print quality and look forward to showing them to you.
February is here, and as the afternoon light is extending later into the evening, our photofence exhibition is ready to view at the main entrance to Barshaw Park. It features statues around Paisley, and after your visit, you may want to wander our town and see the real thing firsthand. The Art Deco Russell Institute is always worth a closer look, and the statue of Burns in Fountain Gardens is thought to be one of the best representations of our national bard. With an attitude of gratitude, we are grateful to Michael Fowles and the Land Services Team at Renfrewshire Council for providing us with this space to illustrate some of the great things about Paisley, and thank you too for taking the time to look at our small exhibition.
Enjoy!
In Picturing Paisley, we are very busy stepping out into 2026. We are currently preparing and selecting photographs for the February Photo Fence Exhibition at the main gate of Barshaw Park. Head over to our events page to see dates and details of what is coming up.
Barshaw park, early 2025
The Big Art Show in Paisley is a major public art exhibition held at The Art Department on Causeyside Street. This year’s show runs from Friday, August 30th to Saturday, November 16th, 202412. It’s one of Scotland’s largest open-entry art exhibitions, featuring a wide range of artworks including paintings, drawings, photography, textiles, sculpture, ceramics, mixed media, installation art, digital art, film, video, and sound2.
The exhibition is organized by Outspoken Arts Scotland Ltd in conjunction with Art Paisley Ltd, and it showcases nearly 1,000 artworks from the UK and beyond2. Most of the artworks are available for sale, and the event is expected to attract around 15,000 visitors2.
Are you planning to visit the show?
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‘Have you ever seen a Photo Fence? Here at Picturing Paisley, we have presented several of these for the enjoyment of our Paisley Community. Currently, we are exhibiting on the railings outside the entrance to Barshaw Park, one of our well-established and much-cherished green spaces in Paisley.
This is the second time that we have used this particular space for the exhibition of our work, and we are hoping to make this an annual event as it coincides with a festival hosted across the month by another community group in the town. The Festival is known as “Feel Good February” and is a very welcome month of activities designed to sweep away the winter blues and welcome spring back into our lives. A perfect fusion of partnership working!
Our fences have a very basic presentation of A4 laminated photographs and are secured with tie wraps. While this may appear to lack finesse, it is a very practical and inexpensive way for us, who are totally self-funded, to show photographs to the general public to stimulate conversation, enjoyment, memories and creativity in everyone.
We have themed this particular exhibition around the magnificent Anchor Thread Mill, which sits on the banks of the White Cart River and has been converted into luxury flats. It reminds us every day of the town’s past heritage and industry. The photographs present different views and angles of the exterior of the building.
We encourage you, if possible, to visit our exhibition, which runs from 1st – 29th February, and to have a walk in our beautiful park, or to travel from there into Paisley to view this magnificent building for yourself. Enjoy!
