Refractive Scot

20/05/2026

🎥Step into something new with Refractive — we’re opening an exciting new gallery space dedicated to digital artists, photographers, and filmmakers. Come celebrate creativity, explore inspiring work, and connect with fellow creatives. We’d love to see you there! 🎬

20/05/2026

📸Step into something new with Refractive — we’re opening an exciting new gallery space Club Paisley dedicated to digital artists, photographers, and filmmakers. Come celebrate creativity, explore inspiring work, and connect with fellow creatives. We’d love to see you there! 🎥

12/05/2026

A six week practical photography course to boost your practice in Social Documentary Photography.
Kirsty Mackay is a Glasgow based photographic artist, educator and activist. Her research-led documentary practice highlights social issues surrounding gender, class and discrimination.

book at: https://refractive.scot/events/

10/05/2026

07/05/2026

📸 PAISLEY PEOPLE & PLACES 📸

Want to take your photography beyond “nice picture” territory and into real storytelling?

Refractive are launching a 6-week Advanced Skills course in Social Documentary Photography with acclaimed photographer Kirsty Mackay at the Liberal Club, Paisley.

This practical course is designed to help photographers develop their own visual voice while exploring people, place, identity and community through documentary practice. Expect hands-on exercises, discussion, feedback, and a chance to build a stronger body of work in a supportive creative environment.

🗓 Starts Wednesday 13th May
📍 The Liberal Club, Paisley
🎟 £60 for the full course

Perfect for photographers, artists, filmmakers and curious visual storytellers looking to sharpen their eye and deepen their practice.

Tickets here 👇
https://refractive.scot/event/paisley-people-places-advanced-skills-workshops-in-social-documentary-photography/


The course runs from May to July and focuses on documentary storytelling through real people and places.

28/03/2026

27/01/2026

This week's Paisley Docs' Featured Filmmakers are Ben Rivers and Wilma Smith! 🎬

Ben Rivers is a Filmmaker and Artist, whose films are typically intimate portrayals of solitary beings or isolated communities. His practice as a filmmaker treads a line between documentary and fiction. Rivers uses these themes as a starting point from which to imagine alternative narratives and existences in marginal worlds.

Wilma Smith is a writer/director and dedicated working mother from Coatbridge. Her own story and passion for telling stories through film of all genres started at the age of 13 when she borrowed a VHS camera and Dictaphone to make her first stop motion animation. Wilma has been selected for this year’s Netflix funded Women in Film & Television Four Nations Mentoring Scheme. Following her fantastic Artist Meet Up last year we're delighted to be welcoming her back to Refractive.

Join us to share in the work of these talented directors with a screening of Missed Calls (Wilma Smith, 2023) and Bogancloch (Ben Rivers, 2025) on Saturday at the Wynd Centre!

Tickets available via https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/o/refractive-scotland-cic-82634640533 or on the door!! 🎟️

27/01/2026

Join Refractive and Open Aye for the next event in the Paisley Docs: Rebels and Innovators season at The Wynd Centre on Saturday 31st January, 6pm! 🎬

Tickets available via https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/o/refractive-scotland-cic-82634640533 or on the door!! 🎟️