Ailsa Turner-Gibb is a painter and unpaid carer based in the Scottish Borders who works across a range of traditional and mixed media. Turner-Gibb keeps a monthly art journal on their website as an alternative to social media.

Selected exhibitions include An Exhibition of Sketchbooks, Little Art Hub (Galashiels, 2024), Galashiels Studio Club 76th Annual Exhibition, Old Gala House (Galashiels, 2024), Neuk Perspectives, Patriothall Gallery (Edinburgh, 2024) and In Our Hands, North Light Arts (Dunbar, 2023). Turner-Gibb contributed to an article on Autism and creativity, Raining on Rain Man: why and how autistic people can be creative, published by It’s That Nice, 2024.

Artist’s Online Journal

Associated Projects

This image shows Ailsa Turner-Gibb artwork, Sellisternian Summer Trio, 2023. It is a brightly coloured illustration in a surrealist style showing a person surrounded by flowers and leaves.

In Tension Online Exhibition with Neuk Collective

In Tension is an online exhibition produced in collaboration with 16 neurodivergent artists from Neuk Collective.

Seeking Neuk Perspectives

Our Director visited Neuk Collective’s exhibition to explore how they advocate for accessibility in the arts for neurodivergent people