Welcome to the KCAT website
The idea of the Art and Study Centre had its earliest beginnings in 1993. George McCutcheon - Invited artist at the Sculpture Society Of Ireland Symposium 1992.For years we had recognised the remarkable artistic ability of George McCutcheon, a member of our community who has Down syndrome. 
Camphill Ballytobin was participating in HORIZON, a European Union initiative that funded innovative projects. A German partner project offered to mount an exhibition of Georgie's work in three cities. This was a tremendous success and was the spur to develop another HORIZON-funded project with six artists with disabilities each pursuing their own career in creative and professional terms.
This experience made it clear that we would need to develop a social and cultural context for the work, an encouraging environment that would allow for mutual stimulation and support and interaction with many other artists - and so the ideas for the Art and Study Centre gradually evolved.
| | The EU grant strongly encouraged interaction with progressive projects in other European countries and KCAT made very valuable links with the best arts and mental disability projects in Europe - particularly in Scotland, Belgium, Luxembourg, France, Sweden, Denmark and Germany.
These projects are working together to develop the concept and practice of differentiated arts, striving to develop a creative context in which able and disabled artists can participate and interact as equals.
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