In October 2004 North Glasgow HLC partnered with Project Ability to co-ordinate the delivery of an exhibition marking Scottish Mental Health Awareness Week The Group Ties exhibition held in Trongate Studios from 8th October–12th November 2004 was the result of a number of art and design, process based workshops involving clients from Springpark Resource Centre’s weekly, therapeutic "creative art" and "drop-in" groups. The process began in September 2003 when core members of the creative art group began working with designer Dianne S Miller and staff member Paul Chambers to design a range of hand made "ties," digital fabric prints, and large textile based sculptural objects.
The creations for the exhibition allowed this vulnerable and excluded group to celebrate their differences and individuality. The overall aim of the exhibition was to explore and investigate the language and symbols of pop art, gender, group association, self identity and the environment whilst also tackling the negative stigma surrounding mental health.
Most of the works included in the exhibition were created by Stuart Alexander, William Clark and Gordon Stevenson, clients of Springpark Resource Centre but also included all the many participants from Springpark’s weekly "drop-in" group.