It has been said that you know good art when you want to spend time with it. Plan to spend a great deal of time at the Crawford Building’s Sixth Floor; it has amazing art. Several themes run through the floor: life, death, and the organic cycle of this repetition. A love of nature and Read More
DJCAD’s annual degree show always attracts an astounding volume of foot-traffic; students and professionals, young and old alike all attend to peruse the latest offerings of Perth Road’s cabinet of curiosities. Yet as diverse and wondrous as the college’s sprawling exhibition may be, from the intricate designs of the jewellers to the conceptual marvels of Read More
An invitation into the spaces of the sixth-floor architecture studios in DJCAD allows us to re-imagine the urban forms that shape our cities. The final year students in both the MArch and the MArch + Urban Planning programmes have put together a brilliant show structured around four research projects around Scotland. These students take us Read More
This year’s Illustration show is a colourful affair of books and prints interspersed with quirky objects making the discipline difficult to define. Each of this year’s graduates has created diverse portfolios showcasing a variety of skills from bookbinding and screen printing to digital drawing and ceramics. A traditional interpretation of illustration is that the artist Read More
Do you hate Mary Berry? Hate: The Game is the concept of Graphic Designer Samuel Packham. The brief, by Hasbro Games, was to “invent and design a party game for young adults that takes them away from the screen”. Samuel’s card game does just that by using edgy humour to bring 16-26 year olds together. Read More
Cooper Gallery, DJCAD 20th January – 4th March 2017 Cooper Gallery brings us the final chapter of a two-part exhibition and accompanying events series, Of Other Spaces: Where does gesture become event? With the title’s nod to readings of Hannah Arendt, we are to expect intelligent, philosophical, and feminist thinking – Of Other Spaces gives Read More
Cooper Gallery, DJCAD Chapter One: 27th November – 16th December 2016 The antecedent of a two-chapter display, Of Other Spaces: Where Does Gesture Become Event? features artists, writers and thinkers, together eliciting the essential role of spontaneous collaboration in life. Acknowledging and celebrating the journey of feminism in the past half-century of artwork, Read More
3rd December 2016- 19th February 2017, DCA Jings! Crivvens! Help ma Boab! As part of the celebrations of 80 years of the iconic Oor Wullie and The Broons, DCA ‘s latest exhibition features the responses of six contemporary artists to items from the DC Thomson archives. This follows on from the summer’s Oor Wullie Bucket Read More
As explained by Ed Vulliamy in the foreword, Michael Jacobs was working on this book when he died prematurely. Jacobs had hoped that the very process of researching and writing the book would enable him to solve the mysteries of the painting he regarded as the world’s greatest: Diego Velázquez’ Las Meninas. More broadly, in Read More
Exhibition and Ritual, 13th October 2016. Buskers Bar, Ward Road, Dundee. The Girls Will Be Beuys exhibition has been created at the invitation of The Collective Responsible For, an international artists’ collective founded in Dundee and concerned with making art with conceptual integrity and feeling. The collective is inspired by the work of Joseph Beuys, Read More