When Degree Show time of year rolls around, a peculiar mix of emotions seem to linger within the walls of University art buildings. The sense of release is almost palpable; an enormous bubble of built-up tension and stress over the last few months having finally burst, leaving the products of true inspiration, hard graft, creative Read More
Tucked away in a corner of the Matthew building, the Final Year sculpture was worth the long walk from the main entrance. Behind unassuming doors, imposing pieces lie silently waiting to be discovered. All of the above pieces of work share common themes: they are all monochrome; they all make us think about life and Read More
Delivered in response to their cultural exchange in Shanghai last summer, Poster Club’s latest exhibition, “NEW Wheat NEW Mud NEW Machine”, curiously explores the realms of collaboration through the medium of printmaking and playful typography. The artists involved with Poster Club have come and gone throughout the years, but the aim has always been the Read More
In the endnotes of New York Drawings, Adrian Tomine asserts that he is a cartoonist, “not just an illustrator.” However, it is precisely that tension between those two artistic identities that define Tomine’s work. Indeed, his two most recent publications, New York Drawings and Killing and Dying, emphasise his versatility, demonstrating that, in spite of Read More
Everybody deserves recognition for their creative achievements, unshadowed by backstories and illustrious family comparisons. Rightly, this courageous painter-poet has long been outspoken, criticising those choosing to play with her biography to suit their own ends. The press release is wisely oblique on this aspect. I turned away from the room’s elephant. Frieda Hughes is probably Read More
Working with the theme of montage, the curators make the case that the artist’s imagination lies “on the edge between reality and fantasy, where logic is irrelevant and nonsense can be oddly rational”. This assertion helps solidify the link between the state of dreaming and the form which the content of this exhibition takes: the Read More
The DCA is a wonderfully apt setting for their latest exhibition, Grey Gardens: one of many celebratory events for the national Festival of Architecture. And it’s no coincidence that the arts centre has itself been recognised as one of the top contemporary Scottish buildings in the last century: it’s light and airy space houses the Read More
Seeing Through the See-Through, by Mat Fleming gives us an intimate look at the usage of scientific imaging technologies and the potential which science has in shaping our cultural identities. Fleming’s works are the result of a nine month residency in the Dundee Imaging Facility within the university’s School of Life Sciences, supported by the Read More
The title ALL SYSTEMS…go is an imperative sentence in history depicting the point of no return. The creators have taken ownership of this terminology to dismiss and reject all the systems that control artists and restrict the art scene. Questioning this, artists Liam Gillick, Anton Vidokle, Miranda Pennell and Dominic Watson present a body of Read More
IC-98 is an artistic duo comprised of Finnish artists Visa Suonpää and Patrik Söderlund, who have been brought to the DCA through their work Abendland (Hours, Years, Aeons) after representing Finland in the latest Venice Biennale. The work is part of an ongoing documentation of their hometown Turku and its transition through unfolding social and Read More