As a graphic designer I am always looking to be inspired, to see that one piece of work that sparks a chain reaction of creative thoughts and ideas. This inspiration can come from anywhere and everywhere, but what better way to be inspired than to have a look at what the current fourth year students Read More
With the loss of the Weave Department, the Textiles students’ work now covers two areas: print and knit. Print work tends to focus on pattern and shape, whilst knit is perhaps self-evidently more concerned with structure and texture. There appear to be a number of common, but diverse, themes running through this year’s show: sustainability, Read More
This year’s Illustration Degree Show encompasses a vast array of different styles and solutions to various design problems; varying from picture books, to comics, to animation, all rendered to a professional standard. Consequently, it was not an easy task to single out individual pieces that really made an impact on me. Nonetheless, I found certain Read More
Having completed my penultimate year at Duncan of Jordanstone, this year’s degree show is a particularly engaging event for me. This time next year, it will be my work on display – an exciting and daunting prospect in equal measure. This year’s graduates have done an outstanding job producing some fantastic prototypes. Product design is Read More
The exhibition Synchronise our Eyebrows held at the Hannah Maclure Centre at the University of Abertay until the 26th April 2013 offers the rare opportunity for art lovers and those interested in Dundee and its culture to discover or re-engage with the work of Dundee-born artist Vincent Rattray. This is an important event for a number of Read More
Women, Water & Wells by Gil Garcetti is a collection of photographs taken in West Africa. Garcetti’s project highlights issues of water scarcity and the prevalence of waterborne disease that arises from the lack of safe drinking water. These photographs are also included in Water is key, a book that documents the work of NGOs Read More
This major new exhibition by German artist Jutta Koether represents a coup for DCA. Sensitively grouped and divided between the DCA’s two main two galleries, Seasons and Sacraments comprises Koether’s response to two series of paintings by the classical artist, Nicolas Poussin, The Seasons and The Seven Sacraments. Gallery one displays work that was shown Read More
According to philosopher and art commentator Jean-François Lyotard, there is a distinction to be made between art and its cultural reception. The cultural reception of art situates it in time and space, inscribes it within an art-historical narrative, and presents it alongside other features of the world. It seeks to understand art by placing it Read More
Estrangement, showing in the Cooper Gallery until the 16th of February, is an exhibition offering us images inspired by a sort of disconnection from the world. Estrangement can convey itself in many different forms; it can speak to the individual, the collective alienation of humans to themselves, or to a place or situation in life. Read More
The current exhibition in the Lamb Gallery, Drawn from Structures Living and Dead, features the work of three artists alongside items from Dundee University’s D’Arcy Thompson Zoology Museum. It runs in conjunction with two other exhibitions which share scientific subject matter and which also draw upon local talent. The exhibition is concerned with biological observation Read More