The Graphic Design presentation for this year’s show is tucked away from the rest, occupying a room within its own corridor on the 4th floor. The display is built up of nooks and alcoves – emplaced walls holding the students’ work and driving visitors around the room, creating a blur of prints, slogans and colours Read More
This year’s Fine Art installations on the fifth floor include paintings, collages, bronzes, etchings, and videos. All are exhibited with professional flair, although some were not fully set up on press day. Subjects are as ‘simple’ as the perfect symmetry of the apple, clear geometric angles in primary colours, and as subtle as the reflection Read More
General Course Studio Three Artists working with colour dominate the exhibits in Studio Three. Entering the exhibition space, you’d be confronted by an array of bright colours. Laura May uses hot pink and yellow in her op-art prints and childrens’ workbooks and toys. She has arranged her show to resemble a nursery play area, Read More
Cooper Gallery, Level 5 18 – 26 May, DJCAD On level five is the Product Design exhibition. Walking in, we find custom-made tables filling the room in small clusters, with each displaying a student’s work. The space feels open, simple and light, making it a comfortable place to be, especially following last year when the room Read More
Crawford Building, Level 2 18 – 26 May, DJCAD An idle broom, a pile of sweepings and a dented paint can lie discarded by the gallery entrance, a visual narrative, signaling that for this year’s students of Illustration, the hard work is over. On entering the gallery it is immediately apparent that the resulting show is Read More
Crawford Building, Level 2 18 – 26 May, DJCAD This year, the work of DJCAD’s animation graduates has been spread across two rooms, situated on the second floor of the Crawford Building. In one, the students exhibit their individual work in the form of showreels, portfolios and sketchbooks. The other serves as a small cinema, playing Read More
‘Dear Diary, go fuck yourself’ opens I Am Not Okay With This, author and artist Charles Forsman’s latest graphic novel, a line that made me laugh with its direct belligerence. An opening like this, coupled with the comic’s cartoon art style – reminiscent to me of Bryan Lee O’Malley’s work – lured me into expecting Read More
The new installation of Laurence Weiner at The McManus marks the first time that the ARTIST ROOMS modern and contemporary art collection have displayed in Dundee. This touring programme is delivered by the National Galleries of Scotland and Tate, although Weiner and his office were directly involved in the planning of this exhibition. Certainly, the Read More
Entering the space at GENERATOR to explore Michael Curran’s new exhibition on Muriel Spark, The Public Image (Scottish Lady Tiger), one notices how large the gallery feels, with empty spaces between each exhibit. In fact, the Generator Chairperson and curator of the exhibition, Hari MacMillan, explained that the space had been designed deliberately to echo Read More