With sweeping views of the Tay, this year the top floor of the Crawford Building is aptly suited to some of the young artists and their work; there is a strong theme of being connected to the landscape through geological observation or site-specific myths. As I begin my travels, I find myself in the Scottish Read More
Digital Interaction Design embraces one of the smallest groups of students in this year’s Final Year Degree Show, but their work is sure to exert an enormous impact on the design world of the future. The atmosphere on entering the building and meeting up with the helpful and professional Joanna Helfer of the Art and Read More
Perhaps more than any other exhibition space in the Degree show, the Animation displays demonstrate all the processes by which the end products are realised, and the extent to which teamwork plays an essential role. The “end products” are stylish, witty short films running in a recently refurbished and comfortable lecture theatre. Sitting in the Read More
I came away from the textile design graduate exhibition having picked up a substantial selection of business cards. In the one I’m holding, I can see repeating motifs – a distant sun emerging from an earthly globe, its horizontal rays transforming a dark cloud, a shadowy mountain. I’m holding Kirsten McLoskey’s card upside down, her Read More
Should you find yourself arriving to this year’s DJCAD degree show in need of a bit of relaxation, then consider heading straight to the lower foyer in the Cooper Gallery to experience the immersive Ego Death by Laura Stubbings. Inner peace restored, prepare to focus on some of the amazing work on display. Focus and Read More
Students here know how to justify their Department’s place. Too easily seen by some as mere adornment, that facile view fails to consider what these students take on board…jewellery can be worn when textiles are not, often occupying a far from trivial, enduring, intimate and symbolic connection with the wearer or holder. There is no Read More
Ingela Ihrman is a Swedish artist and ‘We Thrive’ at Cooper Gallery is her first UK solo exhibition. Ihrman explores the complex relationship between humans and animals or plants in her work. Using a mixture of tactile handicraft, performance art, installation, video and writing, she creates absurd theatrical pieces that are often humorous, showing a Read More
As part of Creative Scotland and the National Library of Scotland’s year-long celebration of the life and works of Muriel Spark, the International Style of Muriel Spark exhibition is being held at NLS. Spark, who said she threw away “practically nothing on paper”, forms one of the largest archives at the library, and the exhibition Read More
Aberdeen Artists Society (AAS) and Historic Environmental Scotland are hosting an open exhibition at Duff House in Banff. With Aberdeen Art Gallery closed for refurbishment, the AAS has had to look further afield to show their work. Duff House is a prestigious location, home to many significant works of art from the National Galleries of Read More
“The variety of work a photographer, who devotes his time to subjects outside the studio, is called upon to do […] is what no one would believe.” So said Magnus Jackson in a communication to the Dundee and East of Scotland Photographic Association in 1881. This new exhibition at Perth Museum, of reproductions of his Read More