This year’s selection of work from the Time Based Art and Digital Film faculties is slightly more fragmented than previous years. The pieces are spread throughout DJCAD, sharing many areas with Fine Art works. Rather than diluting their impact, however, this allows the pieces to be shown alongside other pieces that match their aesthetic or Read More
A variety of beautiful work occupies Level 6, the home of the architecture department. Like previous years, the architecture students have come together to display the very best of their work, exhibiting to visitors that Dundee is the place to watch for up and coming young architects. Ranging from fresh, vibrant hand drawings by first Read More
Illustration is a strange discipline, considered by many to be the awkward spawn of Fine Art and Graphic Design, and almost impossible to define. The annual DJCAD degree show provides the perfect opportunity to throw open the doors of the seldom-visited basement, showcase our “emerging talent” and attempt to answer that burning question: what is Read More
Fossil Sunshine is one of those innovative and fruitful encounters between science and art. Having completed a course in creative writing at Warwick University and worked as an International Writing Fellow at University of Iowa (gaining much literary recognition along the way), Michael McKimm is now a valuable member of the Geological Society of London’s Read More
This year’s Art, Philosophy and Contemporary Practices exhibition showcase some great talents; all have produced a variety of artworks with deep, thought-provoking themes, this review offers a quick journey through the displays to give you a taste of the work. Craig Black has used the sense of touch, associated with his disability, into a body Read More
As the promotional posters rightly proclaim, this year’s Degree Show boasts a whole host of emerging talent. Up on the top floor of the Crawford building, the brightly lit studios with pristine white walls are home to the work of this year’s Graphic design graduates. Whilst the work is perhaps not as flamboyant or vibrant Read More
A Poetry Society Recommendation, David Pollard’s Finis-terre is an examination of mortality and creativity as the poet-narrator reflects on life and death while standing at a finis-terre – the end of the world. Spending half his life in Galicia, Northern Spain, Pollard has sailed past the Costa de la Muerte, where many sailors have perished, Read More
Knut Hamsun (1859 – 1952) was born into poverty in the Norwegian municipality of Lom; his early years were predominantly filled with what have become joyless, and often painful memories. He eventually found refuge in the world of literature, which he did not abandon until his death. His name was established with Hunger (1890), followed Read More
Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art and Design Degree Show debuts vibrant and thoughtful new works from its graduating fourth-year Textile Design students. An awareness of context appears to be driving their innovation, in a range of new takes on contemporary and traditional textile design. Alongside core fabrics and paper designs, the conceptual backbones behind Read More
From its title, Olivia Laing’s book The Lonely City: Adventures in the Art of Being Alone might give the impression of being some solemn self-help manual or brooding biography; instead, it is an honest and heart-wrenching exploration into one of life’s inexplicable plagues: loneliness. Finding herself alone in an altogether unfamiliar and alienating city, Laing Read More