February 2011 saw the premiere at The Royal National Theatre in London of Frankenstein, written by Nick Dear and directed by Danny Boyle. The play proved a masterful adaptation of Mary Shelley’s novel, capturing both the horror and above all the tragedy at the heart of the story. Since then, recordings of this production Read More
I am thrilled to present an online collection of writing and art as the first instalment of These Windows, a collaborative publishing project between the University of Dundee and the V&A Dundee. The online gallery, gathered here on DURA, pairs with a forthcoming printed publication to showcase the creative dexterity of DJCAD Illustration BDes Read More
From These Windows: Online Collection – a selection of writing and art inspired by the collections of the V&A Museums. She would usually phone me on her break and tell me to wait outside her boyfriend’s flat after five o’clock. We’ll get food, she would say, and watch movies. We were best friends. One time, Read More
From These Windows: Online Collection – a selection of writing and art inspired by the collections of the V&A Museums. Legend goes Ma only knew Pa was drinking at work when one day he came home sober. Hypocrite. She could put it back too. Red wine and coke. That’s one thing I don’t like to Read More
From These Windows: Online Collection – a selection of writing and art inspired by the collections of the V&A Museums. Kingsessing, USA 23 April 1803 Dearest mother, The birds here are exquisite. I know you want to hear that I have met a good woman and that I’ve changed my ways and have a steady Read More
From These Windows: Online Collection – a selection of writing and art inspired by the collections of the V&A Museums. We moved tae Usan when the factory shut and Faither got a joab on the boats. He’d be up at the crack o dawn and awa oot come hell or high tide. When the sea Read More
From These Windows: Online Collection – a selection of writing and art inspired by the collections of the V&A Museums. She watched the performance spellbound. Defiantly eyeing the audience, he spoke at length of industrial chimneys; tall, intimidating, bellowing smoke. She met him later wearing a satin dress: round and smooth; purple and shiny as Read More
From These Windows: Online Collection – a selection of writing and art inspired by the collections of the V&A Museums. I’m not used to London yet. Back in New York City, I knew where I was at any given moment. on a clearly marked grid. In London, I walk slowly. ‘You’ve changed’, my husband says. Read More
From These Windows: Online Collection – a selection of writing and art inspired by the collections of the V&A Museums. On the beach in an indigo evening the strobe of St Mary’s lighthouse pulses through my body: absence, gleam, darkness, blaze. I turn and view the land. Light kaleidoscopes, fragmenting as I spin from black Read More