Unlike many other artistic endeavours, Architecture at university or art school level can only ever be theoretical, it can only ever exist in the imagination. It is difficult to convey the feeling of being in a space or to experience a built environment without being in those spaces themselves. Yet, students of the discipline labour Read More
What unites and divides this year’s exhibition? All but two of the exhibitors are exclusively jewellers, although a further two suggest that their eminently wearable pieces might also be considered as small sculptural works. In terms of benchwork, there’s casting, a fair bit of scoring and folding, and a considerable use of oxidised metal (and Read More
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
“I must be hardest person you’ve ever had to track down,” says Dr Femi Folorunso as he leads me to a private booth. “Yes,” I reply, meaning it. A self-described “anti-social” man with work spanning from the Dundee Rep Theatre to Magnetic North in Edinburgh to the Beacon Arts Centre in Greenock, Folorunso is a Read More
Called on its cover ‘a novella in flash’, Bottled Goods follows on from Sophie Van Llewyn’s award-winning flash fiction pieces. This seems a clever move, allowing the author to mix different voices, tenses and forms, never allowing the reader to settle, and mirroring the increasingly jittery and fracturing nature of the life of Alina, the Read More