Crawford Building, Level 2 20th – 28th May With the open, free and unpredictable nature of the Fine Art course at DJCAD there is always great excitement and anticipation when Degree Show comes round. This year is no disappointment. Tucked away in the Cooper Gallery is a truly delightful body of work. It is impossible to Read More
Matthew Building, Level 5 20th – 28th May Wandering through the Fine Art studios of the Matthew Building, we come across a variety of works, ranging from deeply personal documentations to participatory artworks, each with their own equally strong statements concerning social and environmental issues. Arriving in Hub 3, at the end of the North Read More
The audience of eight alight themselves expectantly on a handful of deck chairs, next to a caravan. A young woman comes out and introduces herself as Catherine. She makes a game of guessing our names and getting us to guess the names of each other. She cheerfully admits that this is like one of those Read More
The natural world, and our connection to it, is the subject for Ken Bambury whose interest in Dighty Water has provided both subject matter and physical material for his show. His exquisitely rendered watercolour studies of the wildlife inhabiting Dighty are disrupted from any sentimentality by the realist inclusion of disposed plastic bottles lurking beneath Read More
On touring the Interior and Environmental Design display at his year’s Degree Show, one is immediately struck not only by the quality of the exhibits, but by the skill and forethought which has gone into their arrangement. Instead of the table-top models which we are used to seeing, the students have been challenged to produce Read More
Amber Edmond’s work is inspired by the rugged landscapes of the Scottish Highlands. Sounds of the forest, wind and water fill the room, forming an evocative backdrop. Amber explores her relationship with nature; her photographs document her time spent in rugged locations, collecting objects she has found there. A series of abstract monoprints represent Read More
The Duncan of Jordanstone Fine Art degree show is a great opportunity to find out what artists do at art school. The answer to this is always a delightful surprise and this year is no exception. The General Course studios in the Crawford building have been filled with an array of interesting works. Moving through Read More
It has been said that you know good art when you want to spend time with it. Plan to spend a great deal of time at the Crawford Building’s Sixth Floor; it has amazing art. Several themes run through the floor: life, death, and the organic cycle of this repetition. A love of nature and Read More
DJCAD’s annual degree show always attracts an astounding volume of foot-traffic; students and professionals, young and old alike all attend to peruse the latest offerings of Perth Road’s cabinet of curiosities. Yet as diverse and wondrous as the college’s sprawling exhibition may be, from the intricate designs of the jewellers to the conceptual marvels of Read More
An invitation into the spaces of the sixth-floor architecture studios in DJCAD allows us to re-imagine the urban forms that shape our cities. The final year students in both the MArch and the MArch + Urban Planning programmes have put together a brilliant show structured around four research projects around Scotland. These students take us Read More