The Fine Art course at Duncan of Jordanstone allows its artists creative freedom and the opportunity to work in an array of different mediums. Never is this more evident than in the annual Degree Show, where experimentation is on display and pushed to the limit. Upon entering an almost pitch-black studio near the stairwell on Read More
When Degree Show time of year rolls around, a peculiar mix of emotions seem to linger within the walls of University art buildings. The sense of release is almost palpable; an enormous bubble of built-up tension and stress over the last few months having finally burst, leaving the products of true inspiration, hard graft, creative Read More
Everybody deserves recognition for their creative achievements, unshadowed by backstories and illustrious family comparisons. Rightly, this courageous painter-poet has long been outspoken, criticising those choosing to play with her biography to suit their own ends. The press release is wisely oblique on this aspect. I turned away from the room’s elephant. Frieda Hughes is probably Read More
IC-98 is an artistic duo comprised of Finnish artists Visa Suonpää and Patrik Söderlund, who have been brought to the DCA through their work Abendland (Hours, Years, Aeons) after representing Finland in the latest Venice Biennale. The work is part of an ongoing documentation of their hometown Turku and its transition through unfolding social and Read More
Commissioned for NEoN Digital Arts, Sounds and Stripes invites the viewer into a realm where old and new technologies mingle. These deeply immersive works from Japanese artist Ei Wada are created by hijacking and modifying outdated electronic devices. Analogue televisions, wires, cameras and speakers are repurposed to become digitally performative musical arrangements. As its name Read More
By the time I come down amongst the trees around the house, the last reflected daylight in the west has faded to uniform grey beyond their branches, and the stream which feeds the big pond is loud over the stones. Still air, dimming and thickening. The light has gone completely where the boughs of the Read More
Open studios and exhibitions staged outside traditional white-walled gallery spaces are invariably more welcoming than those occurring within institutional confines. Enjoying art in less fussy surroundings encourages us to be less fearful of the maker or the medium; thus liberated, we become more curious about form and craft even as we savour the transgressive freedom Read More
A Swiss artist, Roman Signer’s work has avoided the category of “process based” art; yet in suggesting previous interactions between established objects, he, like others, deconstructs your sense of art as a finished work. However, his pieces avoid such categorizations through their inclusion of a visual aftermath; the depiction of the development process and finished Read More
What is the role of painting in contemporary art practice? Where can it be situated within art discourse, and what is its value? Hold, Sway, the current exhibition at Generator Projects, brings together five artists in an attempt to address these questions. The show posits a transitional, mediate space between the flat plane of two-dimensional Read More
In an attempt to cover the impressive and wide variety served up to us at the glorious DJCAD 2015 Degree Show art buffet, examining Drawing and Painting as a section is in itself a purposely ambiguous task. Much as drawing does not necessarily consist of meticulously rendered pencil sketches on paper, some of the paintings Read More