DJCAD Art, Design & Architecture Degree Show 202221 – 29 May 2022 The Duncan of Jordanstone Art, Design and Architecture Degree Show returned amidst much excitement this weekend following a two-year pandemic hiatus. Now accompanied by an online version, this showcase of graduating student talent is staged within DJCAD’s studio and exhibition space, organised into three Read More
For the first time in two years, DJCAD opens its doors to warmly welcome visitors in-person to their renowned and much anticipated Degree Show. An eclectic showcase of ambitious and exciting bodies of work from this year’s Fine Art graduates. What strikes me most is just how much there is to see. The work is dispersed throughout the college and adjoining Cooper Gallery, and it is easy to spend hours in each area of the building perusing through paintings or immersing yourself in an installation.
Digital Interaction Design embraces one of the smallest groups of students in this year’s Final Year Degree Show, but their work is sure to exert an enormous impact on the design world of the future. The atmosphere on entering the building and meeting up with the helpful and professional Joanna Helfer of the Art and Read More
Ingela Ihrman is a Swedish artist and ‘We Thrive’ at Cooper Gallery is her first UK solo exhibition. Ihrman explores the complex relationship between humans and animals or plants in her work. Using a mixture of tactile handicraft, performance art, installation, video and writing, she creates absurd theatrical pieces that are often humorous, showing a Read More
Crawford Building, Level 3 20th – 28th May With the success of graduates such as fashion designer Hayley Scanlan and illustrator Johanna Basford, Textile Design at DJCAD has an enviable reputation for producing talent in both print and knit. This year’s exhibition is no exception, showing strength in pattern design, dyeing techniques and constructed textiles Read More
Crawford Building, Level 4 20th – 28th May The plethora of colour and diversity of materials that await the viewer within the Jewellery and Metal Design degree show exhibition space pays testament to the superfluity of opportunities on offer to the students of this discipline. Although traditional jewellery, woodworking and silversmithing techniques underpin the majority Read More
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 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
