The MFA in Arts and Humanities is an interdisciplinary degree that gives students an opportunity to combine their studio practice with a wide range of humanities subjects, such as English, Culture and Society, Philosophy, Film Studies and Gender Studies. The synthesis of ideas has resulted in a breathtaking show. It’s quite a challenge to hike through the Crawford Building to find the exhibits, Read More
Dundee University’s Comics courses are internationally recognized, and the quality of the work in this year’s show demonstrates why. Seven students have their work on display, demonstrating a high level of skill and a willingness to experiment with the medium. The works vary from the wordless, where the pictures tell the entire story, to a quite Read More
This is a diverse group of artists, but there emerges from their work a unifying theme of ethical challenge and political awareness. Rishi Srinivasan questions the colonisation of India in his work entitled Peace in My Head. He uses distinctive motifs: Dhristi Bohmai masks, commonly found in the south of the country to ward off Read More
The MSc Medical Art show demonstrates the use of a wide range of techniques, both traditional and digital, to educate and inform medical personnel and patients. In many cases highly complex ideas are demonstrated so clearly that even the non-medical viewer can understand the procedures and anatomy being explained. Inspired by his own experience undergoing Read More
Within the last two decades computer-assisted forensic art and facial identification has taken hold of the public’s imagination, with examples ranging from the identification of victims of genocide to the reconstruction of Richard III’s face. DJCAD has played a leading role in such projects. The 2017 Master’s exhibition shows us what can be done with 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
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
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
This year’s Illustration show is a colourful affair of books and prints interspersed with quirky objects making the discipline difficult to define. Each of this year’s graduates has created diverse portfolios showcasing a variety of skills from bookbinding and screen printing to digital drawing and ceramics. A traditional interpretation of illustration is that the artist Read More
