COMING INTO VIEW, PHOTOGRAPHS OF GLASGOW, ERIC WATT, CURATED BY ISOBEL MCDONALD AND ALISON BROWN

Sunday, 3pm. Eric Watt’s collection of selected fragments of city lives in Coming Into View, spanning several decades, an exhibition curated by Isobel McDonald and Alison Brown, today coalesce in the surround-sound of Kelvingrove’s organ recital. In a celebration of both Watt and Glasgow, portraits of ‘St Andrew’s Suspension Bridge’, in the damp of an all-too-familiar smirring rain, and girls with umbrellas traversing glistering tarmacadams, rivers of shining light (‘Kingston Umbrellas, 1960’), segue into street-kids sheltering from a ‘Rainy Day’ and echoey images of the Clyde with its tidal eddies (‘Fairfield’s Yard, 1965’).

Katy Dove (1970 – 2015)

DCA 17th September – 20th November 2016 What do you get if you mix Kandinsky with Matisse, then add a tiny pinch of Picasso? The answer:   the work of Katy Dove. In this memorial exhibition –  Dove sadly having died of cancer in 2015 – DCA’s curator Graeme Domke brings us a fascinating collection of Read More

Katy Dove Memorial Exhibition

DCA, Gallery 2 17th September- 20th November The DCA are giving audiences a new chance to see the work of the much acclaimed artist Katy Dove in a memorial exhibition. The works exhibited range the full breadth of her artist career and even include animations she made while still a student. Dove blends sound and Read More

Faces, Places and Spaces – Red Sky Photos

Driving or walking along Shore Terrace on the edge of Slessor Gardens, most recently populated by Oor Wullies’ Last Gathering, which Dundee took so much to its heart, you will be struck by a series of 16 photographic poster-boards. Just as the plaques on the other side of the gardens celebrate past heroes and heroines Read More

CD-ROMS & Small Wars

Divided between DCA’s two gallery spaces, CD-ROMS and Small Wars offer two distinctly different yet complementary viewpoints on the role of video games in contemporary culture. Co-curated with Dr. William Huber of Abertay University’s Centre for Excellence in Game Education, the exhibition participates in the championing of games not just as artefacts of popular culture, Read More

NEW Wheat NEW Mud NEW Machine

Delivered in response to their cultural exchange in Shanghai last summer, Poster Club’s latest exhibition, “NEW Wheat NEW Mud NEW Machine”, curiously explores the realms of collaboration through the medium of printmaking and playful typography. The artists involved with Poster Club have come and gone throughout the years, but the aim has always been the Read More

a dream is a montage

Working with the theme of montage, the curators make the case that the artist’s imagination lies “on the edge between reality and fantasy, where logic is irrelevant and nonsense can be oddly rational”. This assertion helps solidify the link between the state of dreaming and the form which the content of this exhibition takes: the Read More

Grey Gardens

The DCA is a wonderfully apt setting for their latest exhibition, Grey Gardens: one of many celebratory events for the national Festival of Architecture. And it’s no coincidence that the arts centre has itself been recognised as one of the top contemporary Scottish buildings in the last century: it’s light and airy space houses the Read More

Seeing Through the See-Through

Seeing Through the See-Through, by Mat Fleming gives us an intimate look at the usage of scientific imaging technologies and the potential which science has in shaping our cultural identities. Fleming’s works are the result of a nine month residency in the Dundee Imaging Facility within the university’s School of Life Sciences, supported by the Read More

ALL SYSTEMS… go

The title ALL SYSTEMS…go is an imperative sentence in history depicting the point of no return. The creators have taken ownership of this terminology to dismiss and reject all the systems that control artists and restrict the art scene. Questioning this, artists Liam Gillick, Anton Vidokle, Miranda Pennell and Dominic Watson present a body of Read More