Museum volunteer Delaney Brown (an art history student at the University of St Andrews) tells us about the current exhibition in the Tower Foyer Gallery which she curated in association with the University of Dundee Museums. The female body has long been a powerful tool for storytelling in art, embodying themes of beauty, morality, identity,…Continue Reading Reframing the Muse
The Archive’s Alive and if you need any convincing get yourself along to the Entrance Galleries in the Matthew building at DJCAD. The current exhibition of newly created artwork by the incredibly talented students of Level 3 Communication Design studying illustration under the tutelage of Senior Lecturer, Natalie Russell, is open until 14 March 2025….Continue Reading Archive collections brought to life!
For international women’s day, Kenneth from the Archives takes a look at some of the notable women in the early history of the University, a reminder of how important understanding our past is in shaping who we are today, and who we want to be in future. . University College was founded at the end…Continue Reading The contribution of women to the first years of the University
John Post, a visual artist and doctoral researcher, explains the inspiration behind his latest exhibition as part of LGBT+ History Month in DJCAD. My work explores how photography shapes the identities of gay and bisexual men. For many, photography isn’t just about capturing images; it is a tool to navigate and affirm sexuality. One of…Continue Reading Cruising for Another Picture: Restoring Empathy in the Queer Male Photograph
The University Archive holds the internationally significant Michael Peto photographic collection. From the 1950s until his death in 1970 Michael Peto regularly photographed theatre, television and film productions and as result the Peto Collection contains many images of major stars. These include images of actors who were at the height of their fame, but also…Continue Reading Remembering Timothy West, Maggie Smith and James Laurenson
On the 23 of January, Bloomsbury Academic published a lost piece of Scottish and transatlantic literary history, recovered as part of an ongoing project based at the University of Dundee: The Essential Robert Duncan Milne: Stories by the Lost Pioneer of Science Fiction: Robert Duncan Milne: Bloomsbury Academic This collection co-edited by Dr Keith Williams,…Continue Reading Historic Science Fiction Edition from Research at the University of Dundee
In the autumn of 2024 Archives and Museum Services were given the opportunity to host an intern from the Cultural Heritage Conservation and Management certificate course run by Fleming College in Ontario, Canada. We were delighted to welcome Lindsey Mace who worked on 19th century lantern slides, taxidermy birds and the archives of the Drug…Continue Reading Conservation work with Archives and Museums
A quarter of a century after the world held its breath and waited to see if the new millennium would bring computer chaos, Archive Services looks at how the University prepared for and responded to the event. In 1999 as people prepared to celebrate the coming of the year 2000, more than a few feared…Continue Reading Y2K and the Millennium Bug 25 years on
[photo credit Simon Forsythe] As part of the growing partnership between the University’s Creative Writing programme and V&A Dundee, eight students will have the opportunity to be writers-in-residence as part of the museum’s exhibition A Fragile Correspondence. Students will respond to the themes of the exhibition on the relationship between land, language and architecture. V&A…Continue Reading A Fragile Correspondence: the University’s links to this new exhibition
The latest exhibition in the University’s Lamb Gallery explores the fascinating artwork of Nell Baxter and her connection with the Celtic Revival in Edinburgh and Dundee in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. For many years Nell Baxter was little more than a footnote in Scottish art history. Her name was often mentioned along…Continue Reading Nell Baxter and Dundee’s Celtic Revival
The University has a thriving music scene. Here we highlight some of the upcoming musical events to give you a taste of what is on offer. The Dundee Jazz Festival takes place from 20-24 November and as part of that on 23rd at 1.00pm the Chaplaincy is hosting a captivating lecture/recital by Ruth Naomi Floyd…Continue Reading Music at Dundee
This year’s Dundee’s Festival of the Future featured a multi-disciplinary panel of University colleagues, following a special public screening of Denis Villeneuve’s Arrival (2016) on Wednesday, 9 October, at Dundee Contemporary Arts. Arrival is one of the most unusual science fiction films of this century so far, in terms of its depiction of ‘first contact’…Continue Reading Close Encounters with Different Perspectives