With the academic term quickly drawing to a close, Cooper Gallery are about to open their newest exhibition on the 13th and it will run until the end of term, the 19th of December 2020. The open exhibition is called, Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize 2020 and it features 71 works by 56 artists…Continue Reading Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize 2020
With Halloween right around the corner, JOOT Theatre Company have comprised an evening of ghostly stories and poems to be viewed and enjoyed remotely on the 29th of October from 8pm. A little backstory about the Company: The JOOT Theatre Company was established almost twenty years ago in 1992 under the name of the Medieval…Continue Reading JOOT Theatre Company presents an evening of ghostly stories and poems
While the ongoing need for social distancing means that physical exhibitions are still not possible. Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art & Design have made their Masters show available virtually providing an opportunity to browse their work remotely. The website celebrates transformative design and visually stunning art from six of the UK’s most…Continue Reading Masters Showcase 2020
This beautifully detailed etching was created by Gail Low & Sian MacFarlane for the River Deep Mountain High exhibition. The plate includes an excerpt of a longer poem, ‘Timefolds’, which addresses absence & presence in the archives & in relation to Dundee’s industrial past. Tay Vaults by Sian MacFarlane and Gail Low Etching on zinc “The text…Continue Reading RDMH – Tay Vaults by Sian MacFarlane and Gail Low
Opening on Tuesday 6th October, we are very excited to welcome back visitors to the Cooper Gallery in DJCAD. Our first live exhibition since lockdown is a retrospective exhibition that uses the gallery space as a means to refract the work of influential theorists and filmmakers Laura Mulvey and Peter Wollen through the prism of art. The…Continue Reading New Exhibition: A is for Avant-Garde, Z is for Zero
Declan McCourt was inspired by some of the fantastic images in The Grampian Club collection for the River Deep Mountain High exhibition. Declan was drawn to the landscapes & how they appear somewhat dreamlike. On the Ice / Mountainside Dreaming / Rockside by Declan McCourt Watercolour, graphite and coloured pencil on art-board “Contributing to the archival exhibition…Continue Reading RDMH – On the Ice / Mountainside Dreaming / Rockside by Declan McCourt
A photograph of Inuit inspired Reinhard Behren’s beautiful pastel & pencil drawing – note the special addition. Behren’s toy submarine also features in his second work for the River Deep Mountain High exhibition which was inspired by John Huston’s Moby Dick. Ahab’s Frustration and The Big Thaw by Reinhard Behrens Pastel and pencil on board “As a visual…Continue Reading RDMH – Ahab’s Frustration and The Big Thaw by Reinhard Behrens
While our physical exhibition spaces have been closed, the University’s Museum Services have been curating online exhibitions using Art UK’s new Curations platform. The latest exhibition highlights the extraordinary artistic influence of Dundee’s first Professor of Biology, D’Arcy Thompson (1860-1948). Partly based on the exhibition A Sketch of the Universe curated by Matthew Jarron at…Continue Reading A Sketch of the Universe – new online exhibition
Hannah Whaley’s second contribution to the River Deep Mountain High exhibition was inspired by a photo of a captive polar bear. Hannah’s charcoal sketches & narrative tell of a bear untethered to roam free with his companion, a little boy. Towards Tundra by Hannah Whaley Charcoal drawings and typefaced words on A2 mesaboard ”The black and white photographs of…Continue Reading RDMH – Towards Tundra by Hannah Whaley
Science meets art in creative ways with a new remote residency project in Life Sciences. Ali Floyd from the School of Life Sciences tells us more. Since our establishment in 2017, the Wellcome Centre for Anti-Infectives Research (WCAIR) has run a busy, productive science art collaboration with LifeSpace. We have run a co-commission with NEoN Festival, created…Continue Reading A Non-Resident Artist in Residence
The Doctoral Academy’s first Images of Research competition received 25 eligible submissions for consideration by our expert panel. PGRs were asked to portray their research in a single image along with a 50 word description, providing a great way to showcase public engagement abilities, increase research profiles and get creative all at the same time. Each entrant was…Continue Reading The Doctoral Academy: Images of Research – ‘Promoting social change to enhance diversity, justice and socio-economic prosperity’
For her River Deep Mountain High contribution, Patricia Ramaer has stepped away from typical photographic methods to employ an intriguing technique to burn, not print. This little girl is Margot Cox on Lossiemouth beach, 1909. Margot 1908 by Patricia Ramaer Carbon on paper “I’m mesmerized by photographs of people long gone, remnants of ephemeral lives held in the…Continue Reading RDMH – Margot by Patricia Ramaer