Although the lockdown is now easing, the need for social distancing means that face-to-face guided tours are still not possible, so museum curator Matthew Jarron is continuing his virtual public art and design tours using Google Streetview and photos from Public Art Dundee volunteers. This tour is the fourth and final one in the city…Continue Reading Public Art Tour of Dundee City Centre – Part 4 (Video)
This short MP4 was created in collaboration with the PGDE 19-20 (Postgraduate Diploma in Education) students from the school of Education and Social Work at University of Dundee. It comprises materials and images from their art and design workshops as well as their photographs of their primary children’s art and design work, from three placements…Continue Reading PGDE 19-20 Art & Design Workshops (Video)
Earlier this year, the Bits & Bones exhibition was a student organised event to showcase their range of artwork and talents, and provide the public with an introduction to the fields of Medical and Forensic Art. The exhibit presented depictions of anatomical illustrations, écorché sculptures, facial reconstructions, among others, using a series of technical, traditional…Continue Reading Bits & Bones: An Introduction to Medical and Forensic Art
While the University’s museums and galleries are temporarily closed due to the coronavirus emergency, we’re sharing more of our collections online. This is the latest in a series of films in which museum curator Matthew Jarron tells the stories behind some of our most interesting objects and artworks. In this video we look at Dr…Continue Reading The Art Collection of Dr James Nicoll
The Cooper Gallery, within Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art & Design, has launched its latest project. Hear, Here runs from 26 June – 28 August. The project includes a series of sound art commissions by artists who work with images, the voice, text, sounds, music and performance, including Anne Bean and Nicholas Parkinson, Anne-Marie Copestake,…Continue Reading A space in-between #3: ‘Hear, Here’
CollaborACES, a collaborative online creative project between ACES (Access to Creative Education in Scotland) at the Universities of Dundee and Edinburgh, has been taking place over the past ten weeks with secondary pupils from across the Tayside area taking part. Many of the pupils came to the programme with no experience in life drawing and…Continue Reading ACES #collaborACES Online Exhibition
As part of Dundee Month of Design 2020, museum curator Matthew Jarron had planned to lead a series of guided walks of public art and design in different parts of the city. Because of the current lockdown these have not been possible, so here is a virtual tour using Google Streetview and photos from Public…Continue Reading Public Art Tour of Hilltown, Dundee Part 2
As part of Dundee Month of Design 2020, museum curator Matthew Jarron had planned to lead a series of guided walks of public art and design in different parts of the city. Because of the current lockdown these have not been possible, so here is a virtual tour using Google Streetview and photos from Public…Continue Reading Public Art Tour of the Hilltown, Dundee Part 1
For the first of our Flashback Friday Film Festival from the University Archives we’re going back nearly 90 years. The film has been set to music by Steven Gellatly, with many thanks to him, https://www.stevengellatly.com/. In the early 1930s Professor Alexander David Peacock, University College Dundee’s Professor of Natural History from 1926-1956, led a number of…Continue Reading Flashback Friday Film Festival: Rona and Raasay
DJCAD students often propose to take over exhibition spaces in the DJCAD Matthew and Crawford buildings. The ‘Capture’ photography competition curated by our level two Contemporary Art Student, Katie Nelis, was due to ‘pop up’ in the Matthew Lower Foyer, earlier this year in April. Unfortunately due to the current lock down and closure of…Continue Reading Capture: DJCAD Student photography exhibition
While the University’s museums and galleries are temporarily closed due to the coronavirus emergency, we’re sharing more of our collections online. This is the latest in a series of films in which museum curator Matthew Jarron tells the stories behind some of our most interesting objects and artworks. In this video we look at an…Continue Reading The Moira Macgregor Bequest – Biba and Beyond
To celebrate recent DJCAD graduate Lewis Deeney being selected for the Freelands Painting Prize & winning the James Guthrie Orchar Award, we thought it would be apt share his contribution to the River Deep Mountain High exhibition on the #DundeeUniCulture blog today. Lewis Deeney’s acrylic & water on board for the River Deep Mountain High…Continue Reading RDMH – The continual ephemerality of our connection by Lewis Deeney