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#WellTogether: Pandemic Tales: Responses to COVID-19 and Lockdown Comics

Categories: Art, Comics, Well Together

Since 2016 the Scottish Centre for Comics Studies has produced a number of public information comics, many of them dealing with healthcare issues and science communication. When the Coronavirus pandemic took hold in early 2020, sending the world into lockdown, communities and individuals have done amazing things to help themselves and others, from observing social…Continue Reading #WellTogether: Pandemic Tales: Responses to COVID-19 and Lockdown Comics

#WellTogether: Public Art Tour of Broughty Ferry, Dundee

Categories: Art, Museums, Well Together

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 #WellTogether: Public Art Tour of Broughty Ferry, Dundee

#WellTogether: CollaborACES Weekly Art Projects

Categories: Art, Well Together

Next up for #WellTogether week, we are sharing the amazing online art project created and shared online by CollaborACES, which has provided our community with weekly projects to inspire us to get crafty and creative during this difficult time! CollaborACES is a collaborative online creative project between ACES Tayside at the University of Dundee and…Continue Reading #WellTogether: CollaborACES Weekly Art Projects

#WellTogether: Public Art Tour of Blackness, Dundee

Categories: Art, Museums, Well Together

The Big Sheep: A Philip Merlot Thriller – A Comic by PhD student Hailey Austin

Categories: Art, Comics

“This was created for my PhD chapter on noir comics and has been adopted onto the film noir course. It is a silly anthropomorphic romp in a sci-fi/ noir world. It has suggestions for films to watch in order to understand the references in the comic, so that could be good boredom busting during lockdown…Continue Reading The Big Sheep: A Philip Merlot Thriller – A Comic by PhD student Hailey Austin

These Windows: a collaborative project between UoD and the V&A Dundee

Categories: Art, DJCAD, Literature

‘These Windows’ is a collaborative publishing project between the University of Dundee and the V&A Dundee. The online gallery, gathered on DURA, pairs with a forthcoming printed publication to showcase the creative dexterity of DJCAD Illustration BDes students and School of Humanities Creative Writing & Practice MLitt students. The first instalment of the project comes in the form of…Continue Reading These Windows: a collaborative project between UoD and the V&A Dundee

Festival of the Future: University of Dundee’s celebration of science, arts and culture

Categories: Art, Dance, Music, Science

Festival of the Future is the University of Dundee’s annual event which celebrates science, arts and culture. In 2019 we had 60 events across 5 days in Bonar Hall and other venues around the city. We collaborated with a range of partners including Dundee Science Festival, DCA and Dundee Rep Theatre, we journeyed to Mars,…Continue Reading Festival of the Future: University of Dundee’s celebration of science, arts and culture

RDMH – Saudade by Chantal Leimbach

Categories: Archives, Art

Chantal Leimbach used The Grampian Club photos and images she shot herself in Austria to inspire her contribution to the River Deep Mountain High exhibition. Chantal looked for textural similarities & differences in the images and explored this in her paintings. Saudade by Chantal Leimbach Acrylic on canvas board “When I first looked through the…Continue Reading RDMH – Saudade by Chantal Leimbach

Video: John Duncan and the Celtic Revival in Dundee

Categories: Art, Museums

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 two…Continue Reading Video: John Duncan and the Celtic Revival in Dundee

Video: PGDE 18-19 Art & Design Workshops

Categories: Art

This short MP4 was created in collaboration with the PGDE 18-19 (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 Video: PGDE 18-19 Art & Design Workshops

RDMH – Stretch of Water by Lucy Golden

Categories: Archives, Art

Lucy Golden’s ,’Stretch of Water’ for the River Deep Mountain High exhibition was inspired by data & models produced by the Dept of Geology & R.W. Austin’s ocean colour scale held by the University Museums. Lucy developed a series of paintings which explore the Tay Estuary, fascinated by the unseen. Stretch of Water by…Continue Reading RDMH – Stretch of Water by Lucy Golden

The Cooper Gallery – A space in-between: A is for Avant-Garde, Z is for Zero

Categories: Art, DJCAD

Cooper Gallery’s detour in the space in-between where we find ourselves, somewhere between life as it was and the world to come, begins by sharing reading, listening and screening material related to and featured in our currently postponed exhibition A is for Avant-Garde, Z is for Zero: Laura Mulvey & Peter Wollen, compiled with generous support…Continue Reading The Cooper Gallery – A space in-between: A is for Avant-Garde, Z is for Zero