Relive the inspiring, thought provoking and creative projects hosted by the Cooper Gallery at DJCAD during 2023. This snapshot reveals some of what happened in a year when ‘our hearts and minds are enthused by potential and possibility, our eyes marvel at the inspirational light of everyone we have learnt from and worked with during…Continue Reading Cooper Gallery – highlights of 2023 and looking forward to 2024
Relive the University’s recent successful Culture Day, part of its Festival of the Future. Here we give you a summary of the great presentations. Films of some of them will be available soon. Jan Merchant, Senior Archivist, started the day with an overview of the University Archives and the role they play in caring for…Continue Reading Caring and Culture
There is still time to visit this incredible show featuring the work of postgraduate students at Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art and Design. Covering Animation, Medical Art, Comics, Design, Drawing, Fine Art and more this year’s show has something for everyone. But hurry because the last chance to visit is Sunday 27th August. Opening…Continue Reading DJCAD Masters Show 2023
It looks like the lunchtime preview event for the ‘Sponta-neous’ pop-up exhibition at Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art and Design was a success. Wen Xi Kong, Heidi Le, Daphne March and Ceci Wong, Four students from the International College Dundee (ICD) Art and Design course, with the support of their peers and tutor Robert…Continue Reading DJCAD’s Matthew Foyer Gallery welcomes students from International College Dundee
Two MFA Fine Art students at Duncan Jordanstone College of Art and Design, Euan Rutter and Neil McCulloch, recently took part in an exhibition for the ‘RecoverMay’ event at Perth and Kinross Council’s Civic Hall, in a celebration of recovery from addiction and mental health, in association with P&K Council Alcohol and Drug Partnership, Scottish…Continue Reading The Art of Recovery, in a Tale of Two Citizens
As Baldrick prepares to resume his search for a cunning plan as part of Comic Relief and as we mark the 40th (yes 40th) anniversary of the first episode this year, we can reveal that Captain Blackadder studied at University College Dundee. Acting Captain Robert John Blackadder was a war hero who in 1918, while…Continue Reading Blackadder was a Dundee student
Some of you may remember the multi-media live show, ‘Ulysses: A Magic Lantern Odyssey’, which Keith Williams took on a ‘three-nation’ tour back in Summer 2022 to celebrate the centenary of Joyce’s novel in Dundee, Dublin and Bristol, supported by Humanities at Dundee. This is part of an ongoing creative research collaboration with magic lantern…Continue Reading James Joyce and Magic Lanterns
What do they have in common and what is the link to Dundee? Find out in this blog by Humanities student Mateo Gaudio as he explores the archive of film producer Alexander De Grunwald whose archive is held by the University. Alexander De Grunwald was born in July 1944 in Windsor, Berkshire, England. He was…Continue Reading Flash Gordon, The Muppets and Ghandi
Cooper Gallery is delighted to present Chimera, an exhibition bringing together new and existing works by Nashashibi/Skaer – the joint practice of Turner Prize nominated artists Rosalind Nashashibi and Lucy Skaer. From the ancient Greek for a female goat, ‘chimera’ today refers to a beast or an idea composed of incongruous parts, an illusion or fabrication of the mind….Continue Reading Chimera: exhibition of new and existing works by Nashashibi/Skaer
Join DJCAD Alumni Rose Hendry and Dr Maria Maclennan on the 17th of June at 7pm, when they will be discussing their collaboration on the short documentary “THE DEAD ARE JEWELS TO ME”. The Filmmakers Rose Hendry is a filmmaker from Dunshalt, Fife, she graduated from Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art & Design with a…Continue Reading Through the lens: immortalising stories and collaboration
RAG presents to you a late night double feature picture show in this online event taking place tonight and hosted by DUSA The Union. They encourage you to dress up as your favourite Rocky Horror Show character and get involved! Follow the link to find out more…Continue Reading Raggy Horror Picture Show
DUSA The Union would like to invite you to a virtual film screening of “Suffragette” to celebrate International Women’s Day on the 7th of March. Follow the link to find out how to attend …Continue Reading Suffragette Film Screening