Kirsty Stopper is a student from MFA Curatorial Practice who has an interest in alternative green spaces. With a background in Digital Interaction Design Kirsty focuses on public facing immersive environments and how they can be used for education. The role of a curator can be a complicated one to define, especially in the 21st…Continue Reading Garden as a Canvas – a curatorial manual
‘Plant Power’ is an annual event held at the University of Dundee Botanic Garden. Each year it coincides with Fascination of Plants Day organised by the European Plant Science Organisation (EPSO). This year, staff at the Garden worked with the University’s School of Life Sciences (Division of Plant Sciences and Wellcome Centre for Anti-Infectives Research),…Continue Reading Plant Power 2024
Put a spring in your step by reading about the wonderful activities happening in the Botanic Garden. Their latest report showcases some of the events and exhibitions that have happened recently. The Garden is actively exploring new ways of facilitating public engagement through outdoor education, on site workshops and art science exhibitions events aligned to…Continue Reading Botanic Garden Spring Report
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
The University’s Botanic Garden has teamed up with the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh to bring you this wonderful workshop happening in November. Frosts, winds and shortening days expose the underlying structures of plant forms and show new life waiting to happen in seed heads, pods, nuts, and berries. Winter brings both subtle and dramatic colours…Continue Reading Winter Botanical Painting Workshop
Janice Aitken, Reader in Art, Design and Public Engagement at DJCAD, has a new exhibition in the Green Gallery at the Botanic Garden. ‘Anthophilia’ means the love or flowers or the love of plants, depending on which dictionary you use. The works in this exhibition were started during lockdown, when the artist contemplated how important…Continue Reading Anthophilia – new exhibition at the Botanic Garden
Visit this new exhibition in Dundee’s Botanic Garden unearthing the hidden story of the St Vincent Botanical Garden 1785-1811. Dr Christina Welch, Reader in Theology, Religion and Philosophy at the University of Winchester, has been researching the incredible story of the Garden and one of its early superintendents, Alexander Anderson (1748-1811), a Scottish surgeon and…Continue Reading The St Vincent Botanical Garden
Have you visited the Green Room Gallery at the Botanic Garden yet? Find out more in this post from the Curator Kevin Frediani. The commissioning of a new structure that could look out from the garden to capture the views over the River Tay towards Fife, marked a unique opportunity for the University of Dundee…Continue Reading The Green Room Gallery
A report in images by Curatorial Assistant Peter Amoore. On 25 June Cooper Gallery held a gathering at University of Dundee’s Botanic Garden around the intention of re-imagining what art education could be, questioning who it currently serves and how ways of learning together could be opened up to more equitable possibilities for knowledge production…Continue Reading 12 Hour Sit-in Revel: Cooper Gallery at Dundee Botanic Garden
Bandstand performances, talent competitions and firework displays are just some of the fond memories of Baxter Park that will feature in a Big Back Garden exhibition. The exhibition, which is part of the Big Back Garden project led by the University Archives, celebrates Dundee’s iconic Baxter Park by looking at what people remember about the…Continue Reading Big Back Garden – Memories of Dundee’s Baxter Park showcased in exhibition
Be a Big Back Garden Chatterbox – come along to the Baxter Park activity centre on Thursday 19 May between 3.30 and 6.30 to find out more about the history of the park and to share what Baxter Park means to you. The University Archives have teamed up with Dundee Volunteer and Voluntary Action, Stobswell…Continue Reading Baxter Park: Our Big Back Garden!
DJCAD: Life at the Botanics is an intimate selection of working sketches inspired by and created on site during Location Life Drawing at the Botanic Garden, Spring 2022, where the artwork will be on display throughout May. Visit the display Plant Power, at the Botanic Garden from Saturday 14th May, 11am – 4pm, free entrance….Continue Reading Life at the Botanics – Plant Power 2022