Archives relating to the whaling industry inspired Alice Millar-Thompson’s illustrated essay, ‘In the Belly of a Whale’, for the River Deep Mountain High exhibition. The photograph is part of the David Henderson collection. In the Belly of a Whale by Alice Millar-Thompson Creative essay “The legacy of Dundee’s involvement in the retrospectively barbaric, yet highly…Continue Reading RDMH – In the Belly of a Whale by Alice Millar-Thompson
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
This week’s Flashback Friday Film Festival offering from the University Archives takes us back to 1976. The occasion is a visit by schoolchildren to the campus and Ninewells and as the camera follows them around we see some familiar and not so familiar sites. First is a trip to the Medical School in the newly…Continue Reading Flashback Friday Film Festival: Schools Visit
Join botanical horticulturalist Clare Reaney in this video where you can explore the Australasian section of the Botanic Gardens. This section of the garden is one of the newest parts of the garden to be landscaped and has lots of plants currently in flower – so delve right in with this virtual tour….Continue Reading A Tour of the Australian Garden in the Botanics
Join University Archivist Caroline Brown in this video delving into the past, looking at women in the University Archives. In this film Caroline discusses the lives of four women that are recorded in the University Archives; Margaret Fairlie, Ruth Young, Margo Cox and Mary Brooks Bank. All four of these women were born around beginning…Continue Reading Women in the University Archives
‘When I am laid to earth – Henry Purcell’ The famous lament from Purcell’s opera “Dido and Aeneas” is sung by Helen, a member of the DUMS Chamber Choir, alongside Music Director Graeme on the piano. Helen is a PhD student at University of Dundee and is researching stem cell signalling. A very hard piece…Continue Reading ‘When I am laid to earth – Henry Purcell’ performed by PhD student Helen & UoD Music Director
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
Join Dr. Kenneth Baxter from the University Archives team in another video delving into the past! In this video, Kenneth uses the Archives Collections to take a step back in time and look at Dundee’s High Street in the 19th century. Watch now in the video below:…Continue Reading The University Archives: Dundee’s High Street (Video)
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’
In this post originally written for The Centre for Scottish Culture, Murdo Macdonald, Professor Emeritus of the History of Scottish Art at the University of Dundee, tells us about his new book, Patrick Geddes’s Intellectual Origins (Edinburgh University Press, 2020). Professor Macdonald used items from the collections in the University Archives for this book, including…Continue Reading Patrick Geddes’s Intellectual Origins
This Flashback Friday film from the University Archives takes us back to 1971 and a student demonstration in the City centre. The march was in response to proposals by Margaret Thatcher, the then Education Minister, to restrict the financing and autonomy of student unions. We see the students leaving Ellenbank, which was then the student…Continue Reading Flashback Friday Film Festival: NUS March
Join botanical horticulturalist Clare Reaney in the following video to have a look around the Scottish Flora garden in the Botanic Gardens at the University of Dundee. This area of the gardens has been developed specifically for wild Scottish flora with 10 different and important Scottish habitats. Find out more in the video below!…Continue Reading Botanic Gardens: A ramble through the woodland looking at the Scottish flora