Wandering around the work of this year’s DJCAD graduates before the award plaques go up is a new and somewhat freeing experience. A dauntless spectator may attempt at a few guesses, but this year the work is so varied in media and approach that it’s even difficult to label it under course names; deep reverberating sounds and extensive processes radiate from the Art Philosophy and Contemporary Practice students whilst the Fine Art students’ work oozes complex ideologies. The Time Based Art & Digital Film work is sprinkled throughout the building, granting this year’s Degree Show a cohesive feel that fits well with showcasing such a close knit, collaborative year.

Helen King

In one of the Crawford building’s bright, open rooms, Helen King’s (APCP) immaculate blueprints peek out from behind the massive concrete slab that both greets and blocks you upon entering. Coming to notice how precariously the piece balances causes a tinge of doubt towards the supposedly stable walls around you. Combat this doubt against the blueprints, and they begin to act as a warrant for the Brutal Modernist architecture tropes; old-school, time consuming processes take precedence over new technologies and a long spent thought becomes the documentation and justification of one side of a polarized opinion. The concrete proves itself, standing tall in the foreground.

Sandra Schneider

Juxtapose King’s solid concrete slab with Sandra Schneider’s (Fine Art) evocative study on language; Schneider’s clicking tongue and slow, purposeful poetry fill the room as much as any matter, concrete or human. The vibe is more like a 70s living room and feels like a living, tactile set of a Svankmajer film. Tongues burgeon from the unassuming, floral wallpaper like moulding mushrooms and, although the soft light from the lamp and dark wood may make you feel at home, illusions of puddles and wet patches deter you from taking a seat. The subtly dominating sound of a trickling leak (or ‘bubbly saliva’) give the feel that this room, a metaphor for language itself, is weakened and weakening and the voice plays the part of the foundations and the leak causing all the destruction.

Veera Krouglov

Fulfilling Dundee’s recent appetite for graphic, psychedelic murals, Veera Krouglov’s fun-filled room contains all the characters you would want to meet on a dark night. The life-size doodles and miniature ceramic creatures invoke a childishly mature personality, as though Krouglov has managed to embody the exact behind-the-scenes sensibility of concealed adult humour in a kids TV show.

Sean Forsyth and Ewan T Gibson

Hazel Holloway deploys the term ‘physical empathy’, exploring her bodily self-awareness in restricted material work, and Eve Kerr’s filmed performance ‘Clay Kavala Graha’  displays a metaphoric extraction of artistic intuition through pure material. Shifting from materiality to the screen, ‘Elsewhere’, a beautiful short film by Sean Forsyth (Fine Art) and Ewan T Gibson (TBA), brings forth a celebration of the landscape on our doorstep through the ingenuity of unexpected interaction between a Fox and a Crow. The strong array of films this year is not to be missed on the big screen, showcasing on Wednesday the 25th of May at the DCA.

Kieran Milne and Thomas Stephenson

As far as guessing games go, the RSA Awards are a tough one to call. One room stands out as a tough competitor, housing the work of Kieran Milne and Thomas Stephenson (both Fine Art). On Milne’s side of the room, light streams in from the big old windows into a space as sleek and calm as an office in the Netherlands. Serene tones of Riso green prevail throughout the publications, houseplants and wall pieces, and exit signs act as an invitation for escape through the black kissing gate in the foreground. In Thomas Stephenson’s work, the name ‘wood burning stove’ manifests literally, at first glance beautifully and traditionally constructed, yet a strong satirical warning emanates from within; an uncompromising illustration of the destructive passivity we undertake in the daily living of our lives.

One thing that shines throughout this years’ Degree Show is an unwavering awareness of the artists’ surroundings, into which each work proclaims a corner of it’s own. An undoubtedly outstanding show from the graduates, Duncan of Jordanstone School of Art and Design will keep you roaming for hours. It’s open until the 29th of May and the work’s above are just a small selection from the many, many memorable works on show from the emerging talent that is the class of 2016.

Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art & Design continues until  29 May in Dundee. Find out more information online here.

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Dundee Commons Festival is a week-long celebration and investigation of the commons as it relates to Dundee. There will be daily talks, bread-making, walks, workshops, exhibitions, and performances.

We ask, what would Dundee look like, sound like, feel like, taste like, and smell like if the city were a commons? How would we relate to one another? What values would sustain us? And what sort of support structures would we need to create a common future?

At a time of immense change, both locally and globally, the festival provides a framework to join together, reflect on, and respond to some of these questions.

All events are free and everyone is welcome.

Morning workshops and weekend events are suitable for all ages – with appropriate adult supervision or consent.

The hub space – and many of the events – can be found at Roseangle Commons, Dundee West Church, Lower Hall, 132 Perth Rd, DD1 4JW – enter via Roseangle Arts Cafe.

Selected highlights:

Monday – Friday 9.30 – 10.15 | Roseangle Commons
Daily Bread with Claire Briegel
An opportunity to make bread together and reflect on the day’s theme.

Monday 24 – Friday 28 August 13.00 – 14.00 | Roseangle Commons
Lunchtime talks

Monday 24 August: Andy Wightman, Land as Commons – How Half of Scotland was Privatised.
Tuesday 25 August: Mike Small, Food as Commons – Creating a Restorative Food Culture
Wednesday 26 August: Lesley Riddoch, People as Commons – Community Empowerment and Local Democracy
Thursday 27 August: Cornalia Sollfrank, Digital Commons – An Inspiration for New Forms of Sharing and Collaboration in the Arts
Friday 28 August: Gesa Helms and Leigh French, Art as Commons – Culture, Communication and Democracy in Scotland

Monday 24, Wednesday 26 & Friday 28 August 14.30 – 17.30 | Discovery Point
Design in Common Action
Workshops offering participants the opportunity to engage in the co-design and planning of Dundee Waterfront Development.

29 August 11:00 – 21.30 | City Square & Roseangle Commons
Public Space and performance
An all day dance and performance event in Dundee City Square followed by an evening of poetry, spoken word and dance entitled Flow! Commons.

Monday 24 – Sunday 30 August | Roseangle Commons Gallery Space
If the City were an Orchard by Sarah Gittins
An exhibition of screenprints exploring the biodiversity commons of an Orchard City.

For the full programme and to sign up to workshops, visit Dundee Commmons Festival.

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Plastik is a Dundee based art collective which produces a publication with content generated by an open submissions process. It is published bi-monthly with the next issue due out at the end of August.

Originally a bedroom zine project initiated by Kieran, the members of the collective have had a couple of different iterations but currently consist of Aylson Stewart, Emma McCarthy and Kieran Milne who all study at Duncan of Jordanstone.

I started Plastik in the winter of 2013 as a solo project to pass the time during the winter holidays. I had recently started my undergraduate degree at Duncan of Jordanstone and had a number of 35mm photographs which I wanted to use for a project. The original intention for the zine was going to be a monthly publication of my own work but after finishing the production of the first zine I realised it would be too much work on top of my studio practice. I started a Facebook page and opened the next issue up to submissions relating to the theme of “Animals”. I got a pretty good response but was still having to add my own work into the zine anonymously to bulk out the issues. It was around this time that the Dundee based zine collective Yuck n’ Yum were holding a “Zine Idol” event and one of the requirements was that there had to be three or more members to apply. I ended up enlisting the help of other Dundee based artists to assist in the production of the publication. We didn’t end up winning the competition but the guys at Yuck n’ Yum have become sort of “Dundee Zine Scene” mentors to us. With the other people on board the work load became easier to deal with and we hosted our official launch party at Generator Projects. We had two issues and the event would act as the launch of both the 3rd issue and the collective as a whole. The Plastik launch party consisted of a group show at Generator Projects and included the work of past contributors – if you had sent work for the zine, then you could put anything you wanted in the show, no questions asked. It was a great success and placed us firmly on the radar of the Dundee creative scene.

After our success at the Generator event we became good friends with the Committee of the artist-led space and have used it for pop-up events such as the Scumbag Filmclub and also collaborated with them with a film screening for the BFI Days of Fear and Wonder Science Fiction festival. We have also collaborated with Yuck n’ Yum for the Dundee based NEON festival closing party where we produced a series of publications made during the party which were filled with content from the night and printed on site.

We plan on continuing to produce Plastik bi-monthly and still engage with the arts scene in Dundee, facilitating discussion and engagement with a variety of cultural and artistic practices.

We are currently taking submissions for our 9th issue, the theme is The Body/Bodies and submissions can be sent to plastikzine@outlook.com. You can read past issues of Plastik on Issuu here.

For more from Kieran, have a look at his recent DJCAD Degree Show review on Central Station here.

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The build up to the degree show is always an exciting time at any art school; there is a palpable mix of nervous tension and creative energy flying around the corridors. There are always tears during install week, but these are soon brushed aside as the young artists knuckle down to finish what needs to be done.

The opening night acts as an orgasmic release to the weeks of tension. Results are in, awards are given and the newest crop of emerging artists take to their favourite drinking holes and clubs to celebrate the last four years of hard graft.

Daniel Dowling’s (fine art) sculptural work on show comprises a delicate balance of a keen aesthetic eye and a mature material sensibility. Dowling’s use of ceramics, casting and delicate pigment powder evoke natural textures and forms. Strange twisting forms bring to mind branches or antlers and sheets of textured plaster scales conjure up the rough surface of pine bark. Dowling’s work manages that intangible quality of drawing inspiration from an idea or form but not seemingly being “about” that thing, leaving space for personal interpretation and room for thought.

Struan Teague

Struan Teague’s* (fine art) dynamic range of works takes this to the next level, his combination of monumentally large paintings, smaller prints and artist books are a more than competent exercise in pure abstraction and beautiful, gestural mark making. Really great painting is hard to find these days but Teague has seemed to nail it. Flicking through his various books and publications it is easy to see why, this young man is incredibly prolific in his field and his range of experimentation with his work bodes well for the future of his practice.

This example of masterful handling in a chosen medium is continued in the short film Solium by Michael Hunter and Robbie Gray (Time based art and Digital Film). Solium consists of several short vignettes linked together by a man and his bathtub. Odd as it may sound, the rich, all encompassing soundscape and beautifully directed shots combine into a magic and surreal journey through various landscapes including a fantastical mist filled forest, a lonely beach and a hilltop in the grips of late winter.

Lewis Bissett

Another from the Time Based Art crop is Lewis Bissett’s tongue in cheek ode to the freemasons by way of the Scottish young team subculture. Bissetts’s work consists of an abstracted shrine setting with plaster cast footballs painted in popping primary colours, a strange eye at the top of a pole, conjuring images of the all seeing eye of the freemasons, alongside three stained glass windows and a banner depicting the insignia of the “New Young Masons”. On the ground are strange marks reminiscent of football pitch markings. Bissett’s work seems on one hand to build up the glory of his invented narrative but on the other highlights the faded grandeur of Masonic Lodges with faux-marble decorations and reclaimed church pews.

David Mackay

One of the standout sculptural pieces on display is David Mackay’s Standing Reserve. This formidable sculptural work consists of a monumental electricity pylon fabricated in wood, its form twisted and drooping in a state of impotency. The structure is accompanied by a twisting rope protruding from one of its arms with a wax-cast insulator attached to the end. In the background a soundscape plays, an electrical distortion and low hum building up over the ten or so minutes it lasts to a crescendo of bleeps and buzzing, it evokes imagery of this structure twisting, bending and creaking. The ambition in this piece and its command of the space it inhabits is what makes it stand out in the show and will no doubt make an impact in the RSA New Contemporaries exhibition next year for which it was selected.

Another of this year’s crop selected for the New Contemporaries, alongside Teague, Hunter and Gray is Fine Art’s Koren Dumbleton**. Her macabre installation Lavinia consists of an atmospherically lit space inhabited by a number of abstract torsos suspended from two sets of monkey bars. The grim spectacle brings to mind both an abattoir and a children’s playground and the result is unsettling.

Koren Dumbleton

Lotte Fisher

Amongst the other awards and opportunities up for grabs at the degree show is the Scottish Sculpture Workshop’s Graduate Residency award and this year it was granted to Fine Art’s Lotte Fisher. Stepping into Fisher’s space you are confronted by a narrow corridor flanked by wooden panels, the low ceiling forces you to stoop slightly as you emerge into a bright space occupied by miniature houses and the small figures who seem to occupy them. As you turn around to observe your entrance to this fantastically whimsical world the bulk of Fisher’s work is revealed in what appears to be a hillside growing out of the gallery wall. Dotted with more small scale structures, sculpted animals and mounds of moss this work was definitely a crowd favourite on the opening night.

There are many and more works on display which are worthy of their own reviews and these are but a small selection from them. The show is on until the 31 May and I would urge you to go along and take in all the hard work these talented bunch have put in over their four years. For more information, visit here.

For more about Kieran Milne, view his website here.

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**Koren wrote last year’s DJCAD Degree Show review which you can view here.

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This week, six artists have taken part in May Meet In Mutual Micro Residency in the Park Centre, Baxter Park, Dundee. The artists, who were selected through an open call, have researched and developed new work engaging with the site to further explore the possibilities of site-­responsive practice. On Friday 29 August, Micro Residents will share their responses from the Micro Residency during an Open Stage event. The Open Stage coincides with the preview of an exhibition of work by Sogol Mabadi, Emma Reid, and Craig Thomson.

Earlier in the week, this dynamic group of artists, whose practices encompass curation, music, writing, and research, shared with us their initial intentions for the MMIM Micro Residency.

Frances Davis:
 Particular sites provide the catalyst for most of the works I make, and the Micro Residency is thus a really interesting proposition, presenting both an opportunity to make new work and to engage in open dialogue and conversation about what site­responsive practice is and what it could be.

Lada Wilson:
 The words Meet and Mutual from the title of the Micro Residency in the Park Centre, Baxter Park, Dundee inspire me. It is inspirational and stimulating to meet other artists, share ideas and through art mutually/collectively transform the Park Centre. My artworks are mainly site specific.

David McLeish: 
I hope to explore the place, other people’s relationship with it, and the intertwining social narratives, and create something that is accessible to all, inclusive and respectful to the space, its history, local residents and is at the same time perhaps not too po-­faced or serious.

Bobby Sayers:
 I intend to engage conversations around site­-specific artworks and the challenges that this brings, as well as the honesty and beauty that can come from connecting directly with environments around us. Through my practice I use colour, shape, and form to create site­-specific sculptures, installations and performances that challenge traditional notions of beauty and value, examining the sublime within the everyday.

Pauline Meikleham:
 This residency particularly caught my attention as I grew up in a Tenement flat on Eden Street, just below Baxter Park, attended Morgan School at the top of the park, and the surrounding streets, houses and Stobie area were my stomping ground.

I also see this engagement with environment as a lense to explore memory, social history and the emotional/imaginative landscape of childhood as complex, exciting and potentially problematic, spanning as it does the period from 1969 to 1982 with its rich political and cultural references.

Emil Max Thompson:
 For the MMIM Micro Residency I will collaborate with writer and artist Pauline Meikleham to give shape to her memories and reflections triggered by the environment of the park and contextualise them within a wider social and cultural frame while exploring my response to the setting within the themes of my current research. My research involves mapping the inspirational topography of the urban landscape through a process of storytelling, writing and research ­ which draws on the inherent but often invisible cultural heritage of the city.

Beth Savage, who will be hosting the Conversation Over Coffee Event on 30 August 3pm-4pm: Making site-responsive work can be challenging, especially when working with a site that people have a certain relationship with or sense of ownership over. For instance while working in the Czech Republic with the Wild Project, we were making art about wildness and remoteness in a village where people didn’t feel that way about the landscape. It was just their home. In these cases you have to work sensitively and inclusively. Work which ignores the sites’ publics often ignores the very essence of the site

The MMIM Micro Residency is organised by MMIM (Emma Reid & Katie Reid): A newly established collaboration between twin sisters Emma Reid and Katie Reid, founded upon a sharing and mutual challenging of artistic and curatorial practices particularly engaged with the potentials and problematics of site­-responsive practice.

MMIM’s project includes May Meet In Mutual, an exhibition of works by Sogol Mabadi, Emma Reid and Craig Thomson. See our featured event for more information on May Meet In Mutual. For further information on the public programme see the May Meet in Mutual website here.

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May Meet In Mutual centres around the exhibition of newly developed sculptural and performance work by Sogol Mabadi, Emma Reid and Craig Thomson, in the Park Ranger Centre in Baxter Park, Dundee. The exhibition will be open to the public for the Open Install and Preview on 29 August (3-9pm) and continues on 30 & 31 August (10am-4pm). The project, May Meet In Mutual co-curated by Katie Reid and Emma Reid, seeks to explore the potentials and complexities of site responsive practice, a method of artistic production where artists respond to physical, social and/or historical conditions of a particular location, in this case Dundee’s Park Ranger Centre in Baxter Park.

Emma Reid – Hole Video Installation – New Contemporaries 2013

May Meet In Mutual, showcases new work by Mabadi, Reid and Thomson. Responding to the situation of the Park Ranger Centre within Baxter Park, the artists share a common interest in boundaries, edges, and the in between and how these affect peoples’ interaction and relations.

Sogol Mabadi – The Family Transmission Gallery 2014 – Photo: Tor Jonsson

Mabadi’s sensitive work explores intimacy through a directness of the experience with the audience. Her performances and sculptural work often generate a sense of being at once near the edge of something whilst becoming a part of a shared meeting place. Reid is also interested in relations between people and investigates these through the notion of playfulness or performativity that is often present in our being in the world. Through clever positioning of live-feed cameras and monitors, combined with use of the Park Ranger Centre’s ground to ceiling glass windows, Reid takes the visitor to a place of inquiry whereby their watching, acting and manoeuvring of the space is distorted and revealed to them. Reid also takes her work outside the Park Ranger Centre, temporarily marking the large pillars so that they become an abstract signpost to the event within the space. Thomson’s sculpture underplays the power of the wrought iron fences. Through an exact replica of a portion of the fence made from wood, Thomson transposes the fence into a functional coat rack to be gifted to the Park Ranger Centre after the exhibition.

Craig Thomson – The Storm, 2014

May Meet In Mutual exploits its temporary nature through an events series, beginning with a Micro Residency on 27 & 28 August by Scottish artists responding to an Open Call to take part in a two day residency in the Park Ranger Centre to research and/or make work in response to the site. This Micro Residency acts as a fast-paced test bed to open up discussion surrounding site responsive practice.

Emma Reid – Hole Video Installation – New Contemporaries 2013

More Information about the Events Series:

- Open Install: 3-6pm, Friday 29 August. Join the artists and curators as they finalise the installation of new works by Mabadi, Reid and Thomson in the Park Ranger Centre.

- Preview with Open Stage: 6-9pm, Friday 29 August. Preview of the exhibition May Meet In Mutual, including an Open Stage event with performance, spoken word, screenings and music presented by the artists of the exhibition and those who contributed to the Micro Residency earlier in the week.

- Conversation Over Coffee: 3-4pm, Saturday 30 August. This relaxed discussion event on Saturday afternoon encourages further inquiry into the nature of site responsive practice. Invited speakers Annie Crabtree and Beth Savage, alongside artists and visitors will join or listen to this Conversation Over Coffee navigating the potentials and complexities of site responsive artistic/curatorial practice and what it might mean to work in this way today.

For further information about May Meet in Mutual which runs from 29 to 31 August in Dundee’s Baxter Park, see their website.

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The DJCAD Masters Show 2014 runs from 15 to 23 August, showing the work of 2014 masters graduates.  The showcase includes work from MSc Animation & Visualisation, MFA Art, Society & Publics, MSc Medical Art, MFA Arts & Humanities and MSc Forensic Art students. Learn more about the artists with DJCAD’s in-depth student profiles. For a preview of things to come, watch how some of the artists have prepared for their show in the above video.

Benjamin Whitney, MFA Art and Humanities – Flight – Photographer: Jonathon Walda

Miriam Waite, MSc Medical Art – Clicking into Place

Lilly Durrant, MSc Animation & Visualisation – Tug of Biscuit

All work will be in the Crawford Building, DJCAD.

The DJCAD Masters Degree show runs from 15 – 23 August and is open Monday – Friday, 10am-8pm and Saturday & Sunday, 10am-4pm. For more information, see the DJCAD website.

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Questioning how we enact the process of learning while highlighting the moments of educational exchange that can occur through conversation, Morgan Cahn develops an active and evolving library as she exchanges knowledge with visitors. Morgan’s site responsive installations and performances encourage interaction through participatory elements. One on-going work, Me(a)nder, sees Morgan stitch and mend visitors’ wears, offer advice and console broken hearts. Morgan wanders the sites from Baxter Park for May Meet In Mutual, 2012, to Cupar Arts Festival, 2013, or this year when Morgan re-developed Me(a)nder for New Scottish Artists at The Fleming Gallery, London.

Morgan Cahn, Me(a)nder, Cupar Arts Festival, 2013

To journey is also material for Richard Taylor who presents a small sculpture and a drawing connected by themes expanded upon in a new text read to the audience along with selected photography. The text will be read at 1pm, 2.30pm and 4pm, slightly edited each time after Richard journeys repeatedly to the top of Dundee Law hill and back down to Enjoy..! Coffee Lounge to read again. Richard’s practice confronts the ability text has to record and transform experience, leading to published works and live readings with apparatus. Recent projects include Scree Magazine Presents, The Out of the Blue Drill Hall, Edinburgh, PerformingNOW, Generator Projects, Dundee and Epigone, Basement Arts Project, Leeds.

Richard Taylor, Hutchinsons Tack at PerformingNOW, Generator Projects, 2014

As with Richard, the reading of language is also a concern of Lada Wilson’s practice. After living in a number of countries, Croatian-born Dutch artist and curator Lada made her home in Scotland. She transforms words from different languages into objets trouvés that lead to participatory events. For shift, Lada invites the audience to take part in a verbal and visual exchange that will create a portrait of time from words and imagination, exploring our understanding of language and the structures surrounding it. Recent works include a series of projects for the Matthew Cabinet Gallery, DJCAD, Dundee from 2013-2014 entitled interAction(s), and Alphabetarij at PerformingNow, Generator Projects, Dundee, 2013.

Lada Wilson, Imperfect, 2014

As curator/facilitator of shift, Katie Reid plays with extending the functional role this often encompasses to make use of what temporarily becomes excess furniture and the overlooked nooks and crannies of Enjoy..! Coffee Lounge. Katie works site responsively often making projects that investigate our judgement of value, these include Camperdown Conversations with Beth Savage, 2013; May Meet in Mutual, Baxter Park Centre, Dundee, 2012, and leading workshops Working through Ideas with Sean Scott, 2014, and Currency of Ideas with Holly Knox Yeoman, 2012.

Katie Reid, Untitled (canvas corner), 2011

Becca Clark’s sculptural pulley systems developed for shift also find themselves somewhere between work and play. A series of small interventions by way of teeny movable sculptures assess the value of input and output, action and reaction. Becca also adds zines; a medium made for the work/art, art/work, art/life, work/life balance. Becca is organiser of the Dundee micro festival, Ickle Film Fest, committee member of Art Label Yuck ‘n Yum, one half of the collective RBBC and a third of the collective Pitch + Strike.

Becca Clark, Untitled, 2012

Site-visit at Enjoy..! Coffee Lounge, 2014

shift is open on Sunday, 22 June, 12.30-4.30pm at Enjoy..! Coffee Lounge, 44-46 Albert Street, DD4 6QQ, and is supported by the Dundee Visual Artists Awards through Leisure & Culture Dundee City Council with Creative Scotland and Enjoy..! Coffee Lounge, Dundee.

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Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art and Design (DJCAD) will showcase work from some of the country’s best young creatives later this month when the annual Degree Show season gets underway.

The DJCAD Degree Show is the first of the flagship exhibitions held by Scotland’s four main art and design colleges each year. The traditional Preview Evening for the students, their families and invited guests takes place on 16 May, with the city’s largest annual exhibition of art and design, featuring the work of some 245 final-year students, opening to the public the next day and remaining open until 25 May.

Students from all 11 undergraduate programmes will exhibit their works across the two buildings and fourteen floors that comprise DJCAD. The show attracts thousands of visitors each year and is seen as a springboard for some of Scotland’s most exciting emerging artists.

DJCAD has a reputation as one of the leading art schools in the UK and many of its students go on to be world-renowned artists. Turner Prize winner Susan Philipsz and nominees David Mach, Louise Wilson and Luke Fowler are all DJCAD alumni. The standard of DJCAD students has been borne out by the number selected for prestigious prizes and exhibitions, such as the New Designers, New Blood, FreeRange and New Contemporaries on the basis of their Degree Show work.

Jeanette Paul, Acting Dean of DJCAD, said, “Over the coming months, thousands of talented artist and designers from across Scotland will be exhibiting the fruits of their training over the past four years and our graduands consistently prove themselves to be among the best in the country.

“This is demonstrated by their strong performance at New Contemporaries last year. This illustrious exhibition at the Royal Scottish Academy brings together the best work from all Degree Shows and the number of awards given to DJCAD graduates shows how skilled and creative the artists we produce are… Degree Show is always a special time for the University community, and indeed the whole city, and I’m sure the thousands of visitors who flock to DJCAD will once again be impressed by what they see.”

The exhibition will be open to the public from 17 – 25 May. Admission is free and the exhibition is open from 10am – 8pm (Monday to Friday) and 10am – 4pm (Saturday & Sunday).

The DJCAD Degree Show is one of the highlights of the city’s cultural calendar, attracting some 10,000 visitors each year and generating in excess of £1 million for the local economy in the process. It is part of the Ignite Dundee festival, which runs from 16 – 31 May and showcases the very best of Dundee’s creative talent.

Further details can be found on the DJCAD Degree Show website.

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