University culture
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Cooper Gallery Entrance. Photo by Sally Jubb, courtesy of Cooper Gallery, DJCAD Our team in the Cooper Gallery have been working away over the past year on their final Sit-in #5, Compassionate Rebels in Action staged by award winning…
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Over the past year, photographer and DJCAD alumna Catherine McIntyre has been creating stunning images of the specimens in the D’Arcy Thompson Zoology Museum, which have now been brought together in an online and print-on-demand publication,…
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There is still time to catch the V&A exhibition Ninewells Hospital: Care, Community and Innovation with contributions from the University Archives, Museums and School of Medicine. Celebrating last year’s 50th anniversary of the hospital, the show…
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Another year, another brilliant Masters Show! This year, we have 84 of Duncan of Jordanstone’s postgraduate students showcasing their work across our very own Matthew and Crawford Building on the Perth Road. MFA Fine Art student…
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‘Plant Power’ is an annual event held at the University of Dundee Botanic Garden. This year, staff at the Garden worked with the University’s School of Life Sciences (Division of Plant Sciences and Wellcome Centre for…
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Tamara Richardson, Public and Community Engagement Officer at DJAC, reflects on the current exhibition in the Cooper Gallery: This week I’ve been invigilating the Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize 2024 in the Cooper Gallery—an exhibition of extraordinary tenderness…
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This exhibition features a range of works developed by artist Janice Aitken as a response to her engagement with scientists in the School of Life Sciences over the past 20 years. In that time she has…
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Dundee is all about encouraging collaboration and cross discipline working and this ethos is embodied in the SSC (student selected component) offered by the School of Medicine called the Art of Medicine. The module explores how…
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“Through Our Eyes, In Our Words” is more than an exhibition — it’s the culmination of collaboration, creativity, and community. Built from the lived experiences of middle to older aged LGBT+ people and people with learning…
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Between February-March 2025, six University of Dundee Humanities students were selected to be writers-in-residence at the V&A Dundee. The residents each spent one week working in a dedicated space in the museum, making creative responses to…