Every year, Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art & Design holds its Degree Show event, showcasing their undergraduate students final projects. Have you ever attended a DJCAD Degree Show? If so, have you ever wondered how those students started out?…
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 British-Kenyan (Maasai Kikuyu) artist, filmmaker and writer Grace Ndiritu. Compassionate Rebels in Action celebrates the culmination of their critically…
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. The show is now open to the public…
‘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 Anti-Infectives Research/Drug Discovery Unit),…
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 and presence. As I…
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 worked on a wide…
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 a study of the…
“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 disabilities, the exhibition transforms…
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 A Fragile Correspondence, a…
The latest exhibition in the Tower Foyer Gallery celebrates the life and work of painter and art teacher Peter Flynn and marks two significant milestones – the artist’s recent 70th birthday and 50 years since he began his formal study…