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Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art & Design, 13 Perth Rd, Dundee, DD1 4HT
Tel: 01382 385330. Mon - Fri 9.30am-5pm, Sat 10.30am - 4.30pm
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Dundee Diary of Visual Arts Events

DATES FOR YOUR MAY 2012 DIARY...

DJCAD DEGREE SHOW 2012///
We are delighted to invite you to the 2012 Degree Show at Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art & Design, University of Dundee.
Join us as we showcase the exciting work of Dundee's brightest emerging artists and designers.
PREVIEW/// 18 May, 6-9pm
EXHIBITION/// 19 May to 27 May
Mon – Fri 10am -8pm, Sat – Sun 10am – 4pm
Admission is free
Location: Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art & Design
University of Dundee, 13 Perth Road,
Dundee DD1 4HT
Contact: 01382 388 828 djcad@dundee.ac.uk

VISUAL RESEARCH CENTRE 
Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art & Design
DCA, 152 Nethergate, Dundee, DD1 4DY  01382 385330 vrcinfo@dundee.ac.uk

1. IN-CONVERSATION EVENT/// Boris Gerrets & Guy Brett
19 May, 3 – 4.30pm, (part of Ignite 2012)
Centrespace
Please book for this free event: http://borisgerrets-conversation.eventbrite.co.uk/
The exhibition Boris Gerrets - 3 Films will stage a unique In-Conversation Event featuring the artist and the internationally respected art critic and curator Guy Brett, who has curated numerous outstanding exhibitions at leading art venues including Tate Modern, The Hayward Gallery, and The Museo Reina Sofia in Madrid. The event will draw out a trajectory of Gerrets’ practice in the context of his multi-disciplinary background in arts.

2. EXHIBITION/// Boris Gerrets - 3 Films
14 April – 20 May, Mon – Sun 12 – 4.30pm
Centrespace
This exhibition featuring major works by the acclaimed Amsterdam-London based documentary filmmaker and artist Boris Gerrets embodies his desire “to bring to light life on the fringes”. The exhibition is centred on Gerrets’ multi-award winning film People I Could Have Been and Maybe Am (2010) which gathered outstanding critical acclaim worldwide, receiving IDFA Best Mid-Length Doc Award (Amsterdam), VISIONS DU RÉEL Best Direction Mid-Length Doc (Nyon), HOTDOCS Honorable Mention (Toronto), TIME OUT Best City Film Award (London) and many others.
Captured entirely on a mobile phone, the film evolves from two chance encounters on the streets of London. Starring Sandrine, an attractive Brazilian young woman on a mission to find a husband, Steve a seasoned beggar, struggling with drug addiction and Precious, a poet who became Steve's girlfriend, the film gives an unusually close view into their lives.
Gerrets’ films are close-ups of local environments, which he describes as ‘biotopic explorations.’ In the context of the present works, Gerrets understands space as predominantly geographical, political, social and psychological. To Gerrets, the camera is in various ways a gestural tool. How it travels through space determines the manner in which it constructs the space and the reality it captures. He is interested in the way a camera can generate social space. It is the nucleus around which interactions between protagonists and himself become possible. For Gerrets, without a camera, there would be no reason to be ‘there’, no passions to be shared or communicated. This is an elaboration of his performative approach to cinema, in which he creates situations that are at once both fictional and real.
The exhibition will also present Zero, a short film of a ‘captured’ landscape, and Invisible, a film produced during the artist’s two journeys to Iraq in 1995.
Boris Gerrets is an internationally acclaimed documentary filmmaker who lives and works between London and Amsterdam. He is also an accomplished visual artist and film-editor. Born into a Bulgarian-German family, he grew-up in the Netherlands, Spain, Sierra Leone and Germany.
Gerrets sees the camera as a tool that creates a social dynamic between him and his protagonists.

3. VRC MICRO CINEMA 

The REWIND Collection of conserved video works is available for viewing by booking the VRC Micro Cinema. To book the Micro Cinema please contact Adam Lockhart a.lockhart@dundee.ac.uk   

4. CENTRE FOR ARTISTS' BOOK COLLECTION 

The Centre for Artists' Books is a space dedicated solely to artists' books, the first combined archive and exhibition space of its kind in the United Kingdom. To view collection online please visit:www.vrc.dundee.ac.uk/artistsbooks To view the CAB collection please contact Hazel McDonald vrcinfo@dundee.ac.uk

UNIVERSITY OF DUNDEE MUSEUM SERVICES EXHIBITIONS 
Contact: museum@dundee.ac.uk www.dundee.ac.uk/museum
Twitter: UoD_Museums

1. EXHIBITION/// Coded Chimera
Until 16 June, Mon - Fri 9.30 - 8.30 Sat 9.30 - 4.30
Tower Foyer Gallery
An exhibition showcasing the results of an AHRC-funded research project by sculptor Bruce Gernand from Central St Martins (part of the University of the Arts London), exploring the ideas of morphogenesis (the study of biological dynamics) pioneered by D'Arcy Thompson. Using digital scans of zoological specimens and customised computer software tools, different animal forms are morphed to create hybrid shapes. The sculptures, models and diagrams shown in the exhibition (which was first staged at the University of Cambridge last year) make connections between the process of sculpture and the principles of biological dynamics.
This is one of two exhibitions being staged as part of a two-year project for the University of Dundee Museum Services to build a collection of art inspired by D'Arcy Thompson, funded by the Art Fund's RENEW scheme.

2. EXHIBITION/// Heresies
Until 16 June, Mon - Fri 9.30 - 8.30 Sat 9.30 - 4.30
Lamb Gallery
Three artists present their own responses to the collections in the D’Arcy Thompson Zoology Museum and to D’Arcy’s ideas and writings. Professor Roger Wilson (Head of Fine Art at the Glasgow School of Art) has invited fellow artists B E Cole and Stuart MacKenzie to join him in an exhibition called Heresies, a term D’Arcy himself used to describe the controversial theories that he would publish in his seminal work On Growth and Form. The artists employ different media and approaches but share a common interest in landscape and the forms that arise from it. All three employ close observation of natural form and extensive experimentation leading to the generation of forms which, they hope, will add to our visual language and our relationship with science and the natural world.
This is one of two exhibitions being staged as part of a two-year project for the University of Dundee Museum Services to build a collection of art inspired by D'Arcy Thompson, funded by the Art Fund's RENEW scheme.

3. Events in the D'Arcy Thompson Zoology Museum:
8 May, 6pm
Notes from the Museum 4: Creative Writing inspired by the Zoology Museum   Notes from the Museum, the fourth annual evening of poetry and prose inspired by D'Arcy Thompson and his extraordinary collections, written and performed by students on the School of Humanities' Creative Writing courses and introduced by tutor Edward Small. These events always prove to be a real treat with beautiful and thought-provoking writing performed in the intimate but inspiring setting of the museum.
www.dundee.ac.uk/museum/zoology

4. Festival of Museums 2012
19 May, 3-5.30pm
Animal Art: a Drawing Workshop in the Zoology Museum with artist Jennifer Robson  The specimens, models and charts in the Zoology Museum are a fantastic inspiration for artists. In this special session, artist Jennifer Robson will introduce the collection as a resource for drawing, guiding you through some of the techniques involved in drawing from museum objects. Some previous drawing experience would be helpful but the event is open to anyone with a creative interest regardless of ability. The workshop will focus on fun, freedom and building confidence in your art. Whether you are an amateur or a professional it will help you enjoy what you do.
Booking is essential on 01382 384310 or museum@dundee.ac.uk
http://festivalofmuseums.com/animal-art-drawing-workshop-in-the-darcy-thompson-zoology-museum/

5. Festival of Museums 2012
20 May, 3-4pm and 4-5pm
Hawkhill House Guided Tours
Built as a farmhouse in the 18^th century, Hawkhill House now houses the main stores and offices for the University of Dundee’s Museum Collections, and has recently been listed by Historic Scotland as of national importance. Curator Matthew Jarron will take you on a special guided tour round, revealing some of the building’s history and showing highlights from the university’s collections of art, science, natural history, textiles and furniture.
Booking is essential on 01382 384310 or museum@dundee.ac.uk
http://festivalofmuseums.com/hawkhill-house-guided-tour/

6. EXHIBITION/// Mending the Broken Heart: The Evolution of Cardiology in Tayside
Tayside Medical History Museum
Until June, Daily 9am - 5pm
This exhibition highlights some of these achievements of Sir James Mackenzie.

GENERATOR projects
 25/26 Mid Wynd, Dundee, DD1 4JG 01382 225982 Thurs - Sun 12 - 5pm (or by appointment) 
mail@generatorprojects.co.uk  www.generatorprojects.co.uk

1. PREVIEW/// They Had Four Years 2012
Calvin Laing, Neil Nodzak & Romany Dear
Friday 18 May, 7pm — 9pm
EXHIBITION/// 19 May — 10 June 2012.
They Had Four Years is Generator Projects annual new graduate exhibition, showcasing artists selected from the previous years Scottish Degree Shows. The show will feature newly commissioned work by Calvin Laing (Ediburgh College of Art), Romany Dear (Glasgow School of Art), and Neil Nodzak (Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art & Design).

DUNDEE CONTEMPORARY ARTS 
152 Nethergate, Dundee DD1 4DY 01382 909900 www.dca.org.uk Gallery Opening Times// Tues – Sat 11am – 6pm, Thurs til 8pm, Sun 12noon – 6pm.  
FREE ADMISSION TO GALLERIES To book talks or events or for further info please call DCA box office on 01382 909900

1. EXHIBITION/// This Production - Scott Myles
Until 10 June
This is the first major UK solo show for the Dundee born and educated artist Scott Myles, marking 15 years since he graduated from Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art and Design. This Production features an exciting mix of new works including an expansive site-specific installation, new sculpture and prints made in the DCA Print Studio.
Displaced Façade (for DCA)is a dramatic new large-scale installation made from bricks that references architecture and personal memory. While living in Dundee in the 1990s, Myles regularly skateboarded in the then derelict building that came to be re-developed into DCA. Known locally as ‘The Factory’, the abandoned building was used as an unofficial skate-park before it was acquired for re-development in 1995 and the bare brick walls were subsequently clad in preparation for the building’s transformation into today’s art centre. Displaced Façade (for DCA) is realised with the generous support of Ibstock Brick Ltd.
Alongside this ambitious installation will be a number of other recent pieces including Analysis (Mirror) a new sculpture consisting of two mirrored bus shelters upturned one upon the other.
Scott Myles was born in Dundee in 1975 and currently lives and works in Glasgow. He has exhibited widely across Europe and North America and his works are held in public collections including Tate, London; MoMA, New York; Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh; and GoMA, Glasgow.

2. EVENT/// CONTEMPORARY ART ENCOUNTERS
6 May, 2 – 4pm
Join us for Sunday afternoon art schooling with the DCA Gallery Assistants and explore how the current exhibition relates to themes in contemporary art.

3. TALK/// Dr Dominic Paterson Talk
10 May, 7 – 9pm, Meeting Room
Art Historian Dr Dominic Paterson (University of Glasgow) relates the work of Scott Myles to his artistic forebears Robert Rauschenberg, Robert Morris and Carl Andre.Free but please book in advance.

4. IN-CONVERSATION EVENT/// Scott Myles In Conversation
19 May, 2 – 3pm
Artist Scott Myles discusses his work and current exhibition with Graham Domke, DCA Exhibitions Curator. Free but please book in advance.

5. LITERARY ASSOCIATIONS/// Meaghan Delahunt
31 May, 7 – 8pm
Free but please book in advance.
In an exciting new collaboration with the University of Dundee, the Australian born, Scottish based writer Meaghan Delahunt will turn her attention to the art of Scott Myles.

6. CINEMA/// Ben Rivers - Two Years at Sea
13 May - 17 May, see website for screening times
Ben Rivers is an artist and experimental filmmaker whose observational approach creates a poetic no man’s land between documentary and fiction. His films often focus on areas of unexplored territory or on individuals living beyond the margins.
Two Years at Seais an extraordinary portrait of an unconventional life lived in Scotland’s wilderness. The film follows the solitary pursuits of Jake, a man who works, naps and roams across a tumbledown homestead and its surrounding countryside. He spends his days carrying out domestic chores, aspirational projects and quiet contemplation, all of which seem to be of equal importance to him. Jake’s everyday needs are met basically; his ambitious projects are carried out as a one-man operation.
Through these intimate glimpses of Jake’s life, which seems to be free from the influence of capitalism and commerce, Rivers has created a remarkable reflection on modern living. The film is full of activity, but is refreshingly uninterested in words and speech, focusing instead on action and escapism.

HANNAH MACLURE CENTRE University of Abertay Dundee, Top Floor Student Centre, 40 Bell St, Dundee DD1 1HG 01382 308777 free admission (unless otherwise stated), Exhibition and Gallery Café open Mon - Fri, 10am-5pm www.hannahmaclurecentre.abertay.ac.uk exhibitions@abertay.ac.uk

Contact the gallery for more info about what’s coming up…

MCMANUS: DUNDEE'S ART GALLERY & MUSEUM 
01382 307200 themcmanus@dundeecity.gov.uk
Mon – Sat 10am – 5pm, Sun 12.30 – 4.30pm

1.EXHIBITION///
Fine & Applied Art Display: Celebrated
Until 12 August
In 2008, the fine and applied art collections of Dundee Art Galleries & Museums were designated as being of national importance. This display showcases these collections with a selection of key works, including Stanley Spencer's 'The Resurrection: Reunion of Families' and Henri Fantin-Latour's 'Roses', that have recently returned to the City from loan to prestigious exhibitions across the country, and Laura Knight's newly conserved 'Last Act'.

D-AiR (Dundee Artists in Residence) 
www.d-air.org 

1. FORTHCOMING/// Performing Worlds
June – July 2012
http://www.d-air.org/content/june-july-2012-performing-worlds-social-sculpture-socially-engaged-art


DUNDEE REP THEATRE

1. EHIBITION/// Scottish Dance Theatre 25th Anniversary Exhibition  
Open daily except Sunday. Free.  Photography by some of the country's leading dance photographers, posters from SDT's history and candid behind the scenes pictures of the dancers.

IGNITE 2012
A 10-day celebration of creativity and culture across Dundee, Angus and Fife
17 – 27 May
http://www.ignitedundee.co.uk/
www.facebook.com/IgniteDundee

Welcome to IGNITE, a 10-day celebration of creativity and culture across Dundee, Angus and Fife. United by innovation and a sense of excitement, 30 organisations – large and small, young and old – have come together to showcase the region as the vibrant centre of creativity it is today.
Now in its second year, IGNITE covers a whole range of events from dance, design, exhibitions, film, fine art, literature, open studios and pecha kucha to previews, talks, theatre and workshops... and is just a snapshot of the kind of activities that IGNITE the region on a regular basis.
From the cream of Scottish graduate talent through to best selling authors such as James Bond novelist Jeffrey Deaver, as well as opportunities to hear the thinking behind Scotland’s most exciting architectural practices, IGNITE offers a wealth of ideas and inspiration for you to choose from.
IGNITE is supported by the Year of Creative Scotland 2012 initiative, designed to provide the perfect showcase for Scotland’s creative diversity.

DJCAD STUDENTS STAFF AND GRADUATES EXTERNAL EXHIBITIONS If you are a DJCAD student, staff member or graduate having an exhibition you would like advertised, please get in touch.

1. RSA NEW CONTEMPORARIES///
RSA, Edinburgh
http://www.royalscottishacademy.org/pages/exhibition_frame.asp?id=293
RSA New Contemporaries is a curated annual exhibition which focuses on the finest emerging artists & architects in Scotland. Now in its fourth year, this exciting show has evolved out of the long standing and much anticipated RSA Annual Student Exhibition which was first held at the RSA in 1976 and marks our commitment to presenting and supporting the best contemporary art in Scotland.
It features 62 graduates selected from the 2011 degree shows by a team of RSA Members, led by Glen Onwin RSA, Kathryn Findlay RSA (Elect) and representatives of the six schools of Architecture and five main colleges of art in Scotland.
The revamped exhibition held in all 12 of the magnificent RSA galleries gives each artist the opportunity to showcase a selection of new work, providing a more comprehensive representation of their practise. Works will include painting, sculpture, film making, photography, printmaking, architecture and installation.

2. EXHIBITION/// Martin Hill: Stray amount the ruins
Outbye Gallery
3 School Drive, Overstone, by Pittenweem
www.theoutbyegallery.com
Until 26 May
New body of work from this DJCAD graduate.

3. EXHIBITION/// At Play 4 (21st April - 17th June 2012)
Group show at South Hill Park, Bracknell, UK.
At Play 4 is an invitation to the spectator to play – with an active sense of freedom similar to a child at play. This finale of At Play exhibition explores play that is free and spontaneous or bound by rules and conventions. At Play 4 considers rules, or the lack of them, and the spirit of the Olympics. The exhibition examines play as a way of surviving boredom and of discovering the insecurity of the world, and the effect of random chance. It relates play to drawing – perhaps the most direct and free form of artistic expression. At Play reminds us of how we played as children.
Artists include Leszek Blyszczynski, Andi Chapple, James R Ford, Flora Gare, Rebecca Glover, Nick Kennedy, Philip Lee, Dan Lovelace, Sousan Luqman, Nyeema Morgan, Martina O’Shea, Katherina Radeva, Guy Tarrant, Cally Trench, Kim Walker and Mary Yacoob. At Play is curated and produced by Outi Remes and Cally Trench.
The gallery is open Thursday to Saturday 1-5pm and Sunday 1-5pm.    http://www.southhillpark.org.uk/?lid=7097

4. EXHIBITION/// Michael Corr
www.michaelcorrartist.co.uk
ART @ Drouthy's Basement
Drouthy's Basement, Drouthy Neebors,  142 -146 Perth Road  Dundee, Angus DD1 4JW
01382 202187
Michael Corr & The Mixups
10th May, 2012 (one night only) 7-9 pm Free Admission

5. Castling
Hanson Street Studios, 77 Hanson Street, Glasgow, G31 2HF
April 20^th 2012 – May 7^th 2012
10am-5pm (until 7pm on Thursdays)
Opening Reception: 5-8pm April 21st
Inter-dimensional Transposition performance 11am-7pm Saturday 21st April
Extra Special People present ‘Castling’ a collaborative project between artists in Birmingham and Glasgow, taking the form of a billboard exchange.
‘Castling’ is an exhibition that takes the form of a billboard exchange. The project title, ‘Castling’, references a maneuver in the game of chess whereby a player is allowed to move more than one piece in a turn. The move was invented to help speed up the game and to help balance offense and defense.
Referencing the exterior billboard structure at Eastside Projects in Birmingham, Extra Special People have constructed two additional billboards in the Hanson Street Studios Project Space.
For the duration of the festival, works by artists including Max Slaven, BAZ, Nadia Rossi, Andrew Gannon and Sparrow+Castice will be shown on these three billboards as well elsewhere within the Hanson Street Project Space.
Nadia Rossi (DJCAD alumni) and Andrew Gannon will be creating a new collaborative work 'Inter-dimensional Transposition' in the space on Saturday April 21^st 2012. The two artists will be changing places - sitting in boxes representing each other’s body space in an endurance performance lasting 8 hours.
A fourth ‘virtual billboard’ will be erected online. This ‘virtual billboard’ will take the form of an uninteractive webpage. This will change daily, alternately showing works made by invited Birmingham and Glasgow based artists, each responding to previous day’s ‘pasting’. The full list of participating artists can be found on the Extra Special People website.
Websites:
www.extraspecialpeople.org
http://www.glasgowinternational.org/index.php/events/view/Castling/
http://www.facebook.com/events/149926435133316/

6. Illustration exhibition at Empire State Coffee
4 – 11 May
Empire State Coffee (36 Nethergate) will feature a variety of works from Yr 3 Illustration students.  Please come along to the opening at Empire State Coffee on the 4th of May from 7-10pm  The after party will be at Kage Nightclub and those who come to the exhibition will get half-price entry!

7. SEMINAR///
A one-day seminar on the subject of expertise, hosted by Gray’s School of Art.
Papers and practice presentations are invited on areas such as collaborative expertise for creative cultures and expertise in interdisciplinary fields.
The event is free and will be held on the 13th June at RGU in Aberdeen.
For more information see www.sarahgriffithsdesign.wordpress.com
Sarah Griffiths
Designer | Researcher
sgriffiths108@yahoo.co.uk
www.sarahgriffithsdesign.wordpress.com
www.commun-i-tea.co.uk

8. Jewellery Exhibition/// 'In The Corridor'
Until 18 May
Second year Jewellery and Metalwork students present to you their Slovenian Brooch Design Project and a selection of work from the year.  The Border Crossings project is a collection of work in which each designer has investigated their own ideas and interpretations of Identity and Culture, within their own nationalities and of Slovenia’s.  The final body of work comes with collaboration from Slovenian students across an online network and a new understanding and interpretation of what Slovenian culture is.  Come one, come all, see our work and have some free wine and cake!
Join us on facebook https://www.facebook.com/events/400025610008231/
Jewellery and Metal Design corridor, Crawfurd building, Duncan of Jordanstone Collage of Art and Design, Dundee

9. EXHIBITION/// In the Shadow of the Hand
New works by Sarah Forrest and Virginia Hutchison
Market Gallery, 334 Duke Street, Glasgow, G31 1QZ
20 April – 7 May, Mon – Sun 10am – 5pm, Thurs 10am – 7pm
Closing and performance Mon 7 May, 7-9pm
www.marketgallery.org.uk
www.glasgowinternational.org

10. Hat in the Cat Studio and Workshop
2 Main Street, Bridgend, Perth, PH2 7HB, 01738 624213
info@hatinthecat.co.uk     www.hatinthecat.co.uk
Textile and hat making workshops and master classes in a wide range of techniques are ongoing in Perth and Newburgh, including specially tailored workshops in time for Christmas.
Please see our website for details, and phone or email to make a booking.
We are also currently taking bookings for our exciting range of Summer Schools in feltmaking, millinery, drawing and painting and dyeing, based at our new Textile Centre in Newburgh, also detailed on the website.

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