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Turner Prize nominee to return to DJCAD
Mhari MacDonald | Fine Art
Turner Prize nominee and Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art and Design (DJCAD) alumnus Luke Fowler will next week return to his Alma Mater. Luke, who graduated with a Fine Art degree from DJCAD in 2000, will find out later this year whether he has won what is widely regarded as the most prestigious, and often controversial, award for contemporary art. He will be at the University of Dundee’s D’Arcy Thompson Lecture Theatre on Tuesday, 30th October to discuss his career and Turner Prize nomination before introducing his latest work, ‘Poor Stockinger’, which will be screened to an a...
DJCAD graduate racks up another prize
Mhari MacDonald | Fine Art
A multi-award winning graduate of Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art and Design (DJCAD) has received a prize of £2000 to enable her to take up a residency position in Finland. Madeline Mackay (23), who graduated with a degree in Fine Art earlier this year, has just been named as the winner of the Royal Scottish Academy of Art & Architecture's Barns-Graham Travel Award. The funds will help Madeline, originally from Caithness, to undertake her residency at Aland Archipelago, Finland, which will help her to build a professional creative practice. The residency was offered to Madeline in reco...
International Success for DJCAD Graduate
Mhari MacDonald | Fine Art
A DJCAD graduate has won first prize in an Italian watercolour competition. Angus McEwan, who graduated from Duncan of Jordanstone in 1988 with both an undergraduate and postgraduate degree in Fine Art, competed against 51 other entrants from 15 different countries. The judges of the International Prize Marche d’Acqua Fabriano Watercolour 2012 competition commended Angus for his “extraordinary technical skill and masterful use of light and colour.” Each participant in the competition was sent three pieces of hand-made paper and had to produce a piece of work without cutting the...
DJCAD graduand captures wildlife prize
Mhari MacDonald | Fine Art
A Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art and Design (DJCAD) graduand, whose vivid avian imagery was one of the highlights of this year’s Degree Show, has won top prize in a prestigious competition for wildlife artists. Madeline Mackay (23), originally from Caithness, took home the top prize in the Young and Wild Category at the 2012 David Shepherd Wildlife Foundations’ Wildlife Artist of the Year competition. She had two pieces short-listed for the exhibition. Birds was created from charcoal and peat, while Egret is a waterless litho and chine work, which earned her the title. The ceremony was he...
Braille art exhibit proves a real eye-opener
Mhari MacDonald | Fine Art
Ways of making visual art more accessible for visually impaired people have been explored in the work of a Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art and Design (DJCAD) graduand, who is herself blind in one eye and short-sighted in the other. Miriam Rowley's work, currently being shown at the DJCAD Degree Show, is the result of two year's worth of development. Braille and light have become integral to Miriam's art, as she has sought to make the point that just because someone can't see, it doesn't necessarily mean that they have less vision or insight. Motivated by her own visual impairment, Miriam's works inclu...
Portraits of drinkers hold a mirror up to pub culture
Mhari MacDonald | Fine Art
Mortality, modernity, loneliness, depression, alcoholism, stoicism, masculinity and defeatism are explored in a series of striking portraits of regulars at a traditional Scottish pub exhibited at this year's DJCAD Degree Show. Fiona McKay, a Fine Art graduand at Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art and Design, created intimate, non-posed photographic portraits of elderly working class drinkers at The Wheatsheaf Bar in Denny as an exploration of the country's relationship with alcohol. Fiona (21), whose parents own the pub and who has worked there as a barmaid for the past three years, was moved to capture ...
DJCAD lecturer elected President of the Royal Scottish Academy
Mhari MacDonald | Fine Art
Arthur Watson, a senior lecturer and director of the Fine Art programme at Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art and Design (DJCAD), has been elected as the new president of the Royal Scottish Academy of Art & Architecture. Arthur is a major figure in the Scottish art world. He is a distinguished artist whose work has been widely shown across the globe. Much of his distinguished academic career has been spent at DJCAD, part of the University of Dundee, where he has played an important role in fine art research development. Arthur has also been a visiting lecturer, assessor and advisor at many institutio...
Turner Prize nomination for DJCAD graduate
Mhari MacDonald | Fine Art
Luke Fowler, an alumnus of Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art and Design (DJCAD), has been nominated for the Turner Prize 2012. Luke graduated with a degree in Fine Art in 2000, having specialised in printmaking during his time at DJCAD, part of the University of Dundee. The Glaswegian artist is best known for his film portraits of counter culture figures who have become marginalised or maligned. He has been nominated for a solo exhibition at Edinburgh's Inverleith House. Moira Payne, Director of Art and Media at DJCAD, congratulated Luke, saying, "Even during his student days, Luke was exploring the sub...
An Action of Words: Collaborating With An Event
Mhari MacDonald | Master of Fine Art
Last month DJCAD was represented by MFA students Joanne MacFadyen, Sinead Bligh and Rowan Richardson when they travelled to London as a shadow group that reacted to 'An Action of Words: Collaborating With An Event', at the Cooper Gallery's off-site project at the RCA. This was in continuation of 'A Cut A Scratch A Score: A Comic Opera in Three Parts' by David Barnett, Sam Belifante and Bruce McLean at the Cooper Galley in October 2011. They worked in situ between the Hockney Gallery, RCA, and an enclosed courtyard space in their accommodation, 9 Talbot Square, London. Here they created work that explores is...
Nepal trip for DJCAD student Madeline
Mhari MacDonald | Fine Art
A fourth-year Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art (DJCAD) student has won a £2000 trip to Nepal and the opportunity to produce work inspired by one of the world's most spectacular areas of natural beauty. Fine Art students Madeline Mackay will visit the Himalayan nation's Pipar Reserve from 25th March-6th April after winning the Timothy Greenwood Young Wildlife Artist Award. The 22-year-old, originally from Caithness, won the prize after impressing judges with two examples of her work - an etching of a cormorant and a lithographic print of an egret. The competition is organised by the World Pheasant...
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