Staff

Euan McArthur

Senior Lecturer

Tel: 01382 385348
Email: e.c.mcarthur@dundee.ac.uk
Level 5, Matthew Building,
DJCAD 13 Perth Road DD1 4HT

Biography

Dr. Euan McArthur is a graduate of Gray’s School of Art, Aberdeen and has taught at Duncan of Jordansone College of Art and Design since 1993, during which he served periods as Programme Leader for Fine Art History and Theory, and as Head of the School of Fine Art. He has a background in exhibition organization and publication. He completed his PhD in 2005, entitled CEMA and the Arts Council in Scotland: Background, Politics and Policy, 1919 – 1947. His research interests are focused on recent and contemporary visual art, and on the institutional development of the art infrastructure in Scotland.

REF Outputs

The Demarco Digital Archive (www.demarco.archive.ac.uk). A research resource of some 10,000 digitized images and documents recording Richard Demarco’s work over 50 years, primarily in visual art and theatre. Includes images of artists such as and many Scottish artists.

10 Dialogues: Richard Demarco, Scotland and the European Avant Garde; exhibition curated with Arthur Watson, shown in the Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh, November 2010 – January 2011; and related publication of the same title. Exhibited artists were Marina Abramovic, Magdalena Abakanowicz, Joseph Beuys, Tadeusz Kantor, David Mach, Alastair Maclennan, Rory McEwen, Paul Neagu, Gunther Uecker, and Ainslie Yule.

CEMA and the Arts Council in Scotland, 1919 - 1967 (forthcoming)

This will be the first published study of the origins and development of the Arts Council in Scotland in the period up to the formation of the Scottish Arts Council in 1967. Its purpose is to fill a gap in the literature on the ‘arts council system’ by addressing its development in Scotland, both as a subject valuable for itself and as a neglected aspect of the history of the Arts Council of Great Britain.

Research Projects

The Demarco Digital Archive, 2005 – 08, £312,000 grant from the Arts and Humanities Research Board (now Council). PI, with Arthur Watson and Elaine Shemilt (CIs). Approx. 10,000 searchable digitized images and documents from the Richard Demarco Archives (www.demarco-archive.ac.uk)

10 Dialogues: Richard Demarco, Scotland and the European Avant Garde (exhibition), Royal Scottish Academy 26 November 2010 – 9 January 2011. £77,000 from Creative Scotland, the Henry Moore Foundation, the Royal Scottish Academy and the governments of Germany, Poland and Romania. Co-curator with Arthur Watson.

10 Dialogues: Richard Demarco, Scotland and the European Avant Garde (publication). ISBN 978-0-905783-21-5. Designed to accompany and expand upon the exhibition of the same title. Edited and with texts by the co-curators, and by ten other writers.

The Case of Yevtushenko’s Shoulder: the Photography of Richard Demarco: Approx. 3,000 word essay for Studies in Photography 2010 (the yearbook of the Scottish Society for the History of Photography (ISSN 1662-0510).