“By creating we think, by living we learn” Patrick Geddes
Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art and Design is delighted to be able to collaborate with the Wilhelmina Barns-Graham Charitable Trust to offer a doctoral bursary to support a student through PhD by practice.
The recipient will undertake full-time PhD study and receive an annual bursary of £3000 for the three years duration of the programme. In addition, tuition fees will be paid in full.
An award will be based on the excellence of the proposed project and the quality of the student.
The award is open to any UK or EU based student who holds (or is about to be awarded) a degree in Fine Art or a cognate discipline from Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art and Design.
The recipient must have an offer of admission for PhD study in Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art and Design from the University of Dundee for September 2010 commencement (the award is not available to PhD students already enrolled).
Applications will be accepted until 1st July 2010.
You should download and complete the University of Dundee Research Degree application form.
The application form must be accompanied by:
Wilhelmina Barns-Graham (1912-2004) was one of the foremost painters working in St Ives after moving there in 1940. Her paintings, alongside those of her contemporaries that comprise the St Ives School, contributed greatly to the development of Modernist British painting in the mid to late twentieth century. Since 1960 she divided her time between her homes in St Ives and St Andrews, affirming herself as much a Scottish as Cornish artist. She was completely dedicated to her art, with a drive and energy that sustained her for over sixty years of her professional life. She was still working daily at the very end.
The Barns-Graham Charitable Trust was established by Wilhelmina Barns-Graham in 1987, and came into effect following her death in January 2004. It was created to secure her life's work and archive for future generations.
Willie, as she was known to her friends, had a clear vision and ambition for her Trust. As she directed, the Trust is based at her St Andrews home Balmungo. The house is being developed to become a resource centre with exhibition spaces for study displays that make use of and complement her art collection; to create a centre of education for art students and art historians; to provide selected artists the space and resources with which to develop their work. This house will be an informal museum, animated by studio residencies.
A second direction was that the trustees provide financial support for Arts students who require assistance, by making available grants, scholarships or bursaries to further their education in the Fine Arts and the History of Art.
These directives lie at the core of the Trust's aims.
Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art & Design was established in the late 19th century as one of four Scottish art schools. It merged with the University of Dundee in 1996 and is now a component part of the College of Art, Science& Engineering.
DJCAD is structured around Academic and Research Groupings which include: Art & Media, Visual Communications, Design & Craft, and Strategic Design (Academic); and for Research, Transformational & Strategic, Digital Economy & Culture, Sustainable Futures, and Archival & Curatorial Practice.
Research at Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art and Design focuses on the visualisation of knowledge and thinking through practice. "Thinking through practice" places the emphasis on the intellectual underpinning of process. The visualisation of knowledge is the method where insights, materials, techniques and technologies are brought together to generate new information. Visual research is an iterative and non-linear process, dependent on the clarity of articulating the "visual hypothesis". Iterance in visual exploration is openended and subtle; selection is guided by the practitioners' heightened visual sensibilities, and internal rhetoric: transposing theory into a series of outcomes, which seek to exemplify the original "visual hypothesis". In RAE 2008 DJCAD achieved an 80% score for its outputs at International or World Class quality and was ranked in the top 10 art and design institutions in the UK.
Over the last twenty years Duncan of Jordanstone has developed its practice
and methods to engage with other disciplines (science, medicine,
engineering, computing, philosophy and history). Insights generated by the
visualisation of knowledge have created environments where previously held
convictions in other disciplines have been fundamentally revised. It is our
experience that the visualisation of knowledge through visual thinking can
articulate complex information in an innovative form and makes accessible
knowledge that has hitherto only been understood by experts within their
specialised field. Thus it facilitates communication, crosses disciplines, and
reveals new knowledge. Through visual practice we are examining how
creative decisions are taken, developing a language for creativity that is not
borrowed from other fields, where specific meaning has been attributed to
terms. This approach to developing visual methodology is distinct and has
grown from understanding the requirement to clearly articulate visual thinking
and its potential to the wider research community. Research underpins all the
work of DJCAD.
In parallel to the development of our research profile, DJCAD has grown a thriving community of research degrees students. We currently have around 40 students from all over the world undertaking research degrees in the art, design and media disciplines. In art, media and design, we have expertise in the supervision of practice led PhD's where the creative practice forms the major part of the degree and is supported by a short written commentary. The enviable position of Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art & Design within a world class research university means that we have excellent opportunities for interdisciplinary research and the facility to seek advice from a wide range of experts in many fields.
DJCAD offers research training specifically for students in art, media and
design. By the end of a research degree students should have gained
competence and independence as a researcher, and the outcome of their
research should provide an original and valuable contribution to knowledge in
the field of creative practice.
DJCAD has a unique facility at Dundee Contemporary Arts in the form of the Visual Research Centre. This provides researchers with a purpose built environment including a gallery space, which can be used for engaging the wider research community and public with our practices as well as supporting expositions, seminars, conferences, and other events.
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