Exhibitions

MESH
Until 26 June Lamb Gallery, Tower Building
An exploration of historic textiles by contemporary textiles designers. Needlework development scheme embroideries held in the University and national collections inspire students and staff from Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art and Design's constructed textiles department.

Georgina Follett
Until 20 May
Cooper Gallery, Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art
An exhibition marking the professorial appointment of Georgina Follett to the Chair of Design. Works include plique-a-jour enamelled jewellery.

It's in your head
14 April-7 May
Centrespace - DCA
Artist-run group Generator present an exhibition resulting from summer workshops which gave ten artists unique access to the work of specialists in the fields of artificial intelligence, linguistics, neuropsychology and developmental biology. In conjunction with Spacetime Projects in Derby.

Millennium Art Exhibtion
12-14 May
Bonar Hall
Artists, whether professional or amateur, from all over Scotland are invited to display their work in this major fundraising event for Dundee's Cancer Research Campaign. The fifth exhibition of its kind, when last held the event raised over £12,000 with a display of over 350 paintings.

Indian Summer
17 May-24 May
Centrespace - DCA
On receiving the Sir William Gillies Award from the Scottish Royal Academy for 1999 Ronnie Forbes, course director of fine art, went to India on a personal journey. This installation will chart that journey and show the stages of production from journey notes and drawings to prints and his book Indian Summer.

Annual Exhibition
17-24 June
Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art and Design
This annual exhibition is an exiting opportunity to see the final exhibitions of over 200 students from the College of Art and Design. The entire college is transformed into one massive exhibition showing a wide variety of innovative ideas, objects and images.

First year celebrations

In just its first year the DCA received three and a half times the initial projected attendance figures with the number of visitors approaching 350,000. With its galleries, cinema, print studio, cafe-bar and shop, visitors can not cease to be captivated by some aspect of the arts centre.

At its heart is the University's Visual Research Centre (VRC) and Centrespace. The VRC, an "art laboratory," equipped with £600,000 worth of technology, enables cutting edge research in fine art, design and television and imaging to evolve in front of visitors' very own eyes. At the core of this is "Centrespace" where the public can observe the creative process in action and talk to the artists about their work.

The latest exhibition to feature was that of design's course director, Tim Proud and photography lecturer Jonathan Robertson with Charcoal-Lattice. First exhibited in Singapore, the display's research-process can be fully appreciated through the opportunity of speaking with one of the artists.

Tim Proud commented "This has all been extremely interesting, Jonathan and I didn't know each other particularly well before we set out on this project but over the months of bringing our work together it's amazing how many correlations can be drawn between my 3D work and Jonathan's 2D photography. The research process is still evolving even now - even through the installation of the work you keep seeing new ideas and concepts."

Since its opening Centrespace has had over 15 different installations covering a vast array of subject matter. An average of 100 people visit the VRC each day, increasing to over 200 on special event days or evenings.

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