On the homepage of this year’s Art, Design and Architecture Graduate Showcase from Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art & Design, the Dean - Professor Anita Taylor – writes, “The showcase is a wonderful visual collection of inspirational and thought-provoking work.” This is true. It is a visual collection… more of a catalogue than an... Continue Reading →
Jennifer Kelly was one artist exhibiting work as part of the Masters Show at Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art & Design from 19 – 28 August in Dundee, Scotland. In text around the exhibition space she refers to the work as a “critique”, specifically of “the commercial pressure for maintaining an appearance of perfection... Continue Reading →
Highlights from this year’s undergraduate degree show at Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art & Design in Dundee, Scotland. A couch shaped like a sanitary towel, a wall of tongues, a comic about more than a dozen women named ‘Hilda’, a table covered in lightly jangling china bowls... there was so much artwork for a... Continue Reading →
Jennifer Clarke, 27, is an illustration student at Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art & Design (DJCAD) and runs SPILTHdesign on Etsy (now spilthdesign.com). She lives in Dundee. (Ana Hine) How did you get into business? (Jennifer Clarke) I started doing the knitted boobs last year around January, or at least that's when I started... Continue Reading →
While I went down to the DJCAD degree show primarily to see Sekai Machache and Nel Wilson's work (https://www.facebook.com/events/1133494123330767/, as they've both contributed to Artificial Womb zine, there were some other artists who stood out for me. Catherine MacRobbie 'Understanding Mature Cystic Teratoma' Virtually everything from the MSc Medical Art students was incredible, but Catherine's... Continue Reading →
Glaswegian artist Sekai Machache’s current series of work, entitled ‘Entanglement’, looks at the relationship between hair and black female identity across the African Diaspora, particularly Sekai Machache: Entanglement through the tradition of braiding and the natural hair movement. As a multi-disciplinary artist, Machache utilises a wide range of media and materials - including synthetic hair... Continue Reading →
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