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Duncan Of Jordanstone College Of Art
Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art & Design (DJCAD) is part of the University of Dundee in Dundee, Scotland. It is ranked as one of the top school of art, schools of art and design in the United Kingdom. History Attempts were made to establish an art school in Dundee in the 1850s, and evening classes in art were taught at the High School of Dundee, High School and the YMCA with great success. A full-time art school only became a possibility following the creation of the Dundee Technical Institute in 1888. The Institute was based in Small's Wynd, now part of the University of Dundee's main campus, and shared facilities with what was then University College, Dundee. From the start, art classes were taught at the Institute in the evenings by George Malcolm, but in 1892 Thomas Delgaty Dunn was appointed as the first full-time art master, and the college later came to regard this as the date of its foundation. The Technical Institute's main building, designed by J. Murray Roberts ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Art School
An art school is an educational institution with a primary focus on practice and related theory in the visual arts and design. This includes fine art – especially illustration, painting, contemporary art, sculpture, and graphic design. They may be independent or operate within a larger institution, such as a university. Some may be associated with an art museum. Art schools can offer elementary, secondary, post-secondary, undergraduate or graduate programs, and can also offer a broad-based range of programs (such as the liberal arts and sciences). In the West there have been six major periods of art school curricula,Houghton, Nicholas (Feb. 2016)"Six into One: The Contradictory Art School Curriculum and How It Came About" ''International Journal of Art & Design Education''. vol. 35, no. 1. pp. 107–120. and each one has had its own hand in developing modern institutions worldwide throughout all levels of education. Art schools also teach a variety of non-academic skills ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gary Clark (musician)
Gary Clark is a Scottish musician, songwriter and record producer. As a performer, he was the frontman of 1980s pop band Danny Wilson (band), Danny Wilson. He was also a member of the bands King L and Transister. Career Performer – Danny Wilson, solo, King L, Transister In 1987, the band Danny Wilson released its first album, ''Meet Danny Wilson (album), Meet Danny Wilson''. The first single, "Mary's Prayer", written by Clark, was a worldwide hit, reaching number 3 in the UK Singles Chart, and number 23 on the United States Billboard Hot 100, ''Billboard'' Hot 100 chart, earning him a Broadcast Music Incorporated, BMI award, and a nomination for an Ivor Novello award for Best Song Musically and Lyrically. A second album, ''Bebop Moptop'', was released in 1989, including hit single "Second Summer of Love" which reached number 23 in the UK Singles Chart. The band split in 1991. Following the break-up of Danny Wilson, Clark embarked on a solo career. He released a 1993 solo albu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lucy McKenzie
Lucy McKenzie (born 1977) is a British artist based in Brussels. Biography Born in Glasgow, Scotland, McKenzie studied for her BA at Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art and Design in Dundee from 1995–1999 and at State Academy of Fine Arts Karlsruhe in Germany in 1998. McKenzie first came to prominence when she won the EAST award at EASTinternational in 1999 which was selected by Peter Doig and Roy Arden. She has since shown work in many exhibitions, such as “The Dictatorship of the Viewer” at the Venice Biennale, Becks Futures 2000 in London, Manchester and Glasgow and “Happy Outsiders” at Zacheta Gallery in Warsaw. She has exhibited internationally at galleries and museums including Tate Britain in London, Kunsthalle Basel in Switzerland and the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis. In 2013 McKenzie exhibited at Tate Britain in 'Painting Now: Five Contemporary Artists'. The Art Institute of Chicago featured McKenzie in 2014 in an exhibition entitled ''focus: Lucy McKen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
David Mach
David Mach (born 18 March 1956) is a Scottish sculptor and installation artist. His artistic style is based on flowing assemblages of mass-produced objects. Typically these include magazines, vicious teddy bears, newspapers, car tyres, match sticks and coat hangers. Many of his installations are temporary and constructed in public spaces. Early life Mach was born in 1956 in Methil, Fife. Mach studied at Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art and Design (now a school of University of Dundee), Dundee, Scotland from 1974, graduating in 1979, then at the Royal College of Art, London between 1979 and 1982. Following several shows and public installations, Mach was nominated for the Turner Prize in 1988. Mach was elected Member of the Royal Academy of Arts in 1998, and was appointed Professor of Sculpture in 2000. Work One example of his early magazine pieces, ''Adding Fuel to the Fire'', was an installation assembled from an old truck and several cars surrounded and subsumed by ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anna King (artist)
Anna King, is a Scottish landscape artist "who seeks out forgotten spaces and derelict buildings." She was born in Shetland, spent most of her life in the Scottish Borders, and lives in the village of Greenlaw, near Kelso. She first came to attention of the general public at her degree show at Dundee's Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art and Design in 2005. Awards In 2017, she won the top prize of £20,000 in the annual Jolomo Award, established by John Lowrie Morrison and awarded to Scottish Landscape Artists. She also received the Royal Scottish Academy Landscape Award from the RSA Student Exhibition and also received the Ian Eadie Award from the Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art and Design Exhibitions She has had solo exhibitions at: * Open Eye Gallery in Edinburgh * Beaux Art Gallery Bath * 108 Fine Art, Harrogate She has also exhibited at many other art galleries including the Glasgow Art Fair and the Gallery Heinzel. TV She featured on the BBC Coast Se ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lewis Deeney
Lewis Deeney (born 1994) is a Scottish artist known for his unique artistic style which combine expressive abstract painting with interlocking geometric forms. He often incorporates mandala symbolism into his work, blending them with modern, expressionist elements. Life and work Born and raised in Dumbarton, Scotland. before studying Contemporary Art Practice at Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art & Design, graduating with Honors in 2020. The university of Dundee awarded Lewis the James Guthrie Orchar Memorial Prize and the Farquhar Reid Trust Prize during his degree show. in addition to be selected for the Freeland’s Paintings Prize. Lewis continued his studies at Duncan of Jordanstone, graduating with an MFA in Art & Humanities 2021, during which the University purchased a painting for their public collection. Lewis has since exhibited his work internationally, with notable solo exhibitions such as, ''An Odyssey of Chaos'', 2023, at the Glasgow Art Club and his solo sho ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marine Joatton
Marine Joatton (born 1972) is a contemporary French artist. Biography Marine Joatton was born in Paris in 1972. She received a diploma from the Institut d'Etudes Politiques in Paris when she was 20 years old, but then decided to pursue a career in art. In 1995, she started a course of studies at Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art in Dundee, Scotland, UK. Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts de Paris (Ensb-a). From there, she obtained a diploma in 2001. Starting 2004, she had her own exhibitions. Art Marine Joatton started her artwork with the creation of "monsters", about 200 sculptures made from organic materials which she subsequently painted. Starting 2002, she focused entirely on painting Painting is a Visual arts, visual art, which is characterized by the practice of applying paint, pigment, color or other medium to a solid surface (called "matrix" or "Support (art), support"). The medium is commonly applied to the base with ..., starting with sma ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Geoff Holder
Geoff Holder is a British author. He has written twenty non-fiction books on the paranormal, as well as on unusual and unexplained events and objects. His works include ''The Jacobites and the Supernatural'' and ''101 Things to Do with a Stone Circle'', ''Scottish Bodysnatchers'' and nine titles in ''The Guide to the Mysterious...'' series, covering subjects throughout Britain. His work encompasses folklore, archaeology, local history, parapsychology, ghosts, Forteana, neo-antiquarianism, witchcraft, gargoyles and graveyards. He also actively participates to paranormal investigations as a member of The Ghost Club. Early life and education Geoff Holder was born in Cardiff, Wales in 1958, and grew up within the city, before later relocating to Perthshire. Holder cites an interest in dinosaurs, dragons and all things mythological as an inspiration for his future career. He spent three years studying with the Open University, achieving qualifications in the Humanities, Social Sci ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Patrick Hennessy (painter)
Patrick Anthony Hennessy Royal Hibernian Academy, RHA (28 August 1915 – 30 December 1980) was an Irish people, Irish realist painter. He was known for his highly finished still lifes, landscapes and ''trompe l'oeil'' paintings. The hallmark of his style was his carefully observed realism and his highly finished surfaces, the result of a virtuoso painting technique. He was brought up in Arbroath by his mother and step-father, his father having been killed during World War One. He attended Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art and Design, Dundee School of Art where he met his lifelong companion, the painter Henry Robertson Craig, Henry (Harry) Robertson Craig. Two of his paintings were accepted in 1939 at the Royal Scottish Academy for their Annual Exhibition. For the next 29 years he lived in Ireland with extended trips abroad. He was elected a member of the Royal Hibernian Academy in 1949. The Hendriks Gallery in Dublin and the Guildhall Galleries in Chicago were the main outlets ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Euan Heng
Euan Heng, (born 1945) is a Scottish-born Australian artist. Life and work Between 1960 and 1970, he was employed in various occupations, including four years as a merchant seaman travelling the world. He received a Diploma in Art and a Post Diploma from Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art in Dundee, Scotland and Masters in Research from RMIT, in Melbourne. Other activities of the artist have included teaching at Clackmannan College of Further Education (now Forth Valley College) in Scotland, Monash University, Prato Centre in Italy and he is currently an Adjunct Associate Professor in Fine Art at Monash University, Melbourne. When describing his work, Heng explains his process of emptying out his paintings, "no vulgar brush strokes and no detail to distract – just gently modulated pigment to activate flat shapes of colour. I want the visual response to my new paintings to be rapid, if possible, after which the viewer, should he or she wish, can invest further time in u ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jackie Hatfield
Jackie Hatfield (5 July 1962 – 2 November 2007) was an artist, writer, and academic. According to the influential artist-led no.w.here website: ''"Jackie Hatfield is an artist and writer who makes expanded and participatory cinematic artworks using digital video, performance, sound and digital print. She has co-edited two critical books around women's use of technology in art practice and has published essays that concentrate on under-explored histories of experimental film and video practices."'' Biography Her early career was spent making papier-mâché sculptures which enjoyed some recognition and sales before she undertook a variety of casual and sometimes unusual roles. One night, attending a London Film-Makers' Co-op screening, she decided that her future lay in the moving image. After taking advice from Dave Parsons at Central St Martins she elected to study Time Based Media at Maidstone College of Art (from 1991 to 1994), despite not being able to show much evidence o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Luke Fowler
Luke Fowler (born 1978) is an artist, 16mm filmmaker and musician based in Glasgow. He studied printmaking at Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art and Design in Dundee. He creates cinematic collages that have often been linked to the British Free Cinema movement of the 1950s. His para-documentary films have explored counter cultural figures including Scottish psychiatrist R. D. Laing, English composer Cornelius Cardew and Marxist-Historian E. P. Thompson. As well as portraits of musicians and composers he has also made films and installations that deal with the nature of sound itself. Luke Fowler has worked with a number of collaborators including Eric La Casa, George Clark and Peter Hutton, Mark Fell, Lee Patterson, Toshiya Tsunoda, and Richard Youngs. He collaborated with guitarist Keith Rowe and film maker and curator Peter Todd on the live sound and film work ''The Room''. Work Luke Fowler's work explores the limits and conventions of biographical and documentary film- ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
