DUNDEE UNIVERSITY REVIEW OF THE ARTS

18 May 2013 - 26 May 2013,
DJCAD, University of Dundee.

From the 18-26 May, 290 graduating artists, illustrators, animators and designers will exhibit at DJCAD’s annual Degree Show. For graduating students, this exhibition represents the culmination of skill and hard work; for all others, it offers a wonderful creative and imaginative resource. Come and walk through the corridors and halls at your leisure; be inspired to think reflectively and creatively about what you are seeing. To help start this process, DURA invited a 3rd year student from each discipline to write a short piece highlighting what they found special about this year's work.  

Johanna Basford
DCA
4th May to 7th July 2013

We imagine we know where the danger lies with Johanna Basford, considering ourselves already overly familiar with her work. Not yet thirty and but a short jump beyond her Degree Show, just yards down the road from the DCA, we might believe ourselves too cosy in her lacy company. We know what she does. Therein lies the real danger.

The McManus Gallery
17 November 2012 - August 2013

According to philosopher and art commentator Jean-François Lyotard, there is a distinction to be made between art and its cultural reception. The cultural reception of art situates it in time and space, inscribes it within an art-historical narrative, and presents it alongside other features of the world. Reflections from the Tay strikes me as an exhibition which derives its principle from the cultural level.