by Christina Miller | Aug 19, 2020 | Home page feature, Student news
Emer Dobson was selected as one of five students in her year group to create a design for V&A Dundee based on 1960s fashion designer Mary Quant and what she might do now if she were still working in fashion. Textile design student Emer Dobson is about to join her...
by Christina Miller | Aug 19, 2020 | Home page feature, Student news
An iconic photograph of fashion designer Mary Quant taken in 1966 has been recreated by V&A Dundee and DJCAD, ahead of the opening of its first major fashion exhibition celebrating the influential designer (Thursday 27 August). The new images shot on location at...
by Grant Hill | Dec 3, 2019 | Also on the blog, Student news
Visitors to Moncreiffe Hill Wood just outside Perth are now able to gain a new perspective of their surroundings thanks to the creative endeavours of two Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art & Design students. Célia El Hadrati and Ian Young were this year’s...
by Grant Hill | Oct 7, 2019 | Also on the blog, Public Engagement Stories
“Oh dear me, the world is ill-divided, Them that works the hardest are the least provided.” So wrote Dundee poet, songwriter and activist Mary Brooksbank in The Jute Mill Song, her most celebrated work. The words are a fitting epitaph to this fearless champion of the...
by OneDundee | Jul 31, 2019 | Campus News, Public Engagement Stories
By Matthew Jarron, Curator of Museum Services Dundee has an exceptional collection of over 500 sculptures, murals, mosaics and other forms of public art. The latest exhibition in the Lamb Gallery showcases photographs of artworks past and present as well as unique...