Celebrating Geddes: the artist and thinker

Celebrations to mark the 150th anniversary of the birth of Patrick Geddes have reached a triumphant conclusion with the staging of a major exhibition at McManus Galleries, organised in collaboration with the University Museum Services.

Entitled 'The Artist & the Thinker', the exhibition explores Geddes's relationship with the painter John Duncan, and looks at the influence that the city of Dundee was to have on their extraordinary careers. Geddes spent 30 years as Professor of Botany at University College Dundee, using his post as a platform from which he could ‘dive off’ into projects both locally and around the world.

The Dundee-born John Duncan was a central figure in Dundee's blossoming art scene at the turn of the last century, and under Geddes's influence became the leading artist of the Celtic revivalist movement in Scotland.

Accompanying the exhibition will be a book of essays edited by University Curator Matthew Jarron.

The exhibition runs until 30 January 2005, and will also be accompanied by a conference on Art in Dundee c.1900, to be held in the Baxter Conference Suite on 22 January.