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Simon Reekie - Drawing & Painting
What's in a face? Simon Reekie has attempted to find out by scrutinising the faces of family members including his mother and father then depicting them in slightly surreal portraits.
A molecular biologist before turning to art, Simon's scientific background is identifiable in the way he has so closely examined the skin, picking up and exaggerating every detail.
Already offered a place at New York Academy of Art, Simon will be taking a year out before jetting across the Atlantic.
Miranda Blennerhassett - Drawing & Painting
Miranda Blennerhassett (31) paints and draws straight onto her environment. Paintings on floors, windows and walls saves her money on canvas but also creates some startling effects. Like the pot plant that is sitting on a shelf - only when you move closer do you see that the shelves are actually painted onto the wall and that the plant pot is hanging off by a nail. Disconcerting but clever. Miranda's work re-examines domestic objects and asks how we bring nature into our homes by depicting it in a slightly more unusual way.
Miranda is a student in Fine Art and hopes to study for her masters in Glasgow after graduating.
Lindsay McKay - Drawing & Painting
Lindsay McKay has examined the relationship between identity, personality and glamour, using eight pairs of gloves, a red satin dress and a mask of Marlene Dietrich. The twenty-one year old's work examines what it's like to be living in a society so obsessed by visual appearance.
Lindsay plans to stay in Dundee after graduation and work as an artist.
Heather Mann - Drawing and Painting
Having spent nearly ten years 'living on the land' in France, with no electricity or running water, Heather Mann has first hand experience of living in tune with nature.
Inspired by this experience, Heather has created a series of work that examines different natural scenes. From untouched scenes of the countryside, to green spaces in cities, Heather's work addresses the question of whether we are actually part of nature, or separate from it. She also examines how man organises areas of nature within the urban environment to fit in with preconceived notions of what nature should look like. Heather plans to go on to do an MFA course in Glasgow or London after spending a year at an art college in Cyprus next year.
Harry Smart - Drawing and Painting
The representation of the female nude has a long tradition in the history of art and Harry Smart has chosen to create his representations using the medium of photography.
For Harry - also a Faber-published writer - his photographs reveal how the naked figure is stripped of the conventions by which we hide our true selves.
In addition to creating images, Harry also makes the cameras with which those images are taken - for him camera-making and image-making are inseparable. He explains, "I make the cameras I make because I need them to make the images I want to make. I make the images I make because that's what the cameras are made for."
Harry's cameras are created to be sculptural pieces, and the images he takes reveal as much about the camera as they do about their subjects.
Myra Gallicker - Printmaking
Partly inspired by early childhood memories of her clothes being made from her father's RAF shirts and wearing her brother's 'hand me downs', Myra has created a deconstructed/reconstructed suit. Originally unpicking a man's suit, then remaking it, the finished exhibit relates to the transition and change that takes place when a new set of memories are layed onto an original memory. The garment has been transformed into an extremely feminine piece of work showing changes over time and gives a notion of history.
Emma Pratt - Sculpture
As the daughter of a chef, Emma Pratt has been playing with the vegetable fat her father uses to create pastry since a young age. Inspired by her childhood, she is now using this medium to create sculpture that is much more ambitious than the models she made as a young girl. Taking a range of different forms, from freestanding large-scale pieces, to decorative, lantern-like hangings, Emma's work inhabits the realm of her imagination, fantasies and dreams. As well as the vegetable fat sculptures, she also plans to use icing sugar to create further pieces for her degree show and has other pieces created using bronze and glass.
Emma was the recipient of an RSA sculpture prize this year and also won a Carnegie Scholarship to attend the Scottish Sculpture Workshop in Lumsden last year.
The School is one of the leading art institutions in Britain, highly rated for both teaching and research. It is unique in that, from the basis of the traditional core disciplines, many students who wish to work in a multi-disciplinary environment are encouraged to use all the facilities in the School, such as the wood, casting and welding workshops, to further their personal creative development.
Head of School: Euan McArthur.
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