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Anna King - Drawing & Painting

As a teenager in Kelso, Anna King yearned for the bright lights of the city. Yet as an art student in Dundee she missed the open spaces of the countryside.

Following an exchange in third year to Holland where she experienced the flattest of city and landscapes, Anna was inspired to combine the two environments in her work. Now her panoramic paintings of Dundee cityscapes are reminiscent of the countryside. Overwhelmed by huge expanses of sky, the manmade elements of buildings, fences and lamp-posts are reduced in detail and colour.

21-year old King won the Royal Scottish Academy's Landscape Award this year. In July she is one of 10 graduating DJCAD students showing their work in Templeton Carpet Factory off Glasgow Green.

Stephanie McAdam - Drawing & Painting

22-year old Stephanie McAdam from St Andrews believes the interest is in the detail. From small landscape drawings done in situ, once back in her studio Stephanie takes a tiny section of her drawing and blows it up in size to paint on canvas. The results are abstract and bold in colour, line and mark making.

McAdam experiments on the canvas combining areas of oil paint with spray and gloss paints. She is drawn especially to the spray paint as she sees graffiti as making a mark on the landscape and enjoys the paint's uncontrollable nature. In a second work she makes her landscape paintings directly onto the pages of a Swedish text-book.

McAdam is dyslexic and feels that the viewer will gain a similarity looking at the Swedish text as she does when looking at the written page. McAdam's future plans include applying to artist residencies and thinking about doing a Masters.

Iona McCann - Drawing & Painting

Instead of using traditional canvas for her paintings, fine art student, Iona McCann has opted to paint directly onto old pieces of material. From old curtain material to 1960s psychedelic prints, the backgrounds of Iona's work reflects her subject matter - middle-aged women.

Iona initially became interested in painting ageing women on her exchange scholarship at the Art Institute of Chicago. After graduation she plans to continue working in art in Scotland.

Francis Glancy - Drawing & Painting

At 35-feet long, fine art student, Francis Glancy has created the longest painting ever to come out of DJCAD. The sheer scale of the work necessitated Frances working on in it two separate sections, the only way it could be fitted into his studio. The oil painting depicts a long walkway with a number of doors and creepily lit corridors leading off. Francis has added to the realism of the painting by incorporating real light switches and hospital-like fluorescent lighting.

Dundee-born Francis found inspiration for the enormous painting in his mother's attic with its mismatch of odd doors and rooms. He also spent time in France on a Carnegie scholarship where he carried out research into his painting through photographing institutional buildings.

Francis begins his postgraduate course at the Chelsea College of Art in London next January.

Barry McAnearney - Drawing & Painting

Hills and water are the main theme throughout Barry McAnearney's work. Barry's oil paintings present mountain landscapes with the look of a record sleeve cover. By imposing text on top of his oil paintings the finished paintings actually resemble old fashioned record sleeves. The thirty-one year old, fine-art student has drawn on his own interest of hill walking for inspiration. Barry's experiences in London, where he lived for a number of years before undertaking his degree in Dundee have also helped form the style of his work. It is clear throughout Barry's work that he has closely drawn on his life in Dundee where he grew up to give added depth to his pieces with particular Dundee street names used carefully throughout his work.

After graduating, Barry want the opportunity to produce more art.

The School of Fine Art

Fine Art students at Dundee enjoy working in a multi-disciplinary environment that includes painting, printmaking, sculpture, photography, video, computer-based imaging, installation and performance. Students are able to specialise or to work across disciplines, developing their practice with the support of tutors and in continuous contact with others pursuing their own pathways. The School's ethos of independent creative thinking linked to high standards of production equips our graduates for successful careers as exhibiting artists and in the wider visual economy where so many contemporary opportunities lie.

Head of School: Euan McArthur.