Jennifer Randall - Time Based Art

Jennifer was born in Vancouver, Canada. Her parents emigrated there from England and moved to St Andrews in 1991 to be with other members of the family, when Jennifer was seven years old.

Jennifer's video works are inspired by personal experiences of love and relationships. Jennifer writes all her own scripts, and the story is told in an intimate way with close up shots and scenes set in sunny locations around Dundee. Her film 'Rat' looks at the secrets within relationships and the effects that keeping this secret has on the main character. The classic love triangle is depicted in this film, where the main character, the girl, is having doubts about her boyfriend, and spending time with another boy chatting and laughing. The secret eats away at her during the whole film but we never get to know what the big secret is.

Jennifer has been Shortlisted for the Scottish Student on Screen this year and last year, and came second in the People's Choice Award in the Dundee Mountain Festival. Jennifer is going back to her roots in February next year where she will start a Masters in Film Production at Vancouver Film School. In between Degree Show and then she has a commission to make a short film for Channel 4 website, and is making a Climbing film for Edinburgh Mountain Festival.

Contact details: jenram2000@hotmail.com

Derrick Linton - Time Based Art

Derrick came to Duncan of Jordanstone with a background as a bricklayer, which he worked as in his family business since he left school. After a year of snowboarding and travelling in Australia, he decided he wanted to go to Art School, and did an NC in Media Studies at Dundee College, which he then followed up with an HNC in 3D animation, before embarking on the Time Based Art course.

Derrick's work for the Degree Show is a documentary on the Dundonian poet Kevin McCabe. Kevin writes poetry in Dundonian dialect and performs readings as a way to recover from his mental illness. The documentary follows Kevin as he writes and practices performing in his studio, through to the final performance in front of a live audience in the Hannah McClure Centre at Abertay University. The film is shot in Douglas in Dundee, Kevin's own studio and other locations around Kevin's home.

Derrick has had his film, 'Climate Change' screened at the National Review of Live Art and was recently part of the film crew, filming Dundee band 'The View' playing in the Caird Hall on 9 April. Derrick plans to commence his Masters of Science in Electronic Imaging here at Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art and Design in September this year.

Contact details: d.z.linton@dundee.ac.uk

Lindsay Boyd - Illustration

Lindsay's work looks at how craft has developed from being a practical necessity, like knitting a jumper because you are cold, to a more emotional need for craft as a hobby. Lindsay combines survival methods with craft techniques to make objects, which blur the boundary between necessity and hobby. A pair of red and yellow knitted semaphore sign mittens, are a 'Things to make and do' craft set, which has an instruction leaflet plus balls of red wool and yellow wool. Another piece of work is a set of old-fashioned embroidered handkerchiefs where the diagram illustrating each stage of catching a deer to curing it are printed onto them. Large-scale doilies made from the silver foil used to keep you warm and an embroidered compass are some other examples of Lindsay's work.

Lindsay came to do Illustration after doing the portfolio course at the Graham Street campus of Dundee College and she was shortlisted for the Berlin Book Competition this year. She would like to stay in Dundee after graduation, continuing to make work in a studio and plans to do her masters in a few years time.

Contact details: l.a.boyd@dundee.ac.uk

Suzanne Wright - Illustration

Suzanne, from Broughty Ferry has a twin sister, Kathryn who is doing the same course as her and even works in the same studio. Together they won the Broughty Ferry Art Society Prize- as joint first as the judges could not decide between the two.

Suzanne has concentrated her illustrative work on the subject of Agoraphobia and what people may see when they have agoraphobia. Her research has been reading specialist books and case studies of what people saw when they had a panic attack, to produce panoramic collages of architecture and spaces in Dundee. One of her fold out books has on one side the normal images of collaged surroundings in Dundee and on the other side is the illustration of what an agoraphobic person would see of the same surroundings.

Suzanne's plans for the future are to either enter into Art Therapy or work in a Design company as part of a team of colleagues.

Contact details: suzanne_wright@hotmail.co.uk / www.suzanne-wright.com

Graeme Turnbull - Animation

Graeme has created an animation for a music video, for his friends' band from home in Glasgow called, "The Mocha Nights". In their song titled, 'Metroman City', the leading line, ' The ringmaster leads the freaks and parades' is what Graeme took as a starting point to inspire the film.

The 3D animation is set in a floating city, which has a bridge leading to nowhere. The buildings in the background are all tenement blocks of flats, falling over into each other, and the whole animation is reminiscent of Tim Burton's style with a rather spooky nighttime lighting. The main characters in the film are the four band members, who have been modelled in the animation with no faces. They are being chased through the city by a crowd of mannequins, which are stylised from the classic image of a ringmaster, with the red coat and black top hat.

The band writes all their own material and has plans in place to make recordings later in the year. Graeme is planning to do a Masters in Animation and Visualisation in Dundee, working on a collaborative project with fellow student Ben Smith.

Contact details: gwturnbull@gmail.com

School of Media Arts and Imaging

Animation, Illustration, Time Based Art

You will have noticed that the School has a new title. Over the past several years, activity in the School of Television & Imaging evolved beyond the original expectation and vision. It is therefore fitting for the School to adopt a name that removes the notion of boundaries. Media Arts & Imaging will continue to reflect and lead significant changes in the way artists and designers use and interact with contemporary media as a means of cultural expression.

At the heart of a vibrant contemporary culture are rapidly developing audio visual and interactive technologies and the School strives to keep an ongoing investigation into knowledge and the orientation of the field of Media Arts and Imaging. The School combines an eclectic, creative portfolio of postgraduate and undergraduate programmes including electronic imaging, animation and visualisation, time based art and illustration. This year's Degree Show promises to include work of the highest standard ever produced from the BA (Hons) Programme.

Head of School: Steve Flack.