20 May 2004

Fat fun

With the craze of celebrity diets and fat busting fads continuing to grip the nation, a student from University of Dundee's Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art and Design has at last found fun in fat. The final year fine art student has used fat to create her sculptures that will be on display at the 2004 Dundee Degree Show.

The daughter of a chef, Emma has been playing with the vegetable fat her father uses to create pastry since a young age. She is now using this alternative modelling medium to create pieces of sculpture that are much more ambitious than her childhood creations.

Taking a range of different forms, from five-foot high free standing 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 has also used icing sugar to create further exhibits and her brass and glass pieces will also be on display at the show.

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 degree show opens to the public on Saturday 22 May and runs until Friday 28 May.

For further information please contact the Press Office on 01382 344768

By Angela Durcan, Press Officer 01382 344768, out of hours: 07968298585, a.durcan@dundee.ac.uk