Korean MSc student Ah Bin Shim’s poster for her aptly named Cheeky Art Show would have us believe that Picasso is her brother.
Ah Bin’s debut solo exhibition with installation and video works (2000-2002) explored greed, dreams, and life as a race. A quirky look at issues including cosmetic surgery, the pitfalls of watching too much television and human reliance on computers, the show was the first of the new term to be held in the lower foyer gallery at DJCAD.
Ah Bin is a third year student from Seoul who began her studies in her home country and has come to the UK to complete her degree at DJCAD. The challenges of creating art in her new Scottish environment has added a new dimension to her work. She said, "At home, my tutors tended to have much more of an influence in the kind of work I produced, so it has been a new experience having much more freedom to develop my own ideas. It was strange at first but I am now developing a new confidence in following my own themes."
Another of the exhibitions which kicked off the new term was MSc student Kevin Reid’s America Ate Our Young. Held in Cantina, Kevin describes his selection of screenprints and texts as having been "derived from the warm couch of a late seventies, early eighties hibernation".
Traditional Inuit printmaking from the Canadian North Western territories was displayed in the Bradshaw Gallery, DJCAD in an exhibition organised by Richard Carr, reader in design history, theory and practice.