International artist sites waterfall on campus

With the extensive building work currently being carried out on campus, scaffolding is a common sight around the University. But staff, students and visitors now have an opportunity to see how this builders' equipment can be used in a more creative way, with the installation of a waterfall constructed from scaffolding on College Green.

Waterfall is the work of the internationally renowned artist Olafur Eliasson, best known for his now iconic Weather Project in the Turbine Hall at Tate Modern in 2003. Eliasson is exhibiting Waterfall as part of Our Surroundings - a group exhibition at Dundee Contemporary Arts. He first showed in the UK at DCA in 1999 and in the past five years has exhibited world-wide and to increasing critical acclaim, with solo exhibitions at the Musée d’Art moderne de la Ville de Paris, Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, ICA, Boston, among others and a project at the Museum of Modern Art, New York.Waterfall will be Eliasson's first outdoors piece in the UK and offers free and open access to his work.

Our Surroundings runs between 14 May and 17 July.