22 August 2007

Bad Men welcome Masters Show visitors

Visitors to the opening preview night of the Duncan of Jordanstone College Masters Show 2007 tonight (Friday August 31) will receive a bad, bad welcome.

Part of the exhibition space at Kangaroo Self Storage in Dock Street will be taken over for a performance by the band Bad Man & The Bad Men, featuring Andrew Maclean, one of the artists showing work as part of Masters Show.

They promise to add to the general buzz of the show, which last year attracted over 2000 visitors.

This year’s show features work from more than 40 artists and designers, all of whom have been studying on the four Masters courses run in Fine Art, Electronic Imaging, Design, and Animation & Visualisation.

Duncan of Jordanstone’s postgraduate programmes are amongst the most innovative and exciting in the UK, something which is vividly reflected in the Masters Show.

The exhibition takes place in two centres - Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art & Design, and Kangaroo Self Storage, 52 - 54 East Dock Street, which has provided 10,000 sq feet of space for the artists to show their work.

"The Kangaroo venue supports the dynamic art exhibits and multimedia visualisations while the Duncan of Jordanstone venue communicates the visual thinking process of young designers and their innovative solutions to contemporary problems," said Jeanette Paul, Head of the Duncan of Jordanstone Graduate Centre.

There is a strong international flavour to this year’s show, with a particularly strong element from the Far East displaying the strong links the College has established with institutions and artists in China and Japan.

The opening preview takes place tonight, after which the exhibition runs until Thursday September 13th. All are welcome to attend and entry is free.

DUNDEE MASTERS SHOW
Sat 1st - Thurs 13th September 2007
Opening hours: Monday to Friday 11.00am to 5.00pm
Saturday 11.00am to 3.00pm

Film screenings 3 & 10 September 6pm

Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art
13 Perth Road
Dundee DD1 4HT

Kangaroo Self Storage
52 - 54 East Dock Street
Dundee DD1 3JX

For more info on Bad Man & The Bad Men:
http://myspace.com/badmanuk

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University of Dundee
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