15 March 2007

Between: Self and Others

PREVIEW - LOWER FOYER GALLERY
Friday 16 March 5-7pm
Photo Opportunity 5pm.

Six fourth year Gallery Textile students have spent one week making work in the Lower Foyer Gallery. This exhibition displays the work the students have made alongside the work of two of their tutors, Lisa Gallacher and Jonathan Robertson. Gallery Textiles is a strand of the B.Des (Hons) course in Textiles at Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art and Design which explores the textile medium as an art form.

Lisa Gallacher has exhibited widely on a national as well as international level. In 2007, she showed at the Tramway and CCA galleries in Glasgow and was involved in several exhibitions in The Netherlands. Lisa’s work explores relationships between art and fashion from contemporary as well as historical perspectives. She makes fully functioning revised replicas or pirate versions of brand name garments which often become the component parts of installation works.

Jonathan Robertson has worked in Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art and Design for twenty-one years. Originally appointed as a lecturer in Photography he now divides his time between Fine Art, as a tutor in both studio and History and Theory, and Textiles, with a continuing interest in photographic practice. His personal work is located in the discipline of visual ethnography, using still and moving images. He is exhibiting a video of a jeweller in Thailand, ‘Lung Puan makes a pikun flower’, which has been chosen to be screened for competition in the ethnographic section of the Dialektus International Documentary Film Festival in Budapest in April 2007.

Marianne Pritchard has created a giant black creature, a cross between a panther and a spider, which crawls across the wall of the gallery space. Her sculptural creatures and drawings, explore an imaginary world of myths and monsters.

In Richard Foley’s installation, chipboard walls have created a room within the space, on which colourful drawings and doodles are hung. His drawings and doodles have also been printed onto cloth, to create a hooded garment and fabric used as a seat covering of a chair. Richard’s work looks at whether a doodle can have the same value as a finished drawing, alongside topics of fashion and consumerism in the art world.

Joanne Tomlinson works with domestic objects, memory and nostalgia. During the week of working in the gallery, she has set up a photographic set with kitchen objects, mirrors glass and cloth. The photographs taken of this set show the layers that are created by the reflection of light on the glass and mirror of the objects, and look like how you might remember a scene from your past, with some parts clearer than others, and details sometimes overlapping each other.

This exhibition is the second of Exhibition Department’s series exploring the work of tutors and students at DJCAD, which shows the variety and diversity of work that can be produced from one department. Exhibition runs until Saturday 24 March

University of Dundee Exhibitions Department, Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art and Design, 13 Perth Rd, Dundee DD1 4HT t:01382 385330 e: exhibitions@dundee.ac.uk

OPENING TIMES/// Lower Foyer. Mon - Fri 9.30am - 5pm, Sat 10.30am-4.30pm FREE ADMISSION

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