24 May 2009

Zombies on the loose at Degree Show

Photo opportunity - 11am, Monday May 25th,
Degree Show @ Vision Building, Greenmarket, Dundee
Ailsa will be setting two fully made-up zombies loose around Degree Show

Record-breaking attandances have already marked the opening weekend of Degree Show 2009 at the University of Dundee and supermodel Erin O'Connor has made her mark. Now things take a turn for the rather more grisly with a pair of zombies set to scare visitors to the Vision Building on Monday May 25th.

Ailsa Lawson, a graduate in Time-Based Art and Digital Film, will be applying full horror make-up to two of the stars of her film `Dee Of The Dead', a two-minute which showcases her startling make-up effects and rekindles memories of 70s horror films like 'Dawn Of The Dead'.

Ailsa, from Port Seton in Lothian, is on a quest to prove that make-up can still offer more realistic effects than computer-generated imagery. 'This is a craft that is being squeezed by technology, but it offers so much more,' said Ailsa.

She herself has a taste for gore - 'I’m the only person I’ve ever known of who has gone to an abattoir and been utterly delighted to leave with a bucket of ox blood and entrails'.

And what happened to the ox blood? 'I was stood just off screen while we were making the film, pumping it all down a funnel so it could explode out of someone’s chest,' she cheerfully explains.

Not always for the fainthearted then, but this is stunning application of a traditional craft.

For a preview of how Ailsa's zombies look, see: www.dundee.ac.uk/djcad/degreeshow/ailsa.htm.

NOTES TO EDITORS

Over 260 graduating students will be displaying their degree projects at Degree Show 09, across the disciplines of fine art, design, textiles, jewellery, animation and digital imaging.

Profiles on some of the students taking part can be seen at: www.dundee.ac.uk/djcad/degreeshow/students.htm.

Dundee Degree Show will have a new look this year as it moves into new premises at the Vision Building at Seabraes in Dundee, which has been made available to the College by James Keiller Services, on behalf of Horizon Capital.

Dundee Degree Show will cap a very successful year for the College, which is part of the University of Dundee. It was rated one of the UK’s top colleges for research in art and design in the Research Assessment Exercise 2008.

For more information on this year’s Dundee Degree Show see www.dundee.ac.uk/degreeshow.

LISTING INFORMATION:

DUNDEE DEGREE SHOW 2009
Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art & Design, University of Dundee

Weds 20th May
'Designs on-The Future' VIP, invite-only event with fashion icon Erin O’Connor, Chair of the British Fashion Council and V&A trustee.
Sponsored by Unicorn Property Group

Preview night - Friday 22nd May

Exhibition open 23 May - 6 June 2009
Monday-Friday 9.30am-8.30pm
Saturdays & Sundays 9.30am-4.30pm (excluding Saturday 6 June when the exhibit will close at 2pm)
Free admission

This exhibition is running concurrently with the Society of Scottish Artists Annual Exhibition.

Vision Building is fully accessible. Car parking is available at Vision

For further information please contact:
01382 385330
exhibitions@dundee.ac.uk
www.dundee.ac.uk/degreeshow.

For media enquiries contact:
Roddy Isles
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University of Dundee
Nethergate Dundee, DD1 4HN
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