To tie in with the forthcoming Weekend of Wood at the University of Dundee Botanic Garden, the University Museum Collections are launching an exhibition of woodcut prints in collaboration with the St Andrews Preservation Trust Museum, featuring the work of the celebrated McKenzie sisters and their students.
The exhibition is to open at the Botanic Garden on 17th August, and is held in tribute to Winifred McKenzie, who died earlier this year. She and her sister Alison were popular figures in St Andrews, and during the Second World War they ran art classes for the forces stationed in the town. The results were so successful they were exhibited in the Scottish National Gallery. After the war, the sisters became the first to teach a course in wood engraving in Dundee Art College.
Their work is highly distinctive and reveals the extraordinary power of woodcut images. As well as prints by Winifred and Alison, the exhibition features work by some of their students, in both Dundee and St Andrews.
The exhibition runs until 18th October. For further details, please contact Curator of Museum Collections Matthew Jarron on 01382 344310.
Image: "Road to Sorrento" by Alison McKenzie, 1934