20 February 2004

RSA Student Award Winners

University of Dundee students have scooped three prestigious awards at the Royal Scottish Academy Student Exhibition 2004.

The following fourth year Fine Art students from the University's Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art and Design (DJCAD) were given awards at a ceremony at the RSA, Edinburgh, on Saturday 21 February:

RSA Sculpture Prize - Emma Pratt (entitled Let Them Run) £400

RSA Landscape Award - Jane Mitchell (Caesium - 137 Contamination) £100

Rendevous Gallery/Linda Nolan Award - Simon Reekie (Self Portrait) £400

The RSA Student Exhibition provides a platform each year for a new wave of artists to publicly display their work prior to embarking on their careers. This year the Exhibition returns to the upper galleries of the Royal Scottish Academy building after a two year absence.

The Exhibition is an exciting opportunity for the public to sample the progress of final year and post-graduate students of painting, sculpture, printmaking and architecture from the four Colleges/Schools of Art and six Schools/Departments of Architecture in Scotland.

With around 280 works - 53 from DJCAD students - the show is a glimpse of what to expect at the Degree shows later this year. With three awards bagged, DJCAD Degree Show at the end of May promises to be a visual feast displaying the excellence and innovation the Dundee art school is renowned for.

Editors' notes

For more information, visit www.royalscottishacademy.org/

The show runs from 21 February until March 1.

By Esther Black, Press Officer 01382 344768, out of hours: 07968298585, e.z.black@dundee.ac.uk