Two of the University of Dundee's artists have been selected to receive a Creative Scotland award totalling £50,000.
Of only fourteen awarded in Scotland each year, Gina Czarnecki of the school of Television and Imaging and Wendy McMurdo of Fine Art are both based in Dundee.
The Dean of the Faculty of Art and Design at the University of Dundee Professor Georgina Follett said: "I am absolutely delighted that once again the talents of our staff at Duncan of Jordanstone have been recognised and rewarded. Both Gina and Wendy are consummate practitioners in their respective fields of digital technology. An outstanding result."
Gina's award will allow her to work on an interactive digital artwork exploring genetics issues. Gina works with single screen, photographic and video installation. Her interest is loosely about the 'human' -the physical or biological and emotional and how this is shaped by, and in turn shapes the social, economic and political. Current works are single screen film/video, photographic and installation formats.
Wendy's £25,000 will go towards a photographic digital project called Wrecks of Scapa, based around the major wrecks in Scapa Flow. Wendy will be diving and recording underwater images of German warships sunk during the Second World War.
Wendy is currently developing works which examine the ways in which technological developments in the bio-medical sciences affect our view of our selves. She has most recently been commissioned by the Science Museum in London and The Scottish National Portrait Gallery, Edinburgh in association with the Roslin Institute, Edinburgh./ENDS
Contact Professor Georgina Follet 01382 345203
Wendy McMurdo 01382 345847
Gina Czarnecki 01382 345250.