16 May 2005

DJCAD’s longest painting at Degree Show

At 35-feet long, fine art student, Francis Glancy has created the longest painting ever to come out of the University of Dundee’s Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art and Design (DJCAD). The painting will be on display at this year’s degree show at DJCAD, which opens this week.

The sheer scale of the work necessitated Francis working on in it four separate sections, the only way it could be fitted into his studio. The oil painting depicts a long walkway with a number of doors and creepily lit corridors leading off. Francis has added to the realism of the painting by incorporating real light switches and hospital-like fluorescent lighting.

Dundee-born Francis found inspiration for the enormous painting in his mother's attic with its mismatch of odd doors and rooms. He also spent time in France on a Carnegie scholarship where he carried out research into his painting through photographing institutional buildings.

Happy to have finished the enormous project, Francis said, "I have really enjoyed working on the painting and am pleased with how the finished piece turned out. This has been a great opportunity to do something on such a big scale. It might be a long time before I ever have the chance to do something of this nature again."

Francis begins his two year masters postgraduate course in fine art at the Chelsea College of Art in London next January.

The degree show opens to the public on Saturday 21 May and runs until Saturday 28 May. It is staged within the DJCAD buildings on the University of Dundee campus.

For further information please contact Press office on 01382 344910.

By Roddy Isles, Head of Press 01382 344910, out of hours: 07968298585, r.isles@dundee.ac.uk