photo / media opportunity 5pm, Friday 5 October, Cooper Gallery, Duncan of Jordanstone, Perth Road, University of Dundee.
The Alan Woods Bequest exhibition is officially opening tonight at the University of Dundee.
The exhibits comprise paintings, drawings and prints from the collection which holds over 265 artworks by contemporary artists such as Elaine Shemilt, Edward Summerton, Graham Little, Ralph Rumney, Callum Innes, Ian Howard, Susan Hiller, Ronald Forbes, Clare Stephenson, Ian Hamilton-Finlay, Will McLean, Alan Beveridge, David Armitage, Peter Greenaway and others.
Alan Woods was a lecturer in history and theory in the school of fine art at Duncan of Jordanstone. The bequest was gifted to the University after his death in March 2000.
Alan Woods founded and for five years edited Transcript, a journal of visual culture. The University of Dundee is hosting the relaunch of Transcript tonight with the first of the new series - Sculpsit - edited by Kerstin Mey.
There is a smaller group of works by Alan Woods himself and a selection of other publications which he either wrote or contributed to. Alan was very highly regarded as a writer as well as an artist and his major publications include "Being Naked Playing Dead, the Art of Peter Greenaway" and "The Map is not the Territory", about the work of Ralph Rumney.
The School of Fine Art has established a fund to endow an annual Alan Woods prize for the best honours degree dissertation by a fourth year student.
The exhibition runs until 17 November, is free and is open to the public. The Cooper Gallery is open from 11am-8pm Monday to Friday and closes at 5pm on Saturdays./ENDS
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