Foundation stone of Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art, Dundee

Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art & Design (DJCAD) is part of the

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. It is ranked as one of the top schools of art and design in the

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History

Attempts were made to establish an art school in Dundee from the 1850s, and evening classes in art were taught at the

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and the

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with great success. A full-time art school only became a possibility following the creation of the Dundee Technical Institute in 1888. The institute was based in Small's Wynd, now part of the University of Dundee's main campus, and shared facilities with what was then University College, Dundee. From the start, art classes were taught at the Institute in the evenings by George Malcolm, but in 1892 Thomas Delgaty Dunn was appointed as the first full-time art master, and the college later came to regard this as the date of its foundation. The Technical Institute's main building, designed by J Murray Robertson, soon became inadequate, particularly when the High School and YMCA art classes were amalgamated with those of the institute. A fund-raising campaign was launched in 1907 and in 1911 the Institute moved to new and much grander premises on Bell Street, designed by Robert Gibson and James Langlands, where it re-opened as Dundee Technical College & School of Art. A further incentive to the development of the school had come in 1909 with the bequest of £60,000 by James Duncan of Jordanstone to establish an independent art school in the city. A lengthy legal battle ensued as to whether the existing college could spend the money, and it was not until the 1930s that an agreement was reached whereby the college was reorganised as Dundee Institute of Art & Technology, the College of Art to be autonomously run on a separate site away from the Technical College. A site was chosen and plans drawn up by architect James Wallace in 1937, but due to delays largely caused by the war construction did not begin until 1953. Classes began in what is now called the Crawford Building in 1955, though it would not be completed until 1964. The college was renamed Duncan of Jordonstone College of Art in 1961 but did not become entirely independent of the Institute of Technology (now the University of Abertay) until 1975. By that time it has expanded into a new building next door (now called the Matthew Building, designed by Baxter Clark & Paul). The college remained independent until 1994, when it became part of the

. Over time Duncan of Jordanstone has built up strong academic links with other disciplines in the university, manifested in joint programmes such as Medical Art, Forensic Art and Art & Humanities.

Structure

DJCAD is a school within the University of Dundee and is led by current Dean, Professor Anita Taylor. DJCAD is structured around Undergraduate, Postgraduate and Research portfolios rather than the more traditional disciplinary departmental approach. The school is located within the Crawford and Matthew buildings, with part of the Matthew building shared with the separate Architecture department.

Notable alumni

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* Roger Ball * Clio Barnard * Gary Clark * Calum Colvin OBE *

Katy Dove Katy Dove (1 December 1970 – 27 January 2015) was born in Oxford and grew up in the village of Jemimaville on the Black Isle near Inverness in Scotland. She was a multi-media artist working across a variety of media including animation and inst ...

* Malcolm Duncan *

Luke Fowler Luke Fowler (born 1978) is an artist, 16mm filmmaker and musician based in Glasgow. He studied printmaking at Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art and Design in Dundee. He creates cinematic collages that have often been linked to the British Free ...

* Jackie Hatfield * Euan Heng *

Patrick Hennessy (painter) Patrick Anthony Hennessy RHA (28 August 1915 – 30 December 1980) was an Irish realist painter. He was known for his highly finished still lifes, landscapes and ''trompe l'oeil'' paintings. The hallmark of his style was his carefully observed ...

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* Anna King *

David Mach David Mach (born 18 March 1956) is a Scottish sculptor and installation artist. Life and work Mach was born in Methil, Fife. His artistic style is based on flowing assemblages of mass-produced objects. Typically these include magazines, v ...

Lucy McKenzie Lucy McKenzie (born 1977) is a British artist based in Brussels. Biography Born in Glasgow, Scotland, McKenzie studied for her BA at Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art and Design in Dundee from 1995–1999 and at Karlsruhe Kunstakademie in Ger ...

* James McIntosh (Food Writer) *

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(Architect) * Russ Nicholson * Christopher Orr * Deborah Phillips * Susan Philipsz * Derek Robertson *

Tom Simpson Thomas Simpson (30 November 1937 – 13 July 1967) was one of Britain's most successful professional cyclists. He was born in Haswell, County Durham, and later moved to Harworth, Nottinghamshire. Simpson began road cycling as a teenager ...

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* Tony Stallard * Voytek * Albert Watson * David Mackenzie (film director)

Notable Staff

* Edward Baird * Calum Colvin * Hugh Adam Crawford * Dalziel + Scullion *

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* David McClure * Alison McKenzie * Joseph McKenzie *

Will Maclean Will Maclean MBE is a Scottish artist and professor of art. Born in Inverness in 1941, he was a midshipman on at Anglesey in Wales (Blue Funnel Line, 1957–59) before attending Gray's School of Art, Aberdeen (1961–65) and then the British Scho ...

Alberto Morrocco Alberto Morrocco (14 December 1917 – 10 March 1998) was a Scottish artist and teacher. He is famous for his works featuring landscapes of Scotland and abroad, still-life, figure painting and interiors, but perhaps his best known works are his ...

* Stephen Partridge *

James McIntosh Patrick James McIntosh Patrick, OBE RSA (4 February 1907 – 7 April 1998) was a Scottish painter, celebrated for his finely observed paintings of the Angus landscape and Dundee, Scotland, where he was based for most of his life. Life Born in Dunde ...

* Elaine Shemilt *

Scott Sutherland Scott Sutherland (15 May 1910 – 10 October 1984) was a Scottish sculptor, best known for the Commando Memorial in Spean Bridge. He was Head of Sculpture at Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art Life Scott Sutherland was born in 1910, the son ...

* Dudley D Watkins

Research

The college research was rated highly in the last UK Higher Education research assessment of 2014 (The REF2014).

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rated DJCAD as first in Scotland for art and design, and equal 3rd in the UK by Grade Point Average (Intensity) with 58% of its outputs at 3 or 4-star. The Impact element of DJCAD Research was graded 60% at 4-star and 40% at 3-star. The REF judged DJCAD's research environment, including underlying support and infrastructure, external income, and PhD performance, 100% at either 3 or 4-star levels. The college was commended for its established research culture and interdisciplinary and collaborative research, with a PhD community which in 2014 numbers around 45 with 25 Post Doctoral Research Assistants. Research projects and students are either clustered around the facilities within the college buildings including the campus based ''Research Studio''.

Exhibitions: sites and galleries

Temporary exhibitions are held in various galleries within the college. Since January 2008, 72 exhibitions, 68 events, 11 performances, 27 talks, 11 seminars/workshops and 3 symposia have been staged. There are four galleries: Cooper Gallery (215 sq. metres); Cooper Gallery Project Space (100 sq. metres); Bradshaw Art Space (90 sq. metres); Matthew Gallery (300 sq. metres). As well as the galleries in the college, work from the college's collections and exhibitions by notable alumni are shown in the Lamb Gallery, the Tower Foyer Gallery and other venues around the university.

Collections

The college also maintains an art collection of work by its students, usually acquired from the annual Degree Shows. The collection is now managed as a public museum collection by the University of Dundee Museum Services. There are also important holdings of furniture design, textile design from the Needlework Development Scheme,

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and a large archive and collection from performance artist

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. Work by College staff is regularly exhibited in sites owned by the City of Dundee, the university generally or the DCA as well as in events throughout the world. abcD , artists’ books collection Dundee The DJCAD Library houses a large collection of Artists' books (artists’ books collection Dundee -abcD)- originally established in 1999 as the Centre for Artists Books by

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, now with 1,450 books, multiples and ephemera from 600 artists represented in the collection. (Notable names include

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Carl Andre Carl Andre (born September 16, 1935) is an American minimalist artist recognized for his ordered linear and grid format sculptures and for the suspected murder of contemporary and wife, Ana Mendieta. His sculptures range from large public art ...

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Bruce Nauman Bruce Nauman (born December 6, 1941) is an American artist. His practice spans a broad range of media including sculpture, photography, neon, video, drawing, printmaking, and performance. Nauman lives near Galisteo, New Mexico. Life and work ...

, Dieter Roth,

Carolee Schneemann Carolee Schneemann (October 12, 1939 – March 6, 2019) was an American visual experimental artist, known for her multi-media works on the body, narrative, sexuality and gender. She received a B.A. in poetry and philosophy from Bard College and ...

, Jake & Dinos Chapman, Susan Hiller,

Yoko Ono Yoko Ono ( ; ja, 小野洋子, Ono Yōko, usually spelled in katakana ; born February 18, 1933) is a Japanese multimedia artist, singer, songwriter, and peace activist. Her work also encompasses performance art and filmmaking. Ono grew up i ...

, Helen Douglas, Tacita Dean, Bruce Maclean, David Shrigley, Julian Opie, John Latham, Simon Starling, Ian Hamilton Finlay, David Bellingham and Toby Paterson).

Dundee Degree Show and Dundee Masters Show

The Dundee Degree Show is organised annually in May to showcase the work of final year undergraduate students. It usually runs for around a week. Awards:
2013 - UK Event Awards - Educational Event of the Year
2014 - New Designers - Best Stand Award

Gallery

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References

External links

DJCAD website

University of Dundee website

Cooper Gallery website
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