An exclusive set of 14 prints created by past and present members of staff at Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art & Design (DJCAD) have gone on display ahead of the opening of the inaugural Print Festival Scotland this weekend.
The D’Arcy Thompson Print Folio features work from leading artists who have worked at DJCAD and take their inspiration from Dundee University’s first professor of biology, D’Arcy Thompson.
It features work from Delia Baillie, Calum Colvin, Dalziel + Scullion, Graham Fagen, Gareth Fisher, Paul Harrison, Mark Hunter, Tracy Mackenna & Edwin Janssen, Jim Pattison, Norman Shaw, Elaine Shemilt, Iain Sturrock, Edward Summerton and Peter Yearworth.
The exhibition is at the Tower Foyer Gallery until late September.
Curator Matthew Jarron said: “D’Arcy Thompson’s work had a profound effect on many of the most famous artists of the 20th century, and we’re keen to get younger artists engaging with his ideas and collections as well.
“We were delighted when so many of the hugely talented artists at DJCAD and their former colleagues generously agreed to create prints for this folio. It allows us to raise funds and we get a major new body of art for the university as well.”
Print Festival Scotland accompanies Impact 8, the world’s largest and most prestigious printmaking conference which the university is hosting later this month.
For more information call 01382 384310 or email museum@dundee.ac.uk.