Changing Pages exhibition on display in the Library

Forget e-books and cheap on-line paperbacks. RGU’s new library at Riverside East, Garthdee has gone back to single edition hand-printed books, complete with handmade bindings and artist’s illustrations.

The way is being led by students from Gray’s School of Art on the Contemporary Art Practice course who have added their selection of hand made ‘chap books’ to the serried ranks of more conventional volumes in the University’s library.  These have been made as part of their course, using paper plate lithography printmaking techniques.  Loosely based on well-known titles such as “Jekyll and Hyde” or “Whisky Galore”, the students have created an exciting exhibition of alternative book works that look like fans, butterflies, road maps or luggage tickets.  Library users can pick up them up and look at as they browse the shelves.

Lecturer David Blyth says

“it’s been very exciting for the students making these books and installing the exhibition in the new RGU library. Not only is it a highly appropriate context to view these unique works, the exhibition also affords the opportunity for our students to rehearse and present their work in public during these formative years.”

“Changing Pages” is in the RGU Library at Riverside East Garthdee from Monday 25th November until January 2014.

NEW TO RGU Exhibition

NOW ON DISPLAY IN THE GEORGINA SCOTT SUTHERLAND GROUP LEARNING CENTRE

Every year the University Art and Heritage Collections award ‘purchase prizes’ to final year students at Gray’s School of Art and the Scott Sutherland School of Architecture, visiting the Degree Shows to select pieces.

We are recognizing the students’ achievements, and developing a material record of the teaching and study at the Schools.  Objects we have collected this year range from painting and prints to conceptual pieces, designs for industrial products, ceramics, and photography.

Seen below is a work titled ‘Undulate’ by recent graduate Vicki Shennan.  Vicki is now studying at the Royal College of Art in London along with Glen Clydesdale, whose Three Dimensional work also features in this exhibition.

 

We also acquire objects used in teaching and research by the other RGU Schools, and this year have acquired a unique piece from RGU School of Engineering which commemorates its collaboration with NASA and its venture into space.

Meanwhile, from the School of Computing we have received some computer components, once used by students and staff at the leading edge of technology, but which have now become perplexing curiosities.

 

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Robert Gordon University Art and Heritage Purchase Prize Awards 2013

Robert Gordon University Art and Heritage Collections wish to congratulate all Gray’s School of Art students who recently graduated and we send a special congratulations to all those students who were recipients of RGU Purchase Prize Awards.  The following photographs feature some of the successful winners.

Tablematters exhibition

The current  exhibition on show in the Georgina Scott Sutherland Library features British, European and Asian ceramics which have been collected by Simon Ward, artist and lecturer in 3 Dimensional Design at Gray’s School of Art. The exhibition is intended as a starting point and stimulus for the current second year  3 Dimensional Design project at Gray’s School of Art.

Examples of a variety of ceramics including Wedgewood, Midwinter, Hornsea and Denby potteries have been collected from a multitude of sources, including car boot sales and second hand shops.

The exhibition will end later in May.

Guest at Gray’s Talk: Alan Turing -Intuition and Ingenuity

GUEST AT GRAY’S TALK  1.00pm on Friday 12th October 2012 in Scott Sutherland Lecture Theatre SB42

This lecture features 2 artists participating in the exhibition of art to celebrate the centenary of Alan Turing, the father of computer science.

Curator and artist Anna Dumitriu and participating artist Alex May discuss the “Intuition and Ingenuity” exhibition which looks at the influence of Alan Turing’s work in computation and artificial intelligence on art, in celebration of the centenary of his birth.

Art and Heritage collections and a visitor from Jamaica

In early 2012 Dr Alan Barnett, a Consultant Anaesthetist Lecturer in Anaesthesia & Intensive Care at the University Hospital of the West Indies, returned to Aberdeen and visited the university to view examples of paintings created by his mother when she was a student at Gray’s in the 50s.

The paintings which are currently held in the University Art and Heritage collection are by his mother Catriona Campbell (1936-1972), wh0 graduated at Gray’s School of Art in 1957.