Dundee Contemporary Arts

Ahead of our Made in DCA Print Studio Exhibition coming to Centrespace at the end of September, we've been catching up with some of the Registered Users who will be showing their work. First up, meet Jean Duncan. Here she talks about discovering a love of screen printing and shares the inspiration behind her work.

There's one month to go until our Made in DCA Print Studio Exhibition takes over Centrespace. Mark it in your diary and come along to browse and buy prints created by local artists. Find out more: https://lnkd.in/d-q_z9SD

We were delighted to welcome artist Zineb Sedira back to DCA recently. Her exhibition, Can't You See the Sea Changing?, filled Gallery 2 from April to August 2023. In July she returned and spent a week experimenting with different printmaking processes and equipment in our Print Studio. Take a look at what she got up to: https://lnkd.in/eCiUY6FY

One thing we're really enjoying about celebrating our 25th birthday is hearing peoples memories of visiting DCA over the years. Norma Lyall shared: "Growing up in Glenesk in the foothills of the Cairngorms was wonderful in many ways for my children. It was a bit of a long trip to the cinema though! I tried to give them as many opportunities to experience culture and art in different ways. When DCA opened it was a fabulous opportunity to do just that - from watching movies to immersive art workshops. They were also really lucky to be part of a school project on moving image education, with a screening taking place at DCA. It’s a special place, I hope they have as many fond memories of it as I do." Norma kept the artwork created by her children, Donald and Karen, in our Express Yourself! workshop back in 2000. We were delighted when she shared them with us, alongside an image of Karen (then aged 3) at the workshop in what is now Create Space. We even managed to find the listing for the event in our archive. If you have a special memory of DCA, do share! You can email us at [email protected]. Or share a special birthday message with us on the comment board located in our Information Space.

🌟 Current Vacancies: Visitor Assistant (2 Posts) and Casual Visitor Assistant🌟 We are currently recruiting for two part-time Visitor Assistants and one Casual Visitor Assistant to join our team at DCA. To view the full job description and to apply, please visit https://lnkd.in/e8MrjCcm

🌟 OPEN CALL - Deadline Approaching 🌟 There is one week left to apply for studio visits as part of We Contain Multitudes. Collective, Dundee Contemporary Arts (DCA), and LUX Scotland are inviting applications from disabled artists who would like to present and discuss their work with us at one of this series of online studio visits. 🗓️Deadline: 10am, Friday 16 August 2024 These studio visits are a way to broaden our knowledge of artistic practices, deepen our professional networks and also form part of the wider curatorial research phase of this project that will eventually involve commissioning three artists later this year. ✨Studio visits✨ 📌Selected artists will each be paid a fee of £175 for taking part in one of these studio visits (the fee is calculated on 4 hours work at current Scottish Artist Union rates and includes up to 2 hours of preparation time, 1 hour of meeting time and 1 hour paid rest time) 📌BSL interpretation and live captioning is available 📌Funds for mobile data and /or support for internet connection is available 📌Studio visits will be hosted by project manager Lauren La Rose 📌Each studio visit will be with different groupings of the project team present (with a minimum of 2 people per studio visit, including staff from at least two of the partner organisations at each meeting) ➡️We Contain Multitudes is a three-year collaborative project between Collective, DCA and LUX Scotland and is funded by Paul Hamlyn Foundation. We are committed to questioning the institutional ableism in the visual arts sector and to imagining a future in which disabled artists and arts professionals have increased access to opportunities, are visible, and their expertise and experiences are truly valued. 📨Find out more about eligibility, access, future commissions and how to apply on the LUX Scotland website - https://lnkd.in/e4kmEkim

🌟 We Contain Multitudes - Design Callout 🌟 We are looking for proposals to design a project identity for We Contain Multitudes, a multi-year partnership project between Dundee Contemporary Arts, Collective and LUX Scotland, funded by Paul Hamlyn Foundation. We Contain Multitudes aims to enable us to question institutional ableism in the Scottish visual arts sector and imagine a future in which disabled artists and arts professionals have increased access to opportunities, are visible, and their expertise and experiences truly valued. The project identity will be used across the project’s marketing and publicity materials, creating consistency between the commissioned projects and raising awareness of We Contain Multitudes. Anyone with lived experience of disability, including neuro-divergence can apply. 🗓 Deadline: Thursday 29 August 2024 🔗 Find out more about eligibility, access and how to apply at https://lnkd.in/dWTM6PPV

🌟 OPEN CALL - Deadline: 10am, Friday 16 August 2024 🌟 Collective, Dundee Contemporary Arts (DCA), and LUX Scotland are inviting disabled artists to apply for studio visits as part of We Contain Multitudes 🗓 Deadline: 10am, Friday 16 August 2024 We are inviting applications from disabled artists who would like to present and discuss their work with us at one of this series of online studio visits. These studio visits are a way to broaden our knowledge of artistic practices, deepen our professional networks and also form part of the wider curatorial research phase of this project that will eventually involve commissioning three artists later this year. ✨Who can apply?✨ 📌Artists with lived, professional and/or caring experience of disability including neuro-divergence can apply. We follow the social model of disability, which says that people are disabled by barriers in society, not by their impairment or difference, and the definition of disabled used in this context are people who identify as ‘Disabled, D/deaf, chronically ill, neurodiverse, with mental ill health, mad, crip, sick, spoonie or otherwise’, regardless of whether you have received a medical diagnosis. 📌People from the global majority, who are LGBTQIA , disabled and/or from working class or low socio-economic backgrounds are particularly encouraged to apply. This includes, but is not limited to, people of Black Caribbean, Black African, South Asian, East Asian, South East Asian, West Asian, Arab, Latine, Jewish, Romany and Irish Traveller heritage. 📌Artists who are based in Scotland. 📌Artists do not have to have been in formal education, attended art school or university to apply. 📌Artists at any career stage. 📌Visual artists working in any medium. 📌Collectives, groups and collaborations are eligible to apply. 🔗 Find out more about eligibility, access, future commissions and how to apply on the LUX Scotland website - https://lnkd.in/e4kmEkim

⏰ Deadline approaching ⏰ We're looking for designers, makers and artists to take part in our CRAFTED festive market on Sat 23 and Sun 24 November. The deadline for applications is Wed 7 August - find out everything you need to know: https://lnkd.in/duzPdyzt

We're delighted to share a new book, Turn Me Into a Flower, published to accompany Sukaina Kubba's exhibition of the same name at DCA. Bringing together texts commissioned by DCA and Mercer Union, a centre for contemporary art, it features writing by Daisy Lafarge, Swapnaa Tamhane, Ami Xherro and Natascha Nanji alongside a preface by our Head of Exhibitions, Tiffany Boyle, and full colour images of Kubba’s exhibition at DCA. Pick up a copy from our shop or order online: https://lnkd.in/e8a3h49K Turn Me Into a Flower has been published with the support of the British Council Scotland, Creative Scotland and the Québec Government Office in London.