14./09 Painting Symposium: 11-6pm D’Arcy Thompson Lecture Theatre,  University of Dundee, Tower Building, Nethergate, Dundee (ticketed) 

Talk: Gesture and the body: Lys Hansen

A talk by Dr. Marianne Greated, an artist and researcher, and currently Senior Lecturer in Contemporary Art Practice & Theory at Edinburgh College of Art. Closing Q&A co-chaired by Kirstin MacKinnon an emerging Scottish painter based between Dundee and Glasgow and Curator Alex Roberts.

Marianne Greated is an artist and researcher, and currently Senior Lecturer in Contemporary Art Practice and Theory at Edinburgh College of Art. Greated has exhibited widely including solo shows in the UK, Belarus, Greece, Denmark and India. Her research interests are underpinned by sustainability and social justice, focussing on women painting, sustainable landscapes and creative pedagogies, and incorporate cross-disciplinary research projects with UK and international partners. In 1999 Greated co-founded the artist-run gallery Switchspace and from 2007-10 led individual artist funding at the Scottish Arts Council. Previous posts have included Interim Head of School of Fine Art, Head of Painting and Printmaking and Academic Development Lead at Glasgow School of Art, and she currently sits on the Editorial Board of the Scottish Universities Press. In 2020 she co-edited a Special Edition of Visual Culture in Britain on ‘Women Painting: Scottish Art 1940-1980’ and in 2024 curated an exhibition of Lys Hansen’s work, ‘Live it Paint’ at Callendar House.

Kirstin Mackinnon is an emerging Scottish painter based between Dundee and Glasgow. Mackinnon recently achieved her MRes (Fine Art) thesis at Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art & Design, University of Dundee, titled: Gender and Contemporary Scottish Painting: A critical analysis of the place of painting for emerging artists in Scotland today. kirstinmackinnon

The Painting Symposium will be held in English and is kindly hosted by The University of Dundee and supported in partnership with The Glasgow School of Art. To reserve a place please book as time via: Drawing Projects UK, Scotland Eventbrite

13./09 Tour with G.R.I.T. Artists: 3-5pm (ticketed)

Curator Alex Roberts will co-guide with local, Neuk Artist, Libby Liburn, and G.R.I.T. Artists to share some insights into the artworks that formulate G.R.I.T. Dundee.

Libby R Lilburn, is a disabled and neurodivergent artist, and recent MFA graduate from Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art & Design.

Her work revolves around primarily painting, drawing, & experimental written word artworks, featuring self-portraiture in conjunction to her animal companions.

She tackles topics about moments not typically discussed living as a disabled person. Where art can be a tool in starting conversations with the viewer to raise awareness in today’s society, and the complexity & nuances of a disabled persons identity. Libby Liburn

The art collective Libby is a part of NEUK is made up of neurodivergent artists, with a focus on advocating for neurodivergent and accessibility in the arts. NEUK helps ensure there is support in place to help neurodivergent artists with opportunities and navigating the hidden complexities that can occur behind the scenes whilst working in the arts. Neuk Collective

Künstlerin Kuratorin/ Artist Curator

The Tour will be held in English. To reserve a place please book as time via: Drawing Projects UK, Scotland Eventbrite

14./09 Painting Symposium: 11-6pm D’Arcy Thompson Lecture Theatre,  University of Dundee, Tower Building, Nethergate, Dundee (ticketed) 

Talk (keynote): Painting’s Correspondence and Gesture

Prof. Rebecca Fortnum, artist, writer and academic and Professor of Fine Art at Central St Martins, University of the Arts London in conversation with Prof. Kelly Chorpening, artist, curator, writer and educator, and Professor and Chair of Art, Art History and Design at the University of Nevada Reno, USA, and Prof. Melissa Gordon, artist, writer, teacher and organiser and Professor of Painting at Oslo Art Academy.

Rebecca Fortnum is an artist, writer and academic.  Her solo show, Les Praticiennes (2023) drew on work by the unknown women sculptors in Rodin’s circle of fin de siècle Paris, and is currently showing in a group exhibition, A Spirit Inside at Compton Verney (UK).  Her books include Contemporary British Women Artists: In Their Own Words, On Not Knowing: How Artists Think and A Companion to Contemporary Drawing.  She is currently Professor of Fine Art at Central St Martins and has been a Research Fellow at Oxford University and the Henry Moore Institute.

Kelly Chorpening is an artist, curator, writer and educator, and currently Professor and Chair of Art, Art History and Design at the University of Nevada Reno, USA. Her work explores drawing, as a contemporary art discipline, and as a tool for thinking and communication in cross-disciplinary collaborations. In 2016 she was shortlisted for both the Derwent and Jerwood drawing prizes, and she has had solo presentations of work in the UK, USA and Austria. In 2020, she co-edited and contributed to A Companion to Contemporary Drawing, published by Wiley Blackwell. She was co-curator of ‘Drawing in Social Space’, a transnational collaborative project that was exhibited at Drawing Room London in 2023. kellychorpening.com

Melissa Gordonis an American and British artist, writer and publisher based in Brussels. Gordon’s work as a painter utilises a number of tools: painterly qualities, silkscreen, text, cuts and collage to arrange surfaces that investigate the material histories of painting. In her ongoing series "Female Readymades", she bring a hanging device onto the surface of the paintings, and flattens the reality between abstraction and evidence. Her work as a painter, feminist organiser and writer has been running parallel and in dialogue for over ten years. Her writing investigates questions of gender and liqudity often in relationship to authorship and painterly histories. After graduating from De Ateliers in 2003, Gordon has lived in Amsterdam, Berlin, London and Brussels where she was a resident at WIELS. She has exhibited widely including in the exhibitionsVital Signs, Kunsthall Oslo, (2023) CON10UR Biennial, Mechelen (2023), Liquid Gestures, Towner Gallery, Eastbourne (2021-2), and at Spike Island, Bristol, Vleeshal, Middelburg, WIELS, Brussels, Museum Dhont-Dhaenens, GARAGE, Rotterdam, Eastside Projects, Birmingham, Frans Masereel Centrum, Martin Gropius Bau, Berlin, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, and Kunsthalle Düsseldorf amongst others. She is the Professor of Painting at Oslo Art Academy, and has given extensive artist talks, some of which are presented in this book. Her writing has also been published in May Revue, Texte Zur Kunst, and the books Acts of Painting (Graphite Cel, BE), and Painting: Funny Peculiar (Slimvolume, UK).

The Painting Symposium will be held in English and is kindly hosted by The University of Dundee and supported in partnership with The Glasgow School of Art. To reserve a place please book as time via: Drawing Projects UK, Scotland Eventbrite

14./09 Painting Symposium: 11-6pm D’Arcy Thompson Lecture Theatre,  University of Dundee, Tower Building, Nethergate, Dundee (ticketed) 

Talk: G.R.I.T. exhibiting Artists in conversation:

Angove, Jenny Eden & Henry Ward: how artists explore a sense of self as a visual, visceral experience - painted gesture.

The Painting Symposium will be held in English. To reserve a place please book as time via: Drawing Projects UK, Scotland Eventbrite

27./09 Touch, Haptic Reception in Art, Online Talk, Reading + Q&A: 6-7.15pm

Talk: Other Ways of Seeing: A Conservator’s Perspective on Tactile Accessibility.

Jessica Chloros is an Objects Conservator at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston, MA and a Visiting Lecturer at the Massachusetts College of Art and Design.  She has over 20 years of experience in the field of art conservation and a strong interest in how art conservators can facilitate museum accessibility.  In 2024, Jessica was a Fulbright Scholar at the University of Dundee where she explored ways of increasing the accessibility of 2D works of art for blind and partially blind museum visitors.

The Online Talk will be held in English. To reserve a place please book via: Drawing Projects UK, Scotland Eventbrite

27./09 Touch, Haptic Reception in Art, Online Talk, Reading + Q&A: 6-7.15pm

Reading: to talk about touch is a touch

Dr. Isabella Streffen will read from her lyric inquiry to talk about touch is a touch.  Streffen works on the poetics of intimacy and perception. She has convened the MA Contemporary Art Practice at De Montfort University since 2019 - current VC2020 Senior Lecturer in Fine Art at De Montfort University. 

isabellastreffen.com

De Montfort University - Dr. Isabella Streffen

The Reading will be held in English. To reserve a place please book via: Drawing Projects UK, Scotland Eventbrite

05./10 Tour with the Curator: 2-3pm (ticketed)

Künstlerin Kuratorin/ Artist Curator

The Tour will be held in English. To reserve place please book via: Drawing Projects UK, Scotland Eventbrite

10./10 Film Screening of Harun Farocki Das Silber und das Kreuz (2010): 6.30pm Matthew 5014/5 Lecture Theatre, DJCAD (ticketed) Matthew Building, University of Dundee, 13 Perth Road, Dundee, DD1 4HT

Farocki's film "The Silver and the Cross" takes a close look at Gaspar de Berrío's painting "Depiction of the Cerro Rico and the Imperial City of Potosí" (1758, Oil on canvas, 262 x 181 cm). Despite its intricate details, the painting leaves the arduous work of silver mining almost unarticulated. The mills for separating silver, in which the indigenous peoples extract the precious metal with the help of mercury, are located on the outskirts of the city and at the edge of the picture, with the workers visible only as dark lines.

Harun Farocki was a German filmmaker, author and university lecturer. Born on 9 January 1944, he made numerous films and installations over the course of his career that are characterised by a critical examination of the power of images.

Kindly supported by Goethe-Institut Glasgow

The Goethe-Institut is the cultural institute of the Federal Republic of Germany with a global presence. They facilitate international cultural exchange, promote access to the German language and support the unimpeded development of culture and science. @goetheinstitut_glasgow 

To reserve a place please visit DPUK Eventbrite, Harun Farocki Screening

12./10 Closing, Freebird Studio: 5-6pm Williamson Memorial Church Hall, Dudhope Street, Dundee, DD1 1JT

A Performative Intervention in which pole & aerial artists, Jenny Smith & Nicole Tait will activate new PARTs (acrylic, canvas, lacktex oilcloth, PE film) by Michaela Zimmer. To reserve a place please visit Eventbrite DPUK Freebird

Jenny Smith is a pole and aerialist artist from Scotland who runs Freebird Studio where the Performative Intervention of PARTs will be held. For +10 years Jenny has taught these arts having graduated in Textile Design at Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art & Design (2010). Nicole Tait is a movement artist based in Scotland who blends experimental dance with pole acrobatics and runs her own studio in Perth, Get Fit and Fly Both are passionate believers in movement for every-‘body’; for health (physical and mental); as expression; plus as a means of connection - Jenny and Nicole are enthusiastic to bring different modes of creative practice together

Michaela Zimmer’s cross-disciplinary work visualises collectively experienced physical movement. Repeated motion sequences are inscribed as physical resonance into our body memory. After analysing protocols of this process, she transfers the results in abstracted form to paintings which get cut out and sewn into wearable objects. These PARTs are activated in international collaborations. Following the activation process performative interventions based on shared sensorimotor and aesthetic processes are jointly created. Photographs and site-specific installations accompany the process. Künstlerin/ Artist