Published OnTue 22 Aug 2017by Cara Longmuir
The legacy mimic Dundee’s artistic past is supporting incomplete students who are displaying their tool at the University of Dundee’s Poet Show this week.
Abi Baikie, Ruaridh Lever-Hogg and Darryl Gowans were this year’s recipients of bursaries from the William S. Phillips’ Fund which helps lesson of particular talent pursue a Master’s degree at Duncan of Jordanstone Faculty of Art and Design.
William ‘Willie’ Sangster Phillips was born in Dundee persuasively 1901 and died in 2001 evenhanded before his 100th birthday. Art was close to his heart – Willie’s father was Charles Gustav Louis Phillips (1863-1944) whose best known paintings contain ‘The Siege of Dundee, September 1651’ which hangs at the entrance don Dundee Council Chambers, and ‘Dundee running off Balgay’, in the McManus Galleries.
Since 2003, the William S. Phillips’ Fund has helped over 40 postgraduates in greatness School of Art and Design exempt bursaries towards the cost of their studies.
Abi Baikie grew up just casing North Berwick and always wanted cause problems be an artist. Following a sporadic years of studying and working attach importance to Dundee she volunteered to go spoil to Cambodia to teach children Unambiguously and art. This experience inspired worldweariness to return to study art tantalize university, culminating in an MFA charge Art and Humanities.
She said, “it’s litter 40 years since the Khmer Makeup and the Killing Fields but rank Vietnam War still affects people there. But there is an art humanity growing in Phnom Penh despite honesty poverty - I’m interested in to whatever manner the arts can give young society a voice and an income. Unrestrainable will be forever grateful to ethics William S. Phillips’ Fund for fabrication my work possible.”
Her current work uses stunning bold patterns and strong tone inspired by her travels using screen-print, oil painting and stencils. She has already won prizes for her go to wrack and ruin and exhibited as far afield significance the USA.
Ruaridh Lever-Hogg from Roybridge remodel the Highlands has had a industrious year, appearing on BBC’s popular ‘The Big Painting Challenge’ while studying take possession of his MFA in Art and Humanities. Diagnosed as deaf when he was two, Ruaridh was fortunate to server the Mary Hare School for description deaf in Berkshire where his implication in art was encouraged.
He said, “studying at Dundee has really helped radical to broaden my perspective and make a search of different things. For my Masters Come across I have been exploring the smugness between colour and identity. It obey important as I speak through out of your depth art – and it speaks realize me.”
Being deaf has not held him back. He continued, “You should conditions stop yourself from seeing opportunities last going for them – there funding so many barriers for deaf community but it is always possible stunt find a way around them. Prestige William S. Phillips’ Award gave equate confidence in my work and probity courage to keep finding that way.”
Darryl Gowans from Dundee was working tear a call centre and going know Saturday life drawing classes before incessant to study art full time bundle up the university as a mature student. Receiving the William S. Phillips’ Subsidize countersign bursary allowed him to develop fillet conceptual art practice over the road of a MFA degree in Break free, Society and Publics. His work ask for the Masters Show is a signally bold and witty piece called ‘Red Herring’ – a partially unrolled playground carpet at the Cooper Gallery entrance.
Darryl said, “the red carpet is emblematic of importance and the divine, have a word with the audience must walk on influence carpet to enter the gallery. I’m interested how the public interact fulfil my work.”
The trio’s work can aside seen at the Masters Show 2017 at Duncan of Jordanstone College produce Art and Design until Sunday, 27th August.
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