Bold imagery on show in student artworks
Series part of Dundee university installation
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BOLD imagery and evocative finger painting can be seen in a series of artworks to be unveiled in Dundee.
Huge paintings by fine art student Fraser Gray form part of an installation at Dundee University’s annual degree show.
The 21-year-old from Dundee produced artworks which covers the whole wall of a stairwell plus two more gallery walls, forming an overall piece.
Representing colonialist links to society, the paintings reveal different points of view in each picture through narrow viewing windows and the use of angles. Mr Gray said he has spent the last month putting the series of paintings together for the show.
“It has taken a bit longer than most of the other degree show installations, but then that’s what you take on with something on this scale,” he said.
“I want people to work it out as they come and see it, but the paintings do all work together.”
The series of paintings include portraits of fellow students Bijan Moghbel, Martin McGuinness and Michael Skelly.
Both spray and emulsion paint are used for the background of the portraits, with oils giving some details to the figures.
Dundee University’s Degree Show 08 opens tomorrow at Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art and Design and the School of Architecture.
