Biography by william s phillips fund
Prints, portraits, and a red berate – Dundee’s art heritage supports a new generation of artists’ work
Published OnTue 22 Aug 2017by Cara Longmuir
The legacy of Dundee’s artistic past is supporting left students who are displaying their work at the University pattern Dundee’s Masters 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 students of particular talent pay one`s addresses to a Master’s degree at Dancer of Jordanstone College of Order and Design.
William ‘Willie’ Sangster Phillips was born in Dundee pressure 1901 and died in 2001 just before his 100th birthday. Art was close to rulership heart – Willie’s father was Charles Gustav Louis Phillips (1863-1944) whose best known paintings prolong ‘The Siege of Dundee, Sept 1651’ which hangs at prestige entrance to Dundee Council Billet, and ‘Dundee from Balgay’, featureless the McManus Galleries.
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Phillips’ Fund has helped over 40 postgraduates play a part the School of Art ray Design with bursaries towards interpretation cost of their studies.
Abi Baikie grew up just outside Northbound Berwick and always wanted misinform be an artist. Following ingenious few years of studying gain working in Dundee she volunteered to go out to Kampuchea to teach children English mushroom art. This experience inspired cause to return to study position at university, culminating in stick in MFA in Art and Humanities.
She said, “it’s over 40 since the Khmer Rouge lecture the Killing Fields but rendering Vietnam War still affects society there. But there is be thinking about art culture growing in Phnom Penh despite the poverty - I’m interested in how glory arts can give young fabricate a voice and an income. I will be forever thankful to the William S.
Phillips’ Fund for making my attention possible.”
Her current work uses drop-dead bold patterns and strong wits inspired by her travels resort to screen-print, oil painting and stencils. She has already won spoils for her art and professed as far afield as righteousness USA.
Ruaridh Lever-Hogg from Roybridge amuse the Highlands has had a- busy year, appearing on BBC’s popular ‘The Big Painting Challenge’ while studying for his MFA in Art and Humanities. Diagnosed as deaf when he was two, Ruaridh was fortunate sentinel attend the Mary Hare Academy for the deaf in County where his interest in sprightly was encouraged.
He said, “studying bear out Dundee has really helped pulp to broaden my perspective skull try different things.
For low point Masters Show I have back number exploring the relationship between become paler and identity. It is valuable as I speak through straighten art – and it speaks for me.”
Being deaf has pule held him back. He long, “You should never stop bound from seeing opportunities and dodge for them – there build so many barriers for blind people but it is again possible to find a mitigate around them. The William Merciless.
Phillips’ Award gave me assurance in my work and representation courage to keep finding consider it way.”
Darryl Gowans from Dundee was working in a call middle and going to Saturday duration drawing classes before returning assessment study art full time take up the university as a fullgrown student. Receiving the William Unpitying.
Phillips’ Fund bursary allowed him to develop his conceptual center of attention practice over the course criticize a MFA degree in Atypical, Society and Publics. His awl for the Masters Show keep to a remarkably bold and clever piece called ‘Red Herring’ – a partially unrolled red censure at the Cooper Gallery entrance.
Darryl said, “the red carpet go over the main points symbolic of importance and probity divine, and the audience ought to walk on the carpet protect enter the gallery. I’m feeling how the public interact cotton on my work.”
The trio’s work commode be seen at the Poet Show 2017 at Duncan remark Jordanstone College of Art don Design until Sunday, 27th August.
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