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Eight Women Artists spanning four centuries in Dundee's Collections'

Eight Women Artists spanning four centuries in Dundee's Collections'

The McManus: Dundee's Art Gallery and Museum offers a fascinating insight into Dundee and with 8 galleries to explore, there is a wealth of information to discover in our exhibitions of art, history and the environment.

To celebrate #WomensHistoryMonth, we want to shine a spotlight on some of the wonderful works by women artists that we have in Dundee City’s collection. Join us as we travel through time from the days of powdered wigs to the age of cutting-edge silver sculpture in these great works of art by pioneering and creative #womenartists. #ScottishArt #ArtHistory #ScottishArtHistory

18th century: Katherine Read (1723-1778) – Portrait of Willielma Campbell, Lady Glenorchy (1762…

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Eight Women Artists spanning four centuries in Dundee's Collections'
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Among the Polar Ice

Exhibition: Among the Polar Ice The McManus: Dundee’s Art Gallery & Museum Albert Square, Meadowside
Dundee, DD1 1DA Saturday 7 September, 2019 to Sunday 8 March, 2020

The most fragile landscapes on earth are the subject of a new exhibition at The McManus: Dundee’s Art Gallery and Museum. Among the Polar Ice brings together contemporary and historic works by artists who have experienced life on the ice.

Selected from Dundee’s nationally significant fine art and whaling collection, the exhibition showcases a small but growing collection of polar artworks which spans 200 years. At its heart are two major series of artworks by leading Scottish artists - Frances Walker and James Morrison.

The Antarctic Suite is the result of Walker’s voyage to the South Pole…

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Chance brings The McManus and Illustrator together for Oor Wullie Bucket Trail

Through a fortunate stroke of serendipity, a Dundee illustrator has been matched with her other place of work as part of Oor Wullie’s Big Bucket Trail. The McManus: Dundee’s Art Gallery & Museum is by chance where Sanna Dyker is employed as a Visitor Assistant. The cultural attraction is also where she has now become the artist painting the Oor Wullie statue sponsored by the museum.

Billy Gartley, Head of Cultural Services at Leisure & Culture Dundee, couldn’t believe the good fortune with The McManus being matched with one of their own members of staff and is delighted by the coincidence.

“It’s fantastic that we have been put together with one of our Visitor Assitants. Sanna has worked here for a number of years and we all know what a talented illustrator she…

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Chance brings The McManus and Illustrator together for Oor Wullie Bucket Trail

The McMenace shortlisted for prestigious Marketing Award

The McManus: Dundee’s Art Gallery & Museum has been shortlisted alongside some the UK’s leading attractions for the first time at the Museum + Heritage Awards. They are up for Marketing Campaign of the Year Category for Bash Street’s Back at the McMenace.

The 17th annual Museums + Heritage Awards will celebrate innovative and ground-breaking initiatives from museums, galleries and heritage visitor attractions across the UK and overseas.The Awards shine a spotlight on the diversity of this sector, of museums large and small – from the nationals to one-room volunteer-run museums, from iconic buildings and monuments to the great outdoors. There are 14 award categories.

The awards are judged by a panel of the sector’s leading lights who are united in their quest to…

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The McMenace shortlisted for prestigious Marketing Award

Visual Arts and Craft Makers Awards: Dundee

The Visual Arts and Craft Makers Awards: Dundee are inviting applications from professional artists and makers based in the City.

In partnership with Creative Scotland, the Visual Artist and Craft Makers Awards: Dundee has been established to support Dundee-based visual artists and craft practitioners in their creative and professional development.

The awards are intended to encourage artists to stay in Dundee and to ensure that the arts play a vital and lasting role in the City.

Awards of between £500 and £1500 are available. Mentoring grants are also available…

Download application forms and guidelines at:

Visual Artist and Craft Maker Awards: Dundee

The closing date for applications is Tuesday 5 February, 2019.

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Visual Arts and Craft Makers Awards: Dundee

“Beatlemania” Images go on Show in Dundee

Photos taken in Dundee, the city where the phrase ‘Beatlemania’ was coined, have gone on show at The McManus: Dundee’s Art Gallery & Museum. A small selection of 10 images taken of The Beatles performing at the city’s Caird Hall on 20th October 1964 have gone on display as part of their Revealing Characters Exhibition. The images show the Fab Four in the early days of their meteoric rise to fame, performing in front of an excited crowd.

Taken by Monifieth-born photographer Winnie Forbes-Cochrane, these pictures are part of 33 photographs that were put up for auction earlier this year and successfully secured for the city’s collection by Leisure & Culture Dundee.

The phrase Beatlemania was first conceived in Dundee after a promoter, Andi Lothian, witnessed fans’…

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“Beatlemania” Images go on Show in Dundee

ARTIST ROOMS: Lawrence Weiner open at The McManus

Contemporary art with a Scottish twist will be on show at The McManus until next February. Can text really be art? Influential American artist, Lawrence Weiner adopted language as his medium early on in his career, and text remains at the heart of his practice. Best known for his arresting wall installations, Weiner’s text pieces can take many forms, but the core principle remains the same – his ideas should not be confined to the gallery but taken up by the viewer.

This exhibition draws from ARTIST ROOMS, a touring collection of over 1,600 works of modern and contemporary art by more than 40 major artists. The collection is displayed across the UK through a touring programme, supported by Arts Council England, Art Fund and Creative Scotland.

Unique to Dundee, Weiner’s…

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CU ‘After Dark’ Halloween Tours at The McManus Collections Unit

The McManus Collections Unit on Barrack Street is inviting visitors to take take part in special spooky hallowe’en torch-lit tours on the evening of Thursday 25 October.

Curators and actors will highlight some of the strange and wonderful objects held in the Museum’s stores and bring to life characters of yesteryear. Tours are suitable for adults and children aged 8 years plus, children must be accompanied by an adult. Tours are free but booking is essential on 01382 307200. Tours begin at 6.00pm and last approximately half an hour; and leave every 20 minutes from 6.00pm to 8.00pm.

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The ‘Minnie Lisa’

The ‘Minnie Lisa’ is rumoured to have been left behind following the smash-hit Duh Vinci exhibition at The McMenace…

Curators recently spotted the similarity between the Minnie Lisa and Minnie the Minx and it has now been added to ‘Bash Street’s Back’.

Art critics are already arguing it outshines Da Vinci’s most famous piece, The Mona Lisa…

As well as seeing the ‘Minnie Lisa’, everyone who visits McMenace between now and the closing date of October 21 can enter a prize draw.

The winner will be immortalised as a Beano character and introduced to the world on Beano.com. All visitors have to do to enter is share a picture of themselves at the exhibition on social media accompanied with the “bashtag” #McMenace.

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McManus 168 Project is celebrating Success

The McManus 168 supporters group is celebrating the end of a project that has collected information on the original 261 subscribers who contributed in 1863 to the Albert Institute, now known as The McManus: Dundee’s Art Gallery & Museum.

Over 100 volunteers, many with no previous experience of archive work and ranging in age from 16 to 80+, have discovered exciting stories about the movers and shakers of Dundee in the 1860s.  Cannibalism, bigamy, entrepreneurial spirit, fraud and adventures in Archangel sit alongside the huge contribution the subscribers made to the development of Dundee and to Scotland’s industries.  The project team worked with two of Scotland’s most prominent historians, Professors Jim Tomlinson and Chris Whatley.

Sue Moody, Chair of…

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McManus 168 Project is celebrating Success

A Lasting Legacy: Royal Academicians in the City of Dundee’s collections

This year, the Royal Academy celebrates its 250th anniversary.  To become a Royal Academician is a huge honour – joining an exclusive membership that includes some of the finest artists in painting, sculpture, printmaking and architecture. There are only ever 80 serving Royal Academicians, all practising artists and each elected by their peers.

The Royal Academy Summer exhibition has a lasting legacy in Dundee, laying the foundations for the City’s nationally recognised permanent art collection. Look for the RA logo throughout The McManus during your visit, identifying works by Royal Academicians past and present. Highlights include stained glass windows designed by Edward Burne-Jones, paintings by Sir Henry Raeburn, John Lavery and Sir Frank Brangwyn and site…

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