A collection of Fine Art and Art & Philosophy dissertations and abstracts from Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art & Design.
Fine Art / Art & Philosophy BA Hons May 2025
DOI 10.20933/100001379
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This collection brings together selected dissertations and abstracts from graduating students in Fine Art and Art & Philosophy at Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art & Design (DJCAD), University of Dundee. Published to coincide with the DJCAD Degree Show 2025, it highlights the breadth and diversity of research emerging from final-year undergraduate work.
Published in collaboration with Open Research & Publishing at the University of Dundee Library, this volume supports the visibility of undergraduate student research and serves as a lasting record of the critical and creative practice within the 2025 graduating cohort.
Author Title
Abbie McLardie The Feminine Performance: Considering the Exhibition of Performance Art and How It Relates to Womanhood
Abi White Late – Post Victorian and Contemporary Still Life Art and Craft by Women: A Critical Comparative Analysis
Abigail Mowitt A Celebration of Ceramics at the Dundee Eden Project
Afton Dick Roots of Meaning: Exploring Beauty, Fiction and Context in Natural Objects
Amy Lorimer What Makes a Painter A ‘Feminist’? An Analysis of Painter’s and their Female Subjects Between the 18th and 21st Century
Andrew Ejiga Diasporic Identity, Double Consciousness and The Imagery of Self In Contemporary Art: An Analysis Of Duality Within Immigrants And Biracial People
Anney White See Me Now: Shining A Light on the Women Painters of the Abstract Expressionist Movement
Ava Cook Art-Magic in the Time of the Ordinary: An Exploration of the Relationship Between Art and Magic from the Transmundane to the Mundane
Cameron Tucker Art As a Tool for Survival Through Adaptive Memory
Charlie Thomson The Known, The Renowned & The Renounced: On the Mediated Familiarity of Public Images in The Age of Telecommunications
Christopher Adam Prospects For the Cave of Gold: Scottish Gaelic in Contemporary Art
Ciara McFaulds Women Are Undervalued in the Art World
Claire Black Ritual - the Liminal and the Sacred, Embodied Practices of Transformation and Hierophany
Claudia Mindang Her Many Resurrections: Fine Art's Evolving Relationship with Feminine Horror
Clover Christopherson Watery Bodies, Rediscovering Biophillia
Constance
McRobert-Smith Should Death Be Ignored?
Coral Barnett Interactivity and Aesthetics: Can Video Games Be Considered Visual Art?
Dean Jones The Politics of Desire: A Discursive Exploration of Queer Temporality in Art
Dee Atkinson Recognising Women by Women: An Analysis of the Female Gaze in Regard to Classical Literature and Art
Eilidh Pirie A Critical Analysis of the Response To 'A Sculpture for Mary Wollstonecraft' By Maggi Hambling
Emma Gourlay The Hysterical Girl: The Contemporary Presentation of Girlhood in Response To 19th Century Hysteria
Emma Hammond Appropriation: Exploring the Evolution of Appropriation with A Critique of Originality in Pop Art and Its Progression to Contemporary Art
Emma Pirrie A Critical Comparison of the Female Nude From 15th Century to Contemporary Oil Paintings
Emma Thomson Sustainability in Fashion: An Ecofeminist Analysis
Erin MenelawsMcCririe The Ontological Status of The Plaything and Exploring the Perception of Magic, Myth, and Intermediate Spaces Relevant to Understanding the Plaything
Fae Ross Gendered Mythologies of the Body: Wetness and Expulsion
Finn Millar How To Be a Political Artist: A Critical Analysis into the Facets of Political and Activist Artistic Practices with A Focus On Group Material
Hannah Maguire Celebrity Culture: The Allure and Peril of the ‘It Girl'
Holly Booth Artists Should Misbehave: Navigating Post Millennial Conformity Through Harnessing Dissonant Innovation
James Ross ‘How Grand! How Wonderful! How Incomprehensible!’ – An Excavation and Exploration of Artistic Responses to Prehistory
Jane Gregory An Analysis of Vincent Van Gogh and Paul Gauguin's Peasant Paintings of the Late 1880's Through the Lens of Jacques Ranciere's Regimes of the Arts and Interwoven with Maurice Merleau-Ponty's Thoughts on Perception and Martin Heidegger's Writings on Being
Jess Campbell The Virgin, The Vessel, and The Mother: Exploring the Morality of The Immaculate Conception and The Effects It Had on The New World
Jess Pound The Relationship Between the Subject and The Beholder Though the Eye of The Lens
Jodi Couper Intimate Algorithms; Decoding the Intersection of Photography, Technology, and Human Connection
John Muir The State of Art: Capitalist Realism, Hauntology and Lost Futures
Joseph Xu A Critical Analysis of French Landscape Paintings Featuring Woods and Gardens
Kimi Anderson Anti-Essentialist Motherhood: The Rise of Femininity Against Traditional Gender Norms
Kirstin Armstrong Women As Meat: A Critical Analysis of ‘Tirosy’ Through the Work of Jana Sterbak, SHSadler and Tracey Emin
Kirstin Orr An Investigation and Analysis of Working-Class Artists and their Practice During the Thatcherite Era
Kit Lohoar An Exploration Into the themes of Nihilism and Existentialism in Francis Bacon’s Life and Work
Leah MacMillan Discussing the Importance of Touch and Haptics; Examining Tactile Art, and Issues in Accessibility of Visual Art for Blind and Partially Sighted People
Liv Rodgers Immersive Presence: Navigating Nature, Transcending Boundaries, and the Digital Realm in A Post-Optimistic, Intelligent World
Maeve Callister-Wafer Resistance and Resonance: How Manx and Irish Language Song Can Engage with Memory to Resist Political and theological Narratives
Mairi Dare The Fragility of Being: An Exploration of Human Impact Within Cosmic, Societal and Environmental Systems
Malachy McCrimmon The Natural World Is Experiencing a Technical Error: Exploring the Apocalyptic Powers of The Glitch and Its Relationship to Environmental Decay
Marcy Campbell From Primitivism to Algorithms: Capitalism's Impact on Artistic Movements
Mia Campbell Brushstrokes of the Mind: Understanding the Psychology Behind Art
Mia Vidman Textiles and You
Millie Stewart Traditions of Touch
Morgan Lapworth Growing the Grotesque: An Exhibition Exploring How Changing Fears Are Represented in Art
Myrren Goodall In Conversation with Julia Kristeva and Carolee Schneemann: Performance, Philosophy and the Proper Body
Natalia Bojarska Polish Sound Artists and Sonic Cultures
Nicky Riding
The Intersection of Gender, Age and Menopause: An Analysis of its Representation in Western Art and Culture
Nicole Robertson The Interplay of Art and Intimacy: Exploring Relationships in Creative Expression
Orla Henaghen An Analysis on the Impact of Art therapy On Mental Health and Well-Being
Pippa Carter Becoming Female - the Cycle of Abjection
Poppy Gannon Foliage-Fabrics: Textile Arts as Socio-Ecological Strategies for Personal and Planetary Flourishing
Rachel Herd Sacred and Secular Attitudes Towards Representations of Nudity in Western Art
Rachel Hetherington
Rhys Aitken
Absurdism In the Face or Absurdity: The Weaponisation of Nonsense in Art
Horrorfull Histories: An Exploration/Analysis of Horror/Gothic Literature, and Its Relation to and Subsequent Influence on Art Throughout History
Rosie Andrew The Allure of the Macabre: From the 15th Century to the Present Day
Sara Oussaiden You Can Touch the Water: Submersive Art, Hydrofeminist Phenomenology and Community Engagement
Sophie Donald Domesticity: Perspectives On Home – Past, Present and Hardships
Sophie Mathews The Importance of Interweaving Traditional Crafts Within Contemporary Art
Stephanie Livingstone The Human Condition: An Exploration into the Influence of Grief and Loss on Artistic Practice
Szeles Bogi Combatting Our Disconnection from Organic Realities Through Engaging with Interdisciplinary Art
Tom Speedy (dis)place
Weronika Matyskiewicz What Are the Origins of Using Optical Illusions in Art: How Have Advancements in Artistic Techniques and theories of Visual Perception Influenced their Evolution from Antiquity to the Modern Era?
Wiktoria Samulska
Speaking the Unspoken: Symbolism in Art of Jan Matejko and Jacek Malczewski During Partitions of Poland
Yerin Kim The Aesthetic of Suffering and Enlightenment: Schopenhauer’s Philosophy of Happiness and Role of Art
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