Speaking Volumes – a Miscellany of Artists’ Books

From the Curator of Museum Services at the University of Dundee :


Speaking Volumes – a Miscellany of Artists’ Books is a free online event featuring live talks and discussion with four artists represented in abcD (artists’ book collection Dundee) taking place on Wednesday 9th December at 2.30pm.

The University of Dundee holds one of Scotland’s leading collections of artists’ books, housed in Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art & Design. 

In this special live event, museum curator Matthew Jarron will introduce abcD and then four artists whose books are included in the collection will speak about their work and why the medium of artists’ books holds such a fascination for them. The artists are:

• David Faithfull (Scotland)
• Julie Johnstone (Scotland)
• Priya Pereira (India)
• Mark Addison Smith (USA)

There will be time at the end for Q&A with the audience.

Places must be booked in advance and you can do so here.


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Riverside Drive (at Railway Station) – layby and taxi rank closed from Monday 7 December for 5 days for SGN service connection.

Blackness Road (at Rosefield Street) – off-peak temporary traffic lights Monday 7 and Tuesday 8 December for BT work.

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