Between Stone and Sun (Exhibition Guide)

TY - ADVS

T1 - Between Stone and Sun (Exhibition Guide)

A2 - Johnston, Susie

A2 - Leeson, Astrid

A2 - Mallalieu, Miriam

A2 - McClure, Paola

A2 - Milligan, Andy

A2 - Modeen, Mary

A2 - Nammari, Leena

A2 - Norris, Valerie

A2 - Potapoff, Katie Hart

A2 - Ritchie, Louise

A2 - Shaw, Bruce

PY - 2026

Y1 - 2026

N2 - Bringing together the artwork and ideas of 11 artists, this exhibition is a potent blend of material and formal processes. The group’s context was born from a desire to share conversations about our singular and mutual artistic imaginations; a way to put artworks out into the world on our own terms. Artists who want to let their making breathe in the spaces beyond their studios or as removed from the context of academia are very often at the mercy of large competitive opportunities where rejection is the more usual outcome. The Mill presented us with a characterful space brimming with its own historic identity, and a site for us to make new things, move existing things around and realise developing ideas. The exhibition title is drawn from a collective approach lightly borrowed from renga, the Japanese form of collaborative poetry. Passing hidden folded words from artist to artist also evokes the Victorian parlour game, Exquisite Corpse. The final unfolded outcome is playful and unexpectedly apposite in terms of the eclecticism of the artists but in brick-lined happenstance, it reflects the particular qualities of the space. Its light lifting us and its stone grounding us and all the possibilities in between have been our shared context for making. Louise Ritchie

AB - Bringing together the artwork and ideas of 11 artists, this exhibition is a potent blend of material and formal processes. The group’s context was born from a desire to share conversations about our singular and mutual artistic imaginations; a way to put artworks out into the world on our own terms. Artists who want to let their making breathe in the spaces beyond their studios or as removed from the context of academia are very often at the mercy of large competitive opportunities where rejection is the more usual outcome. The Mill presented us with a characterful space brimming with its own historic identity, and a site for us to make new things, move existing things around and realise developing ideas. The exhibition title is drawn from a collective approach lightly borrowed from renga, the Japanese form of collaborative poetry. Passing hidden folded words from artist to artist also evokes the Victorian parlour game, Exquisite Corpse. The final unfolded outcome is playful and unexpectedly apposite in terms of the eclecticism of the artists but in brick-lined happenstance, it reflects the particular qualities of the space. Its light lifting us and its stone grounding us and all the possibilities in between have been our shared context for making. Louise Ritchie

KW - Contemporary art

KW - Exhibition catalogue

KW - Collaborative practice

KW - Sculpture

KW - Installation art

KW - Site-responsive art

KW - Dundee art scene

KW - DJCAD

KW - Materiality

KW - Interdisciplinary art

U2 - 10.20933/100001508

DO - 10.20933/100001508

M3 - Exhibition catalogue

PB - University of Dundee

CY - The Mill, Dundee

ER -