Image courtesy of Alex Martin We opened Recoat in July 2007. We are a small independent art gallery, the only gallery in Scotland of its kind, exclusively exhibiting graphic art, illustration, street art and photography from the genres of Low Brow, Pop Surrealism and Urban Art. I set up Recoat with my partner, Ali Wyllie, [...]

I am currently the Cultural Projects Officer for the University of Abertay Dundee and one of the organisers of NEoN, Dundee’s digital arts festival. I also consider myself to be an artist, my main practice being curating contemporary art in some shape or form, but recently I have taken this exploration out of the physical space [...]

It’s been a rough few weeks for the videogames industry in Scotland.  One of the country’s largest developers – Realtime Worlds, shed jobs, then appeared to be in far more trouble, before abruptly going into administration.  Then one of Dundee’s other developers announced redundancies and it all looked rather bleak. Some of the world’s biggest [...]

I am a portrait painter and assistant Cultural Projects Officer at Abertay University, Dundee (creating and implementing cultural events to engage the students, staff and general public- exhibitions programme, cinema programme etc). As a painter I work in oils on a fairly large scale (life sized figures) I enjoy the challenge of capturing my subjects [...]

Gaming mad. As touched upon last week, the gaming industry in Scotland is a lucrative industry and one which should be reinforce with strong PR campaigns to maximise opportunites. Late last year, it was announced that Scotland’s computer games industry had been boosted by £2.5m of investment from the UK government, which will be used by the specialist [...]