Dirty hands, fine work. [Exhibition]

Abstract

This exhibition featured works by support staff at Gray's School of Art, Robert Gordon University. The works represent a wide variety of artforms: painting, photography, illustration, cartooning, ceramics, jewellery, costume, textiles, film and sound installation. The exhibition was also accompanied by the sale of a zine. The event was a group production. The title, "Dirty Hands, Fine Work", came in the light of recent pay strikes, in which half of us were striking - including five on the picket line. Unison's slogan is "We're Worth More". We wanted to draw attention to the value of what we do as technicians and shop staff. Students are supported, taught and advised by us as part of their learning, and we are all experts in our respective fields as well as ourselves being practicing artists. Collectively, we technicians and shop staff bring to the students many years of experience out in the art world.

Citation

CAMPBELL, A., CONNOR, F., MACPHERSON, J., MCKIE, M., MILNE, J., MORRIS, K.A., MUNDAY, M., PARTRIDGE LOVE, H., RILEY, C., SHEARER-ANDERSON, A., VAN LOON, J. and WILKINSON, C. 2022. Dirty hands, fine work. [Exhibition]. Exhibited 4-11 November 2022, Gray's School of Art, Aberdeen.

• Exhibition Performance Type: Exhibition
• Start Date: Nov 4, 2022
• End Date: Nov 11, 2022
• Deposit Date: Jan 16, 2023
• Publicly Available Date: Jan 16, 2023
• Keywords: Contemporary art; Technicians as artists; Gray's School of Art
• Public URL: https://rgu-repository.worktribe.com/output/1861705
• Additional Information: As well as being the artists whose works were exhibited at the event, all listed contributors were also co-organisers of the exhibition itself. Photography of the exhibition (as represented in the images contained in the folders "Exhibition images (by artist)" and "Exhibition images (general)") was undertaken by Fergus Connor. Images for social media (contained in the folder "Exhibition promotion") were created by Helen Partridge Love and Kevin Andrew Morris.