Movement - A Culture on Campus Exhibition

This exhibition features highlights from the University Archives and Art Collection around the theme of movement. On display are previously unseen artworks and archive material from our Collections which represent the kinetic energy and joy of movement in a variety of surprising ways.

Included in the exhibition are items from the University Archives including photographs from the Edinburgh Film Guild, publications edited by Lindsay Anderson and material from the Norman McLaren Archive, including artistic explorations of synaesthesia.

Posters from Macrobert’s own archive attest to the history of movement at the heart of culture at the University of Stirling.

It will also explore how artists including Alan Davie, Katy Dove and Jennifer Wicks have creatively responded to the theme of movement.

Music inspired Alan Davie’s artwork. He was a jazz saxophonist early on in his career and also played piano, cello and bass clarinet. His artworks included symbols found in sources as varied as jazz music, pottery, maps, ancient rock-carvings and Aboriginal art.

The exhibition will feature a film piece Seuls ensemble by artist Jennifer Wicks which was made in response to her 2022 artistic residency at the University Art Collection, specifically looking at the work of Norman McLaren whose archive is held by the University. Seuls ensemble is a visual translation of music that takes McLaren’s Pas de Deux film as a starting point and deconstructs it to explore the mechanics of movement, temporality, perception, and gender roles.

Sarah Bromage

Head of the University of Stirling Collections

Movement is the annual exhibition from the Culture on Campus initiative, which is a collaborative project between the Art Collection, University Archives and the Macrobert Arts Centre to develop a creative environment where creative thinking and creative acts are at the heart of our identity as a place of learning. The exhibition opens in our Arthouse on Monday 29 January and runs until Sunday 2 June.

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We also have an exhibition in our cafe bar - Reflecting an Industrial Past – photographs by Dunblane photographer Tom Astbury.

This exhibition runs until Sun 24 Mar from 10am - 10pm each day, FREE.

Tom is exhibiting a small selection from an archive of pictures taken by him between 1979 and 1983 when he was working with Falkirk Council’s Museum Service.

You can meet the photographer on Sat 16 Mar at 3.30pm. This event is FREE but ticketed. You will have the opportunity to hear Tom’s recollections of the project and the people he met whilst working with Falkirk Council’s Museum Service. He will also have his camera on hand for those interested in the tools of the trade.

To secure a place, book here