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21 - 28 May

Six months on, ‘Country Club’ brought back the work of seven outstanding graduates from 2004’s Masters courses at Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art and Design : Eavan Coyne, Daniel Hill, Marlene Kohlhofer, Jacqueline Mann, Lee Marshall, Graeme Roger and Daniel Roy. Patricia Fleming, a past graduate from DJCAD who amongst many achievements was curator for the Welsh Pavilion at the Venice Biennale in 2003, was invited to be the selector.

Rather than having an over-riding curatorial concept or theme, Fleming wanted to ‘select in an instinctive and natural way the work that really stuck its head up to me’. Working in this manner it struck her that this was work by people she would like to see again in the future. Moreover, Fleming also thought their work made her think about the solitary aspects of working as an artist or designer, which seemed a fitting concern in this immediate period after leaving the creative environment they had been a part of as Masters students. The following quote she found seemed to sum this train of thought up:

"There is quite good evidence that some of the quasars are the most distant objects visible in the heavens. They are thought to be speeding away from us at a very high rate as can be seen by observing how much energy is lost by their emitted light in actually getting away from the rapidly receding quasar surface. This effect is called the Doppler Shift, after the scientist who realised that it is a shift of the frequency of the emitted light, and can be used to measure the speed of the fleeing object." (P73, Black Holes: The End of the Universe’, John Taylor, Souvenir Press, 1973).