In Conversation with Alan Dimmick

Art Collection, University of Stirling

Join us for a talk with photographer Alan Dimmick in conversation with Ben Harman, Director of Stills: Centre for Photography.

Pathfoot Building - University of Stirling

Alan Dimmick was the Art Collection’s Photographer in Residence over the course of the University’s 50th anniversary year in 2017. His remit was to capture a ‘Portrait of the Campus’, exploring the unique natural, built and human environment of the University. Alan and Ben will talk about the photographs he took in this series and his archives as a whole, including the digitisation process. Whilst the University archives and Art Collection hold a collection of fine photographs from the early days of the University in the 1960s and ‘70s, relatively little had been done to document and explore the changing physical and human landscape of the campus in recent decades. Alan’s residency contributed to redressing this balance.This exhibition showcases a selection of the photographs taken during Alan’s residency. The full collection has been deposited in the University archive; thus creating a rich artistic, contemporary record of the rhythm of life on campus and bringing up to date the historic photographic material already held in our collections.Alan Dimmick was born in Glasgow in 1961. He bought his first camera (a Russian Zenith) in 1977, the same year that he converted the toilets in his secondary school annex into a darkroom. He went on to study photography at Glasgow College of Building and Printing from 1979–82 and was a founding member of Glasgow Photography Group, exhibiting at their inaugural exhibition in Hillhead Library in 1988. Since the mid-1990s Dimmick has documented the lively contemporary art and music scene of his home city, Glasgow, capturing many of the events that have shaped a significant period in Scottish culture.Ben Harman is the Director of Stills: Centre for Photography in Edinburgh. In 2018, Stills published a book on Alan Dimmick&#x27;s photographs following the exhibition, &#x27;Alan Dimmick’s studio archive 1977-2017,&#x27; which presented over 150 of Dimmick’s pictures as part of a series of exhibitions celebrating the wealth of photographic treasures held within collections in Scotland. In 2012, Harman curated the exhibition, &#x27;Alan Dimmick: Photographs from the last 15 years of contemporary art in Scotland’ for the Gallery of Modern Art, Glasgow.T﻿his event is part of our themed year of &#x27;Space and Place&#x27;, more information can be found here: https://www.stir.ac.uk/about/art-collection A﻿lan Dimmick website: https://alandimmick.comS﻿tills: Centre for Photography website: https://stills.org

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