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Upstart – 'Commissioned by YPC' & Volk Gallery: Launch Event
Join us to celebrate the launch of 'Commissioned by YPC', kindly hosted by our friends at Volk Gallery
V&A Dundee’s Young People’s Collective (YPC), in partnership with JACK ARTS Scotland, presents 'Commissioned by YPC' — a new series of public artworks by four emerging artists and designers selected from Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art & Design 2025 Degree Show.
Explore new work by Leyla Hussain, Finn Millar, Cara Murray, Liv Rodgers and Kyle Watson. Curated and produced by YPC, the commissions are installed on hoardings and billboards across Dundee, bringing contemporary creative practice directly into the city’s streets.
Working across diverse media and approaches, each artist responds to the theme Reimagining Gardens—considering how gardens and public spaces can act as platforms for social justice, biodiversity and sustainability.
The commissions will be exhibited from 5 November – 19 November.
Volk Gallery is a non-institutional arts venue based in Dundee, Scotland. Consisting of a repurposed vending machine, Volk Gallery is hung in the publicly accessible locale of the Keiller Centre. A rotation of editions are dispensed at a set price of £3 each. Works are completed by commissioned artists, designers and makers and change monthly-ish.
JACK ARTS specialise in creating inspiring street campaigns and experiences for the culture space. Working with galleries, exhibitions, publishers, institutions, and local clients, their team understand the arts, the audience and the need to be truly creative, not just claim to be. They believe city streets offer a unique canvas and context to showcase campaigns that connect with an informed and creative audience. That is why they curate, fund and promote their own series of Your Space Or Mine projects, giving artists and creatives a platform on the streets to connect with neighborhoods and communities. With a portfolio of carefully curated poster sites in 11 cities across the UK via their parent company BUILDHOLLYWOOD, and a creative team that can produce bespoke creative billboards, hand painted murals, interactive installations, ambient and unique experiential marketing campaigns, JACK ARTS is perfectly placed to promote the arts on the streets.
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