exhibition

Tartan

Opening Saturday 1 April 2023

A radical new look at one of the world’s best-known textiles

Dates 1 April 2023 to 14 January 2024

Exhibition Gallery

£7.00 - £16.00 £2 discount applied when booking online. 18s and under go free. Concessions apply. Advance booking is recommended.

Celebrating tartan and its global impact, the exhibition explores how tartan has connected and divided communities worldwide, how it has embraced tradition, expressed revolt, and inspired great works of art as well as playful and provocative designs.

Tartan brings together a dazzling selection of more than 300 objects from over 80 lenders worldwide, illustrating tartan’s universal and enduring appeal through iconic and everyday examples of fashion, architecture, graphic and product design, photography, furniture, glass and ceramics, film, performance and art.

The exhibition features loans from across Scotland and around the world, including Chanel, Dior, Vivienne Westwood, Alexander McQueen, Tate, V&A, National Museums of Scotland, National Trust for Scotland, National Theatre of Scotland, The Royal Collection, Fashion Museum Bath, the Highland Folk Museum and more, many of which are being shown together in Scotland for the first time.

Key Objects

Kilt under construction, Keith Kilt School, Moray. Photo by Jonathan Faiers
Kilt under construction, Keith Kilt School, Moray. Photo by Jonathan Faiers
Wales Bonner adidas Originals
Wales Bonner adidas Originals, Spring Summer 2021. Photo by Jeano Edwards
Cheddar Gorgeous
Cheddar Gorgeous in a suit designed by Liquorice Black, 2017
Alan Cumming
Alan Cumming portrait by Christian Hook, 2014, © Christian Hook
Lord Mungo Murray
Lord Mungo Murray [Am Morair Mungo Moireach], 1668 - 1700. Son of 1st Marquess of Atholl
	Charles Jeffrey LOVERBOY SS2022. Photo by Louie Banks
Charles Jeffrey LOVERBOY SS2022. Photo by Louie Banks
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Membership

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Headline Sponsor
Arnold Clark
Sponsors
LNER
V&A Foundation

This is the first major exhibition curated by V&A Dundee, with Jonathan Faiers of the University of Southampton, and celebrates our 5th anniversary in 2023.

Header image credit - Cheddar Gorgeous in a suit designed by Liquorice Black, 2017. Image © Cheddar Gorgeous

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