V&A Dundee’s Young People’s Collective (YPC) have commissioned four recent graduate artists from DJCAD to create new site-specific work for our poster sites across the city, in partnership with BUILDHOLLYWOOD Scotland.

New work by emerging artists Leyla Hussain, Finn Millar, Cara Murray and Liv Rodgers took over a range of unique formats, each exploring themes around V&A Dundee’s exhibition Garden Futures – considering how gardens and public spaces can act as platforms for social justice, biodiversity and sustainability.

Created over several months, with professional development support from V&A Dundee and BUILDHOLLYWOOD Scotland – including tours, talks and artist crits – the resulting work explores social and class identity, the Gaelic winter tradition of Samhain, the radical potential of gardens, and presents a monument for the Palestinian journalists and media workers who have been targeted and killed in the current genocide in Gaza.

The work was launched as part of the museum’s Upstart: Creative Careers Festival, with a special bus tour exploring the artwork across the city, featuring insights from the artists alongside interactive performances.

Image above: Cara Murray