An award-winning north-east artist will be putting old college friends in the frame in her own Aberdeen gallery throughout this month. The Nicole Porter Gallery in King Street launches its latest exhibition, Dundee Collected, tomorrow. Artworks from 11 artists who have either worked or studied at Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art in Dundee will be on show until April 30. The artist from Whitemyres Croft at Daviot, near Inverurie, graduated with a first-class honours degree from the college and went on to study with internationally renowned painter Odd Nerdrum in Norway and later in Paris. The 24-year-old former Ellon Academy pupil now works from a studio in the gallery where she is a partner and which provides a city centre showcase for both established and up-and-coming artists. Among the artists taking part in the latest show are her fellow Dundee graduates Rich Cormack, Jo Fraser, Fraser Gray, Ali Hardy and Camilla Symons. Also exhibiting are Alan Greig and Lisa Murphy along with Karen Esplin and Mel Shand who has been well known for her paintings and drawings for the past 25 years. Miss Porter, who is showing large-scale paintings based on art school life, said: “A love for Duncan of Jordanstone among the artists who have studied there as motivated the creation of the exhibition and brought Dundee Collected to Aberdeen.”