UCL FACULTY OF ARTS AND HUMANITIES

20 to 25 February, 12noon to 5pm

Slade Research Centre, Woburn Square, London WC1H 0AB

Exploring creative and research processes through dialogue, curation and exhibition.

Investigating their intersection with psychoanalysis through conference.

An event examining artistic process, organised by the UCL Slade PhD programme.

The Exhibition

MAKING SPACE is a novel approach to research and to exploring the creative process. It brings together celebrated international artists from the Slade School of Fine Art alumni and teaching staff with current PhD candidates and invited guest artists for a collaborative research period culminating in a public exhibition at the Slade Research Centre. Exhibiting artists will be interviewed about their creative process and these recordings will be integrated into an original installation within the exhibition. The exhibition will culminate in a conference in which the process will be contextualised through dialogue with senior psychoanalysts.

Participating artists include: John Aiken, Ed Allington, Sian Bonnell, Sonia Bridge, David Burrows, Fiona Curran, Michael Delacruz, Susan Derges, Simon Faithfull, Errol Francis, Gina Glover, Judith Goddard, Dryden Goodwin, David Johnson, Sharon Kivland, Laura Kuch, Tim Long, Leah Lovett, Laura Malacart, George Meyrick, Russell Mills, Lisa Milroy, Eleanor Morgan, Aaron Murphy, Hayley Newman, Deborah Padfield, Jayne Parker, Sarah Pickering, Liz Rideal, Nina Rodin, Henrietta Simson, Kai Syng Tan, Kay Tabernacle, Johan Thom, Elly Thomas, Thomson and Craighead, Patricia Townsend, Jo Volley, Veronica Vossen.

The exhibition is free and open to the public from 20 to 25 February 2012, 12noon to 5pm.

Slade Research Centre, Woburn Square, London WC1H 0AB

Private View 6.00 – 8.30pm, Wednesday 22nd February 2012

Opening address: Professor Juliet Mitchell

The Conference

Psychoanalysis and Artistic Process

Reflecting the spirit of collaborative research, an associated conference is being held at UCL. It aims to catalyse dialogue between artists and psychoanalysts by presenting public one-to-one exchanges between three pairs of artists and psychoanalysts.

Each participant will make a short presentation, the artist focusing on his/her process, the psychoanalyst raising ideas for debate relevant to psychoanalysis and artistic process.
Following this there will be an extended discussion during which the speakers will respond to each other’s presentations and then open it up to the floor. The day will end with a tour of the exhibition.

Speakers:

• Grayson Perry, Martin Creed, Sharon Kivland (Artists)

• Valerie Sinason, Kenneth Wright, Lesley Caldwell (Psychoanalysts)

The conference will be held on Saturday 25th February 2012, 9am to 5pm

Venue: Cruciform Lecture Theatre 1, Gower Street, London WC1E 6BT

The conference is free to attend but booking is essential.

For booking and information https://makingspace.eventbrite.co.uk/

Funded by:
The Slade School of Fine Art, UCL
The Psychoanalysis Unit, UCL
UCL Graduate School Research Projects Fund