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PLASTERED

Date: 21 January - 19 April | Time: 1pm-5pm | Location: UCL Art Museum, South Cloisters, University College London, London, WC1E 6BT | Price: Free | Age group: All |

UCL Art Museum is delighted to present Plastered, an exhibition about plaster and the casting process highlighting the sculpture models of the neoclassical artist John Flaxman (1755-1826). A pioneer during an age of industrialism, Flaxman was the first British sculptor to use the technique as a consistent part of his working practice, revealing early on the material’s extraordinary versatility.

Shown alongside Flaxman’s art will be more unusual applications of plaster, including Victorian death masks used for the early study of eugenics and casts of human pathological specimens from the Great Ormond Street Hospital Collection.


020 7679 2540 | college.art@ucl.ac.uk

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PROCESS POP-UP: SLADE BRONZE LAB

Date: 23 April | Time: 1-5 pm | Location: UCL Art Museum South Cloisters University College London London WC1E 6BT | Price: FREE | Age group: ALL |

Investigating experimental approaches to the use of bronze, the 'Bronze Lab' is a research project initiated by the Slade School of Fine Arts that took place in the Slade Workshop during a week in February 2013.

For this pop-up exhibition and talk, the founders of the Bronze Lab and the Slade students who were selected to participate in the bronze pour will discuss the project and present the works that were created during that week. This is also an opportunity to discuss new processes and the possibility of future multidisciplinary research projects.

Photograph by Grace Hailstone
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FLAXMAN EXCHANGE LECTURE

Date: 8 May | Time: 6:30-8:30 pm | Location: Chadwick Lecture Theatre Gower Street London WC1E 6BT | Price: FREE, booking required: http://flaxmanexchangelecture.eventbrite.co.uk | Age group: All |

Artist Marcia Farquhar reflects on the creation and the legacy of the Flaxman Exchange project, UCL Art Museum's inaugural Flaxman Gallery artist commission.
The event is free but booking is required at: http://flaxmanexchangelecture.eventbrite.co.uk

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IT'S ELEMENTAL! UCL MUSEUMS TREASURE HUNT

Date: 17 May | Time: 6:30-8:30pm | Location: Chadwick lecture theatre, Chadwick Building, University College London, Gower Street, WC1E 6BT | Price: Free | Age group: Adults |

Hunt up a storm of objects related to the four elements in UCL Museums. Solve the clues to discover the rocks formed in the fires of the planet, the animals that glide through the air, the treasures dug from the earth and the water(colours) of art. There are prizes to be won by the team who solves and collects all the elements and locates every artifact required from art, geology, Egyptian archaeology and zoology. The event is followed by a free drinks reception and a private view of the Grant Museum of Zoology. This event is part of Museums at Night and is free, there is no need to book.

020 3108 2052 (Grant Museum) and 0207 679 4138 (Petrie Museum) | d.veall@ucl.ac.uk