News 2020
The Ashurst Emerging Artist Prize 2020 Shortlist
Congratulations to Kazuki Nishinaga and Haeji Min who have been shortlisted for The Ashurst Emerging Artist Prize 2020. See The Ashurst Prize website: www.artprize.co.uk/shortlist-2020.html
Selected X - Danielle Brathwaite-Shirley and Jennifer Martin
Danielle Brathwaite-Shirley's TRANS-PORT ME and Jennifer Martin's TEETH are showing as part of Selected X – online programme running from 6 - 12 July 2020. See: http://videoclub.org.uk/selected-x-online-programme/ for further details.
The Selected programme was established 10 years ago with the aims of supporting artist filmmakers to gain greater visibility and to bring new, diverse moving image work to audiences. Each year the artists who are shortlisted for the Film London Jarman Award nominate artists, who are earlier in their careers, and from those nominations a programme is curated by videoclub and Film London Artists’ Moving Image Network (FLAMIN). Last year's shortlisted artists included alumni Imran Perretta and Mikhail Karikis. This programme is usually shown with venues around the UK. This year, due to the Covid 19 situation, the videos are showing online.
Danielle Brathwaite-Shirley - Front Row, Radio 4
Listen to the interview with Danielle Brathwaite-Shirley on BBC's Front Row, Radio 4 (approx 16:25 mins in), originally broadcast on 29 June 2020. On BBC Sounds: www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m000kgpx
Slade Student Fundraiser 2020
Students from Graduate Painting have initiated a student fundraiser to raise money to be donated to The Black Curriculum. The Slade Student Fundraiser website, selling work by graduate students, will be live until 20 July 2020.
Cass Art Prize award
Congratulations to BA/BFA Painting 2020 graduates Lulua Alyahya, Shailee Mehta and Nooka Shepherd, who won a Cass Art Painting Prize 2020: Slade School of Fine Art. Thank you to Cass Art for awarding the prizes.
Read the interviews with the prizewinning artists on the Cass Art blog: www.cassart.co.uk/blog/cass-art-painting-prizewinners-2020-slade-school-of-art.htm
The Slade Degree Showcase continues on: www.ucl.ac.uk/slade/shows/2020
Final, not Over - On the Rocks
Slade BA/BFA graduating sculpture students are showing in Final, not Over - On the Rocks at Unit 1 Gallery/Workshop, 9 -13 July 2020, part of a series of four Final, not Over shows that the gallery are putting on in their space to support 2020 graduates.
Individuals can book up to an hour time slot via the gallery website, to view the show on https://app.artsvp.co/a4419b (social distancing will be observed).
For more information see the Unit 1 Gallery website: https://unit1gallery-workshop.com/2020/06/15/final-not-over/
Artists exhibiting: Ishwari Bhalerao and Leonie Rousham, Shauna Cribbin, Jake Fisk, Lettice Gatacre, Ellie Hayward, Georgia Kerr, Pol Wah-Tse, Seren Metcalfe, Anna Metzger, Billy Parker, Zowie Roxanne, Sean Synnuck, Ella Turner-Bridger, Stan Welch, Yom Bo Sung
Turner Bursaries 2020
Congratulations to alumni Imran Perretta and Sean Edwards recipients of bursaries, which have been awarded in place of this year's Turner Prize!
See the Tate press release: https://www.tate.org.uk/press/press-releases/ps10000-turner-bursaries-awarded-10-artists
Emma Hart - UCL East Pool Street West building
Emma Hart has been appointed to create an artwork for integration into the primary public entrance of the UCL East Pool Street West building, on Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park.
This is the first commission within a wider programme of public art, permanent and temporary, for the UCL East development. See UCL News.
When is a colourant not a colourant? Talk
When is a colourant not a colourant? Dr Emma Richardson, from NPL, presents an introduction to dyes, the origin of colour and the affect of other factors on the dyeing process, on Friday 26 June at 4.30pm on Microsoft Teams. Join the talk on Microsoft Teams.
Make an Impression - collaboration between the Slade and UCL Culture
Widening participation project
In its second year, Make an Impression II showcases 86 drypoint and chine-collé prints made by six east London schools and colleges. These were made during a printmaking engagement programme delivered in partnership with UCL Culture and The Slade School of Fine Art.
Opening its east London campus in 2022, UCL is working hard to make connections with east London communities in advance. Make An Impression II is one outcome of the printmaking project that shares UCL’s resources and skills with young artists aged 13-18 to boost confidence, build aspirations, and support applications to UCL.
The printmaking project also supports the career development of UCL students and alumni: current and former students of the Slade School of Fine Art led outreach workshops and taught the printing techniques to the young artists exhibited.
Read more about the project and see the online show on the UCL Culture School Projects website.
Alegorias Perdidas - Peres Projects, Berlin
Paolo Salvador has a solo show, Alegorias Perdidas, at Peres Projects, Karl-Marx-Allee 82, 10243 Berlin, from 19 June - 31 July 2020. See https://peresprojects.com/exhibitions/alegorias-perdidas.
O Sole Mio - Parasol Unit
Lisa Milroy is showing in the online show, O Sole Mio, from 17 June - 1 July 2020 at the Parasol Unit. See: https://parasol-unit.org/whats-on/o-sole-mio/.
Red - One Off Gallery, Nairobi
Lisa Milroy is showing in Red at One Off Gallery, 16 Rosslyn Lone Tree, Nairobi, Kenya, from 13 June - 12 July 2002. See www.oneoffafrica.com/red.html.
Dazed 100
Congratulations to alumna Zeinab Saleh, co-founder of Muslim Sisterhood, who are nominated for a Dazed 100 award. You can vote for her project to produce a Muslim Sisterhood zine on the Dazed100 website.
Chang'e-4 - Casa Testori
Eemyun Kang is showing in Chang'e-4 at Casa Testori, Milan, from 23 June - 12 September 2020. See the Casa Testori website.
RGB East: Interactive digital photography programme
RGB East is formed by the Arts-Science partnership of Jo Guile UCL and Glass student, and Dr Emily Patterson UCL. It explores the relationship between colour, vision and perception. It is sponsored by UCL’s Public Art and Community Engagement Programme – Trellis, Stage 1.
They have designed a photography-led public engagement activity, which is targeted at people who live in the four boroughs – Hackney, Newham, Tower Hamlets and Walthamstow – that border the Olympic Park and can be safely carried out while social distancing is in place.
You are invited to upload a ‘colourful’ photograph(s) you have taken on a local walk within the above boroughs which will then be turned into a video of a colour illusion and sent back to you. To find out more details, please follow the link below to their web page: https://rgbeast.co.uk.Read about it in this article in the Hackney Gazzette: https://www.hackneycitizen.co.uk/2020/06/12/public-art-project-hackney-residents-colourful-photos-optical-illusions/
New Viewings - Galerie Barbara Thumm
Olivia Bax is showing in New Viewings online at Galerie Barbara Thumm Berlin.
Form & Figure: Bodies in Art - Grosvenor Gallery
Faiza Butt and Ali Kazim are showing in Form & Figure: Bodies in Art at Grosvenor Gallery, 35 Bury Street, London SW1Y 6AY, from 11 - 26 June 2020. Viewing is by appointment only. There is a Zoom panel discussion at 4pm on 11 June 2020. For full details see the Grosvenor Gallery website: https://www.grosvenorgallery.com/exhibitions/254/.
Imran Perretta - 15 Days
Imran Perretta's 15 Days is showing from 15 June - 21 June 2020 as part of the Arts Council Collection's Refugee Week 2020. See: http://artscouncilcollection.org.uk/discover-collection/online-exhibition.
Slade Degree Showcase 2020
In light of the current situation, Slade School of Fine Art is hosting an online Slade Degree Showcase for the students graduating this year. The online platform is an opportunity to celebrate the work of students graduating, before a celebratory physical exhibition next year.
The website will go live on 30 June on: https://www.ucl.ac.uk/slade/shows/2020