News 2022
Brewers Towner International at Towner Eastbourne
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Lara Smithson is showing in the Brewers Towner International at Towner Eastbourne, Devonshire Park, College Road, Eastbourne BN21 4JJ, from 15 October 2022 to 22 January 2023. See the Towner Gallery website for details.
Studio West Now Introducing 2022
Congratulations to MA alumni Adam Boyd and Andras Nagy Sandor, and current graduate painting student Ross Head who have been shortlisted for Studio West's NOW Introducing Prize 2022. The exhibition opens on 11 November from 6pm at Studio West Gallery, 216 Kensington Park Road, London W11. The show will continue until 10 December 2022.
BA/BFA in Person Q&A Session
Interested in studying for an undergraduate degree in fine art? Join us on Tuesday 15 November 2022, 2:00 - 3:00pm, for an in person question and answer session with Slade tutors and students. Places are limited, reserve via Eventbrite.
The event will take place at the Slade School of Fine Art, UCL, Gower Street, London WC1E 6BT.
MA/MFA online Q&A session
Slade Graduate Programme Q&A online: Wednesday 7 December 2022 . We have two sessions, 10-11am and 4-5pm (GMT). This live online Q&A event is an opportunity to ask a panel of Slade graduate tutors and students about our MA/MFA programme. See our MA/MFA degree page for more information.
Expanding Landscapes: Painting After Land Art - Hestercombe Gallery
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Onya McCausland is showing in Expanding Landscapes: Painting After Land Art, curated by Rebecca Partridge and Joy Sleeman at Hestercombe Gallery, from 12 November 2022 - 26 February 2023. The show also includes work by alumni Jessica Warboys and Damian Taylor. See the Hestercombe Gallery website for details.
Expanding Landscapes: Painting After Land Art brings together historical works by artists associated with Land Art, with contemporary artists who engage directly with landscape through the language of painting. Works by artists associated with Land Art including Nancy Holt, Andy Goldsworthy, Robert Smithson, Richard Long, Michelle Stuart, Roger Ackling and Marie Yates, are on show alongside contemporary works by painters Hannah Brown, Sam Douglas, Onya McCausland, Rebecca Partridge, Damian Taylor, Fred Sorrell and Jessica Warboys. Prints from Ingrid Pollard’s Landscape Trauma series mediate between the contemporary and historical aspects of the exhibition. The exhibition explores the romantic motifs of earth, sea and sky through a variety of materials and processes, including the physical experience of landscape as a creative act in itself. Sharing a concern for the vulnerability of nature and the importance of our attention to it, for materiality and the record of time, for all these artists and their predecessors the experience of being in the landscape is at the heart of the work.
spaces of (dis)connection - Art27 Gallery
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Małgorzata Dawidek is showing in "spaces of (dis)connection", at Art27 Gallery, 40-42 West Crosscauseway, Edinburgh EH8 9JP until 8 November 2022.
The exhibition follows a pioneering project conducted by researchers from the University of Glasgow, Middlesex University London, and the University of Sheffield to investigate how the pandemic has affected the everyday lives of Polish key workers in the UK. This show combines newly commissioned photographic work by Małgorzata Dawidek, Paulina Korobkiewicz, and Sylwia Kowalczyk alongside anonymous testimonies given by Polish essential workers across the UK.
See the Art27 Gallery website for further details.
Image: Małgorzata Dawidek, Zone Out, 2022
Mairéad McClean: Here - Belfast Exposed Gallery
Alumna Mairéad McClean has a solo show, Mairéad McClean: Here, at Belfast Exposed Gallery, 23 Donegall Street, Belfast BT1 2FF, until 23 December 2022. The exhibition is part of The Belfast International Arts Festival. See the Belfast Exposed Gallery website for details.
Karmabank and Short Courses at the Slade
We are delighted to welcome two artists from Karmabank who will be taking part in our Saturday 8-week drawing course, starting tomorrow. This is our first short course taught “in-person” at the Slade, Gower Street site since Covid-19.
"KarmaBank, a London-based creative social impact project developer, makes sustainable change with the help of influential organisations such as the French Institute, London Youth Choirs, Opera Holland Park, Calm, and the Slade School of Fine Art. This year Karmabank focused on easing the cost-of-living crisis through community kitchens and foodbanks in West London and Hastings, and on supporting educational opportunities for women and girls seeking refuge in the UK. Karmabank developed the RAW (Refugee Art Works) collective after realising the devastating impact of displacement on female artists who flee war, climate disasters, gender and identity discrimination, leaving their tools, networks, studios and buyers behind. Through RAW, Karmabank micro-finances seed funding for materials and exhibition support, and, thanks to generous partners such as the Slade, opens doors to rebuild women’s lives through new opportunities." Andrew Standen Raz, Karmabank
To find out more about Karmabank see:
www.karmabank.co
community@karmabank.co
Sadie Coles HQ Gift
A gift from Sadie Coles HQ will deliver a four-week Slade Widening Participation Summer School for 40 students next summer.
Research shows that those most likely to experience an arts deficit come from disadvantaged backgrounds, while participation in the arts is shown to fuel social mobility.
The cost of study, uncertain career prospects, and a perception of higher education as exclusive and intimidating, are significant barriers for young people from low socio-economic backgrounds applying to institutions perceived as prestigious. For those who do apply, most candidates are rejected by art schools at the portfolio submission stage as they may not evidence well that they are ready to progress onto further study at university. And we know that under-represented students often receive less support to tailor and arrange their portfolio for a successful interview.
The Slade Widening Participation Summer School will help to diversify the declining talent pipeline by equipping learners with the necessary skills, confidence and networks to bridge the gap between secondary school and further education in fine art.
For the creative industries to flourish, we need to ensure the workforce is reflective of the diverse world in which we live and Sadie Coles HQ’s gift will enable the Slade to play its part in achieving this.
Sadie Coles said:
Sadie Coles HQ is committed to encouraging young people to see a life within the arts as an achievable reality. We are excited to be supporting the Slade’s UCL East Summer School in its dynamic new campus at Stratford, where they are working to accelerate openness and access for those from under-represented backgrounds.
Kieren Reed, Slade Director said:
We are very grateful to Sadie Coles HQ for their support of the Slade’s UCL East Summer School. As a world-leading fine art school, we are one part of a cultural ecosystem which comprises all aspects of artistic engagement, and we are proud to be partnering with Sadie Coles HQ who share our commitment to dismantling barriers to access for students who are under-represented in our field. Our UCL East Summer School will empower participants to envisage a future for themselves as the artists of tomorrow and contribute to a growing diverse talent pipeline for the entire industry.
Slade Short Courses - Autumn term
Our autumn short course programme is now open for booking. There are two evening courses and one "in-person" course at the Slade Main Building in Gower Street. For further details see our Short Course page.
Light & Love LIVE - Geraldine Snell
Alumna Geraldine Snell is posting her 2nd album Light & Love LIVE week by week, with a track released each Friday for the next 10 weeks up until Christmas 2022. To access the recordings and videos, see her website.
The songs on &LIVE were composed between 2019 and 2022. All stem from exploring with a looper and involve simple melodies and layered vocal rounds. The visual and performance aspects of this body of work were well formed through the &video series. In Light & Love LIVE, it is all brought together as a visual live album, recorded and filmed during a creative retreat at Britten Pears Arts.
Sharing the work on social media week-week will offer a focus on each of the individual song-videos, which will be embedded in full on the members page of her website http://geraldinesnell.com/members
The Spaces Between Seminar - online, 3 November
Deborah Padfield is speaking at The Spaces Between: Equity, Voice, Agency, and Care Practices Involving the Arts and Arts Therapies at 12:00-13:15 (GMT) on 3 November 2022. The seminar will take place via Zoom: https://ucl.zoom.us/j/92802192115.
PROGRAMME
Welcome and Introduction to the seminar series Dr Nisha Sajnani, NYU Steinhardt and Professor Phil Jones, IOE, UCL’s Faculty of Education and Society
CHILDHOOD/CHILDREN AS RESEARCHERS: AGENCY, VOICE AND WELLBEING
Professor Phil Jones, Professor of Children’s Rights and Wellbeing, Department of Learning and Leadership. IOE, UCL’s Faculty of Education and Society
This presentation will explore the relationships between child rights, voice, agency and research concerning children’s experiences of social exclusion and wellbeing. It will include research involving children as researchers or co-researchers into their own lives and connect this with debates drawing on the new sociology of childhood’s concepts of childhood as constructed and contextual.
CO-CREATIVE PHOTOGRAPHIC PRACTICE AS A COMMUNICATION TOOL
Dr Deborah Padfield, Associate Professor, Interdisciplinary Research and Practice, Slade School of Fine Art, UCL and Senior Lecturer in Arts & Health Humanities, St George’s, University of London
This presentation will share the aims, methodologies and outcomes of several projects in the UK and India exploring the value of images and image-making processes to the assessment and management of chronic pain. The projects explore ways in which co-created photographs of pain placed between patient and healthcare professional can trigger more negotiated dialogue in the consulting room and increase understanding between those living with and those witnessing pain. It will also invite discussion and feedback around the viability of co-creating a transcultural set of images.
ARTS, INDIGENOUS HEALING AND COMMUNITY HEALTH DEVELOPMENT IN GHANA: THE ‘TSUI ANAA’ (TAKE HEART) PROJECT
Professor Ama de-Graft Aikins, British Academy Global Professor, Institute of Advanced Studies, UCL
Tsui Anaa is a community based chronic care project in Ga Mashie, Accra that has incorporated arts-based methods in community engagement, illness management (for a patient support group), and group activities with children living in households affected by chronic illness. Ga Mashie has a strong tradition of indigenous healing arts, that is tied to cultural identities, imaginaries of healing and health-seeking practices. I will speak to the intersection of arts, indigenous healing and community health development in Ghanaian settings, using the Tsui Anaa Project as a case study.
Stuart Cameron
We are sad to hear of the passing of alumnus Stuart Cameron, who studied at the Slade between 1970-1974. There will be two celebrations of his life in London on 12 November and Cardif, 27 January 2023. For details, please contact Sarah Wyld.
Sparkling City - Blacklist Gallery and Matdot Gallery
Andrew Stahl has a solo show, Sparkling City at Blacklist Gallery and MATDOT Art Center ,47 Lan Luang Road,Wat Sommanat, Pom Prap Sattru Phai, Bangkok, 12 October - 12 November 2022. See matdotart.com.
On Behalf of Seeds - Tate Modern
Alumnus Adham Faramawy is speaking at On Behalf of Seeds, a roundtable discussion bringing together participants from the Encounters Over Several Plants programme and invited guests to reflect on technology, knowledge and ways of being connected to the lives and processes of plants. The event takes place at the Starr Cinema, Tate Modern, Bankside, London SE1, 3:30 - 4:45pm, 29 October 2022. See the Tate website for details.
Cecilia Vicuña: Brain Forest Quipu - Tate Modern
Cecilia Vicuña: Brain Forest Quipu is showing at the Turbine Hall, Tate Modern, South Bank, London SE1, from 11 October 2022 - 16 April 2023. See the Tate Modern website for details.
Read Adrian Searle's review in The Guardian.
Sussex Landscape: Chalk, Wood and Water at Pallant House Gallery
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Susan Collins is showing in Sussex Landscape: Chalk, Wood and Water at Pallant House Gallery, 8-9 North Pallant, Chichester PO19 1TJ, from 12 November 2022 until 23 April 2023. See the Pallant House Gallery website.
Inter Scape: South Asian British Women Artists
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This seminar explores South Asian British women artists contributions to contemporary art in presentations by artist Naiza Khan, art historian Rina Arya, curator Uthra Rajgopal and artist Uzma Sultan. Online via Zoom, Monday 17 October, 2 - 4pm. Free, register via Eventbrite.
Coss Hybrid 'Sarah Fortais: Artist In Residence On A Mars Analogue' - IAS
Slade alumna, Dr. Sarah Fortais, the first Artist-In-Residence for the Centre For Outer Space Studies, will be talking about some of the artwork she created as a crew member of the UK's first Analogue Space Research Mission, 7:00pm - 8:30pm, on Tuesday 18 October 2022 at the Institute of Advanced Studies, IAS Forum Room G17, Ground Floor, South Wing, UCL Gower Street, London WC1E 6BT.
Reserve via Eventbrite
Slade Scholarships 2022
Photographs:
Top left: Selina Scott, A Change in the Wrong Place (2021); Niki Kohandel
Middle: Gillies Adamson Semple, Round Music, 2022; Jonah Alexander, Time Time Doesn't have a Stop, 2022
Bottom: Josephine Rock & Max Norton; Blythe Cheung & Ivan Kashdan
We are delighted to announce recent graduates Gillies Adamson Semple (MFA), Jonah Alexander (BA), Josephine Rock & Max Norton (MFA), have been awarded Boise Scholarships, and Selena Scott (BFA) the Dolbey Scholarship. Current students Blythe Cheung (Blithe Germ) & Ivan Kashdan (MFA) and Niki Kohandel (BA) have been awarded Jeanne Szego Scholarships.
Many congratulations to all of our awardees, we look forward to seeing their future projects.
Photographs:
Top left: Selina Scott, A Change in the Wrong Place (2021); Niki Kohandel
Middle: Gillies Adamson Semple, Round Music, 2022; Jonah Alexander, Time Time Doesn't have a Stop, 2022
Bottom: Josephine Rock & Max Norton; Blythe Cheung & Ivan Kashdan