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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.
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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
Parade - Hometel
Current MA student Ivan Kashdan is showing ‘Parade’, a 17m mural made over August 2022 for the Big Walls Project, organized by Jo Volley and Stephanie Nebbia. The mural responds to its setting – the internal courtyard of Lamington Group’s net zero carbon hotel. On Wednesday 19 October 2022, 3 - 6pm. ‘Parade’ will be open to the public for 3 hours at room2 Hometel, 10 Windmill Rd, Chiswick, London W4 1SD.
For more about the project see the Ivan Kashdan Big Walls Project page.
Receiver - Focal Point Gallery
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Nastassja Simensky is showing in Receiver at Focal Point Gallery, The Forum, Elmer Square, Southend-on-Sea, Essex SS1 1NS, from 2 October to 23 December 2022. See the Focal Point Gallery website for details.
Rachel Whiteread awarded the Robson Orr Tenten Award 2022
Congratulations to Rachel Whiteread DBE, who has been awarded The Robson Orr TenTen Award 2022, a Government Art Collection/Outset Annual Commission. Untitled (Bubble) was unveiled at the Government Art Collection's new headquarters at Old Admiralty Building on Friday 7 October 2022. See the article in The Guardian, 7 October 2022.
Malgorzata Dawidek Gryglicka wins Hastings Open 2022 Prize
Malgorzata Dawidek Gryglicka (left) with with Kasey Ball-Scott, Art Collections and Engagement Curator at Hastings Museum & Art Gallery. The award-winning images are from the Holding Patterns series (Self Soothing Project #2 and #3).
Congratulations to Malgorzata Dawidek Gryglicka who has been awarded the Hastings Open 2022 Prize. The exhibition of shortlisted artists at Hastings Museum and Art Gallery, John's Place, Bohemia Road, Hastings TN34 1ET, runs from 1 October 2022 - 15 January 2023. See the Hastings Museum and Art Gallery website.
Photo: Malgorzata Dawidek Gryglicka (left) with with Kasey Ball-Scott, Art Collections and Engagement Curator at Hastings Museum & Art Gallery. The award-winning images are from the Holding Patterns series (Self Soothing Project #2 and #3).
Katarzyna Depta-Garapich Awarded Trinity Buoy Wharf Student Prize for Drawing
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Congratulations to Katarzyna Depta-Garapich, whose Family Album, paint markers on giclée prints, 2021, has won the Trinity Buoy Wharf Student Prize for Drawing.
UCL East Saturday Club - Art and Design
Free weekly art and design workshops for Years 9,10 and 11 (ages 13-16) who live and/or go to school in the London boroughs of Newham, Hackney, Tower Hamlets or Waltham Forest. Classes organised by UCL Widening Participation and led by staff from Slade and Bartlett School of Architecture.
For further details and how to apply, see the UCL Access and Widening Participation website.
MA/MFA Interim Show 2022
James Graham Keith
Open to the public 6 - 11 October
Weekdays: 9:30am - 8:30pm
Weekend: 9:30am - 6:30pm
Hastings Open 2022 biennial - Małgorzata Dawidek Gryglick
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Congratulations to Małgorzata Dawidek Gryglicka, who has been selected for Hastings Open 2022 biennial show. The award winner will be announced during the exhibition opening at 4pm on Saturday 1 October 2022. The show takes place at the Hastings Museum and Art Gallery, John's Place, Bohemia Rd, Hastings TN34 1ET, from 2 October 2022 - 29 January 2023. See the Hastings Museum and Art Gallery website for details.
One of the selected works has been recently awarded a UCL Doctoral School Research Images as Art / Art Images as Research prize. This forms part of Malgorzata's PhD research on representations of vulnerability and illness in art.