News 2014
Uncommon Ground: Land Art in Britain, 1966-1979
Lecturer Joy Sleeman has co-curated Uncommon Ground: Land Art in Britain, 1966-1979 for the Arts Council and Hayward Touring. The show, which includes works by alumni Antony Gormley and Derek Jarman and Professors Emeriti John Hilliard and Bruce McLean is touring Britain.
Joy Sleeman is giving a Curator's talk at the Mead Gallery on Thursday 6 February 2014. See www.warwickartscentre.co.uk.
Dates and venues are as follows:
Southampton City Art Gallery, 10 May - 5 August 2013
National Museum of Wales, Cardiff, 4 October to 5 January 2014
Mead Gallery, University of Warwick, 18 January – 8 March 2014
Longside Gallery, Yorkshire Sculpture Park, 5 April to 15 June 2014.
See the Uncommon Ground website.
There are reviews in The Independent: www.independent.co.uk and The Financial Times: www.ft.com.
UCL Festival of the Arts
The UCL Festival of the Arts takes place from 27 - 30 May 2014.
Hayley Newman is participating in the discussion, London’s Burning: Our Habitat in Times of Crisis, on Thursday 29 May, from 6.30 - 7.30pm at Roberts Lecture Theatre 106, Roberts Building, Malet Place, London WC1.
Jo Volley and Henrietta Simson present their new work, Copper is Restless Until it Becomes Gold*, at the entrance to the Housman Room, Wilkins North Cloisters, Wilkins Building, UCL, Gower Street, London WC1, from 27 - 30 May 2014.
The Slade Salon Afternoon is taking place at the Wilkins North Cloisters, Wilkins Building, UCL, Gower Street, London WC1, on Wednesday 28 May, 2-5pm.
*Meister Eckhart c.1260-1328, German theologian, philosopher and mystic.
Safe House - Young Vic
Safe House, an installation by alumna Gabriella Sonabend and set designer Jeremy Herbert, is showing at the Young Vic, 66 The Cut, London SE1 8LZ, from 28 April - 17 May 2014. See www.youngvic.org.
Crisis Commission - Strand Gallery
Martin Creed, Chloe Le Tissier and Nika Neelova are showing in the Crisis Commission is at The Strand Gallery, 32 John Adam Street, WC2N 6BP, from 20 May - 9 June 2014. See www.crisis.org.uk.
Crowd Sourcing Slade Class Photographs
The Slade School of Fine Art has a fascinating, but currently incomplete, collection of annual class photographs dating from 1931. The black and white panoramic images reflect the school’s rich history, capturing the likeness of Slade students and faculty through the decades.
We are asking former staff and students, scholars and members of the public to help us complete the collection and identify the sitters through a new website designed by UCL Centre for Digital Humanities. We've already listed all of those who appear in the 1953 photograph (http://sladearchive.github.io/groups/SLADE_1953_A/), including William Coldstream, Lucien Freud, Henry Moore, Sam Ntiro, and Paula Rego. Can you help us identify other faces in the photos?
The feedback provided by visitors to the site will result in a dynamic archive and research resource, giving us an opportunity to compare crowdsourcing platforms and begin to trace the impact of Slade alumni around the world.
This project is a collaboration between UCL Centre for Digital Humanities and the Slade School of Fine Art, as part of the Slade Archive Project. (http://www.ucl.ac.uk/slade/sladearchive)
Slade class photos http://sladearchive.github.io/index.html
Follow the Slade Archive Project blog http://blogs.ucl.ac.uk/slade-archive-project/
Slade School of Fine Art http://www.ucl.ac.uk/slade
UCL Centre for Digital Humanities http://www.ucl.ac.uk/dh
Three Women Painters: Phoebe Unwin, Clare Woods and Lynette Yiadom-Boakye - Contemporary Art Society
Phoebe Unwin's Concrete Ball, 2012 is showing in Three Women Painters: Phoebe Unwin, Clare Woods and Lynette Yiadom-Boakye at the Contemporary Art Society, 59 Central Street, London EC1V 3AF, from 17 April —13 June 2014. See www.contemporaryartsociety.org.
The Negligent Eye - The Bluecoat
Susan Collins and Rachel Whiteread are showing in The Negligent Eye at the Bluecoat, School Lane, Liverpool L1 3BX, from 8 March - 15 June 2014. See www.thebluecoat.org.uk.
Blu-Tack Paintings - Foodface
Oliver Rafferty has a solo show, Blu-Tack Paintings, at Foodface, 133 Copeland Road, Peckham, London SE15 3SN, on 5 June 2014, 7 - 9pm. See www.foodface.org.uk.
The Changing Room - Leeds Art Gallery
The Changing Room, a new opera by alumnus Sam Belinfante, Professor Emeritus Bruce McLean and Lawarence Preece, is premiering at Leeds Art Gallery, The Headrow
Leeds LS1 3AA, on Thursday 8 May 2014. See www.leeds.gov.uk.
Before Lines, After Lines - Hanmi Gallery
Bongsu Park has a solo show, Before Lines, After Lines, at Hanmi Gallery, 30 Maple Street, London W1T 6HA, from 9 May - 1 June 2014. See www.hanmigallery.co.uk.
Phil Coy appointed Rutherford Appleton Laboratory Artist-in-Residence
Phil Coy has become the second artist in residence with Space Science at the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory in Didcot coordinated by Invisible Dust. See invisibledust.com.
Beyond the Horizon: Max Werner - Agora Gallery
Max Werner has a solo show, Beyond the Horizon, at Agora Gallery, 530 West 25th Street, New York, from 16 May - 5 June 2014. See www.agora-gallery.com.
Nathaniel Rackowe - Black Cube
Nathaniel Rackowe is showing a new light installation, Black Cube, at Den Frie, Centre of Contemporary Art, Oslo Plads 1, Copenhagen, Denmark DK-2100, from 11 October 2013 - February 2014. See www.facebook.com/rackowe.
Catlin Art Prize 2014 - Londonewcastle Project Space
Current PhD student Sarah Fortais has been shortlisted for the Catlin Art Prize 2014. The exhibition of shortlisted artists is showing at Londonewcastle Project Space, 28 Redchurch Street, Shoreditch, London E2 7DP, from 2 - 24 May 2014. See www.artcatlin.com.
#VOICEOVER - MOT International
Ed Atkins is showing in #VOICEOVER for MOT International. See kaleidoscope-press.com/videoclub.
What Came Paint? - Plate Space
Leah-Miller-Biot is showing in What Came Paint? at Plate Space, 408 Commercial Road, London E1 0LB, from 30 May - 1 June 2014, 12 - 6pm.
Condensation: artists in residence - Le Forum, Tokyo
PhD student Elisabeth S. Clark is showing in Condensation: Artists in residence in Hermès workshops, at Le Forum, Maison Hermes Ginza, Tokyo 4-1, Ginza 5-chome,
Chuo-ku, Tokyo 104-0061, 20 March - 30 June 2014. See www.art-it.asia.
Per/Form: How to do things with[out] words - CA2M, Madrid
Carey Young is showing in Per/Form: How to do things with[out] words at CA2M Centro de Arte Dos de Mayo, Av. Constitución, 23, 28931 Móstoles, Madrid, from 22 March - 21 September 2014. See www.ca2m.or.
Edge of the Seat: The Artist’s Chair - Large Glass
Professor Emerita Phyllida Barlow and alumnus Antony Gormley are showing in Edge of the Seat: The Artist’s Chair at Large Glass, 392 Caledonian Road, London N1 1DN, from 14 March – 14 June 2014. See www.largeglass.co.uk.
East London Painting Prize
Cornelia Baltes, Aglae Bassens, Ben Nathan, Martine Poppe and Judith Rooze have been shortlisted for the East London Painting Prize. The Shortlist Show is at Bow Arts, 1 Sugarhouse Lane, London E15 2QS, from 21 May - 1 June 2014 and the winner announced on 27 May. See www.bowarts.org.