News

SCCI is shocked and saddened to hear about the untimely passing of one of our community, Justin Hardy who has died aged 61.

Professor Bob Mills in Conversation with Curators of Recent Exhibition at The Met Cloisters

Sadiya will explore the future collecting within university museums, with a particular emphasis on community-led collecting, ethical practice, everyday material culture and teaching collections.

On 2 June 2026, the department's EDI board organised a tour of the Feminist Library in Peckham, followed by a DIY zine workshop, for History of Art students.

This year, the Roberts Institute of Art partnered with UCL to give MSc Conservation of Contemporary Art and Media students access to works from The David and Indrė Roberts Collection.

Our graduate Gabe Beckhurst Feijoo (PhD 2022) has joined the curatorial team for the 61st Venice Biennale, opening across Venice from 9 May–22 November 2026.

Congratulations to our PhD researcher Isabelle Sagraves who has won the 2026 Mervat Zahid Cultural Foundation Prize for her paper on transformation and selfhood in Félix Buhot's Japonisme etchings.

Following our Roundtables held in the Autumn, the UCL School for the Creative and Cultural Industries is pleased to launch its Spring-Summer Creative Freelancers Exchange programme.

Colin Zhongping Mao has recently published a new article in the Burlington Contemporary journal, titled 'Liu Xiaodong's Sinophone spaces: Chinatown No. 4 and Chinatown No.2'.

Connecting to heritage through visual arts and crafts - A blog by Suman Gujral.

Join Creative Health students as they present on the past and the future of creative health

On the 18th of February, the School of Creative and Cultural Industries successfully ran its second Creative Futures Day event. This blog looks at the event and the key takeaways for attendees.

Rime Tsujino’s graduate film, ‘I Don’t Speak Dog (But I’ll Try)’ has been selected for the international renowned Visions du réel film festival in Switzerland.

Students from our Race/Place MA visited Madrid for the opening of History Doesn’t Repeat Itself, but It Does Rhyme, viewing Dumile Feni’s African Guernica, with Picasso’s Guernica.

Congratulations to our MA student, Roxana Kaboli, for winning the Association for Art History’s 2025 Postgraduate Dissertation Prize!