Slade School of Fine Art
Slade Interim Showcase 2023

Tuesday 12 - Thursday 14 December 2023.

Flow, Flow Like There's No Land, Yulin Song, 2022, fabrics and threads, 146 x 200cm

©the artist

Yulin Song
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Keeping It Up, Anna Candlin, 2023, clay, latex, cotton thread, balloon, 38 cm x 14 cm x 8 cm

Photo: Thomas Jenkins. ©the artist.

Anna Candlin
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Untitled, Tobias Gumbrill, 23/11/23, sheet metal, boots

Feel free to look inside/outside/behind/below/above/within.

©the artist

Tobias Gumbrill
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as onto a vast plain, Lavinia Harrington, November 2023, soft pastel on handmade, folded paper, each sheet 70 x 50cm

©the artist

Lavinia Harrington
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p.187, VI: Establishing Elam chronology2023, Davide Gibson, 2023, print on paper, 15 x 23 x 3cm

©the artist

Davide Gibson
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Alien Echoes, Signe Eliza Pook, 2023, acrylic on tinted Bockingford paper, 76 x 56cm

Signe Eliza Pook
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Eve Stotesbury, Fountain, 2023, Site specific / photographic c-type print, site specific / photo 210 x 297 mm

©the artist

Eve Stotesbury
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Untitled, Isabel Mills, 2023, acrylic and aluminium plate with inkjet transfer, gems and sticker on plywood panel, 30 x 41cm

©the artist

Isabel Mills
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A Heart's a Heavy Burden, Ruth Speer, 2023, oil on wood, 24 x 30 inches

I work with human-animal hybrids a lot, and fantasy feels like it can itself be a two-headed beast, peering from one world into the other while sharing a single internal system. As Ursula le Guin wrote, “It is by such statements as, ”Once upon a time there was a dragon,” or ”In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit”--it is by such beautiful non-facts that we fantastic human beings may arrive, in our peculiar fashion, at the truth.”

©the artist

Ruth Speer
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Mules, Jameela Gordon-King, November 2023, oil and oil stick on calico, 60 x 70cm

©the artist

Jameela Gordon-King
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Cut! Remade and Revived, June Jiyoon Hong, 2023, print on fabric, 500 x 250cm

©the artist

June Jiyoon Hong
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Untitled, Danny Pagarani, 2023, plywood, acrylic, steel, bronze, acrylic on paper, 1200 x 1000 x 1000mm

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Danny Pagarani
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Tolstoy’s children, Veronika Peat, 2023, video still

Veronika Peat
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‘Strata I’ (detail shot), Natalya Marconini Falconer, 2023, woven polypropylene sandbags, aluminium, wax lupini beans

©the artist

Natalya Marconini Falconer
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The Beloved Tamed, Rebekka Homann, 2023, 3D-animated video

The animation is a reimagined version of the tapestry "The unicorn in captivity" from a series of tapestries from the late 15th century called "The Hunt of the Unicorn".

Image credit: Selin Acarbas. ©the artist

Rebekka Homann
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Wondering, Xi Liu, 2023, oil on canvas, 160 x 120cm

They chase each other, they undergo deformation, bending, tilting; they appear and disappear intermittently, they resist each other, they are turbulent, they hover and immerse themselves in this.

©the artist

Xi Liu
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View into the Mirror III, Anna Curzon Price, November 2023, pastel and charcoal on photocopied image, 42 x 29.7cm

©the artist

Anna Curzon Price
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A Beloved Memory During a Feast, Hannah Cosac Naify, 2023, woodstain on panel, paper on charcoal and nails 61 x 122cm (24 x 48 in)

©the artist

Hannah Cosac Naify
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Pre-wash, Chloe Beddow, October 2023, denim, string, charcoal, LED strip light, 100 x 120cm

©the artist

Chloe Beddow
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OK! Immigrant, Ziyi Wang, 2023, video installation, dimensions variable

Ziyi Wang applies humour as method to tickle the existing systems, borders, and bureaucracy. Her works are mostly video installations, involving elements of documentary, comedy and ready-made props. This ongoing work OK! Immigrant is a video installation series, about a farce around losing and replacing the UK resident permit, which involves missing a flight, debating with aircrew and the ambassador's office, and how she self-directed a fake "smuggling" to come back to my temporary "home", recomposing an Asian female contemporary version of the Odyssey.

©the artist

Ziyi Wang
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untitled, Roman Sheppard Dawson, 2023, moving image from a larger installation

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Roman Sheppard Dawson
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Khadija Niang
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The Whisper You Hear Is Not the Wind of This Moment, Fan Bangyu, moving image, installation, reel to reel tape recorder, sugar, tapes, sound pickup equipment, 2.5 x 2.5m

©the artist

Fan Bangyu
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Impressions of a Cliff, Mercedes Balle, 2023, analogue photography on expired photographic paper, 40 x 60cm

©the artist

Mercedes Balle
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Dick high-heels, Ben Qi, 02/03/2022, clay, black gloss spray, 22cm x 13.7cm

Here are some sculptures based on some gender considerations. This is one of my early works which tries to break the boundary between female and male. It is also a resistance to gender stereotypes and patriarchal society. I totally respect traditional binary identity, and I also stand with the concept that gender should not be assigned at birth. Nowadays, gender presents a variety of possibilities in discursive social practices, so in an open society, how comfortable can we be with this?

Photo credit: Hongyu Liao. ©the artist

Ben Qi
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Blue flower on carpet, Cat Madden, 2023, open chalkball filled with blue soft pastel dust and yellow plasticine ball, 7 x 7 x 7 cm (approx.)

©the artist

Cat Madden
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Three of Swords, Teodora Nitsolova, October 2023, acrylic, Pencil, Soft Pastel and Charcoal on Paper160 x 140 cm

©the artist

Teodora Nitsolova
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OCCLUDE, Freddie Sanders (made in collaboration with Chaney Diao), 2023, screenshot of interactive virtual world

Working primarily with video game engines, Freddie Sanders explores contemporary understandings of collective mythology, individual agency and speculative worldbuilding. Often recreating existing real-world locations virtually, his work questions the perceived boundaries between the physical and the digital, and of reality and fantasy.

©the artists

Freddie Sanders
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Parasitic grafting sleeves, Hansol Kim, 2023, tree branch, polyurethane, leather, beeswax, 93 x 156 x 34 cm

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Hansol Kim
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“One beer job” (Pail Ales: Tribute), Liam Mullen, 2023, perpetually-chilled beer, Pingu Ice, galvanized metal pail, dimensions vary

“If I had to guess, I would say that’s about a one-beer-job,” the expression and valuation tacked to the task of the ‘quick fix.’ Both a unit of measure indicative of the time it takes to achieve a job, as well as a proximate fiat, or currency, for one’s labour, “one-beer-job” (pail ales), sees the installation of perpetually-chilled beers as a mode of amplifying publics’ awareness to the precarious, and inconsistently regulated, economies endemic to the arts.

©the artist

Liam Mullen
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Installation shot of A place for everything …, Michael Bradshaw, 2023, found chair, plywood, pine, unfired clay, bronze cast. Dimensions vary.

©the artist

Michael Bradshaw
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Ship Mountain - Map of Chusan Archipelago, Bowen Zhang, 2023, digital prints, 1.1x1.1m

©the artist

Bowen Zhang
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Diffusing Linear Body, Mei To Man, 2022, installation, painting, dimensions variable

Diffusing Linear Body spans across painting and other mediums. No longer in their original supple state, the threads are stretched into sharp straight lines presenting a clear threat and invasion of the site. The image is taken from the Japanese film Oh! The Nomugi Pass which depicts the tragic fate of female workers at the Nagano Textile Factory in the early 20th century when Japan was in the early stages of its capitalist development. In this classic scene, groups of female workers must trek through an icy mountain pass to access the long road to the silk factory, recreating the image with teams of workers progressing in lines that drift and float like spider silk on the wind.

©the artist

Mei To Man
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Playland, Varvara Uhlik, 2023, arcade grabber machine, stickers, fabric, toy guns, 197 x 115 x 100cm

©the artist

Varvara Uhlik
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In Bloom, Eilen Itzel Mena, 2023, acrylic and oil on paper 47 cm x 38 cm

Flowers are a symbol I’ve painted in the past that I have a personal connection to. Flowers represent beauty, healing, growth, and a diversity of self and community in my practice. In Bloom is a work part of the series titled, Floral Arrangement, where I depict different emotional states of growth through colour relationships, different forms of mark making and the flower motif.

Photo Credit: Eilen Itzel Mena ©the artist

Eilen Itzel Mena
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Guyrope, Bella Bradford, 2023, Denim, cardboard, ribbons, airdry clay, acrylic paint, Christmas lights, Christmas decorations, rope, silk, beads

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Bella Bradford
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Stream, Iris Su, 2023, oil pastel on inkjet print, multigrade resin coated film print, acrylic board, A4 PP sheet, headphones, and bubble wrap, 23.4 x 33.1 in. (59.4 x 84.1 cm) (each inkjet print), 8 x 10 in. (20.32 x 25.4 cm) (each film print), dimensions variable (sound installation)

©the artist

Iris Su
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Collection 0.4, Matthew Duan, 2023, installation, 32 x 70cm

Offering necessities with misguided intensity—an act of ignorant altruism, acquiring through assertive innocence.

©the artist

Matthew Duan
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Scale, Maya Pearl Böröcz Silverberg, 2023, silkscreen and oil paint on unstretched canvas, 160 x 132cm

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Maya Pearl Böröcz Silverberg
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Rain Series-Untitled 1, Wanci Xie, 2023, PH paper, collected rainwater from the homeland, thread, calico

©the artist

Wanci Xie
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Coordinates Ape Four, Jon Gabb, 2023, acrylic, oil, pencil and charcoal on canvas, 165cm x 100cm

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Jon Gabb
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the angels are cumming!, Gabriel Kidd, 2023, silk, cotton, faux pearls, ribbon, stone, feather grass, peat soil, seed, bone, branch, shell

©the artist

Gabriel Kidd
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The Assuming Device, Jack Kinsman, 2023, balsa wood, glue, wire and foam ear plugs, 1.25m x 0.75m x 0.15m

©the artist

Jack Kinsman
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Shadow of tree, Mengmeng Zhang, 2023, oil on canvas, 101 x 71cm

©the artist. Photo credit: Lam Pok Yin

Mengmeng Zhang
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Monumental Threat, Julia-Anna Simonchuk, 2023, foam board, modeling clay, 153 x 46cm

One of the concerns in my practice is the decommunisation of ideological monumental art of the Soviet period in Ukraine. The Palace of the Soviets - a utopian megalomaniac project that was never realised, is being deconstructed, altered and transformed into a Kalashnikov rifle (AK-47). This way I’m emphasising the formal likeness of the architectural structure with a weapon. Also, I’m reflecting on official art and architecture being an aggressive and harmful instrument of propaganda.

©the artist

Julia-Anna Simonchuk
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Room, Wei Xiong, 2023, steel, cable, wood, leaf fan, mechatronics, motors, sensors, and microcontrollers, 400 x 400 x 300cm

©the artist

Wei Xiong
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Tuesday 12 - Thursday 14 December 2023.

Yulin Song

Beatriz Santos

Ross Head

Anna Candlin

Hyeejin Bae

Tobias Gumbrill

Lavinia Harrington

Raquel Yago Boj

Davide Gibson

Signe Eliza Pook

Eve Stotesbury

Isabel Mills

Yang-En Hume

Ruth Speer

Jameela Gordon-King

June Jiyoon Hong

Danny Pagarani

Veronika Peat

Natalya Marconini Falconer

A. Howard

Rebekka Homann

Xi Liu

Yeye

Anna Curzon Price

Ya Luo

Lexia Hachtmann

Luo Qianxi

Xiya Wang

Hannah Cosac Naify

Chloe Beddow

Ziyi Wang

Roman Sheppard Dawson

Shiyue Li

Khadija Niang

Fan Bangyu

Mercedes Balle

Gwenllian Davenport

Ben Qi

Cat Madden

Teodora Nitsolova

Victoria Grenier

Freddie Sanders

Jess Heritage

Hansol Kim

Liam Mullen

Madeleine Bender

Shona Waldron

Qibing Yang

Rose Shuckburgh

Michael Bradshaw

Bowen Zhang

Mei To Man

Varvara Uhlik

Eilen Itzel Mena

Bella Bradford

Xinyu Han

Iris Su

Matthew Duan

Maya Pearl Böröcz Silverberg

Natasha Burton

Wanci Xie

Jon Gabb

Gabriel Kidd

Jack Kinsman

Mengmeng Zhang

Julia-Anna Simonchuk

Joe Moss

Harry Whitelock

Wei Xiong

Sophie Smorczewski