Tuksina Pipitkul

Under The Same Sky, Susan Collins & Tuksina Pipitkul, Bangkok University Gallery, Thailand, was an exhibition of work which came out of Tuksina Piptkul’s residency in at the Slade School of Fine Art and Susan Collins’s residency in Thailand as ASEM DUO Thailand 2010 exchange fellows. Both artists work with similar subjects: landscape, sky, sea from very different perspectives. ‘Under the Same Sky’ takes its inspiration from the landscape, cityscape, sky and sea of Thailand and England and creatively explores these two different approaches, processes, artists and places.

Funded by ASEM/DUO fellowship.

Dr Maria Kizito Kasule

Artist-in-residence from 28 October to 22 November 2013.

From Nagenda International Academy of Art and Design (NIAAD) and Chair of the Department of Fine Art at Makerere University, Uganda. He was been funded by the Arts Club Charitable Trust and the Slade Research Committee.

Born in 1967 Kizito was the youngest of a family of 12 children 6 of whom are surviving. The son of the late Sebastiane Kasujja and Maria Federis Nansubuga, Kizito grew up in the rural area of Masaka Districts, south of the capital city of Uganda. His parents were progressive farmers and his mother, the hero of his life, a great craft maker. Kizito traces his beginning as an artist to his mother who taught him, from an early age, the art of craft making.

Kizito joined the Margaret Trowell School of Fine Art, Makerere University, where he studied painting, sculpture and ceramics, graduating in 1993 with a first class honours degree. Later he was called back to join the faculty staff as an assistant lecturer. In 1998, he completed his MAFA degree in sculpture and in the same year embarked on his PhD in African Art history. In 2003, he completed his PhD at Makerere University and joined the Burren College of Art in the Republic of Ireland where he completed his MFA in painting.

In 2008 Kizito realised that time had come to reform art teaching in Uganda and he decided to start a new Institution of Art. By chance, before going to Ireland Kizito had started building a house for himself along Kampala Entebbe Highway. Using his personal savings from the sale of his art in Uganda and abroad, he completed his house and started the Nagenda International Academy of Art and Design (NIAAD). With 7 students, NIAAD opened its doors to the public in February 2009. Since its inception in 2009, the academy has trained 130 students. It currently has 90 full-time students.

NIAAD offers two-year diplomas in Fine Art, Textile and Jewellery Design, Fashion Design, Visual Communication Design, a Diploma in Art Education for senior secondary teachers and a two-year certificate in Art and Design. It also offers free bead designing classes to single mothers as a way of financially empowering them.

Kizito is also the founder of Fr. Ndiwalana Memorial Technical Institute in Katende and the co-founder of Ndembe primary school in Kasebuti which currently educates 150 children in the rural areas of Kalungu district.

As well as opening NIAAD, Kizito is currently Chair of the Department of Fine Art at Makerere University. His art explores the relationship between texture and patterns and sometimes challenges the social, cultural and political set ups in Africa and beyond.

He has exhibited in Africa, USA, and Europe. Many of his works are in both private and public collections.

Tintin Wulia

Artist-in-residence at Slade School of Fine Art, 28 September – 7 November 2015
Contemporary Art Lecture, 4 November 2015

Tintin Wulia (b. 1972, Denpasar) is internationally recognised for socio-politically charged works presented in witty, often interactive and participatory artworks. Her background in architecture and music (BEng/Architecture, Universitas Katolik Parahyangan 1998 and BMus/Film Scoring, Berklee College of Music 1997) as well as her practice-based research training in art (PhD/Art, RMIT University 2013) contribute to her transdisciplinary works that are often process-based and systemic, taking place across mediums. She fuses installation, mural/drawing, video, sound and performance amongst others, hacking and repurposing ready-mades, e.g. IKEA products, neodymium magnets, living matter, surveillance cameras and arcade game machines, factoring the materials' original systems into her work.

Wulia has exhibited in major international exhibitions such as Istanbul Biennale (2005), Yokohama Triennale (2005), Jakarta Biennale (2009), Moscow Biennale (2011), Gwangju Biennale (2012), Asia Pacific Triennale (2012), Jogja Biennale (2013) and Sharjah Biennale (2013). Her works have also been shown with prominent institutions such as ZKM/Center for Art and Media (Karlsruhe), International Film Festival Rotterdam, New York Underground Film Festival, Hiroshima Museum of Contemporary Art, National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art/MMCA (Seoul), Espace culturel Louis Vuitton (Paris), Theatreworks (Singapore) for a screening at ICA (London), FACT (Liverpool) for a screening at Liverpool Biennial 2006 and Garage CCC (Moscow) for a project at the 54th Venice Biennale. Her work is part of public and private collections in Australia, Indonesia, Singapore, Taiwan, China, Netherlands and the USA, including in the Singapore Art Museum, Queensland Art Gallery/Gallery of Modern Art, He Xiangning Art Museum, and Stedelijk Van Abbemuseum where it is part of the permanent exhibition.

During her artist-in-residence period at the Slade School of Fine Art, Wulia will also develop components of her project Trade/Trace/Transit (2014-2016), a series of interventions involving a close-knit socio-economical network of cardboard stakeholders, comprising multinational groups in Central, Hong Kong. The project is supported by the Australia Council for the Arts' New Work – Mid Career grant and will culminate in a solo show in Hong Kong, mid 2016, co-supported by Osage Art Foundation.

Tintin Wulia is a recipient of the Australia Council for the Arts' Creative Australia Fellowship 2014-2016.

Jon Revett

Artist-in-residence from Amarillo Texas February 17th - March 17th, 2018. Jon Revett worked in the rotunda engaging with the students on many levels and participated in seminars and tutorials and gave a contemporary Art Lecture.  He is Assistant Professor of Painting and Drawing at West Texas A&M University. 

This residency was funded by Cass Art.

Associate Professor Yutaka Inagawa and Professor Tamaki Ono 

Two artist residency from Hiroshima 4 January to 31 January 2020
From the Department of Art and Design, Faculty of Art and Culture, Onomichi City , Hiroshima University. They worked in the studios on the ground floor and gave both lectures and took part in crits making an exhibition of work produced during the residencies in the ground floor mezzanine

Partly funded by Cass Art.

Dr Roslina Ismail 

Artist in Residence from 17 February to 13 March 2020. From the University of Malaya Cultural Centre, University of Malaya.
Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.

Roslina was very active producing an enormous fascinating painting installations spread over the first floor Rotunda. It was a shame that she had to leave a bit early as COVID descended on the university and so was unable to give a talk on her work. 

Partly funded by Cass Art.