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News 2013

Sinta Tantra's piece, Wall Work, created for Liverpool Biennial 2012, is still on show at Open Eye Gallery, 19 Mann Island, Liverpool Waterfront, Liverpool L3 1BP. See www.openeye.org.uk.

Tom Badley, Elliot Dodd, Philip Hausmeier, Steffen Levring, Sarah McNulty, Sophie Michael, Kianoosh Motallebi and Catalina Niculescu are showing in Strong Enough, a screening programme of physical videos, selected by Steffen Levring as part of Half-words curated by Luke McCreadie. Performances are from 7pm with screenings from 8pm on Friday 19 April 2013 at Enclave Projects, Resolution Way, London SE8 4NT. See enclaveprojects.com.

Jayne Wilton is showing Suspense at Beldam Gallery, Eastern Gateway Building, Brunel University, Kingston Lane, Uxbridge, UB8 3PH, from 21 January - 15 March 2013. Suspense is the result of Jayne Wilton’s year as artist-in-residence at Brunel University, funded by The Leverhulme Trust. Her residency, Inspired by Breath, fuelled a collaborative investigation into breathing as a unit of exchange between a person and their environment and extended into an exploration of the spent breath of the cosmos. See www.brunel.ac.uk.

Junction: North London Cultural Consortium which comprises Camden Arts Centre, Cubitt, The Place, Wellcome, The Slade School of Fine Art, Central Saint Martins College of Arts and Design and UCLH NHS Foundation Hospital Trust, is launching Junction 2013 and their new website: junctionishere.org at Camden Arts Centre, Arkwright Road, London NW3 6DG, 6.30 - 8.30pm on Friday 26 April 2013. See www.camdenartscentre.org.

The world premiere of artist David Blandy’s new work, Biter, an Artsadmin Jerwood Commission, is at Whitechapel Gallery, 77-82 Whitechapel High Street, London E1 7QX, on Thursday 16 May, 6pm - 7pm. Booking is essential, see www.whitechapelgallery.org.

Alumni Fracesca Anfossi, Rebecca Birch, Katerina Botsari, Sarah Bowker-Jones, Joe Clark, Rachael MacArthur, William Stein, Laura Taylor and Sarah Kate Wilson are showing in Uncle Vern's Dog at Gallery North, Squires Building, Sandyford Road, Northumbria University, Newcastle, NE1 8ST from 5 April - 3 May 2013. See http://gn.northumbria.ac.uk.

Paint Club Research Student Network is staging a Visual Symposium to be held at Beaconsfield, 22 Newport Street, London SE11 6AY, from 11am - 8pm on Friday 26 April 2013. Speakers include Slade alumus Ian Kiaer. This one-day event, focusing on Painting as research, will be a valuable opportunity for PhD researchers from around the country to share their practice, network and be involved in discussions about their practice in relation to research. The event is free, but booking is essential. Contact Donal Maloney to reserve a place.

Daniel Preece has donated a piece to The Great Deptford Art Auction in aid of MIND at Number 82, 82 Tanners Hill, London SE8 4PN, from 6.30pm onwards on Friday 22 March 2013. See www.number82.org.

Lecturer Hayley Newman is showing in Head to Head at Castlefield Gallery, 2 Hewitt Street, Manchester M15 4GB from 1 March - 7 April 2013. There is a  panel discussion between Hayley Newman and Emily Speed chaired by independent curator Bridget Crone from 3.30-5pm on Saturday 23 March 2013.

See www.castlefieldgallery.co.uk.

Andrea Winkler is showing "till the smoke goes out" at o.T. Raum für aktuelle Kunst, Kunstpavillon, Sälistrasse 24, 6005 Lucerne, Switzerland from 24 February - 6 April 2013. There is an artist's talk on Saturday March 23, 5pm with Nadia Schneider Willen, curator. See www.ot-raumfueraktuellekunst.ch.

Staff members, Judith Goddard, Graham Gussin, Jayne Parker and Jon Thomson and students, Rachel Haines, Shen Xin and Milou van der Maaden and alumni Malin Stahl and Anne Tallentire are taking part in Cinema as Object: study day and exhibition at the Slade Resarch Centre, Woburn Square, London WC1H 0AB, from 21 -22 March 2013. Places are strictly limited and BOOKING ESSENTIAL, contact Matilde Nardelli if you would like to attend. See www.ucl.ac.uk/slade/research.

Alumna Marcia Farquhar's Flaxman Exchange is UCL Art museum's inaugural Flaxman Gallery artist commission. Artist Marcia Farquhar will lead, or mislead, a tour of the newly refurbished Flaxman Gallery and other significant spaces of UCL.

Performances are as follows:

Monday 11 March 2013, 6:30pm

Tuesday 12 March 2013, 6:30pm

Wednesday 13 March 2013, 6:30pm

Thursday 14 March 2013, 4pm

Thursday 14 March 2013, BSL performance, 6:30pm

Friday 15 March 2013, 6:30pm

Saturday 16 March 2013, 8pm

The performances are free but booking is required. Book now on Eventbrite as spaces are limited:

http://bit.ly/YBtr75

MFA Painting students Cecily Tattersall and Sarah Cameron and alumna Hannah Luxton have eggs on show in The Big Egg Hunt, which is in St Enoch Square, Glasgow from 15 - 20 March 2013 and Covent Garden, London from 22 March - 1 April 2013. The event, which has toured Britain, features eggs by 100 British artists who have been chosen to design and paint/decorate eggs that will be auctioned in aid of Action for Children.

See http://thebigegghunt.co.uk.