News 2021
UCL Winter Closure
The Slade is closed from 5:30pm, Wednesday 22 December 2021 until 9:30am, Tuesday 4 January 2022. If you have any questions regarding applications or uploading your video, please see our webpage.
We wish you all a happy and healthy break.
Short Courses - booking for Spring Term now open
Booking for our spring term short courses in drawing and painting is now open. See our Short Courses pages.
Malgorzata Dawidek: A Net of Emotions - Wakefield
Malgorzata Dawidek: A Net of Emotions is showing at 15 Northgate, Wakefield WF1 1HD from 24 November 2021 - 27 January 2022. See the Artwalk Wakefield website for details.
Commissioned by Artwalk Wakefield, A Net of Emotions is a new light installation that investigates the conflict between human feelings and the attempt to verbally express their meaning. Read the Q&A with Malgorzata.
Undergraduate online Q&A event
Booking is now open for our Undergraduate Online Q&A event on Thursday 9 December, 5 - 6pm. This is an opportunity to ask to ask Slade Undergraduate tutors about the Slade's BA/BFA programme. Booking via Eventbrite.
Online Launch: Print Pals: Then and Now
Print Pals project
There will be an online event on 15 December to officially launch the publication Print Pals: Then and Now as part of the Slade 150 series of events/celebrations. Free, reserve via Eventbrite.
Home Court project - Icon Magazine
D’Eynsford housing estate in Camberwell, London
Mark Warren, Add Purpose
Read about the Home Court, the outcome of Thomas Morgan Evans' Concrete Canvas initiative, funded by a UCL Beacon Bursary, in this month's Icon Magazine.
Le Mostræ della Laguna - Goethe Institute, Venice
Alumna Eleanor Morgan is showing in Le Mostræ della Laguna in partnership with the Goethe Institute and Sale Docks, at Dorsoduro 265, 30123 Venice, from 5 November - 20 December 2021 and March - 29 May 2022. See the Goethe Institute website for opening hours and details.
Chemical City - MIMA
Onya McCausland is showing in Chemical City at MIMA, Centre Square, Middlesbrough TS1 2AZ, from 26 November 2021 - 24 April 2022. See the MIMA website for details.
Slade 150: Past, Present, Future - UCL Octagon Gallery
Design: Aspel Creative Ltd
What is it like to be a student at the Slade School of Fine Art?
Run by artists for artists since 1871, the School celebrates its 150th anniversary by capturing the real experiences of its students in a unique year.
This snapshot exhibition is artist-led, with Slade students reflecting on how their art school’s past and its present could inform its future. Students on programmes from BA to PhD level, across all artistic disciplines, explore ideas of tradition and heritage, and ask how new generations can challenge and disrupt these.
Full details on our Slade 150 page.
Making Colour Symposium - Slade 150
Jo Volley, Pigment Timeline (Van Gogh)
Making Colour is an afternoon symposium of presentations and poetry readings from within the arts and sciences that celebrate the colours of the rainbow. It takes place online on Wednesday 8 December 2021, 1-4pm. Free, book via Eventbrite. Full programme on Slade 150.
Felix Slade Tondo - Portico Magazine
Professor Kieren Reed celebrates an enigmatic icon of the Slade School of Fine Art, the Felix Slade Tondo, in November's edition of Portico magazine.
Graduate online Q&A event
To replace our usual Slade Open Days, this live online Q&A event is an opportunity to ask a panel of Slade graduate tutors about the MA/MFA programme. Our final postgraduate online event is 8 December, please book via Eventbrite:
Wednesday 8 December, 4:30–5:30pm
Further information on our Online Graduate Q&A webpage.
My Life in Trees - The Birmingham & Midland Institute
Poster
Monica Perez Vega has a solo show, My Life in Trees, at The Birmingham & Midland Institute, 9 Margaret St, Birmingham, B3 3BS, from 1–26 November 2021.
Breezy - Kristin Hjellegjerde Gallery
Gabriela Giroletti has a solo show, Breezy, at Kristin Hjellegjerde Gallery, 533 Old York Road, London SW18 1TG, from 19 November–18 December 2021. See the Kristin Hjellegjerde Gallery website.
Untangling the Perils that Tangle Us - The Koppel Project Hive
Current MFA student Hannah Uzor is showing in Untangling the Perils that Tangle Us at The Koppel Project Hive, Morley House, 26-30 Holborn Viaduct, London EC1A 2BP , from 15 November–17 December 2021. See The Koppel Hive website.
Evangelia Dimitrakopoulou and Francisca Sosa López
image ©the artist
PEER presents the work of Evangelia Dimitrakopoulou and Slade alumna Francisca Sosa López, two artists completing a year-long studio residency at Acme’s Warton House studios in 2021 after graduating from MA courses at London-based art colleges. The show takes place at PEER, 97-99 Hoxton Street, London N1 6QL, from 1–18 December 2021. See the PEER website for details.
Francisca Sosa López(Adrian Carruthers Award, 2020/21) work addresses the complicated relationship that she has with her home country of Venezuela and its socio-political issues such as the current migration crisis, which has to date seen 6 million people displaced from their country. Her practice expresses her personal feelings, reactions, disappointments and affections towards her country.
Screening and Conversation: Foxfire Eins - UCL European Institute
Four short films, Foxfire Eins, by Jayne Parker, lasting 30 minutes in total is showing as part of the Screening and Conversation: Foxfire Eins co-hosted by the UCL European Institute and UCL IAS (Institute of Advanced Studies), on Thursday 25 November 2021, from 5–7 pm. The screening will be followed by a conversation between Jayne, academic, filmmaker and musician Graham Riach and librarian-musician Tabitha Tuckett. Places limited due to covid restrictions. Register via MailChimp.
Spineless Wonders: 12 November
Small Press Artists Books; The Global Book; Materials, Materiality and Process conference on Friday 12 November, online via Zoom. Booking is free, tickets via Eventbrite.
The first of a 3-day series of events presenting research on small press publications, raising questions for contemporary and future publication through returning to early histories of word and image.
Full programme on our Spineless Wonders event page.
SHE KEEPS ME DAMN ALIVE - arebyte Gallery
Exhibition at arebyte Gallery, 19 November 2021–19 Februrary 2022
Danielle Brathwaite-Shirley has a solo show, SHE KEEPS ME DAMN ALIVE at arebyte Gallery, Java House, 7 Botanic Square, London E14 0LG, from 19 November 2021–19 January 2022. See the arebyte Gallery website for details.
Word as Art: Beauty in the Archives - UCL Special Collections
UCL Special Collections
UCL Special Collections’ online exhibition ‘Word as Art: Beauty in the Archives’ is now online! Inspired by the Slade 150th anniversary, Word as Art celebrates the way we have embellished the word. It includes items from their collection and work from Malgorzata Dawidek, Yifan He and Abi Ola, students/alumni from the Slade School of Fine Art.
Visit the Word as Art website.