The Slade is closed from 5:30pm, Friday 23 December 2022 until 9:00am, Tuesday 3 January 2023. If you have any questions regarding applications or uploading your video, please see our webpage.
We wish you all a happy and healthy break.
Posted Wednesday, 21st December 2022 00:00
BA/BFA and MA/MFA applicants for entry 2023-2024. After you have submitted your application, you will receive an email from UCL inviting you to submit your portfolio. Please watch the video and spend time putting your portfolio together in the correct format before uploading.
Posted Monday, 19th December 2022 00:00
Booking for our spring short course programme, starting in January, is now open! We are running both online and in person courses in Colour and Painting, and an in-person Easter painting course. For the full programme, see our Short Courses webpage.
Posted Tuesday, 13th December 2022 00:00
Alum Jos Nyreen is showing with Patrick H Jones and Minami Kobayashi at Dinner Party Gallery, 70 Clerkenwell Road, London EC1M 5QA. The show is curated by Lucas Dillon. The opening is Thursday 15 December 2023, 6-9pm.The show is open until the 21st of January 2023.
Posted Tuesday, 13th December 2022 00:00
Danielle Brathwaite-Shirley is showing in Danielle Brathwaite-Shirley & Josèfa Ntjam at FACT Liverpool, 88 Wood Street, Liverpool, L1 4DQ, from 2 December 2022 - 9 April 2023.
Posted Monday, 12th December 2022 00:00
Veronica Ryan has a solo show at Alison Jacques gallery, 16–18 Berners Street, London W1T 3LN, until 21 January 2023. See the Alison Jacques website for further details.
Posted Friday, 9th December 2022 00:00
To mark Lucian Freud's centenary, The National Gallery invited Slade students Mark (Joohyuk) Lee, Netanya Schwab-Matalon and Hannah Uzor to give their perspectives on Freud and his work. Watch the New Perspectives film on The National Gallery website.
Posted Thursday, 8th December 2022 00:00
Alumna Abi Ola's wallpaper “Cray and Indigo” has been installed in UCL’s new east London site, UCL East, Pool Street.The design, inspired by William Morris wallpaper designs and African textiles, was commissioned by Professor Paola Lettieri, Pro-Provost UCL East.
Posted Wednesday, 7th December 2022 00:00
Congratulations to alumna Veronica Ryan, who has won the Turner Prize. The exhibition of this year's nominees is showing at Tate Liverpool from 20 October 2022 to 19 March 2023.
Posted Wednesday, 7th December 2022 00:00
The Slade School of Fine Art is happy to present documentary footage of the 2022 Summer Shows shot by Slade students on the school’s 16mm Bolex cameras. The project was funded by UCL Alumni Engagement, the project.
Posted Friday, 2nd December 2022 00:00
Polly Townsend has been selected by Friends of Scott Polar Research Institute to be their Artist-in-residence in Antarctica. She will be travelling with the Royal Navy on board HMS Protector in January 2023.
Posted Friday, 2nd December 2022 00:00
Many congratulations to Sandra Smith, Lea Collet and Becky Loweth have been nominated for this year's UCL Widening Participation Community of Practice Awards. This small team facilitate some amazing work on behalf of the Slade, opening access for learners who are under-represented in higher education.
Posted Friday, 2nd December 2022 00:00
Dryden Goodwin’s Breathe:2022, 1300 new drawings of six Lewisham residents and clean air activists, will be animated in a large-scale public projection on the heavily polluted South Circular Road, on the side of the Old Town Hall, Catford, from 30 November - 18 December 2022. See the Invisible Dust website and Dryden Goodwin's website for more information. A video of the animation is on Vimeo.
Posted Friday, 2nd December 2022 00:00
We are delighted to run our Open Studios on 14 December.
The tours of the building, lasting approximately one hour, will cover the basement, ground floor and first floor studios at the Slade. Tours start from the main entrance. Places are limited, reserve via Eventbrite.
Posted Thursday, 1st December 2022 00:00
A short film of Hiroko Imada, showing the process of colour printing, was created for the multimedia guide for ‘Japan: Courts and Culture’ exhibition at The Queen’s Gallery. The video can be viewed on her Instagram account.
Posted Wednesday, 30th November 2022 00:00
Alumna Hiroko Imada was commissioned to create a woodblock print to mark the collaboration between Dr. Martens X The Met (Katsushika Hokusai). The video of the process can be seen on Facebook.
Posted Wednesday, 30th November 2022 00:00
Winston Branch: Jasmines blowing in the wind, is showing at Simon Lee Gallery, 12 Berkeley Street, London W1J 8DT is showing from 22 November 2022 - 14 January 2023. See the Simon Lee Gallery website for further details.
Posted Tuesday, 22nd November 2022 00:00
Danielle Brathwaite-Shirley is on the cover of Frieze magazine, issue 231, November/December 2022. A profile of her work by Skye Arundhati Thomas is also in this month's issue.
Posted Monday, 21st November 2022 00:00
Congratulations to alumna Lyndsey Gilmour who was awarded the Lyon and Turnbull Award for Painting at the Royal Scottish Academy 196th Annual Exhibition for her diptych painting "First Floor Left", 2022. The work was displayed at the Royal Scottish Academy 196th Annual Exhibition, Royal Scottish Academy Galleries, Edinburgh, from 23 April - 12 June 2022, which can still be viewed on the online archive via the RSA website.
Posted Monday, 21st November 2022 00:00
Interested in studying for an undergraduate degree in fine art? Join us on Tuesday 7 December 2022, 2:00 - 3:00pm, for an in person question and answer session with Slade tutors and students. Places are limited, reserve via Eventbrite.
Posted Tuesday, 15th November 2022 00:00
Lisa Milroy is showing in Stage Effects at Kate MacGarry, 27 Old Nichol Street, London E2 7HR, from 11 November - 17 December 2022. See the Kate MacGarry website for further details and opening hours.
Posted Tuesday, 15th November 2022 00:00
Lara Smithson is showing in the Brewers Towner International at Towner Eastbourne, Devonshire Park, College Road, Eastbourne BN21 4JJ, from 15 October 2022 to 22 January 2023. See the Towner Gallery website for details.
Posted Monday, 14th November 2022 00:00
Congratulations to MA alumni Adam Boyd and Andras Nagy Sandor, and current graduate painting student Ross Head who have been shortlisted for Studio West's NOW Introducing Prize 2022. The exhibition is open from 6pm on 11 November to 10 December 2022 at Studio West Gallery, 216 Kensington Park Road, London W11.
Posted Friday, 11th November 2022 00:00
Interested in studying for an undergraduate degree in fine art? Join us on Tuesday 15 November 2022, 2:00 - 3:00pm, for an in person question and answer session with Slade tutors and students. Places are limited, reserve via Eventbrite.
Posted Tuesday, 8th November 2022 00:00
Slade Graduate Programme Q&A online: Wednesday 7 December 2022 . We have two sessions, 10-11am and 4-5pm (GMT). This live online Q&A event is an opportunity to ask a panel of Slade graduate tutors and students about our MA/MFA programme. See our MA/MFA degree page for more information.
Posted Tuesday, 8th November 2022 00:00
Onya McCausland is showing in Expanding Landscapes: Painting After Land Art, curated by Rebecca Partridge and Joy Sleeman at Hestercombe Gallery, from 12 November 2022 - 26 February 2023. The show also includes work by alumni Jessica Warboys and Damian Taylor. See the Hestercombe Gallery website for details.
Posted Tuesday, 8th November 2022 00:00
Małgorzata Dawidek is showing in "spaces of (dis)connection", at Art27 Gallery, 40-42 West Crosscauseway, Edinburgh EH8 9JP until 8 November 2022. See the Art27 Gallery website for further details.
Posted Monday, 7th November 2022 00:00
Alumna Mairéad McClean has a solo show, Mairéad McClean: Here, at Belfast Exposed Gallery, 23 Donegall Street, Belfast BT1 2FF, until 23 December 2022. The exhibition is part of The Belfast International Arts Festival. See the Belfast Exposed Gallery website for details.
Posted Tuesday, 1st November 2022 00:00
We are delighted to welcome two artists from Karmabank who will be taking part in our Saturday 8-week drawing course, starting tomorrow. This is our first short course taught “in-person” at the Slade, Gower Street site since Covid-19.
Posted Friday, 28th October 2022 00:00
We are pleased to announce that a gift from Sadie Coles HQ will enable the delivery of a four-week Slade Widening Participation Summer School at UCL East for 40 students next summer.
The Slade Widening Participation Summer School will help to diversify the range of applications the Slade receives by equipping learners with the necessary skills, confidence and networks to bridge the gap between secondary school and further education in fine art.
Posted Friday, 21st October 2022 00:00