News 2022
UCL Winter Closure 2022
Photo: Susan Collins
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.
Portfolio Upload Instructions for 2023-24 entry
BA/BFA and MA/MFA applicants for entry 2023-2024. Instructions for uploading your portfolio are on our Portfolio Upload page.
Deadlines for applications
MA/MFA Fine Art: 6 January 2023 via UCL
BA/BFA Fine Art: 25 January 2023 via UCAS
After you have submitted your application, you will receive an email from UCL inviting you to submit your portfolio.
Portfolio submission deadlines
MA/MFA Fine Art: 16:00 (GMT) on Tuesday 10 January 2023
BA/BFA Fine Art: 16.00 (GMT) on Wednesday 8 February 2023
Please watch the video and spend time putting your portfolio together in the correct format before uploading.
If you encounter any problems whilst submitting your portfolio, please DO NOT try to resubmit your portfolio. Please contact slade.tlo@ucl.ac.uk.
Booking open for Spring Term Short Courses
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.
Jos Nyreen, Patrick H Jones And Minami Kobayashi at Dinner Party Gallery
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.
Danielle Brathwaite-Shirley & Josèfa Ntjam - Fact Liverpool
photo by Rob Battersby
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.
This exhibition will be the final instalment of Radical Ancestry, FACT’s year-long exploration into the sense of belonging. This programme of exhibitions, projects, residencies and events look at how history, geography, biology and culture shape our ancestral history and question how technology can help us to explore new ways of thinking and experimenting with who we are.
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Danielle Brathwaite-Shirley & Josèfa Ntjam - FACT Liverpool
Veronica Ryan - Alison Jacques Gallery. Photo courtesy of Alison Jacques , London, and Create, London; photograph by Lisa Whiting
photo: Alison Wilding, courtesy of Alison Jacques Gallery, London and Create, London
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.
Lucian Freud - New Perspectives Film Featuring Slade Students
©National Gallery
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.
Abi Ola Wallpaper at UCLEast
©Richard Stonehouse
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.
Photo credit: UCL, Richard Stonehouse
Veronica Ryan wins Turner Prize 2022
©Brian Roberts
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.
Read more about the Turner Prize winner on the BBC website.
Photo ©Brian Roberts
Degree Show 2022 Documentation
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. Funded by UCL Alumni Engagement, the project - led by BA (sculpture) student Niki Kohandel and facilitated by Film & Media Technician Andrew Northrop and Slade Deputy Director (Projects) Jo Volley - sought to give students an opportunity to experience 16mm filmmaking without the barrier of cost.
Friends of Scott Polar Research Institute - Artist-in-Residence
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.
UCL Widening Participation Community of Practice Awards 2022
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.
Read about some of these projects on the Widening Participation page of our website.
Image: UCL East Saturday Club (Free weekly art and design workshops is for Years 9,10 and 11 living and/or attending school in the London boroughs of Newham, Hackney, Tower Hamlets or Waltham Forest.)
Dryden Goodwin Breathe: 2022
©the artist and Invisible Dust
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.
Open Studios - 14 December 2022
Mick Farrell
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.
Japan: Courts And Culture - The Queen's Gallery
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. The exhibition runs from 8 April 2022 to 26 February 2023 at the Miller Learning Room, The Queen's Gallery, Buckingham Palace.
Hiroko Imada - Dr. Martens X The Met Collaboration
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.
Winston Branch: Jasmines Blowing in the Wind - Simon Lee Gallery
image courtesy of the artist and Simon Lee Gallery
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.
Winston Branch and curator Rianna Jade Parker will be in conversation at the gallery on Tuesday 6 December at 18.30. Tickets via Eventbrite.
Image: Winston Branch, Dancing in the Silent Blue, 1982, acrylic on canvas, 200 x 245 cm. Image courtesy of the artist and Simon Lee Gallery.
Danielle Brathwaite-Shirley Cover - Frieze November 2022
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.
Lyndsey Gilmour wins Lyon and Turnbull Award for Painting
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.
Stage Effects - Kate MacGarry
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.