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The Life of St. Bede
The Life of St. Bede, Monster Chetwynd, March 2022, installed at Durham Cathedral

photo: David Wood

Monster Chetwynd and Katie Paterson were among the artists invited by a panel of artists and curators, convened by the National Glass Centre, to create a new glass work as part of Glass Exchange, showing at Durham Cathedral and Ingleby Gallery (Katie Paterson) until Sunday, September 11, 2022. For further details see the Sunderland Culture website.

Monster Chetwynd’s commission, The Life of St Bede, is sited in the timeless beauty of Durham Cathedral. Her work features four colourful and imaginative dioramas capturing key scenes from the life of St Bede. Chetwynd’s commission is on display in the Galilee Chapel at Durham Cathedral until Sunday, September 11 2022.

Part of Katie Paterson‘s work on Glass Exchange is also being shown in Durham Cathedral. She is delivering two inter-related projects which tell the story of earthly existence: a series of hand-blown hourglasses containing material from before the Sun existed; and a glass urn filled with a dust that spans billions of years including the evolution of humankind over the last few millennia.

Requiem will be exhibited at Ingleby Gallery in Edinburgh from Saturday, April 9 until Saturday, June 11 before being shown at National Glass Centre from Saturday, June 18, until Sunday, September 11, 2022.

A timepiece, from the series, The Moment, will be displayed at Durham Cathedral and National Glass Centre.

Images: David Wood

Art and The Rural Imagination 
Art and The Rural Imagination , Book cover

by More Than Ponies, edited by Colin Perry

Current PhD candidate Kasia Depta-Garapich has contributed to Art and The Rural Imagination by More Than Ponies, edited by Colin Perry. 

Art and the Rural Imagination features writing by key academics and artists and explores how contemporary art can help to reimagine the rural as a site of contemporary thought and experience. It reflects on a diversity of issues, from post-pandemic landscapes to farming, tourism, sustainability, productivity, as well as issues of gender, sexuality and decolonisation.

Contributors: Adam Chodzko, Katarzyna Depta-Garapich, Catherine Elwes, Laura Eldret, Feral Practice (Fiona MacDonald), Paul Finnegan, Jenny Holt, Anna Sofie Hvid, Victoria Lucas, Deirdre O’Mahony, Harry Meadows, Colin Perry, Rosemary Shirley, Julian Stallabrass, Standart Thinking (Javier Rodriguez), Marina Velez Vago and Zoox .

For further details and to order, see the More Than Ponies website.

Breaking the Mould , Sculpture by Women Since 1945 (logo)
Breaking the Mould , Sculpture by Women Since 1945 (logo)

Works by Phyllida Barlow, Rana Begum, Cathy De Monchaux, Jessie Flood-Paddock, Mona Hatoum, Holly Hendry, Kim Lim, Grace Schwindt and Rachel Whiteread are showing in Breatking the Mould Sculpture by Women Since 1945, an Arts Council Collection touring exhibition. See the Arts Council Collection website

Venues and dates

Longside Gallery, Yorkshire Sculpture Park
​29 May – 5 September 2021

Djanogly Gallery, Lakeside Arts, University of Nottingham
18 September 2021–9 January 2022

The Levinsky Gallery, University of Plymouth and The Box, Plymouth 
26 March - 5 June 2022

Ferens Art Gallery, Hull
2 July–2 October 2022

The New Art Gallery Walsall
October 2022 - March 2023

The Path Home
The Path Home, Celia Paul, 2020, oil on canvas, 56.2 x 63.5 x 3.6 cm 22 1/8 x 25 x 1 3/8 in

© Celia Paul, Courtesy the artist and Victoria Miro

Celia Paul: Memory and Desire, is showing at Victoria Miro, 16 Wharf Road, London N1 7RW, from 6 April–7 May 2022. See the Victoria Miro website for details.

Stray (film still)
Stray (film still), Jonas Brinker, 2022, film

Jonas Brinker

Jonas Brinker and Douglas Gordon are showing in #saymaybe at Die Möglichkeit einer Insel, Inselstraße 7, 10117 Berlin, Germany from 19 March - 24 April 2022. See the Die Möglichkeit einer Insel website.

Image: Jonas Brinker, Stray, 2022

Hanging uniforms - Indications of Guilt, pt.1 installation view at transmediale, Berlin, 2021.
Hanging uniforms - Indications of Guilt, pt.1 installation view at transmediale, Berlin, 2021., Maud Craigie, 2021

Luca Girardini

Alumna Maud Craigie is showing Indications of Guilt, pt.1 at South Kiosk London, Unit DG.1
Bussey Building, 133 Rye Lane, London SE15 3SN, from 18 March - 10 April 2022 (Friday - Sunday, noon - 6pm, and by appointment. Film screens on the hour).

Indications of Guilt, pt.1 by Maud Craigie examines the structures of American police interrogation and their relationship to fictional screen representations of law enforcement.

In 2017, Craigie travelled to Texas to train in America’s widely used form of psychological interrogation. The techniques used have faced scrutiny in recent years due to high false confession rates. This training provided the raw material for a new body of work, centred around a single channel film. The work combines staged and documentary methods to explore how psychological interrogation can function as a process for creating fiction, whilst apparently seeking to establish truth.

Research for this project was funded by the Boise travel scholarship from the Slade during Maud's postgraduate studies.

See South Kiosk London website.

Palette #2
Palette #2, Jo Volley, 2019

©the artist

Colour & Poetry: A Symposium IV, 20 – 22 March 2022, is a cross and interdisciplinary three-day online event held by the Slade in celebration of International Colour Day, World Poetry Day and World Pigment Day. The symposium hosts a range of speakers representing the arts and humanities, science and industry, drawing upon knowledge from within and outside of the UCL community, it includes presentations, readings, performance and practical workshops.

Booking via Eventbrite, further information on the Colour & Poetry page.

City of Women London map
City of Women London map, 2022, Interactive map

https://www.cityofwomenlondon.org

The interactive City of Women London map, a project led by alumna Dr Leah Lovett and Dr Duncan Hay, featuring many notable women including Slade alumnae, including Sutapa Biswas, Jadé Fadojutimi, Chila Kumari Burman and Rachel Whiteread, can be seen on: https://www.cityofwomenlondon.org.

This interactive map has been produced by researchers at The Bartlett Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis, University College London. It has been funded by the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council, UCL Grand Challenges, and the UCL Centre for Critical Heritage Studies. Development of the Memory Map Toolkit was funded by the Bartlett Faculty of the Built Environment, UCL, and draws on research conducted under the Survey of London Whitechapel Initiative, funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council.

No Escape
No Escape, Thomson & Craighead, 2022

Thomson & Craighead

Thomson & Craighead are showing No Escape at IMT Gallery, Unit 2/210, Cambridge Heath Road, London E2 9NQ from 18 March - 1 May 2022. Check the IMT Gallery website for opening hours.

No Escape will be the public launch of a ten-year long performative artwork measuring climate change through the consumption of whisky. Punch drunk on these fictional accounts of a world gone mad, Thomson & Craighead experiment in trying to see our world gone mad more clearly, and while clarity can bring hope there is still No Escape.

March Mostra 2022 - British School at Rome
March Mostra 2022 - British School at Rome, 2022

Lara Smithson is showing in March Mostra 2022 at the British School at Rome (BSR), via Antonio Gramsci 61, 00197 Roma, from 11 - 18 March 2022. See the British School at Rome website.

March Mostra 2022, features the new work of the current resident artists at the BSR. Lara Smithson is the Bridget Riley Fellow at the British School at Rome, 2021/22.

Slade 150 Past Present Future montage
Slade 150 Past Present Future montage, 2022

Join the KQ for this Virtual Private View in collaboration with the UCL Slade School of Art, from 3-4pm on Wednesday 9 March, to hear staff and students discuss the exhibitions Slade 150 Past, Present, Future, Testing Ground and Print Pals.  Book via Eventbrite.

Congratulations to Cliodhna Timoney who has is one of the selected artists for the 40th EVA International: Ireland’s Biennial of Contemporary Art. 

The selected artists will work with EVA International to develop projects that will then be presented as part of the biennial programme in 2023; their works variously addressing the biennial’s theme of citizenship. Platform Commissions proposals were selected by artist Emily Jacir, and writer, curator and art historian Pádraic E. Moore, chaired by EVA International Director Matt Packer. 

See the EVA International website.

Congratulations to Jadé Fadojutimi, who has been selected to participate in the 2022 Venice Biennale. She takes part in the 59th International Art Exhibition, curated by Cecilia Alemani, open to the public from 23 April - 27 November 2022 at the Giardini and the Arsenale. See the Venice Biennale website.

Heal's Mansard Gallery, Neon Drama and Pearl Drops
Heal's Mansard Gallery, Neon Drama and Pearl Drops, Chila Kumari Singh Burman, February 2022

Chila Kumari Singh Burman has a solo show Neon Drama and Pearl Drops at the Mansard Gallery, Heal's, Tottenham Court Road, London W1, from 15 February - late March 2022. See the Heal's website for details.