Alumni News
Online screening opportunity: Slade Alumni 2017-2021
To mark the Slade's 150 anniversary, we are planning an online programme of moving image works by Slade alumni from the last five years to take place this autumn. The programmes will be shown in collaboration with UCL's Open City Documentary Festival.
We would like to invite Slade Alumni 2017-2921 to submit a work for consideration and possible inclusion. If you wish, you may submit up to two works for consideration. Please bear in mind that this is a group screening and very long works may be difficult to programme within a group screening format. The screening can only support works that are digitally formatted and will require, if selected, a Hi-Res QuickTime file (or DCP if available).
For full details regarding submission see the Open Call letter.
Jarman Award Tour
In 2021 the Jarman Award will tour across England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland, with screenings of works by all the shortlisted artists, including Slade alumni Larry Achiampong, Adham Faramawy and Georgina Starr, followed by a series of live and online artists’ Q&As. The work will be available to see through seven major arts venues in Belfast, Nottingham, Bristol, Eastbourne, London, Cardiff and Glasgow.
The tour will culminate in a special weekend of online events on 13 and 14 November in partnership with the Whitechapel Gallery, London. The Film London Jarman Award Whitechapel Weekend will feature presentations from all the artists about their practice and what inspires them.
The winner of the Award will be announced on 23 November 2021.
See the Film London website for full details.
Matthew Burrows Selects - Unit 1 Gallery
Jonathan Bassett
Sarah Tew is showing in Matthew Burrows Selects, which celebrates the Artist Support Pledge, at Unit 1 Gallery, Workshop, 1 Bard Road, London W10 6TProm 10 - 25 September 2021. See the Unit1 Gallery website for booking details.
Slade 150: recent moving image from the Slade
As part of our Slade 150 celebrations, Slade 150: Recent Moving Image From The Slade is showing at the Ciné Lumière - Institut français, Saturday 11 September, at 2pm, as part of Open City Documentary Festival.
Tickets: https://www.institut-francais.org.uk/
Programme: https://opencitylondon.com/events/slade-150-recent-moving-image-from-the-slade/
Chila Burman x Covent Garden
Chila Burman x Covent Garden, a neon wonderland, opens at Covent Garden Market on 26 August and continues until October 2021. The lights in the Market Building will be on daily from 7am until 12am and the James Street tiger will be on from 7am until 11pm. See the Covent Garden London website.
Slade at UCL Open City Documentary Festival
On its eleventh edition, the Open City Documentary Festival will run 8-14 September in London and 13-23 September online.
Founded at UCL by Michael Stewart in 2010, Open City Docs is dedicated to developing and supporting non-fiction storytellers. This year there are several events in relation to Slade 150, the Slade's 150th anniversary.
For the full programme see the UCL Open City Documentary Festival website.
For the Slade-related programmes see our Slade 150 webpage.
Instructions Follow - Feral File
Feral File
Martin John Callanan is showing in Instructions Follow, online on Feral File, from 3pm, 9 September 2021, with sales to open one hour later.
Feral File is a hybrid between an online gallery, marketplace, and publisher of NFT artist editions, in partnership with the digital art community.
The Auguries - Informality Gallery
Images from left to right: Diane Chappalley, I cannot carry this body with me, it is too heavy, 2021, oil on flax, 170 x 220 cm, Anna Reading, Feeding Frenzy (part 3), 2020, Concrete, shells, sand, bitumen, wire, chip forks, gloves, board, metal, 128 x 70 x 45 cm
Diane Chappalley and Anna Reading are showing in The Auguries at Informality Gallery, 11 Market Place , Henley on Thames, Oxfordshire RG9 2AA, until 26 September 2021. See the Informality website for further details.
Images from left to right: Diane Chappalley, I cannot carry this body with me, it is too heavy, 2021, oil on flax, 170 x 220 cm, Anna Reading, Feeding Frenzy (part 3), 2020, Concrete, shells, sand, bitumen, wire, chip forks, gloves, board, metal, 128 x 70 x 45 cm
The Silence that Lives in Houses - Cooke Latham Gallery
the artist
Francisco Rodriguez has a solo exhibition, The Silence that Lives in Houses, at Cooke Latham Gallery, 41 Parkgate Road, SW11 4NP, from 9 September - 15 October 2021. See the Cooke Latham Gallery website.
My Kid Could’ve Done That at The Edge arts centre, in partnership with the Holbourne Museum, 18 September - 19 December 2021, includes work by artists Jesse Darling, Dickon Drury, Sean Edwards and Lilah Fowler and their children. See the Holbourne Museum website.
Read more in The Guardian, 31 August 2021.
Pink Cut Pink: New Paintings by Katy Kirbach- RUSCHMAN
the artist
Pink Cut Pink: New Paintings by Katy Kirbach is showing at RUSCHMAN, 4148 N. Elston Avenue, Chicago, IL, from 4 September - 30 October, 2021. See the RUSCHMAN website.
On the Circulation of Blood at Folkestone Triennial
Creative Folkestone Triennial 2021
Thierry Bal
Sam Belinfante's On the Circulation of Blood is showing at the Creative Folkestone Triennial (Amphitheatre, Lower Sandgate Rd, Folkestone CT20, Lower Sandgate Rd, Folkestone) until 2 November 2021. See the Creative Folkestone website.
Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize 2021
Congratulations to alumni Frances Aviva Blane, Euan Gray, Roland Hicks and Sheila Gaffney who have been shortlisted for the Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize 2021. See the Trinity Buoy website.
Kirin Crooks - Ones to Watch, Elephant
Kirin Crooks
Read the feature on recent graduate Kirin Crooks, "Ones to Watch: Elephant’s Pick of This Year’s Most Exciting Art School Graduates", Elephant, 23 July 2021.
Image: 155 BC, Kirin Crooks, 2021, charcoal and acrylic on canvas, 100 x 80 cm, © the artist
Hyperobjects: Episode II - Year 0- online
Alumna Sophie Jeong has a solo online show, Hyperobjects: Episode II - Year 0, from 7 - 31 August 2021.
Hyperobjects: Episode II Year 0 is the second episode of
See: www.year0.art
Served - Sarabande Foundation
Alumnus Arthur Poujois is showing in Served, The Sarabande Summer Group Show 2021, 12 August - 2 September 2021.
This is an opportunity for the public to see what the artists-in-residence have been creating in their year at Sarabande.
Arthur Poujois' Artist Takeover with Evie O'Connor takes place on 2 September.
See the Sarabande Foundation website for further details.
Close To Home - JGM Gallery
Maria-Theresa Ortoleva and Hannah Luxton are showing in Close To Home, JGM Gallery, 24 Howie Street, Battersea, London SW11 4AY, 11 August – 11 September 2021. See the JGM Gallery website for details.
Modern Conversations - Tate St Ives
Tacita Dean and Hayley Newman are showing in Modern Conversations at Tate St Ives, Porthmeor Beach, St Ives, Cornwall TR26 1TG. See the Tate St Ives website.
Michael Armitage in the Piccadilly Art Takeover
Michael Armitage's hanging canvasses are part of the Royal Academy of Arts and Art of London's 'Piccadilly Art Takeover', a free outdoor show along Piccadilly, London, from 21 July - 31 August 2021. See the Royal Academy of Arts website for details.
vɛkst - SET New Cross
Alumnus Jos Nyreen is showing /vɛkst/, a one day exhibition on Sunday 1 August, 12-6pm, at SET New Cross, 52-54 New Cross Road, London SE14 5BD.
The exhibition includes work made with support from Svenska Kulturfonden (FIN).