Alumni News
Cecilia Vicuña: Brain Forest Quipu - Tate Modern
Cecilia Vicuña: Brain Forest Quipu is showing at the Turbine Hall, Tate Modern, South Bank, London SE1, from 11 October 2022 - 16 April 2023. See the Tate Modern website for details.
Read Adrian Searle's review in The Guardian.
Inter Scape: South Asian British Women Artists
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This seminar explores South Asian British women artists contributions to contemporary art in presentations by artist Naiza Khan, art historian Rina Arya, curator Uthra Rajgopal and artist Uzma Sultan. Online via Zoom, Monday 17 October, 2 - 4pm. Free, register via Eventbrite.
Coss Hybrid 'Sarah Fortais: Artist In Residence On A Mars Analogue' - IAS
Slade alumna, Dr. Sarah Fortais, the first Artist-In-Residence for the Centre For Outer Space Studies, will be talking about some of the artwork she created as a crew member of the UK's first Analogue Space Research Mission, 7:00pm - 8:30pm, on Tuesday 18 October 2022 at the Institute of Advanced Studies, IAS Forum Room G17, Ground Floor, South Wing, UCL Gower Street, London WC1E 6BT.
Reserve via Eventbrite
Rachel Whiteread awarded the Robson Orr Tenten Award 2022
Congratulations to Rachel Whiteread DBE, who has been awarded The Robson Orr TenTen Award 2022, a Government Art Collection/Outset Annual Commission. Untitled (Bubble) was unveiled at the Government Art Collection's new headquarters at Old Admiralty Building on Friday 7 October 2022. See the article in The Guardian, 7 October 2022.
Same, Same - Sid Motion Gallery
Alumni Remi Ajani, Gabriele Beveridge, Rose Davey, Mary Ramsden, Tessa Whitehead and former tutor Gary Woodley are showing in Same, Same, curated by Rose Davey and Sid Motion, at Sid Motion Gallery, Penarth Centre, 24a Hatcham Rd, London SE15 1TR, from 30 September - 22 October 2022.
Objects of the Misanthropocene - Octagon Gallery
Objects of the Misanthropocene: Unearthing futures (2022), curated by former Slade Scientist-in-Residence Dean Sully, and Jo Volley, is showing at the Octagon Gallery, Wilkins Building, UCL, Gower Street, London WC1E 6BT, from 26 September 2022 - 10 February 2023. See the UCL Culture website for details.
Muddy Mudlarks - Candid Arts Trust
Adam Bird, Annie Lee, Ben Coleman, Christine Chua, Katie Mess, Xiao Yuhan, curated by Christine Chua, are showing in Muddy Mudlarks at Candid Arts Trust, 3 Torrens Street, London EC1V 1NQ from 23 - 26 September 2022, 12 - 6pm.
Curved Space at PEER Gallery
Holly Buckle is showing in Curved Space at PEER Gallery, 97-99 Hoxton Street, London N1 6QL, in partnership with Acme. The show opens on Thursday 29 September, 6-8pm, and continues until 22 October (Wednesday - Saturday). See the PEER Gallery website for opening hours.
Florian Roithmayr - The Matter Talks
Florian Roithmayr is this week's featured artist on The Matter Talks - Material in Focus by the London Sculpture Workshop.
The Matter Talks’ are presented by artists/makers and focus on their material inspirations – each sharing their personal yet differing material approaches to making, offering a unique insight to artistic processes that underpin the very act of making. ‘The Matter Talks’ have 2 key formats – a video and a short Q&A text piece.
Watch the video and access further resources on the London Sculpture Workshop website.
Where is home? X Open House - Whitworth Art Gallery
Current PhD students Bindu Mehra and Jasmir Creed and alumna Jai Chuhan are taking part in Where is Home? x Open House, a film screening of Bindu Mehra's 'Amnesia' and panel discussion, at The Whitworth, The University of Manchester, Oxford Road, Manchester M15 6ER, on Thursday 22 September, 6pm - 9pm.
Henrietta Simson: Reimagining Wilderness - Tremenheere Gallery
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Henrietta Simson has a solo show, Reimagining Wilderness, at the Tremenheere Sculpture Gardens, Nr Gulval, Penzance, Cornwall, TR20 8YL, from 3 - 30 September 2022. See the Tremenheere Sculpture Gardens website for details.
Curved Space - PEER
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Slade alum and Adrian Carruthers Memorial Fund recipient Holly Buckle is showing in Curved Space which explores entry to/the limitations of movement within social spaces at PEER, 97-99 Hoxton Street, London N1 6QL, from 30 September - 22 October.
This exhibition marks the seventh iteration of Acme and PEER's partnership supporting the work of early-career artists. The artists included in Curved Space have recently participated in a yearlong studio residency at Acme’s Warton House, London, in 2022.
See the PEER website for further information.
Photo of 2021/22 Early Career Award recipients (l-r) Bryan Giuseppi Rodriguez Cambana, Kristīne Daukšte, Lisa-Marie Harris and Holly Buckle, taken in an Acme studio at Warton House.
© Photo: Tom Carter, Acme Archive
On the Circulation Of Blood - Sam Belinfante
An anthology of music from On the Circulation of Blood, Sam Belinfante’s multimedia installation and performance work commissioned for The Plot, Creative Folkestone Triennial 2021 is now available at Cours de Poétique.
Open Call - Holt Journal
Slade alumnae Dana Ariel, Sarah Fortais and Dawn Gaietto have founded a new peer review journal, holt journal, for artistic and practice-led research. There is an open call for submissions for the first edition. See the holt journal website for details.
Merseyside Burman Empire - FACT Liverpool
Chila Kumari Singh’s Merseyside Burman Empire, an experimental space, is open from 13 August 2022 - 18 June 2023 at FACT, 88 Wood Street, Liverpool L1 4DQ. See the FACT website for details.
The Matter Talks: Material In Focus - Holly Hendry
Holly Hendry is the first speaker for The Matter Talks: Material in Focus for the London Sculpture Workshop. Watch the video on the London Sculpture Workshop Instagram.
‘The Matter Talks’ are presented by artists/makers and focus on their material inspirations - each sharing their personal yet differing material approaches to making, offering a unique insight to artistic processes that underpin the very act of making. A new video will be released each Wednesday at 12noon and an accompanying Q&A will be released the following day.
Bloomberg New Contemporaries 2022
Many congratulations to alumnae Abi Ola; Kneed: Ishwari Bhalerao & Leonie Rousham and 2022 BA finalist Bishwadhan Rai and MFA finalist Adam Boyd, who have all been selected for Bloomberg New Contemporaries 2022.
BNC22 shows at:
Ferens Art Gallery & Humber Street Gallery, 23 September 2022 - 27 November 2022
South London Gallery, 9 December 2022 - 19 March 2023
Future Library opens
Future Library, a one hundred year artwork created by alumna Katie Paterson, opened in Oslo on 12 June 2022. See The Guardian newspaper.
Premiere: Wayfinder and Q&A with director Larry Achiampong
The premiere of Wayfinder followed by a Q&A with director Larry Achiampong takes place on Tuesday 21 June 2022, at 18:15, NFT3, BFI Southbank, Belvedere Rd, London SE1 8XT. See the BFI website for details.
Paula Rego (1935 - 2022)
We were very sad to hear of the death of Slade alumna Dame Paula Rego at the age of 87. We would like to express our sincere condolences to her family.
Paula Rego was born in Lisbon in 1935 and studied at the Slade between 1952 and 1956.
See The Guardian, 8 June 2022 for an appreciation of her life.