Alumni News
Chila Kumari Singh Burman awarded a MBE
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Congratulations to alumna Chila Kumari Singh Burman who has been awarded a MBE in the Queen’s Jubilee birthday honours for services to the arts, and her seminal installation 'remembering a brave new world' which lit up London during the pandemic.
Interworlds: Remi Rana Allen and Sinta Tantra
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Interworlds: Remi Rana Allen and Sinta Tantra focuses on the work of leading artists Remi Rana Allen and Sinta Tantra. Online via Zoom, Tuesday 14 June, 3 - 5pm. Free, book via Eventbrite.
Image: Sinta Tantra, Bright Dawn mural, Karachi Biennale 2019
Slade@150 Film Premiere
Slade@150 commemorates the 150th anniversary of the Slade School of Fine Art at UCL.
The film has been commissioned by Professor Stella Bruzzi as dean of the arts and humanities, to celebrate the Slade past, present and future. Stella hired two UCL academic-filmmakers, award-winners, Kate Stonehill and Justin Hardy, to co-direct a filmic piece that ranges from 19871 to the present day, from the arrival of women students, the growth of transnationalism in the mid 20th century, and the current crises of brilliance that include graduating during the pandemic.
The film is told as a visual poem, in six distinct verses, to underline that this is a single version of the story, not the definitive alternative. A central theme is that while there are a number of world famous alumni/ae, such as Paula Rego and Antony Gormley, going back in time to Stanley Spencer and Gwen John, the Slade is proud of its entire community that has each contributed to the collective, as teachers, curators, practitioners, inside and outside the world of art.
Film running time 1 hour.
Details:
Bloomsbury Theatre
6 - 7pm
Wednesday 8 June 2022
Tickets are free, book via the Bloomsbury Theatre
Jocelyn McGregor - Sculpture in the City
Sculpture in the City Aldgate Square Commission, May 2022 - spring 2023
Alumna Jocelyn McGregor's first public sculpture, 'Earthing', has just been unveiled as part of Sculpture in the City: Aldgate Square Commission, part of Sculpture in the City 11th Edition.
Earthing will be on display until spring 2023 and will join the rest of the 11th edition sculpture trail launching on 21 June 2022. See the Sculpture in the City website for more information.
Freelands Painting Prize 2022 - Okiki Akinfe
Congratulations to final year BA student Okiki Akinfe, one of the winners of the Freelands Painting Prize 2022.
The group of winning artists will participate in an exhibition at Freelands Foundation’s gallery in London this autumn. For more information see the Freelands Foundation website.
Vivien Zhang: undo undo undo - Pilar Corrias
Vivien Zhang has a solo show undo undo undo at Pilar Corrias Savile Row, 2 Savile Row, London W1S 3PA, from 26 April - 28 May 2022. See the Pilar Corrias website for details.
Zineb Sedira - 59th Venice Biennale
Zineb Sedira has been selected to represent France at the 59th Venice Biennale in 2022. For the announcement, see the Institut français website.
Her presentation Les rêves n’ont pas de titre / Dreams have no titles is on show at the French Pavilion from 23 April until 27 November 2022. See the Venice Biennale website.
Glass Exchange - Durham Cathedral and Ingleby Gallery
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
Breaking the Mould Sculpture by Women Since 1945 - Arts Council
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
Candida Powell-Williams: Tilt Shift - Southwark Park Galleries,
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Candida Powell-Williams has a solo show, Tilt Shift: Shadows of the Seasoned Sun, at Southwark Park Galleries, 1 Park Approach, Southwark Park, London SE16 2UA , from 1 May - 26 June 2022. See the Southwark Park Gallery website for details.
Celia Paul: Memory and Desire - Victoria Miro
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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.
#saymaybe at Die Möglichkeit einer Insel
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
Indications of Guilt, pt.1 at South Kiosk London
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.
Colour & Poetry: A Symposium IV - 20 - 22 March
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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
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.
March Mostra 2022 - British School at Rome
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.
KQ Private View: Slade 150
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.
Inter-worlds: Talk Jai Chuhan, Permindar Kaur, and Raksha Patel
This online talk focuses on the work of leading British South Asian women artists Jai Chuhan, Permindar Kaur, and Raksha Patel. Booking via Eventbrite. More information on Inter-worlds see the research page.
40th EVA International – Platform Commissions
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.
The World We Live In: Art and the Urban Environment - Leicester Museum and Art Gallery
Work by Michael Andrews, Lisa Milroy, Eduardo Paolozzi and Rachel Whiteread is showing as part of the Arts Council Collection Touring Exhibition, The World We Live In: Art and the Urban Environment at Leicester Museum and Art Gallery, 53 New Walk, Leicester LE1 7EA, from 5 February 2022 - 1 January 2023. See the Leicester Museum and Art Gallery website.