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PAST PRESENT. As if asleep ...  
PAST PRESENT. As if asleep ...  , Ioana Marinescu, 2023

Lockdown research residency, Beaconsfield London.

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Research symposium: "Dreams and Guilt. Exhibiting counter-narratives" at Beaconsfield, 22 Newport Street, London SE11 6AY, on Wednesday 19 July 2023, 10.00-17.00, convened by Ioana Marinescu and Naomi Siderfin.

Presentations include those by current PhD students and alumnae Jumana Abboud, Ioana Marinescu, Bindu Mehra, Naomi Siderfin and Shino Yanai.

A small number of audience tickets are available via Eventbrite. Lunch included.

Dreams and Guilt. Exhibiting counter-narratives is convened by Ioana Marinescu and Naomi Siderfin to reflect on their respective, recently completed, doctoral research at Slade School of Fine Art, and Smaranda Găbudeanu as part of her MA research at CESI (Center of Excellence in Image Studies) Bucharest. This practice-led symposium takes place a few days before the public opening (21 July) of PAST PRESENT. Fragments of Memory: Bucharest–Pompeii–London, co-produced by Beaconsfield and PETEC – and contributes to the process of exhibiting.

The Inaccessible Narrative
The Inaccessible Narrative, Bindu Mehra, film still

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PhD student Bindu Mehra will be presenting a paper Silence of the Well, ‘Aur Mein Bhi’ (and me too): Women’s Silence and the Unsaid in Contemporary Narratives in India as part of Panel Session 1: Colonial Legacies, 10:30-12:30 at The Critical Perspectives on Racism and Colonialism Conference at the Institute of Advanced Studies, 25 May – 26 May 2023.

Saltburn 54°34 07.37 N 0°57 42.87 W, No.3
Saltburn 54°34 07.37 N 0°57 42.87 W, No.3, Onya McCausland, 2019, pigment in oil on canvas, 136 x 167 cm 

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Onya McCausland is showing in Art + Social: Deep Horizons presented by the Middlesborough Institute of Modern Art (MIMA)  and the Roberts Institute of Art, 10 March - 18 June 2023.

Bringing work together from the Middlesbrough Collection and the Roberts Institute of Art, the exhibition starts with the topic of excavation to present sculpture, drawing, painting, installation, ceramics, photography and moving image from the last 90 years. The show also includes work by alumni Paula Rego and John Stezaker.

Screenshot, holt journal, vol 1, Methodologies, January 2023
Screenshot, holt journal, vol 1, Methodologies, January 2023

The first volume of holt, a peer reviewed journal and a meeting place for sharing artistic and practice-led research, a space for generating conversations, and supporting the transition between making and disseminating, is now online. The journal was co-founded by Slade alumnae (PhD) Dana Ariel, Sarah Fortais & Dawn Gaietto. 

The papers included in this issue focus on the exploration and development of diverse creative arts research methodologies. In this publication they aim to share not only the outcomes of artistic research but the processes, reflections and methodologies through which these outcomes emerged.

Please visit the holt journal website to view the full issue.

Zone Out
Zone Out, Małgorzata Dawidek, 2022

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Małgorzata Dawidek is showing in "spaces of (dis)connection", at Art27 Gallery, 40-42 West Crosscauseway, Edinburgh EH8 9JP until 8 November 2022.

The exhibition follows a pioneering project conducted by researchers from the University of Glasgow, Middlesex University London, and the University of Sheffield to investigate how the pandemic has affected the everyday lives of Polish key workers in the UK. This show combines newly commissioned photographic work by Małgorzata Dawidek, Paulina Korobkiewicz, and Sylwia Kowalczyk alongside anonymous testimonies given by Polish essential workers across the UK.

See the Art27 Gallery website for further details.

Image: Małgorzata Dawidek, Zone Out, 2022

Coss Hybrid 'Sarah Fortais: Artist In Residence On A Mars Analogue' - IAS image
Coss Hybrid 'Sarah Fortais: Artist In Residence On A Mars Analogue' - IAS image, 2022

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

Holding Patterns series (SelfSchooting Project #2)
Holding Patterns series (SelfSchooting Project #2), Małgorzata Dawidek Gryglicka

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Congratulations to Małgorzata Dawidek Gryglicka, who has been selected for Hastings Open 2022 biennial show. The award winner will be announced during the exhibition opening at 4pm on Saturday 1 October 2022. The show takes place at the Hastings Museum and Art Gallery, John's Place, Bohemia Rd, Hastings TN34 1ET, from 2 October 2022 - 29 January 2023. See the Hastings Museum and Art Gallery website for details.

One of the selected works has been recently awarded a UCL Doctoral School Research Images as Art / Art Images as Research prize. This forms part of Malgorzata's PhD research on representations of vulnerability and illness in art.

Poster,  Ancestral Libations, September 2022
Poster,  Ancestral Libations, September 2022

Lucille Junkere has a solo show, Ancestral Libations, Prelude Part 1 - Allegories of Honouring and Remembrance, at 105a Euston Street. London NW1 2EW, from 1 - 7 October 2022. For details see Lucille Junkere's website.

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. 

Register via Eventbrite.

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.

Congratulations to Slade PhD student Małgorzata Dawidek, who has been chosen as one of 4 finalists from universities across London in this year’s Anthony Davis Book Collecting Prize. She’s also been awarded a grant from the Adam Mickiewicz Institute, recognising her contribution to the dissemination of Polish culture by presenting her collection to the English public. 

She will be presenting her collection as part of UCL Rare Books Club on Wednesday 27 July 2022 at UCL Special Collections' South Junction Reading Room. Drop in any time between 12:20 - 2pm.  Reserve your ticket via Eventbrite.

...you ate three hundred devils
...you ate three hundred devils, Katarzyna Depta-Garapich, 2022

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Katarzyna Depta-Garapich is showing  ...you ate three hundred devils, a two-person show at Wladyslaw Hasior Gallery, Tatra Museum, Zakopane, Poland. The work forms part of her PhD research and the project was supported by Malcolm Hughes and Jean Spencer Memorial Bursaries. See the Tatra Museum website for information about the show.