Staff News
Katrina Palmer awarded Honorary Doctorate
Congratulations to Dr Katrina Palmer, Undergraduate Sculpture Lead, who has been awarded an honorary degree from the University of Sussex. She received the award in July 2023, which recognises those who have made outstanding contributions to society. This year's awardees were Baroness Amos, Paul Barber OBE, Lord Peter Hain and Dr Gail Lewis.
Full details are on the University of Sussex Broadcast webpage.
Deep Horizons - MIMA
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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.
Seeing in the Dark - Locks Gallery
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Seeing in the Dark paintings by Kate Bright is showing at Locks Gallery, 600 S Washington Square, Philadelphia, PA 19106, from 8 February - 18 March 2023. See the Locks Gallery website for details.
Jos Nyreen, Patrick H Jones And Minami Kobayashi at Dinner Party Gallery
Alum Jos Nyreen is showing with Patrick H Jones and Minami Kobayashi at Dinner Party Gallery, 70 Clerkenwell Road, London EC1M 5QA. The show is curated by Lucas Dillon. The opening is Thursday 15 December 2023, 6-9pm.The show is open until the 21st of January 2023.
Dryden Goodwin Breathe: 2022
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Dryden Goodwin’s Breathe: 2022, 1300 new drawings of six Lewisham residents and clean air activists, will be animated in a large-scale public projection on the heavily polluted South Circular Road, on the side of the Old Town Hall, Catford, from 30 November - 18 December 2022.
See the Invisible Dust website and Dryden Goodwin's website for more information.
A video of the animation is on Vimeo.
Expanding Landscapes: Painting After Land Art - Hestercombe Gallery
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Onya McCausland is showing in Expanding Landscapes: Painting After Land Art, curated by Rebecca Partridge and Joy Sleeman at Hestercombe Gallery, from 12 November 2022 - 26 February 2023. The show also includes work by alumni Jessica Warboys and Damian Taylor. See the Hestercombe Gallery website for details.
Expanding Landscapes: Painting After Land Art brings together historical works by artists associated with Land Art, with contemporary artists who engage directly with landscape through the language of painting. Works by artists associated with Land Art including Nancy Holt, Andy Goldsworthy, Robert Smithson, Richard Long, Michelle Stuart, Roger Ackling and Marie Yates, are on show alongside contemporary works by painters Hannah Brown, Sam Douglas, Onya McCausland, Rebecca Partridge, Damian Taylor, Fred Sorrell and Jessica Warboys. Prints from Ingrid Pollard’s Landscape Trauma series mediate between the contemporary and historical aspects of the exhibition. The exhibition explores the romantic motifs of earth, sea and sky through a variety of materials and processes, including the physical experience of landscape as a creative act in itself. Sharing a concern for the vulnerability of nature and the importance of our attention to it, for materiality and the record of time, for all these artists and their predecessors the experience of being in the landscape is at the heart of the work.
The Spaces Between Seminar - online, 3 November
Deborah Padfield is speaking at The Spaces Between: Equity, Voice, Agency, and Care Practices Involving the Arts and Arts Therapies at 12:00-13:15 (GMT) on 3 November 2022. The seminar will take place via Zoom: https://ucl.zoom.us/j/92802192115.
PROGRAMME
Welcome and Introduction to the seminar series Dr Nisha Sajnani, NYU Steinhardt and Professor Phil Jones, IOE, UCL’s Faculty of Education and Society
CHILDHOOD/CHILDREN AS RESEARCHERS: AGENCY, VOICE AND WELLBEING
Professor Phil Jones, Professor of Children’s Rights and Wellbeing, Department of Learning and Leadership. IOE, UCL’s Faculty of Education and Society
This presentation will explore the relationships between child rights, voice, agency and research concerning children’s experiences of social exclusion and wellbeing. It will include research involving children as researchers or co-researchers into their own lives and connect this with debates drawing on the new sociology of childhood’s concepts of childhood as constructed and contextual.
CO-CREATIVE PHOTOGRAPHIC PRACTICE AS A COMMUNICATION TOOL
Dr Deborah Padfield, Associate Professor, Interdisciplinary Research and Practice, Slade School of Fine Art, UCL and Senior Lecturer in Arts & Health Humanities, St George’s, University of London
This presentation will share the aims, methodologies and outcomes of several projects in the UK and India exploring the value of images and image-making processes to the assessment and management of chronic pain. The projects explore ways in which co-created photographs of pain placed between patient and healthcare professional can trigger more negotiated dialogue in the consulting room and increase understanding between those living with and those witnessing pain. It will also invite discussion and feedback around the viability of co-creating a transcultural set of images.
ARTS, INDIGENOUS HEALING AND COMMUNITY HEALTH DEVELOPMENT IN GHANA: THE ‘TSUI ANAA’ (TAKE HEART) PROJECT
Professor Ama de-Graft Aikins, British Academy Global Professor, Institute of Advanced Studies, UCL
Tsui Anaa is a community based chronic care project in Ga Mashie, Accra that has incorporated arts-based methods in community engagement, illness management (for a patient support group), and group activities with children living in households affected by chronic illness. Ga Mashie has a strong tradition of indigenous healing arts, that is tied to cultural identities, imaginaries of healing and health-seeking practices. I will speak to the intersection of arts, indigenous healing and community health development in Ghanaian settings, using the Tsui Anaa Project as a case study.
Sparkling City - Blacklist Gallery and Matdot Gallery
Andrew Stahl has a solo show, Sparkling City at Blacklist Gallery and MATDOT Art Center ,47 Lan Luang Road,Wat Sommanat, Pom Prap Sattru Phai, Bangkok, 12 October - 12 November 2022. See matdotart.com.
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.
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.
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
REF 2021
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We are pleased to announce that 94% of our individual research outputs were recognised as ‘world leading’ (55%) and ‘internationally excellent’ (39%) in REF 2021. Overall our research culture was judged to be 88% ‘world leading’ and ‘internationally excellent’.
Our portfolio comprised submissions from 33 staff members and outputs including exhibitions, artefacts, books, articles, performance and public artworks. We presented three impact case studies, which demonstrate the range and impact of our research.
Kieren Reed, Director said:
“We are delighted that our practice-based research and research environment have been recognised as ‘world-leading’ and ‘internationally excellent’ in the field of Fine Art. This marks the Slade’s significance in this field of practice and reflects the hard work and efforts of all our staff, who have worked together to create a vibrant and innovative research community.”
Related links
UCL REF website
UCL Arts and Humanities REF2021 website
Lisa Milroy: Hands On Art Workshops for students in Kakuma Refugee Camp Impact Case Study
Onya McCausland: Transforming the cultural and economic value of mine water treatment site Impact Case Study
Susan Collins video
Slade Research
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
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.
No Escape - IMT Gallery
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.
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.
Jade Fadojutimi - Venice Biennale
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.
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.
The Conquest of Space - Richard Saltoun Gallery
Carey Young is showing in On Hannah Arendt: The Conquest of Space at Richard Saltoun Gallery, 41 Dover Street, London W1S 4NS, from 15 February - 26 March 2022. See the Richard Saltoun Gallery website.
Nánd / Embrace - Akureyri Art Museum
Onya McCausland is showing in Nánd / Embrace at Akureyri Art Museum, Kaupvangsstræti 8, 600 Akureyri, Iceland, from 29 January - 22 May 2022. See the Akureyri Art Museum website for details.