MA/MFA applicants for entry 2022-2023. Those who applied before the deadline on 5 January 2022, should have received an email inviting them to upload their portfolio. Please see our video with instructions to help you with this process.
Posted Monday, 10th January 2022 00:00
The deadline for MA/MFA applications is Tuesday 5 January 2022. If you have any questions regarding applications or uploading your portfolio, please see our webpage.
Posted Tuesday, 4th January 2022 00:00
The Slade is closed from 5:30pm, Wednesday 22 December 2021 until 9:30am, Tuesday 4 January 2022. If you have any questions regarding applications or uploading your video, please see our webpage.
We wish you all a happy and healthy break.
Posted Tuesday, 14th December 2021 00:00
Booking for our spring term short courses in drawing and painting is now open. See our Short Courses pages.
Posted Monday, 13th December 2021 00:00
Booking is now open for our Undergraduate Online Q&A event on Thursday 9 December, 5 - 6pm. This is an opportunity to ask to ask Slade Undergraduate tutors about the Slade's BA/BFA programme. Booking via Eventbrite.
Posted Monday, 6th December 2021 00:00
There will be an online event on 15 December to officially launch the publication Print Pals: Then and Now as part of the Slade 150 series of events/celebrations. Free, reserve via Eventbrite.
Posted Wednesday, 1st December 2021 00:00
The Slade School of Fine Art is delighted to welcome internationally acclaimed artist and Slade alumna Zineb Sedira to give the next William Townsend Memorial Lecture on Wednesday 8 December. This year's event takes place online. Booking is free, reserve via Eventbrite.
Posted Tuesday, 23rd November 2021 00:00
Making Colour is an afternoon symposium of presentations and poetry readings from within the arts and sciences that celebrate the colours of the rainbow. It takes place online on Wednesday 8 December 2021, 1-4pm. Free, book via Eventbrite. Full programme on Slade 150.
Posted Monday, 22nd November 2021 00:00
Professor Kieren Reed celebrates an enigmatic icon of the Slade School of Fine Art, the Felix Slade Tondo, in November's edition of Portico magazine.
Posted Friday, 19th November 2021 00:00
To replace our usual Slade Open Days, this live online Q&A event is an opportunity to ask a panel of Slade graduate tutors about the MA/MFA programme. Our final online event for postgraduates is on 8 December, please book via Eventbrite.
Posted Wednesday, 17th November 2021 00:00
Small Press Artists Books; The Global Book; Materials, Materiality and Process conference on Friday 12 November, online via Zoom. Booking is free, tickets via Eventbrite. Full programme on our Spineless Wonders event page.
Posted Monday, 8th November 2021 00:00
UCL Special Collections’ online exhibition ‘Word as Art: Beauty in the Archives’ is now online! Inspired by the Slade 150th anniversary, Word as Art celebrates the way we have embellished the word. Visit the Word as Art website.
Posted Wednesday, 3rd November 2021 00:00
We are delighted to announce our online Contemporary Art Lecture programme for autumn 2021. See our Contemporary Art Lecture page for further information.
Posted Thursday, 30th September 2021 00:00
As part of the Slade 150 anniversary, the UCL Art Museum hosts the exhibition Testing Ground from 29 September 2021 - 10 June 2022. See Testing Ground on Slade 150 for further information.
Posted Thursday, 30th September 2021 00:00
Booking now open for our autumn short courses in drawing and painting. See our Short Courses pages for further information.
Posted Thursday, 16th September 2021 00:00
To mark the start of the Slade’s 150th anniversary year, we will be hosting an online launch event on 4 October, which will mark the start of the celebrations and introduce the events that will follow through the year. Tickets via Eventbrite.
Posted Tuesday, 14th September 2021 00:00
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.
Posted Monday, 6th September 2021 00:00
On its eleventh edition, the Open City Documentary Festival will run 8-14 September in London and 13-23 September online. This year there are several events in relation to Slade 150, the Slade's 150th anniversary.
Posted Monday, 6th September 2021 00:00
Our second summer show, featuring our 2020 graduating artists takes place from 4 - 14 September 2021, Monday - Saturday, 10am - 5:30pm, at the Slade School of Fine Art, UCL, Gower Street, London WC1E 6BT. Booking essential via UCL Ticketing.
Posted Friday, 6th August 2021 00:00
Testing Ground, part of the Slade's 150 celebrations, is showing at UCL Art Museum, South Cloisters, Wilkins Building, University College London, London WC1E 6BT, from 28 September 2021 - 10 June 2022. For further information see the UCL Art Museum website.
Posted Wednesday, 28th July 2021 00:00
We are sorry to hear of the passing of James Leahy, who was director of the Slade film unit from 1971 - 1983. See The Guardian (13 July 2021).
Posted Wednesday, 14th July 2021 00:00
This roundtable, organised by UCL Art Futures, will explore how artists have incorporated new technologies in their art practice.
Posted Friday, 2nd July 2021 00:00
We are pleased to announce that we have opened the Slade building to the public for the Slade Summer Show, 5 - 17 July, featuring work by our BA/BFA and MA/MFA finalists. Tickets are now sold out, but you can see our graduands' work on the Slade Degree Showcase 2021.
Posted Monday, 21st June 2021 00:00
UCL and the Serpentine are launching a long-term partnership that will facilitate innovative exchanges across art, law, science and technology. See UCL News.
Posted Thursday, 17th June 2021 00:00
Register now for the UCL Undergraduate Virtual Open Days, 7 - 18 June 2021. See the UCL Undergraduate Virtual Open Days webpage. Search for the Slade under "Fine Art".
Posted Monday, 24th May 2021 00:00
How the arts and humanities can contribute to Healthcare Education and facilitate improved intercultural understanding in Japan and the UK. See the Two Cultures, Two Senses events page for further information.
Posted Friday, 26th March 2021 00:00
In The hidden value of the arts in levelling up, In The hidden value of the arts in levelling up, Sarah Munro (Director, Baltic), Jo Townshend (Principal Partnerships Manager (Creative Sectors), UCL Innovation & Enterprise) Kieren Reed (Director, Slade School of Fine Art, UCL) and Audrey Tan (UCL Public Policy) reflect on the value of arts and culture and explore how we can leverage the opportunities within the creative industries to advance thinking on creative careers, place-based interventions and employment.
Posted Monday, 8th March 2021 00:00
This autumn, the Slade will celebrate 150 years of fine art teaching and research with a varied programme of events which reflect on the past, showcase the present, and look ahead to the future.
Posted Monday, 1st March 2021 00:00
Before stepping down as President & Provost of UCL, Professor Michael Arthur launched the new UCL East Provost Art Prize.
Posted Wednesday, 3rd February 2021 00:00
Colour & Poetry: A Symposium, a cross and interdisciplinary four-day event, and an exhibition Colour/Collage/Poetry, takes place online between 19 -22 March 2021.
Posted Tuesday, 2nd February 2021 00:00