Research Projects
Active Projects
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Transcultural Art Network
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A major part of Andrew Stahl's research in the last 30 years has been to examine and enhance the transcultural interaction between different cultures. In 2008, he established the Transcultural Artist Network, an Artist in Residence programme at the Slade.
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Material Research Project
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The Material Research Project based in the Methods and Materials Room of the graduate painting area, spearheads the role of materials within the creative process.
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A History of the Slade Film Project
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“an experiment … a means of bombarding students with the art of film”
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Rock Room
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The Rock Room Project is a research and exhibition project based in Graduate Sculpture and was set up in 2013. The project collaborates with the Department of UCL Earth Sciences and UCL Museums.
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Transnational Slade
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Transnational Slade aims to explore and map the global networks and trajectories of influence of the school’s alumni and staff.
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Archaeology–Heritage–Art Research Network
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The archaeology–heritage–art research network held its inaugural event at the Institute of Archaeology on 23 May 2014. Since 2021 the network is co-ordinated by Nastassja Simensky (Slade), Ellen Pavey (IoA) and Dr Beverley Butler (IoA).
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Hands On Art Workshops
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The aim of Hands On Art Workshops is to support and encourage creative and imaginative thinking, engagement and exchange globally and intergenerationally between artists and students.
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The Pigment Timeline
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The Pigment Timeline Project is a collaborative, cross-disciplinary research project which investigates and establishes connections between all UCL departments that involve pigment and colour in any aspect of their research.
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MiCA: Medieval in Contemporary Art
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MiCA is a cross-institutional research group founded in 2017 bringing together artists, writers and others engaged in the relation between the medieval period and contemporary art.
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Global Photographies
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Global Photographies was founded in spring 2020, in the first wave of the Coronavirus pandemic. It recognised an opportunity: teaching online allowed photographers, students, writers curators and academics to connect and collaborate across borders.
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Environment, Ecology, Sustainability
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Environment, Ecology, Sustainability is a research site and visual reading group with a focus on material that addresses the climate emergency through both historical and contemporary art practice.
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The Surfaces of Law
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Carey Young will create a photographic series which examines the 'surfaces of law': details of legal architecture, including courthouses, prisons, law offices etc.
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Spineless Wonders
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Spineless Wonders is an international network of artists, writers, academics and librarians, creating and researching small press publications including artists books.
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InterWorlds Transcultural Hybridity in Art
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This project, led by PhD student Jasmir Creed and Professor Sharon Morris, is significant in its aim of decolonisation of the curriculum and the museum. It is funded by the Slade School of Fine Art and the Institute of Advanced...
Past Projects
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Rapid Prototyping Project
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This research project explored how digital methodology aligns itself with the tradition of sculpture and how these notions effect an alternative methodology to the materiality of a sculptural tradition?
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Autonomously Drawn: The Aesthetics of Transition
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The project considered the status of drawing in relation to its history as a preliminary, or transitional medium.
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Abstraction and Holocaust Memory
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Mark Godfrey’s Leverhulme funded research project looked at the way American artists engaged the memory of the Holocaust resulting in the book Abstraction and the Holocaust (Yale University Press 2007).
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Sculpting the Web
This investigation aimed to contribute to our understanding of how global communications systems like the worldwide web are transforming the way we perceive the world around us.
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Experiments in Digital Surface Generation 1, 2 & 5 November 2007
Honorary Research Fellow, Dr Simon Schofield had an exhibition of new system-based artworks produced during a two year NESTA Fellowship, Experiments in Digital Surface Generation, at the Slade Research Centre, Woburn Square in November 2007.
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Musical Equivalence
Jayne Parker's objective was to make a group of 16 mm films that addressed the question: can film be a 'musical equivalent'?
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Nihon Gendai Chokoku, Japanese Modern Sculpture
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The project asks the question 'What is the relationship between the development of Modern sculpture in the West and Japan, taking the premise that modernization and Westernization are not the same?
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Notations
To mark the 40th anniversary of John Cage's seminal publication Notations (Something Else Press, 1968-9) Notations 2008 presented a range of investigations into what notation is - and can be.
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Vince Dziekan - Researcher in Residence
During the Spring of 2008, Vince Dziekan was a visiting research fellow with Slade Centre for Electronic Media (SCEMFA), based at Slade Research Centre, Woburn Square.
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Lost Narratives
Henrietta Simson, Clare Winsten Scholar was at the Slade Research Centre, from Monday to Friday 17-21 November 2008, developing work from her research in Italy.
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The View from Here
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Working with the Slade School of Fine Art, UCL in London, four artists – in China, Uganda, Israel and Australia –each filmed a 12 minute video in a locale connected to their work, under the title The View From Here.
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The Voice and Nothing More
The Voice and Nothing More (vanm), curated by Sam Belinfante and Neil Luck, was a week-long festival exploring the voice as both medium and subject matter in contemporary arts practices.
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Materialising Time
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In Materialising Time new and innovative methods of visually representing time were explored through a series of Seascapes developed in partnership with Film and Video Umbrella, London and the De La Warr Pavilion, Bexhill.
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Graduate Research 2010
This project comprised six separate weeks of concentrated activity by clusters of graduate students electing to work under the respective umbrellas of specific research themes: speed, light, time, colour, scale and space.
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Soundbox
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Sound box is a an archive of sound and performance works from the Slade School of Fine Art.
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Word Image
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This is a Research Forum including artists, writers and academics from the Slade in dialogue with other researchers at UCL and other London and international institutions, who are working on the relation between words and images across various fields of...
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Postgraduate Research 2011
The aim was to present research themes, which could be productively explored in the space; basic notions which continually inform the production of art, and hence are key to the development of artistic research: Weight, Water, Touch, Body, Land, Air.
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Graduate Research 2011
The Slade Research Centre, Woburn Square, has hosted collaborations and events involving researchers from many different fields, from the Slade School of Fine Art and UCL, as well as researchers and practitioners from the wider community nationally and internationally.
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Alighiero E Boetti: A Monograph
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This grant covered some of the research expenses for the production of Alighiero E Boetti (Yale University Press 2012).
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Liz Rideal's Indian Journey
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Liz Rideal was invited by Professor Gill Perry of the Open Arts Archive to consider recording her views about the nature of creativity and the processes of making art, whilst on a cotton research trip in India funded by the...
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Graduate Research 2012
The research themes for the Graduate Research Weeks involve basic notions that continually inform the activity of art-making, and hence are key to the development of artistic research. The research themes this academic year: Colour, Material, Body, Extra-Large, Light and...
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Making Space
A project exploring artistic process organized by Patricia Townsend and the Slade PhD students.
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Andrea Canepa: Artist-in-Residence
Andrea Canepa obtained a grant from the Fundació Pilar i Joan Miró a Mallorca for a three-week stay in London to attend the Slade School of Fine Art.
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Graduate Research 2013
The research themes for the Graduate Research Weeks involve basic notions that continually inform the activity of art-making, and hence are key to the development of artistic research. The research themes this academic year were: Drawing, Colour, Big and Body.
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PITCHAfrica Rainchute Campaign with Lisa Milroy
PITCHAfrica's rainchutes utilize decommissioned military parachutes to create a remarkably simple solution to providing access to water at home for millions.
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Slade Performance Day 2013
The first Slade Performance Day offered an innovative, non-hierarchical platform for discussion for over sixty Slade staff and students (from BA/BFA, MA/MFA, MPhil/PhD) to share their work and research in performance.
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Cinema as Object
The exhibition and study day Cinema as Object aimed to bring into relief the recent interest in the ‘objectness’ of cinema in art practice and scholarship, and to explore why such focus and interest has emerged at this moment in...
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Activating Sculpture and Performing Spaces
MA student Anja Borowicz has been investigating the politics of spatial identity through engaging with packaging and clothing, their design patterns and folding architectural forms.
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Bronze Lab
The Bronze Lab aims to investigate experimental approaches to the use of bronze, explore bronze processes alongside other metal processes and encourage the development of new research projects that may encompass a variety of media and processes - analogue and...
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Land art and the culture of landscape 1967-1977
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This network is driven by dialogue: not only between the two principal investigators, but also between generations of artists.
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Graduate Research 2014: Difference and Sociality
Difference or Sociality was a student led research project centred around the text ‘Difference or Sociality’ by Scott Lash, written in 1996 for symposium at the Jan Van Eyck Academie called ‘Towards a theory of the image’.
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1 2 3 (Unfinished)
Practice-Led PhD candidate Sarah Fortais worked with musician Edmund Gorrod during Sundays in February 2014 in order to film a quintuple exposure video depicting a 5-part drum performance.
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Spinning Out Time - Mayte Alonso, Artist in Residence
Mayte Alonso, from Madrid, was artist in residence at the Slade, funded by the Miro Foundation, in spring 2014. Her work, Spinning Out Time, was developed during her residence at the Slade, and shown at UCL Library.
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Interdisciplinary Printmaking Workshop
This one-day printmaking workshop was organised by Dr Eleanor Morgan, Slade honorary research associate, with the support of printmaking technicians Dave Christopher and James Keith.
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Lunar Salon
Practice-Led PhD candidate Sarah Fortais borrowed NASA lunar specimens from the STFC and hosted an event titled Lunar Salon at the Slade Research Centre.
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Graduate Research 2014 - 2015
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Graduate Research Weeks are held at the Slade Research Centre in the Autumn and Spring Terms and provide graduate students across all three areas the opportunity to explore an aspect of their work under a particular research theme,The research themes...
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Pain: Speaking the Threshold
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This is a three-year interdisciplinary project to further research the value of visual images in the diagnosis and management of chronic pain. Funding comes from the Centre for Humanities Interdisciplinary Research Projects (CHIRP) Scheme.
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Cities Methodologies
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Inaugurated in 2009, Cities Methodologies is a pan-UCL initiative to showcase innovative methods of urban research.
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Graduate Research 2015 -2016
Graduate Research Weeks are held at the Slade Research Centre in the Autumn and Spring Terms and provide MFA, MA and PhD students across all three areas the opportunity to explore an aspect of their work under a particular research...
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Farafield
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Farafield was a field recording project at the Slade School of Fine Art. Originally set up with funds from UCL Changemakers in 2016-17, fifteen students were given travel awards to help fund a journey for the purpose of making audio...
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Splicing Time
Liz Rideal’s Leverhulme Fellowship titled Splicing Time focuses on Rome and the Roman Campagna.
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Graduate Research 2016-17
Graduate Research Weeks are held at the Slade Research Centre and provide MFA, MA and PhD students across all three areas the opportunity to explore an aspect of their work under a particular research theme.
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British Council INSPIRE exchange with the University of Dhaka
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The Slade School of Fine Art and the University of Dhaka Faculty of Fine Art, Bangladesh were the recipients of an award as part of the British Council INSPIRE strategic partnership initiative.
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Graduate Research 2017-18
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Graduate Research Weeks are held at the Slade Research Centre and provide MFA, MA and PhD students across all three areas with a forum to explore an aspect of their work under a particular research theme.
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Onya McCausland
Dr Onya McCausland is a Leverhulme Early Career Research Fellow at the Slade School of Fine Art, UCL.
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Slade Centre for Electronic Media in Fine Art (SCEMFA)
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SCEMFA is a research group at the Slade School of Fine Art. It opened in 1995 and for the past 15 years has provided the opportunity for leading artists to focus on research into Electronic Media and Fine Art.
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Creative in Isolation
Since March 2020, the start of lockdown due to COVID-19, Slade staff and students have been adapting their practice to find innovative ways of working from home creatively. Much artwork has been created in response to the current situation and...
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Print Pals: Then and Now
In early 2021 at the height of the pandemic, the Printmaking Areas at the Slade and the National College of the Arts (NCA), Lahore invited students from across both schools to apply to take part in a unique (lockdown) print...
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Slade 150
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From October 2021 - 2022, the Slade celebrated 150 years of fine art teaching and research with a varied programme of events that reflected on the past, showcased the present, and looked ahead to the future.
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Baroque Sari
The beauty of the Indian sari has been the subject and context for much photography, my focus is on women wearing saris or shalwar kameez riding motorbikes either sidesaddle pillion or at the wheel themselves.
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Slade Drawing 150
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The Slade 150 Drawing book was launched with a print run of 150 copies on 7 December 2022. Conceived and written by Liz Rideal, designed by printmaker Lesley Sharpe, and including drawings from Slade staff members, the book marked the...
