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There Is Never Enough Time
There Is Never Enough Time, Areena Ang, 2022, oil and charcoal on canvas, 180 x 140 cm

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Congratulations to recent BA graduate Areena Ang who has been awarded the Faculty of Arts and Humanities' Rosa Morison Memorial Medal.

Image: Areena Ang, There is never enough time, oil and charcoal on canvas, 180 x 140 cm, ©the artist

Photo of 2021/22 Early Career Award recipients (l-r) Bryan Giuseppi Rodriguez Cambana, Kristīne Daukšte, Lisa-Marie Harris and Holly Buckle, taken in an Acme studio at Warton House
Photo of 2021/22 Early Career Award recipients (l-r) Bryan Giuseppi Rodriguez Cambana, Kristīne Daukšte, Lisa-Marie Harris and Holly Buckle, taken in an Acme studio at Warton House, 2022

© Photo: Tom Carter, Acme Archive

Slade alum and Adrian Carruthers Memorial Fund recipient Holly Buckle is showing in Curved Space which explores entry to/the limitations of movement within social spaces at PEER, 97-99 Hoxton Street, London N1 6QL, from 30 September - 22 October.

This exhibition marks the seventh iteration of Acme and PEER's partnership supporting the work of early-career artists. The artists included in Curved Space have recently participated in a yearlong studio residency at Acme’s Warton House, London, in 2022.

See the PEER website for further information.

Photo of 2021/22 Early Career Award recipients (l-r) Bryan Giuseppi Rodriguez Cambana, Kristīne Daukšte, Lisa-Marie Harris and Holly Buckle, taken in an Acme studio at Warton House.
© Photo: Tom Carter, Acme Archive

Congratulations to current graduate students Yeonson Ju and Sophie Rogers who are among the winners of this year's Gazelli Art House Window Project. They will take over the windows on the first floor of the gallery 8 September - 8 October 2022. For further details of the Gazelli Art House Window Project, see their website.

We were very sad to hear of the death of Slade alumnus Raymond Briggs at the age of 88. We would like to express our sincere condolences to his family.

Raymond Briggs was a writer and illustrator. His books included The Snowman, Fungus the Bogeyman and When the Wind Blows. He studied at the Slade between 1955 - 1957.

See The Guardian, 10 August 2022 for an appreciation of his life.

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.

Poster Chila Kumari Singh Burman at FACT Liverpool
Poster Chila Kumari Singh Burman at FACT Liverpool, 2022

Chila Kumari Singh’s Merseyside Burman Empire, an experimental space, is open from 13 August 2022 - 18 June 2023 at FACT, 88 Wood Street, Liverpool L1 4DQ.  See the FACT website for details.

Apply for a Fundació Miró Mallorca grant of €3000, to cover travel expenses and accommodation for a residency at the Slade.

The award provides the use of studio space for one person for a maximum of one month and agreed access to the university’s print workshops and other academic activities programmed during the academic year.

To apply see: the Fundació Miró Mallorca website and complete the registration and application form.

Deadline 1 August 2022

Animula Series
Animula Series, Hannah Morgan, 2022, hand carved alabaster, sgraffito acrylic, hand cold bent ground steel, vortex pewter cast fragments, ceramic ears. Sound work in collaboration with Rosa Slade

photo: Thomas Jenkins

Congratulations to Hannah Morgan, recipent of the the Adrian Carruthers Award 2022/23⁠.The Adrian Carruthers Award is a partnership between Acme and the Slade, generously supported by the Adrian Carruthers Memorial Fund. This award was instigated by Adrian Carruthers’ family with the goal of providing a bridge between college and professional practice for MFA graduates from Slade School of Fine Art. The award includes a bursary, rent-free studio space and mentoring programme tailored specifically to the graduate’s practice.

Hannah was selected from a shortlist of artists by a panel including independent cultural producer and commissioner Nephertiti Oboshie Schandorf.

Hannah Morgan's work consists of sculptural installation. Her degree show presentation Animula is a series of propositions, drawing on geographic entanglement of matter and organisms, emergence and decay, of a cave site in the Moray Firth, Scotland. Text written in the back of the cave feeds the structures and forms. Navigating in-between spaces, volatile timelines, and questioning material contamination in relationship to the strata.⁠

If you are interested in studying for an undergraduate degree in fine art at the Slade, sign up for one of our Q&A open days in July. For more information see the Undergraduate Open Days website .

*Please note: the Slade building is closed for repairs from 1 July 2022.

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.

...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.

We were very sad to hear of the death of Slade alumna Dame Paula Rego at the age of 87. We would like to express our sincere condolences to her family.

Paula Rego was born in Lisbon in 1935 and studied at the Slade between 1952 and 1956.

See The Guardian, 8 June 2022 for an appreciation of her life.

Remembering a Brave New World
Remembering a Brave New World, Chila Kumari Burman, 2020

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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.