News 2022
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
Jocelyn McGregor - Sculpture in the City
Sculpture in the City Aldgate Square Commission, May 2022 - spring 2023
Alumna Jocelyn McGregor's first public sculpture, 'Earthing', has just been unveiled as part of Sculpture in the City: Aldgate Square Commission, part of Sculpture in the City 11th Edition.
Earthing will be on display until spring 2023 and will join the rest of the 11th edition sculpture trail launching on 21 June 2022. See the Sculpture in the City website for more information.
Maya Simms Designs Art Installation For BAFTA 195 Piccadilly
Photo credit: BAFTA/Hannah Taylor
Congratulations to 2nd year undergraduate student Maya Simms who designed a bespoke art installation for BAFTA unveiled at an event on 18 May 2022 to thank the donors who supported the redevelopment of BAFTA 195 Piccadilly.
The installation will be permanently displayed in 195 Piccadilly and features the names of those who supported the arts charity’s redevelopment project.
195 Piccadilly will allow BAFTA to dramatically expand its learning and new talent development programme
Barbara Broccoli CBE, Martin Freeman, Joanna Scanlon, Susan Wokoma, Gemma Whelan, Kit Connor, Will Gao, Luke Thompson, Dexter Fletcher and Sandy Powell OBE were among the guests at the event.
Maya Simms, Student at the Slade School of Fine Art said: “I wanted to create a piece of artwork that would reflect the diversity of the people coming into the BAFTA headquarters, framed and divided, as if an Art Deco style stained-glass window, into abstract representations of diverse faces. Thus, reflecting the visitors within the fabric of the BAFTA building, as well as framing them within the whole context of the act of encouraging diversity.
I wanted the donors’ names to be distributed around the artwork, surrounding and radiating from the central design. Their names, etched onto mirrored shards, encompass the design and reflect the viewer, as the donors are instrumental to the redevelopment of 195 Piccadilly.
For a young artist, an opportunity like this is undeniably momentous. The prospect of an enriching experience in the professional creative field, the exposure of my work to such a large audience and the artistic freedom presented in the competition, excited me greatly.”
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Freelands Painting Prize 2022 - Okiki Akinfe
Congratulations to final year BA student Okiki Akinfe, one of the winners of the Freelands Painting Prize 2022.
The group of winning artists will participate in an exhibition at Freelands Foundation’s gallery in London this autumn. For more information see the Freelands Foundation website.
REF 2021
©the artists, Slade School of Fine Art
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
Michael Armitage to design new £1 coin
Michael Armitage has been chosen to design a new £1 coin which will enter circulation next year. The new design for the reverse or “tails” side of the coin will mark its 40th anniversary. See The Independent article, 10 May 2022.
Vivien Zhang: undo undo undo - Pilar Corrias
Vivien Zhang has a solo show undo undo undo at Pilar Corrias Savile Row, 2 Savile Row, London W1S 3PA, from 26 April - 28 May 2022. See the Pilar Corrias website for details.
Zineb Sedira - 59th Venice Biennale
Zineb Sedira has been selected to represent France at the 59th Venice Biennale in 2022. For the announcement, see the Institut français website.
Her presentation Les rêves n’ont pas de titre / Dreams have no titles is on show at the French Pavilion from 23 April until 27 November 2022. See the Venice Biennale website.
Glass Exchange - Durham Cathedral and Ingleby Gallery
photo: David Wood
Monster Chetwynd and Katie Paterson were among the artists invited by a panel of artists and curators, convened by the National Glass Centre, to create a new glass work as part of Glass Exchange, showing at Durham Cathedral and Ingleby Gallery (Katie Paterson) until Sunday, September 11, 2022. For further details see the Sunderland Culture website.
Monster Chetwynd’s commission, The Life of St Bede, is sited in the timeless beauty of Durham Cathedral. Her work features four colourful and imaginative dioramas capturing key scenes from the life of St Bede. Chetwynd’s commission is on display in the Galilee Chapel at Durham Cathedral until Sunday, September 11 2022.
Part of Katie Paterson‘s work on Glass Exchange is also being shown in Durham Cathedral. She is delivering two inter-related projects which tell the story of earthly existence: a series of hand-blown hourglasses containing material from before the Sun existed; and a glass urn filled with a dust that spans billions of years including the evolution of humankind over the last few millennia.
Requiem will be exhibited at Ingleby Gallery in Edinburgh from Saturday, April 9 until Saturday, June 11 before being shown at National Glass Centre from Saturday, June 18, until Sunday, September 11, 2022.
A timepiece, from the series, The Moment, will be displayed at Durham Cathedral and National Glass Centre.
Images: David Wood
Art and The Rural Imagination - publication
by More Than Ponies, edited by Colin Perry
Current PhD candidate Kasia Depta-Garapich has contributed to Art and The Rural Imagination by More Than Ponies, edited by Colin Perry.
Art and the Rural Imagination features writing by key academics and artists and explores how contemporary art can help to reimagine the rural as a site of contemporary thought and experience. It reflects on a diversity of issues, from post-pandemic landscapes to farming, tourism, sustainability, productivity, as well as issues of gender, sexuality and decolonisation.
Contributors: Adam Chodzko, Katarzyna Depta-Garapich, Catherine Elwes, Laura Eldret, Feral Practice (Fiona MacDonald), Paul Finnegan, Jenny Holt, Anna Sofie Hvid, Victoria Lucas, Deirdre O’Mahony, Harry Meadows, Colin Perry, Rosemary Shirley, Julian Stallabrass, Standart Thinking (Javier Rodriguez), Marina Velez Vago and Zoox .
For further details and to order, see the More Than Ponies website.
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
Candida Powell-Williams: Tilt Shift - Southwark Park Galleries,
©Candida Powell-Williams
Candida Powell-Williams has a solo show, Tilt Shift: Shadows of the Seasoned Sun, at Southwark Park Galleries, 1 Park Approach, Southwark Park, London SE16 2UA , from 1 May - 26 June 2022. See the Southwark Park Gallery website for details.
Celia Paul: Memory and Desire - Victoria Miro
© Celia Paul, Courtesy the artist and Victoria Miro
Celia Paul: Memory and Desire, is showing at Victoria Miro, 16 Wharf Road, London N1 7RW, from 6 April–7 May 2022. See the Victoria Miro website for details.
Wayfinder: Larry Achiampong & JMW Turner - Turner Contemporary
Wayfinder: Larry Achiampong & JMW Turner, curated by Larry Achiampong, is showing at Turner Contemporary, Rendezvous, Margate, Kent CT9 1HG, from 12 March - 19 June 2022. See the Turner Contemporary website.
Rana Begum: Dappled Light is showing - Pitzhanger Gallery
Rana Begum: Dappled Light is showing at Pitzhanger Gallery, Mattock Lane, London W5 5EQ, from 25 March - September 2022. See the Pitzhanger Manor & Gallery website for details.
#saymaybe at Die Möglichkeit einer Insel
Jonas Brinker
Jonas Brinker and Douglas Gordon are showing in #saymaybe at Die Möglichkeit einer Insel, Inselstraße 7, 10117 Berlin, Germany from 19 March - 24 April 2022. See the Die Möglichkeit einer Insel website.
Image: Jonas Brinker, Stray, 2022
Indications of Guilt, pt.1 at South Kiosk London
Luca Girardini
Alumna Maud Craigie is showing Indications of Guilt, pt.1 at South Kiosk London, Unit DG.1
Bussey Building, 133 Rye Lane, London SE15 3SN, from 18 March - 10 April 2022 (Friday - Sunday, noon - 6pm, and by appointment. Film screens on the hour).
Indications of Guilt, pt.1 by Maud Craigie examines the structures of American police interrogation and their relationship to fictional screen representations of law enforcement.
In 2017, Craigie travelled to Texas to train in America’s widely used form of psychological interrogation. The techniques used have faced scrutiny in recent years due to high false confession rates. This training provided the raw material for a new body of work, centred around a single channel film. The work combines staged and documentary methods to explore how psychological interrogation can function as a process for creating fiction, whilst apparently seeking to establish truth.
Research for this project was funded by the Boise travel scholarship from the Slade during Maud's postgraduate studies.
Colour & Poetry: A Symposium IV - 20 - 22 March
©the artist
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.
City of Women London map
https://www.cityofwomenlondon.org
The interactive City of Women London map, a project led by alumna Dr Leah Lovett and Dr Duncan Hay, featuring many notable women including Slade alumnae, including Sutapa Biswas, Jadé Fadojutimi, Chila Kumari Burman and Rachel Whiteread, can be seen on: https://www.cityofwomenlondon.org.
This interactive map has been produced by researchers at The Bartlett Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis, University College London. It has been funded by the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council, UCL Grand Challenges, and the UCL Centre for Critical Heritage Studies. Development of the Memory Map Toolkit was funded by the Bartlett Faculty of the Built Environment, UCL, and draws on research conducted under the Survey of London Whitechapel Initiative, funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council.
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.