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Raymond Briggs (1934 - 2022)
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.
On the Circulation Of Blood - Sam Belinfante
An anthology of music from On the Circulation of Blood, Sam Belinfante’s multimedia installation and performance work commissioned for The Plot, Creative Folkestone Triennial 2021 is now available at Cours de Poétique.
Open Call - Holt Journal
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.
UCL Rare-Books Club - 27 July 2022
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.
Merseyside Burman Empire - FACT Liverpool
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.
Fundació Miró Mallorca Grant For A One Month Artist Residency At The Slade
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
Adrian Carruthers Award 2022/23
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.
Open Days - BA/BFA Fine Art
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.
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.
Symposium: Monica Sjöö The time is NOW and it is overdue! - Beaconsfield
detail of photograph by Anna Jochymek
Bindu Mehra is taking part in the symposium Monica Sjöö The time is NOW and it is overdue! Saturday 25 June 2022, 2-5pm. The event is chaired by alumna Naomi Siderfin. Book via the Beaconsfield website.
...You Ate Three Hundred Devils - Wladyslaw Hasior Gallery
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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.
Bloomberg New Contemporaries 2022
Many congratulations to alumnae Abi Ola; Kneed: Ishwari Bhalerao & Leonie Rousham and 2022 BA finalist Bishwadhan Rai and MFA finalist Adam Boyd, who have all been selected for Bloomberg New Contemporaries 2022.
BNC22 shows at:
Ferens Art Gallery & Humber Street Gallery, 23 September 2022 - 27 November 2022
South London Gallery, 9 December 2022 - 19 March 2023
Future Library opens
Future Library, a one hundred year artwork created by alumna Katie Paterson, opened in Oslo on 12 June 2022. See The Guardian newspaper.
Premiere: Wayfinder and Q&A with director Larry Achiampong
The premiere of Wayfinder followed by a Q&A with director Larry Achiampong takes place on Tuesday 21 June 2022, at 18:15, NFT3, BFI Southbank, Belvedere Rd, London SE1 8XT. See the BFI website for details.
Paula Rego (1935 - 2022)
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.
Chila Kumari Singh Burman awarded a MBE
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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.
Interworlds: Remi Rana Allen and Sinta Tantra
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Interworlds: Remi Rana Allen and Sinta Tantra focuses on the work of leading artists Remi Rana Allen and Sinta Tantra. Online via Zoom, Tuesday 14 June, 3 - 5pm. Free, book via Eventbrite.
Image: Sinta Tantra, Bright Dawn mural, Karachi Biennale 2019
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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