To work directly onto a wall is the most agreeable and impressive kind of work
Cennino Cennini, Il Libro dell'arte 

Begun in 2016, the Liquitex/Slade Wall Painting Collaboration provides for a group of graduate 1st year painters the opportunity to create a temporary wall painting making use of the scale and dimensions of a large site-specific space. It is an opportunity for students to work to a live brief presenting a context for their ideas and intentions. The challenge is to devise a work that fully exploits the scale of the wall, that can be produced safely, within a limited timescale, and to a given palette. Each year the locations have changed but the project focus is still to explore the idea of the ‘artist palette’ thorough a limited range and engage with the architectural features of a given space. This culminates in a diverse range of outcomes both in subject and context of and how each individual’s palette evolves. The project connects to a long tradition of fresco and mural painting with many important historical and contemporary references and is an excellent platform for students to realise ambitious projects and the processes involved in applying them.

We are very grateful for the support from Liquitex and Stephanie Nebbia, Colart Global Fine Art Collective Manager in making this happen. 

Thanks also to Professor Kristen Kreider and the PhD cohort for the use of their Judd Street project space.  

Congratulations to Beatriz Santos, Lexia Hachtmann and Cat Madden for their very individual beautiful works.

Jo Volley 
Slade Deputy Director (Projects) 
Coordinator Material Research Project & Network