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Slade graduate students have been pioneering one-week residencies at Kurt Schwitters' Merzbarn in Cumbria funded by the Slade Project Award Fund and organized by Professor Edward Allington, Head of Graduate Sculpture.

Slade Students at the Cylinders - the bath
Slade Students at the Cylinders - the bath, 2010

Photograph from Merz Barn residency, May 2010.

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Slade Students at the Cylinders
Slade Students at the Cylinders, 2007

Slade Students at Merz Barn, Cumbria, 2007

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Students learning woodland crafts at Cylinders
Students learning woodland crafts at Cylinders

Courtesy of Littoral Arts

Slade graduate students have been pioneering one-week residencies at Kurt Schwitters' Merzbarn in Cumbria funded by the Slade Project Award Fund and organized by Professor Edward Allington, Head of Graduate Sculpture.

Kurt Schwitters rented a small farm shed on Cylinders Farm in Langdale to use as his studio in 1946. There, Schwitters began to construct Merzbarn using found materials and a construction technique invented for his two earlier 'Merz" installations.

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