Slade School of Fine Art
Slade MA/MFA Interim Showcase 2024

Our MA/MFA Interim Showcase is open:

Tuesday 10 December: 12noon – 5pm*
Wednesday 11 December: 10:30am–6:30pm*
Thursday 12 December: 10:00am–12noon*

*denotes last entry time

Free, hourly tours by timed ticket only, fully booked.

  1. Ceramic talons sit in a nest of human hair on a small footstool.
    foot-stool, Tobias Gumbrill, 2024, ceramics, human hair, stool, 30 cm x 30 cm x 40 cm

    ©the artist

    Tobias Gumbrill

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  2. Blue and black checked ribbon and painted ribbon woven through the spokes of a salvaged car hubcap.
    My eyes were such that literally they took photographs, Maya Silverberg, 2024, oil paint and ribbon on salvaged hubcap, 39 x 39 cm

    ©the artist

    Maya Silverberg

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  3. Sculpture made of sand of a brown vessel on the floor with pipes coming from it, graph paper and cardboard beside it.
    Echoes of the Maker, Shiying Song, 2024, sand, plastic, everyday objects, PVA glue, dimensions variable

    ©the artist

    Shiying Song

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  4. Abstract painting on linen.
    Moss, Teodora Nitsolova, October, 2024, acrylic, pencil, soft pastel, copper leaf, marble dust on fine portrait linen, 40cm x 35cm

    ©the artist

    Teodora Nitsolova

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  5. A ball run regurgitated into a pyrimaid-ish form, brightly coloured scrap metal rods taped together, topped/adorned with snooker balls (pink, yellow and brown).
    Monument: crystalfile in motion, Henry Burns, May, 2024, lamps, ceramic tile plinth, snooker balls, mop handle, tape, fuse box door, pool cues, cork tiles, laminate samples, glass light covers, chalk, knitting needles, dart flites, skate, acoustic tiles, foil, darts cases, felt, ribbon, fluorescent light bulb covers, clothes rail, picture frame moulding paper, rubber. 200 cm x 300 cm x 250 cm

    ©the artist

    Henry Burns

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  6. Blue spiral sculpture in foreground, behind a green and brown rectangular shape with irregular edges, with 4 short silver tipped shapes embedded into it.
    The Slow Arrow, Matthew Duan, 2024, stonecast plaster, clay, cement, fibreglass

    The slow arrow of beauty. The most noble kind of beauty is that which does not carry us away suddenly, whose attacks are not violent or intoxicating, but rather the kind of beauty which infiltrates slowly, which we carry along with us almost unnoticed, and meet up with again in dreams …

    Matthew Duan

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  7. Long black sculpture from floor to ceiling in a studio.
    The hiding of touch, Ben Qi, February 2024, installation, carton, chain, plastic, 120cm x 360 cm

    Touch is very common in life, the different behaviour motivations can trigger touch, such as self touch, the other’s touch with oneself, the oneself touch objects. When the intimate touch is established, the emotions, the temperature, the fetish objects, and other immersive elements, they all give an isolation on the touch shape. If this touch fell always safe and comfortable, can we always have? How can we always have?

    Photo credit: Hongyu Liao. ©the artist

    Ben Qi

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  8. A young man with a painted face resembling a skull.
    Calavera, Veronika Peat, 2024, video still

    ©the artist

    Veronika Peat

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  9. A set of 12 small rune-like wall-sculptures made of natural materials caption - Speculative language symbols for a race of hybrid beings from the future.
    Conjoined-Being Semiotics, c.PAD000170, Anna Candlin, 2024, twigs, biomaterials, glue, dimensions vary

    ©the artist

    Anna Candlin

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  10. bells on home setting photo
    Will-o'-the-wisp, Qianxi Luo, 2024, digital print mounted on white board, bells, 160 x 100 x 3 cm

    ©the artist

    Qianxi Luo

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  11. A still from a short film where an old photo camera Chaika II is providing a testimony of what it saw.but couldn’t capture
    Testimony of Chaika, Julia-Anna Simonchuk , November 2024, film, 3 minutes, (film still)

    It is a film where the protagonist and narrator is an old photo camera Chaika II. The camera is an artifact from a collection of Museum of Occupations and Freedom Fights in Vilnius, Lithuania (former KGB headquarters). Chaika is providing a testimony of what it saw but couldn’t capture and is reflecting on the nature of documentary photography and uses and abuses of technology.

    ©the artist

    Julia-Anna Simonchuk

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  12. Photograph of three people in the countryside. All figures are blurred whilst the background is in focus.
    From "Sunshine, How Are You?" photo series, Varvara Uhlik, 2023-ongoing, photography

    “Sunshine, How Are You?"  is a personal exploration of childhood memories and the enduring impact of the post-Soviet era on my sense of identity. Born in eastern Ukraine, five years after the collapse of the Soviet Union, I was often told I was fortunate to have missed the hardships of Soviet rule. However, as I grew older, I began grappling with a profound sense of disorientation and uncertainty about my identity, akin to the elusive sense of self experienced by a Soviet citizen. Caught between the remnants of Soviet influence and my own evolving sense of self, this project represents my process of emotional and cultural renewal in the face of a lingering past.

    ©the artist

    Varvara Uhlik

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  13. The image is a still from a performance work. In the image, a woman presses her ear against a CRT screen which shows a tightly cropped video of a mouth with lips slightly parted as if mid-sentence. She is crouched on the floor, wearing a brown long-sleeved top and skirt, with her hand gently placed on the television. The background features a projection of a hand cupped around an ear as if listening carefully and various plywood wooden screens.
    Thin Image, Jess Heritage, 2024, performance, moving image, installation, 10 minutes 36 seconds

    Photo credit: Philip Speakman, ©the artist.

    Jess Heritage

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  14. There is an acrylic board as the protective layer on the lightbox shape, with my aqua plants drawing on it, and the patterns are transferred from the laser cut technique. The border of the box is made of metal by using the wielding technique. Inside the box shape, there is an LED light strip, a found object like an industrial material, and my two wielding fragmented pieces on my darkroom experimental film print.
    It is a SHIELD and a BODY of TRASH, Iris Su, Jiayi, 2024, laser cut on acrylic board, darkroom film print, metal, found object and LED light, 35 cm x 45 cm x 2 cm

    ©the artist

    Iris Su, Jiayi

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  15. a close-up photo documents the shingled manner in which a 'peel-and-feel' Teddy Bear page hovers atop a postcard of the Scottish Coast, sent from a distant lover, which tuck in a, long-overdue, take-home worksheet of simple mathematics problems. Each page is gently suspended in formation by the grip of a clipboard, and a few stray paper clips. 
    Detail: Untitled (Authority Figure II), 2024, Liam Mullen, clipboard, Diagnostic Test, MAGIC STITCH FUN, Scottish Love Letter, colour-shape identification card, aluminum super clips. 35.5 cm x 22.5 cm x 0.75 cm

    ©the artist

    Liam Mullen

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  16. Close up of a diptych showing a woman dressed in fur sat in a forest by a pond, a husky to her left.
    Sad Narcissus, Gala Hills, October 2024, oil on canvas, 72” x 70”

    ©the artist

    Gala Hills

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  17. Blue and green painting of a figure lying in flowers.
    Sleeping on Franks Ledge, Sophie Smorczewski, 2024, oil and canvas, 130 x 110 cm

    ©the artist

    Sophie Smorczewski

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  18. Close up of artwork made from rectangles of screenprinted newsprint, half viridian green and white, the other a light green-beige and white, loosely attached to paper(?)
    Untitled, Gwenllian Davenport, 2023, screenprint on newsprint paper, 100 cm x 130 cm

    ©the artist

    Gwenllian Davenport

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  19. A round badge with a green border, with the words "Welcome" at the top and Domestication Assimilation and standardization around the bottom and a blue butterfly with a pink thorax in the centre. Below is a text in white which reads: "The term nature that I have explored focuses on the notion of it as a cultural construct. It is a system that can be constructed. We need to observe their ways of being with instruments, technological mediators, and the process of intervention is often accompanied by erasure, control, and regulation. In order to better define and generalise them, to systematise them."
    Domestication, Weicheng Tang, 2022, video installation

    ©the artist

    Weicheng Tang

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  20. Image of a back of a person in the foreground, a path on a hill in front of them. A black arrow across the sky.
    Things come things go, Seonhee Jung, 2024, oil on canvas, 12 x 8 cm

    ©the artist

    Seon Hee Jung

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  21. Films still of a wooded area with two trees in the foreground, each with a light piece of fabric hanging from them: one a reddish colour, the other blue. Text underneath saying "I remember these pavilions amidst the flowers and ponds".
    The Veiling, Thither and Return, Lucy XC Liu, 2024, music video, dimensions variable

    ©the artist

    Lucy XC Liu

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  22. Abstract image of a leg and foot, painted almost from underneath, coming out ot a orange, red, white background.
    Runner's High, Mengmeng Zhang, 2024, acrylic on calico, 200 x 140 cm

    ©the artist

    Mengmeng Zhang

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  23. Portrait-oriented image of thin silk dyed a grey green stretched across the whole image. Small pockets filled with various objects like bones, rocks, leaves, shells and a tooth are stitched across the silk. These pockets make the silk sag and droop.
    ‘I am gentle in securing the prize in my bag before lifting off above my sable washed waste’ , Gabriel Kidd, 2024, Margate chalk, oak galls, dried rose, rose petals, sheep vertebrae, lichen, smooth pebble, ceramic teardrop, unidentified bone half moon, fractured bone, stone from Bethan, acorn, oak leaves, bird vertebrae, bull’s tooth, holy limpet shell, broken maple fairy wings, unidentified bone slab, sheep vertebrae slippage, my tooth, chicken bone, twisted cypriot wood, wooden nail, rusted loop, rusted nails, metal claw, grey driftwood pebble, conker, stone from Derek’s garden, unidentified black tooth, broken key, pomegranate, copper and iron on silk.

    ©the artist

    Gabriel Kidd

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  24. Installation view of metal post (horizontal) with two small dark orange vase-shaped objects on the front end, a small photo of blue and white vases placed under the objects attached to the beam.
    Breeding Migration, Zijing Rie Ye, 2024, mixed media

    Exploring freedom from a borderless perspective alongside the constraints of farmed salmon:
    A scientific notion suggests we regenerate all cells every 7-10 years. As a Chinese native in Japan for a decade, my body, nourished by Japanese ingredients, could be ”Made in Japan.“ Yet, visa concerns challenge this. Reflecting on cell regeneration via local foods, the work delves into the freedom of relocation versus national identity‘s sustainability. It challenges reducing individuals to singular classifications like nationality, akin to labelling farmed salmon. It urges reconsidering existentialism beyond nationality, highlighting the constraints imposed by societal structures despite the universal quest for freedom.

    ©the artist

    Zijing Rie Ye

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  25. A grid fabric with tiny knots to represent the traces and marks on the wall's wood board.
    How I Get My Head Through The Table, Yulin Song, 2024, wood board, fabric, tape, ceramic, acrylic, canvas, 120 x 120 cm

    I constructed an imaginary scene and placing the different elements of each scene on different planes separately. I hope to further discuss how the different layers can be constructed into a scene that is more spatial in nature in this work. In this work I focus on the traces themselves, I think traces represent evidence in life, they help you to believe in your perception again and recognise the world, and I was thinking if I try to believe in something impossible and create traces of it, is it possible for it to exist. 

    ©the artist

    Yulin Song

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  26. Abstract painting, delicate red and pink brush strokes and drips against a light cream/beige background.
    Untitled, Huiyue Zhang (Ada), 2024, oil on canvas, 81 x 102 cm

    ©the artist

     Huiyue Zhang (Ada)

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  27. Painting of side on view of a black hand holding a surfboard with a view above and below the water level.
    Held, Khadija Cecile Niang, 2024, oil on board, 40.5 x 30.5 cm

    ©the artist

    Khadija Cecile Niang

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  28. A latex piece with roses wrapped and stretched on to a blue painting, creating texture and the feeling of objects being trapped like a spider web.
    Washed Off the Sea, Hannah Naify, 2023, latex, roses and oil paint on linen and wood panel, 26 x 26 cm

    ©the artist

    Hannah Naify

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  29. A naked portrait of a woman painted in muddy pastel colours onto white tissue paper cloak with a hood.
    dress size 10, Anna Curzon Price, November 2024, monoprint on stitched together sky lantern paper, 165 cm tall

    ©the artist

    Anna Curzon Price

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