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2018

Come and see the Slade at work at our Open Studios on Wednesday 12 December from 10am - 6pm. No booking necessary.

Venue: Slade School of Fine Art, UCL, Gower Street, London WC1E 6BT

Small Press Discovery Day - UCL
Small Press Discovery Day - UCL, 2018

The Small Press Discovery Day will take place on Friday 14 December 2018, from 10am - 4pm, at the Special Collections Reading Room, Lower Ground, South Junction, UCL, Gower Street, London WC1E 6BT. Come along and open a randomly selected box from the collections to browse Little Magazines, experimental pamphlets and counter-cultural publications. Spend all day or just drop in!

Redress Poster, Studies for Portraits of Oblivion
Redress Poster, Studies for Portraits of Oblivion, Seungwon Jong, 2018, digital print on fabric (detail)

Sophie Bouvier Auslander, Katherine Forster, Seungwon Jung, Zeinab Saleh and Naomi Siderfin are showing in Redress, at UCL Museum, South Cloisters, Wilkins Building, Gower Street, WC1E 6BT, from 25 September - 14 December 2018. See www.ucl.ac.uk/culture/whats-on/redress.

Congratulations to Sofia Mitsola and Noor Qayyum who have been shortlisted for the Clifford Chance Purchase Prize. The exhibition of shortlisted artists is showing at Clifford Chance, 10 Upper Bank Street, London E14 5JJ, and runs until 14 December 2018. Viewing is by appointment only.

Mona Hatoum has been shortlisted for the Hepworth Prize for Sculpture 2018. The finalists will present their work in an exhibition at The Hepworth Wakefield from the 26 October 2018 until 20 January 2019. The winner will be announced at an awards dinner in November 2018. See hepworthwakefield.org.

This exhibition is one of the research outcomes of a project completed during the Summer 2018 by UCL students Alexa Marroquin and Jessica Manuel, supervised by Ruth Siddall. Jessica and Alexa are both successful recipients of UCL Laidlaw Scholarships, which gives them the opportunity to undertake academic research in their first year of undergraduate study. Their project, ‘Red in Roman Britain’ has looked at the range of red pigments available to Romano-British artists and together they have made a comparative study of the ancient pigments available and their modern analogues; rose madder, red lead, cinnabar/vermillion and red ochre. Alexa is studying for an MSci Chemistry and Jessica is studying for a BA History of Art with Material Studies at UCL. Together they have performed scientific analyses of the pigments and also prepared pigments as paints to test their workability and colour.

Find out more about the Laidlaw Scholarships Programme at www.ucl.ac.uk/laidlaw-scholarships/

Established in 2012 at the Slade School of Fine Art, UCL, the museum aims to promote knowledge, understanding and appreciation of the role of material within thinking and making. The museum is concerned with the preserving, collecting, exhibiting and fostering understanding of material at the highest possible museum and scholarly standards.

Exhibits can be anything that relates to material: a finished product in its own right or an unprocessed raw material. They can draw attention to substances or components with certain physical properties used in production or manufacture.

Directorial Board:

Director - Jo Volley
Executive Director - Onya McCausland
Technical Advisor - Gary Woodley
Curator - Klaas Hoek
Keeper - Alan Taylor
Resident writer and critic - Mel Gooding 
Curator - Estelle Thompson
Resident Poet - Professor Sharon Morris
Curatorial Collections Manager - Grace Hailstone

Trustees:

Professor John Aiken
Professor Lewis Biggs OBE 
Dr. Spike Bucklow
Professor Susan Collins
Dr. Zoe Laughlin
Liz Lawes
Lisa Milroy RA
Jim Moyes
Stephanie Nebbia
Dr. Robyn Pender
Dr. Nina Pearlman
Kieren Reed
Dr. Ruth Siddall

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