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2021

The Slade is closed from 5:30pm, Wednesday 22 December 2021 until 9:30am, Tuesday 4 January 2022. If you have any questions regarding applications or uploading your video, please see our webpage.
We wish you all a happy and healthy break.

Malgorzata Dawidek: A Net of Emotions - Wakefield
Malgorzata Dawidek: A Net of Emotions - Wakefield, Malgorzata Dawidek, 2021

Malgorzata Dawidek: A Net of Emotions is showing at 15 Northgate, Wakefield WF1 1HD from 24 November 2021 - 27 January 2022. See the Artwalk Wakefield website for details.

Commissioned by Artwalk Wakefield, A Net of Emotions is a new light installation that investigates the conflict between human feelings and the attempt to verbally express their meaning. Read the Q&A with Malgorzata.

Booking is now open for our Undergraduate Online Q&A event on Thursday 9 December, 5 - 6pm. This is an opportunity to ask to ask Slade Undergraduate tutors about the Slade's BA/BFA programme. Booking via Eventbrite.

The House of Eight Eyes
The House of Eight Eyes, Eleanor Morgan, 2021, 05:41, video still

Alumna Eleanor Morgan is showing in Le Mostræ della Laguna in partnership with the Goethe Institute and Sale Docks, at Dorsoduro 265, 30123 Venice, from 5 November - 20 December 2021 and March - 29 May 2022. See the Goethe Institute website for opening hours and details.

Onya McCausland: Chemical City at MiMA
Onya McCausland: Chemical City at MiMA, 2021

Onya McCausland is showing in Chemical City at MIMA, Centre Square, Middlesbrough TS1 2AZ, from 26 November 2021 - 24 April 2022. See the MIMA website for details.

Slade 150: Past, Present, Future
Slade 150: Past, Present, Future, 2021

Design: Aspel Creative Ltd

What is it like to be a student at the Slade School of Fine Art?
Run by artists for artists since 1871, the School celebrates its 150th anniversary by capturing the real experiences of its students in a unique year.

This snapshot exhibition is artist-led, with Slade students reflecting on how their art school’s past and its present could inform its future. Students on programmes from BA to PhD level, across all artistic disciplines, explore ideas of tradition and heritage, and ask how new generations can challenge and disrupt these.

Full details on our Slade 150 page.

Making Colour image
Making Colour image, 2021

Jo Volley, Pigment Timeline (Van Gogh)

Making Colour is an afternoon symposium of presentations and poetry readings from within the arts and sciences that celebrate the colours of the rainbow. It takes place online on Wednesday 8 December 2021, 1-4pm. Free, book via Eventbrite. Full programme on Slade 150.

My Life in Trees - The Birmingham & Midland Institute
My Life in Trees - The Birmingham & Midland Institute, Monica Perez Vega, 2021

Poster

Monica Perez Vega has a solo show, My Life in Trees, at The Birmingham & Midland Institute, 9 Margaret St, Birmingham, B3 3BS, from 1–26 November 2021. 

Una broma pal musiú
Una broma pal musiú, Francisca Sosa López, 2021, painting on cardboard

image ©the artist

PEER presents the work of Evangelia Dimitrakopoulou and Slade alumna Francisca Sosa López, two artists completing a year-long studio residency at Acme’s Warton House studios in 2021 after graduating from MA courses at London-based art colleges. The show takes place at PEER, 97-99 Hoxton Street, London N1 6QL, from 1–18 December 2021. See the PEER website for details.

Francisca Sosa López(Adrian Carruthers Award, 2020/21) work addresses the complicated relationship that she has with her home country of Venezuela and its socio-political issues such as the current migration crisis, which has to date seen 6 million people displaced from their country. Her practice expresses her personal feelings, reactions, disappointments and affections towards her country.

Fox Eins (film still)
Fox Eins (film still), Jayne Parker, 2000

Four short films, Foxfire Eins, by Jayne Parker, lasting 30 minutes in total is showing as part of the Screening and Conversation: Foxfire Eins co-hosted by the UCL European Institute and UCL IAS (Institute of Advanced Studies), on Thursday 25 November 2021, from 5–7 pm. The screening will be followed by a conversation between Jayne, academic, filmmaker and musician Graham Riach and librarian-musician Tabitha Tuckett. Places limited due to covid restrictions. Register via MailChimp.

Small Press Artists Books; The Global Book; Materials, Materiality and Process conference on Friday 12 November, online via Zoom. Booking is free, tickets via Eventbrite.

The first of a 3-day series of events presenting research on small press publications, raising questions for contemporary and future publication through returning to early histories of word and image.

Full programme on our Spineless Wonders event page.

SHE KEEPS ME DAMN ALIVE poster
SHE KEEPS ME DAMN ALIVE poster, Danielle Brathwaite-Shirley⁠, 2021

Exhibition at arebyte Gallery, 19 November 2021–19 Februrary 2022

Danielle Brathwaite-Shirley⁠ has a solo show, SHE KEEPS ME DAMN ALIVE at arebyte Gallery, Java House, 7 Botanic Square, London E14 0LG, from 19 November 2021–19 January 2022. See the arebyte Gallery website for details.

Lost Motorway, part of 'Five Proposals'
Lost Motorway, part of 'Five Proposals', Simon Faithfull, 1996-2021, digital drawing

With COP26 now fully underway, UCL Anthropocene have launched a new section on their website dedicated to the conference. Simon Faithfull has provided a series of drawings that contextualise our place on the planet for the website's blog.

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