2021
Paul Hamlyn Foundation Awards for Artists 2021
Congratulations to Imran Perretta and Carey Young, who are amongst the recipients of 2021's Paul Hamlyn Foundation Awards for Artists. See the Paul Hamlyn Foundation website for further information.
Testing Ground - UCL Art Museum
Testing Ground, part of the Slade's 150 celebrations, is showing at UCL Art Museum, South Cloisters, Wilkins Building, University College London, London WC1E 6BT, from 28 September 2021 - 10 June 2022. For further information see the UCL Art Museum website .
Phyllida Barlow: act - Highgate Cemetery
Installation view at Highgate Cemetery, London, A Studio Voltaire commission, Image courtesy of the artist
Emeritus Professor Phyllida Barlow's act, commissioned by Studio Voltaire, can be seen at The West Cemetery, Highgate Cemetery, Swain's Lane, London N6 6PJ, from 24 July - 30 August 2021. See the Studio Voltaire website for further details.
Phyllida Barlow studied at The Slade from 1963-66, and after joining the staff in the late 1980s, taught here until 2009.
Image: Phyllida Barlow, act, 2021, Installation view at Highgate Cemetery, London, A Studio Voltaire commission. Image courtesy of the artist.
Into Focus / RGB East in collaboration
Four Corners Into Focus projects and RGB East are delighted to present a collaborative exhibition of experimental photo works and animations at Four Corners Gallery from 28 July - 7 August 2021 at Four Corners Gallery, 121 Roman Road, London E2 0QN. See the Four Corners website for further details.
This intergenerational project enabled twelve younger and older Tower Hamlets residents to produce traditional black & white and colour photographs, alongside inverted digital colour prints. The process was supported by local artist Sarah Ainslie, plus artist Jo Guile (Slade School of Fine Art) and scientist Dr Emily Patterson (UCL Institute of Ophthalmology) who set up RGB East to engage East London communities in the exploration of colour concepts.
Current Participants
Catherine Tuitt, Cheneil Campbell, Fatima Ali, Henry Kenyon, John Fowell, Kayra Jariby, Lena Nawrocka, Marie Sleigh, Sebastian Garraway, Sophie Baker, Tiannah Samuel, Veronika Casarova
Into Focus
Into Focus (2019-2023) is an intergenerational photography programme, FREE for Tower Hamlets residents aged 14-25 and over 50. The programme consists of seven 12-week projects, supporting 84 local people to foster positive connection across age groups.
Four Corners
Four Corners is an arts charity that believes in film and photography for all. We champion creative expression, education, and empowerment, and have been based in East London for almost 50 years.
RGB East
‘Red Green Blue East’ is a project featuring East London based artists. Working through a scientifically engaged photographic practice they explore their relationship with Tower Hamlets through colour. Using the RGB East website below, Jo Guile (Slade School of Art, UCL) and Dr Emily Patterson (UCL Institute of Ophthalmology) have sought to engage East London communities in an exploration of the concept of colour. In a series of participatory curatorial workshops, the artists worked collectively as co-curators, coming together to craft an event that explores the scientific basis of colour and shares their subjective interpretations of colour in the local landscape.
Website: https://rgbeast.co.uk/
Partners
Into Focus is generously supported by the London Borough of Tower Hamlets Local Community Fund, and Red Green Blue East is generously supported by a Beacon Bursary Grant from the Engagement Team, UCL Culture and UCL East.
BSR Online Lecture: Sustainable art practice for a sustainable world
BSR Online Lecture: Sustainable art practice for a sustainable world, on Friday 16 July 2021, (15:00-18:00 BST).
This event will take place via Zoom and requires advance registration. Please click here to reserve your place.
Organised by Susan Collins (UCL), Harriet O’Neill (BSR; RHUL) and Marta Pellerini (BSR)
How can artists flag the importance of political action on climate change? Leone Contini, Emma Critchley, Holly Hendry (Slade), John Gerrard and Onya McCausland (Slade) will discuss the power of art to draw attention to environmental degradation and ask how its production can be both sustainable and engage with wider sustainability initiatives, in relation to communities and place. One vital question will be whether it is the proper role indeed responsibility of the artist to draw attention to the importance of political action on climate change and do policy-makers listen?
James Leahy
We are sorry to hear of the passing of James Leahy, who was director of the Slade film unit from 1971 - 1983. See The Guardian (13 July 2021).
Other-ed
Other-ed are events hosted by artists, artist led spaces and cultural workers, organised by Slade Graduand Eva Kraljic. The event occasioning the conclusion of the Slade 2021 Degree show aims to void the space of the institution to look at othered ways of engagement within anonymous and free-fall networked environments.
The event takes place on 16 - 17July, 2021 on: https:/www.twitch.tv/echomilkonline and https:/met.jit.si/other-edworldbeholdstheopen (Chrome browser recomended).
Visit echomilk.online for more information.
Wildfires in the Lab - Online
Christina della Giustina is speaking at Wildfires in the Lab - Creative Experiments Through Art and Science online via Zoom on Wednesday 14 July 2021. Register via Eventbrite.
Bloomberg New Contemporaries 2021
Congratulations to Mataio Austin Dean, Anna Choutova, Bo Choy, Laila Majid, Seren Metcalfe, Haeji Min, Willy Nabi, Davinia-Ann Robinson, Sean Synnuck, who have been selected for Bloomberg New Contemporaries 2021!
Firstsite, Colchester, will launch Bloomberg New Contemporaries 2021 from 25 September to 28 November 2021. The show will then travel to the South London Gallery, from 10 December 2021 to 20 February 2022.
For details see the Bloomberg New Contemporaries website.
Paula Rego - Tate Britain
Paula Rego is showing at Tate Britain, Millbank, London SW1P 4RG, from 7 July - 24 October 2021. See the Tate Britain website.
Online event, Wednesday 7 July, 5-6pm – book via Eventbrite
Organised by UCL Art Futures, Kieren Reed, Director, Slade School of Fine Art, will lead the session - joined by co-founders, Jo Townshend, Principal Partnerships Manager (Creative sectors), UCL I&E and Anna Donovan, Lecturer in Laws (Faculty of Laws).
Emerging technologies and Art: Roundtable will explore how artist have incorporated new technologies in their art practice and how they critically assessed the benefits, ethics and consequences of incorporating these technologies in their art.
Through the presentation of art made by Slade graduates, Slade alumnus and artists the roundtable will explore how artists adapt and use technology in their art. The session will surface how technologies can support the redistribution of wealth and influence across art networks and systems.
Organised by UCL Art Futures - a collaborative initiative between UCL Innovation & Enterprise, the Slade School of Fine Art and the Faculty of Laws.
Jarman award 2021
Congratulations to alumni Larry Achiampong, Adham Faramawy and Georgina Starr, who have been shortlisted for this year's Jarman award. See The Guardian.
Slade Summer Shows 2021
James Keith
We are pleased to announce that we have opened the Slade building to the public for the Slade Summer Show, 5 - 17 July, featuring work by our BA/BFA and MA/MFA finalists. Tickets are now sold out, but you can see our graduands' work on the Slade Degree Showcase 2021.
UCL and Serpentine partnership to support innovation across art, law and technology
UCL and the Serpentine are launching a long-term partnership that will facilitate innovative exchanges across art, law, science and technology. See UCL News.
Carey Young awarded Leverhulme Research Fellowship
Congratulations to Carey Young who has been awarded a Leverhulme Research Fellowship for her research project 'The Surfaces of Law'.
Young will create a photographic series which examines the 'surfaces of law': details of legal architecture, including courthouses, prisons, law offices etc. Instead of the aesthetic blank often associated with law, the design of legal buildings can invoke a society's attitudes towards the judiciary, democracy and the relationship between state and citizens. What can architecture tell us of the bodies, lives, aspirations, profits, structural bias, injustices and/or histories of erasure contained within, and alluded to by these walls? Young's images will explore varying ideas of what law is, and what and whom it might seek to represent.
Thoughts to Fall Asleep To - Sapling
Orfeo Tagiuri
Orfeo Tagiuri has a solo show, Thoughts to Fall Asleep To, at Sapling, 124 Mount Street Mews, London W1K 3NR, from 5 - 23 June 2021. See the Sapling Gallery website.
Drawing Room Biennale 2021
Judith Goddard's drawing, Dangerous Curves – contagion i, is showing as part of the Drawing Room, Drawing Biennale 2021, from 21 May - 5 July 2021. Works will be auctioned to raise funds for the Drawing Room 21 June - 5 July 2021. See the Drawing Room website for full details.
We Melt Before It Forms - Britta Rettberg Gallery
Judith Goddard is showing in We Melt Before It Forms at Britta Rettberg Gallery, Gabelsbergerstraße 51, 80333 Munich, from 7 May - 17 June 2021. See the Britta Rettberg Gallery website.
Between Artists: Conversations in Fine Art - Glasgow School of Art
Jenkin van Zyl is speaking at Between Artists: Conversations in Fine Art at online via Glasgow School of Fine Art on Wednesday 16 June 2021 at 6pm. To register, see Eventbrite.
Going Light - Zarinbal Khoshbakht
Tom Hardwick-Allan is showing in Going Light, at Zarinbal Khoshbakht, Albertusstrasse 24, 50667 Cologne, from 8 May - 12 June 2021. See the Zarinbal Khoshbakht website for details.