Research Projects
Active Projects
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InterWorlds Transcultural Hybridity in Art
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This project, led by PhD student Jasmir Creed and Professor Sharon Morris, is significant in its aim of decolonisation of the curriculum and the museum. It is funded by the Slade School of Fine Art and the Institute of Advanced...
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Spineless Wonders
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Spineless Wonders is an international network of artists, writers, academics and librarians, creating and researching small press publications including artists books.
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The Surfaces of Law
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Carey Young will create a photographic series which examines the 'surfaces of law': details of legal architecture, including courthouses, prisons, law offices etc.
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Environment, Ecology, Sustainability
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Environment, Ecology, Sustainability is a research site and visual reading group with a focus on material that addresses the climate emergency through both historical and contemporary art practice.
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Global Photographies
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Global Photographies was founded in spring 2020, in the first wave of the Coronavirus pandemic. It recognised an opportunity: teaching online allowed photographers, students, writers curators and academics to connect and collaborate across borders.
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MiCA: Medieval in Contemporary Art
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MiCA is a cross-institutional research group founded in 2017 bringing together artists, writers and others engaged in the relation between the medieval period and contemporary art.
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The Pigment Timeline
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The Pigment Timeline Project is a collaborative, cross-disciplinary research project which investigates and establishes connections between all UCL departments that involve pigment and colour in any aspect of their research.
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Hands On Art Workshops
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Hands On Art Workshops, initiated by Professor Emerita Lisa Milroy, offers a programme of practical art workshops alongside a range of educational initiatives for primary and secondary school students in Kakuma Refugee Camp, Kenya, with support from UNHCR, the UN...
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Archaeology–Heritage–Art Research Network
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The archaeology–heritage–art research network held its inaugural event at the Institute of Archaeology on 23 May 2014. Since 2021 the network is co-ordinated by Nastassja Simensky (Slade), Ellen Pavey (IoA) and Dr Beverley Butler (IoA).
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Transnational Slade
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Transnational Slade aims to explore and map the global networks and trajectories of influence of the school’s alumni and staff.
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Rock Room
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The Rock Room Project is a research and exhibition project based in Graduate Sculpture and was set up in 2013. The project collaborates with the Department of UCL Earth Sciences and UCL Museums.
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Material Research Project
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The Material Research Project based in the Methods and Materials Room of the graduate painting area, spearheads the role of materials within the creative process.
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A History of the Slade Film Project
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“an experiment … a means of bombarding students with the art of film”
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Transcultural Art Network
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A major part of Andrew Stahl's research in the last 30 years has been to examine and enhance the transcultural interaction between different cultures. In 2008, he established the Transcultural Artist Network, an Artist in Residence programme at the Slade.
Past Projects
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Slade Drawing 150
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The Slade 150 Drawing book was launched with a print run of 150 copies on 7 December 2022. Conceived and written by Liz Rideal, designed by printmaker Lesley Sharpe, and including drawings from Slade staff members, the book marked the...
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Baroque Sari
The beauty of the Indian sari has been the subject and context for much photography, my focus is on women wearing saris or shalwar kameez riding motorbikes either sidesaddle pillion or at the wheel themselves.
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Slade 150
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From October 2021 - 2022, the Slade celebrated 150 years of fine art teaching and research with a varied programme of events that reflected on the past, showcased the present, and looked ahead to the future.
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Print Pals: Then and Now
In early 2021 at the height of the pandemic, the Printmaking Areas at the Slade and the National College of the Arts (NCA), Lahore invited students from across both schools to apply to take part in a unique (lockdown) print...
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Creative in Isolation
Since March 2020, the start of lockdown due to COVID-19, Slade staff and students have been adapting their practice to find innovative ways of working from home creatively. Much artwork has been created in response to the current situation and...
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Slade Centre for Electronic Media in Fine Art (SCEMFA)
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SCEMFA is a research group at the Slade School of Fine Art. It opened in 1995 and for the past 15 years has provided the opportunity for leading artists to focus on research into Electronic Media and Fine Art.
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Onya McCausland
Dr Onya McCausland is a Leverhulme Early Career Research Fellow at the Slade School of Fine Art, UCL.
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Graduate Research 2017-18
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Graduate Research Weeks are held at the Slade Research Centre and provide MFA, MA and PhD students across all three areas with a forum to explore an aspect of their work under a particular research theme.
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British Council INSPIRE exchange with the University of Dhaka
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The Slade School of Fine Art and the University of Dhaka Faculty of Fine Art, Bangladesh were the recipients of an award as part of the British Council INSPIRE strategic partnership initiative.
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Graduate Research 2016-17
Graduate Research Weeks are held at the Slade Research Centre and provide MFA, MA and PhD students across all three areas the opportunity to explore an aspect of their work under a particular research theme.
