Research Projects
Past Projects
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Splicing Time
Liz Rideal’s Leverhulme Fellowship titled Splicing Time focuses on Rome and the Roman Campagna.
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Farafield
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Farafield was a field recording project at the Slade School of Fine Art. Originally set up with funds from UCL Changemakers in 2016-17, fifteen students were given travel awards to help fund a journey for the purpose of making audio...
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Graduate Research 2015 -2016
Graduate Research Weeks are held at the Slade Research Centre in the Autumn and Spring Terms and provide MFA, MA and PhD students across all three areas the opportunity to explore an aspect of their work under a particular research...
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Cities Methodologies
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Inaugurated in 2009, Cities Methodologies is a pan-UCL initiative to showcase innovative methods of urban research.
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Pain: Speaking the Threshold
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This is a three-year interdisciplinary project to further research the value of visual images in the diagnosis and management of chronic pain. Funding comes from the Centre for Humanities Interdisciplinary Research Projects (CHIRP) Scheme.
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Graduate Research 2014 - 2015
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Graduate Research Weeks are held at the Slade Research Centre in the Autumn and Spring Terms and provide graduate students across all three areas the opportunity to explore an aspect of their work under a particular research theme,The research themes...
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Lunar Salon
Practice-Led PhD candidate Sarah Fortais borrowed NASA lunar specimens from the STFC and hosted an event titled Lunar Salon at the Slade Research Centre.
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Interdisciplinary Printmaking Workshop
This one-day printmaking workshop was organised by Dr Eleanor Morgan, Slade honorary research associate, with the support of printmaking technicians Dave Christopher and James Keith.
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Spinning Out Time - Mayte Alonso, Artist in Residence
Mayte Alonso, from Madrid, was artist in residence at the Slade, funded by the Miro Foundation, in spring 2014. Her work, Spinning Out Time, was developed during her residence at the Slade, and shown at UCL Library.
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1 2 3 (Unfinished)
Practice-Led PhD candidate Sarah Fortais worked with musician Edmund Gorrod during Sundays in February 2014 in order to film a quintuple exposure video depicting a 5-part drum performance.
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Graduate Research 2014: Difference and Sociality
Difference or Sociality was a student led research project centred around the text ‘Difference or Sociality’ by Scott Lash, written in 1996 for symposium at the Jan Van Eyck Academie called ‘Towards a theory of the image’.
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Land art and the culture of landscape 1967-1977
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This network is driven by dialogue: not only between the two principal investigators, but also between generations of artists.
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Bronze Lab
The Bronze Lab aims to investigate experimental approaches to the use of bronze, explore bronze processes alongside other metal processes and encourage the development of new research projects that may encompass a variety of media and processes - analogue and...
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Activating Sculpture and Performing Spaces
MA student Anja Borowicz has been investigating the politics of spatial identity through engaging with packaging and clothing, their design patterns and folding architectural forms.
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Cinema as Object
The exhibition and study day Cinema as Object aimed to bring into relief the recent interest in the ‘objectness’ of cinema in art practice and scholarship, and to explore why such focus and interest has emerged at this moment in...
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Slade Performance Day 2013
The first Slade Performance Day offered an innovative, non-hierarchical platform for discussion for over sixty Slade staff and students (from BA/BFA, MA/MFA, MPhil/PhD) to share their work and research in performance.
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PITCHAfrica Rainchute Campaign with Lisa Milroy
PITCHAfrica's rainchutes utilize decommissioned military parachutes to create a remarkably simple solution to providing access to water at home for millions.
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Graduate Research 2013
The research themes for the Graduate Research Weeks involve basic notions that continually inform the activity of art-making, and hence are key to the development of artistic research. The research themes this academic year were: Drawing, Colour, Big and Body.
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Andrea Canepa: Artist-in-Residence
Andrea Canepa obtained a grant from the Fundació Pilar i Joan Miró a Mallorca for a three-week stay in London to attend the Slade School of Fine Art.
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Making Space
A project exploring artistic process organized by Patricia Townsend and the Slade PhD students.
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Graduate Research 2012
The research themes for the Graduate Research Weeks involve basic notions that continually inform the activity of art-making, and hence are key to the development of artistic research. The research themes this academic year: Colour, Material, Body, Extra-Large, Light and...
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Liz Rideal's Indian Journey
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Liz Rideal was invited by Professor Gill Perry of the Open Arts Archive to consider recording her views about the nature of creativity and the processes of making art, whilst on a cotton research trip in India funded by the...
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Alighiero E Boetti: A Monograph
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This grant covered some of the research expenses for the production of Alighiero E Boetti (Yale University Press 2012).
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Graduate Research 2011
The Slade Research Centre, Woburn Square, has hosted collaborations and events involving researchers from many different fields, from the Slade School of Fine Art and UCL, as well as researchers and practitioners from the wider community nationally and internationally.
