Slade School of Fine Art

Colour & Poetry: A Symposium VII

This year's event, celebrating International Colour Day and World Poetry Day, on Friday 21 March, is an online event relayed from the Slade PhD studios at Woburn Square. Kimberly Selvaggi ( ), PhD researcher is hosting this event.

The full programme is now available on the Slade Colour & Poetry webpage: https://www.ucl.ac.uk/slade/events/colour-and-poetry-a-symposium-vii-20250321/

Friday 21 March, 10am–5pm
Online via Zoom.
🎟 FREE book via Eventbrite: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1246218967479.
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Saturday 22 March 2025
The World Pigment Day event on Saturday 22 March, is in person.
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Online show: Nomenclature of Colours V, curated by Stephanie Nebbia ( ) opens on 21 March.

Programme director: Jo Volley (.volley )

Image: Lesley Sharpe ()

Join us for Spineless Wonders at Aberystwyth School of Art ( ) on 14–15 March.

There are three events. Free, book via Eventbrite 🔗in bio.

*14 Feb: Conversing, traversing, translating the collection - online via Zoom
*14 Feb: Off The Shelf – Performing The Collection - in person
*15 Feb: Workshop, creative writing and making, at SOA - in person

And an exhibition: Spineless Wonders Exhibition of Small Press Publications, Words and Images: Re:Collection: Out of the Collection: School of Art, (SOA) Aberystwyth University.
10 March–6 May 2025
Monday to Friday 10:00 to 17:00

Image: The Unforgetting, Holly Davey, Drawings for Stage Flat no.1 - 5, zbook from exhibition at Fruitmarket, Edinburgh 2025.
©Holly Davey, image courtesy of Fruitmarket

Colour & Poetry: A Symposium VII
This year's event, celebrating International Colour Day and World Poetry Day, on Friday 21 March, will take place from the Slade PhD studios at Woburn Square. Kimberly Selvaggi ( ), PhD researcher, will be hosting this online event.

Online via Zoom, tickets free book via Eventbrite: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1246218967479.

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Online show: Nomenclature of Colours V, curated by Stephanie Nebbia ( ) opens on 21 March.

Programme director: Jo Volley (.volley )

Image: Lesley Sharpe ()

Meet Rose Davey.

Rose is teaching our short course Easter Art History: ‘The Original Masterpiece: A guide to London’s most innovative historical paintings’, from 31 March - 4 April. See 🔗 in bio for more details.

Rose Davey () is an artist, writer, and director of project space Corner7 (). She completed her MFA in Painting at the Slade in 2010. Recent solo exhibitions include The Idea Repeat, curated by Jonathan Watkins at APT, London, and group shows include Same Same, Sid Motion Gallery London, 2022, Until the World became the Walls all Around, Canopy Collections, Van Gogh House, London 2021. Rose has contributed to numerous symposiums, including Painting in the Expanded Field, at Crawford College of Art and Design in Cork, Ireland, 2024, and Shadows on the Sky, Carlo Crivelli, Ikon Gallery, Birmingham, 2022. She regularly contributes articles and content to online magazine Plinth, and delivers art history lectures to various institutions across the UK.

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1. Rose Davey

2. Pinboard (publicity for Easter course)

3. ‘Some Holiday’, 2022, acrylic on plywood panels, 60 x 40 x 4cm each. Install shot from ‘The Idea Repeat’ curated by Jonathan Watkins at APT Sept 2024

4. Table, designed and created by Gary Woodley and painted by Rose Davey for ‘Subject Platter I - IV’ at Corner7, Camden, 30 November 2024 - 28 February 2025

Join us for Spineless Wonders at Aberystwyth School of Art ( ) on 14–15 March!

There are three events. Free, book via Eventbrite 🔗in bio.
14 Feb: Conversing, traversing, translating the collection - online via Zoom
14 Feb: Off The Shelf – Performing The Collection - in person
15 Feb: Workshop, creative writing and making, at SOA

And an exhibition: Spineless Wonders Exhibition of Small Press Publications, Words and Images: Re:Collection: Out of the Collection: School of Art, (SOA) Aberystwyth University.
10 March–6 May 2025
Monday to Friday 10:00 to 17:00

Image: The Unforgetting, Holly Davey, Drawings for Stage Flat no.1 - 5, zbook from exhibition at Fruitmarket, Edinburgh 2025.
©Holly Davey, image courtesy of Fruitmarket

UCAS deadlines for September 2025 entry are nearly here! Apply by 6pm (UK time) Wednesday 29 January.

BA Art & Technology
Starting September 2025
3 years
Full-time
Based at UCL East

BA Fine Art
Starting September 2025
4 years
Full-time
Based at UCL Bloomsbury

BFA Fine Art
Starting September 2025
3 years
Full-time
Based at UCL Bloomsbury

For more details on our courses, see https://www.ucl.ac.uk/slade/study/

We look forward to welcoming our new students in September!

Places still available for our online Drawing short course starting on 11 February.

This online course of eight evening sessions offers students the opportunity to explore the core skills of drawing. The emphasis of the course is to explore drawing as a means of articulating form and as a tool for thinking, to encourage students to explore and nurture ideas through drawing, and as a feeder for ideas into their own art practice.

Our courses suit a cross-section of experiences from complete beginners to practising artists. Students on our online programmes also have access to demonstration videos after finishing the course.

To book, see: https://www.ucl.ac.uk/slade/study/summer-school/shortcourses/weekday-courses

We are very sorry to hear that Alastair Mackinven has died after a long illness. Alastair was a painter, musician, writer as well as an inspirational part-time tutor on our undergraduate painting course.

He will be sadly missed by staff and students at the Slade. We send our thoughts and condolences to his loved ones, family and friends.

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Alastair Mackinven
Untitled, 2022
oil and iron powder on canvas
140 x 120 cm
55 1/8 x 47 1/4 in
© Alastair Mackinven, courtesy Maureen Paley, London

UCL will be closed from 5:30pm on Friday 20 December 2024, and will reopen at 9am on Thursday 2 January 2025.

Wishing our students, staff, alumni, friends and supporters a happy winter break!

We look forward to seeing you in the New Year!

Interested in our MA or MFA in Fine Art?
The deadline for applications is 5pm (UK time), Monday 6 January 2025.

For further details about our programmes see: https://www.ucl.ac.uk/slade/study/

If you have applied, but need some further instructions on how to upload your portfolio, please see our Portfolio upload video https://www.ucl.ac.uk/slade/study/portfolio-upload-instructions/.

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From Slade MA/MFA Degree Show 2024
A. Howard
Lavinia Harrington
Hyeejin Bae
Jack Kinsman
Rex Townrow
Ruth Speer

🌞Booking is now open for the Slade Summer School, which runs from the beginning of July to the end of August 2025. All courses are scheduled to take place in the main building at the Slade School of Fine Art.

Places are available for courses including:

Drawing
Papermaking
The Art of Looking
Drawing to Painting
Painting
Still Life
Colour
Life Painting

Further courses will be announced in January.

Can't wait? Booking is also open for our spring and Easter courses.

For further information and to book, see https://www.ucl.ac.uk/slade/study/summer-school/shortcourses/

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From Drawing, Paper making and Materials and Perception courses, Summer School 2024

Common Ground by James Berrington opens at UCL East in January. The work was selected as one of the Provost Art Prize Winners and will be part of UCL East's permanent collection.

Common Ground invites us to contemplate a single woodland scene and consider the role of nature in shaping our mental health, identity and sense of self.

Free and open to all, and no need to book except for selected events and late night openings. Find out more and book for the launch event on 16 January via the UCL East website: https://www.ucl.ac.uk/ucl-east/public-art-and-art-campus/public-art-exhibitions/common-ground.

Exhibition runs: 13 January – 27 February 2025
Open daily 10am–6pm

First Floor Galleries
UCL East - Marshgate
7 Sidings Street
London
E20 2AE

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Common Ground, James Berrington, 2023
©the artist

⭐Booking is open for our spring term and Easter short courses.

We offer a wide range of courses suitable for all levels.

Our courses are taught by practising artists, many of whom studied at the Slade and also teach on the Slade Summer School. In person courses take place at the main Slade Building in Bloomsbury, London.

Courses starting in January/February 2025
Tuesday Evening Drawing (online) 11 February–1 April
Wednesday Evening Life Drawing (in person) 29 January–19 March
Saturday Painting (in person) 25 January - 22 February 2025
Saturday Developing Painting Practice (in person) 1 March – 29 March 2025

Easter 2025
Art History: The Original Masterpiece (in person) 31 March - 4 April
Life Painting: 1 week Sustained Pose (in person) 31 March – 4 April
Observational Painting: Observation and Colour (in person) 7 - 11 April

See https://www.ucl.ac.uk/slade/study/summer-school/shortcourses/ to book.

Join us for our Art and Technology BA online application drop in session: Wednesday 15 January 2025.

Ahead of the UCAS equal consideration deadline on 29 January 2025, this online event presents one final opportunity to find out more and ask questions about our new Art and Technology BA programme.

This session will also be suitable for teachers, advisers and counsellors advising students on applications to the Art and Technology BA.

If you are interested in learning more, register via https://bit.ly/at-jan25




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Students' work from Slade Widening and Participation Art and Technology Access Course

Our MA/MFA Interim Showcase closes at 1pm today. Thank you to everyone who has come along.
⭐And a huge thank you to all our staff and talented students for putting on a great show!

We look forward to the MA/MFA Degree Show in summer.
🗓Save the date: 14–22 June (PV 13 June)

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Qianxi Luo
Weicheng Tang
Hannah Naify
Zijing Rie Ye
Anna Candlin
Yulin Song
Mengmeng Zhang
Tobias Gumbrill
Seon Hee Jung
Veronika Peat

Our MA/MFA Interim Showcase takes opens this afternoon! Today and tomorrow are now fully booked, but we still have a few places left for Thursday.

The show takes place in the main Slade Building, UCL, Gower Street, London WC1E 6BT.

There are also performances at the following dates and times:
Tuesday 10 December
1:15pm - Anna Curzon Price - Studio 18
5:30pm - Jess Heritage - Studio 26

Wednesday 11 December
12noon - Jess Heritage, Studio 26
12:45pm - Anna Curzon Price - Studio 18
6pm - Jess Heritage - Studio 26

Thursday 12 December
12:15pm - Anna Curzon Price - Studio 18
12:30pm - Jess Heritage - Studio 26

Free, entry is by timed tour only, book via Eventbrite: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/slade-mamfa-interim-showcase-1012-december-2024-tickets-1096375621999.

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Ben Qi
Sophie Smorczewski .s
Iris Su, Jiayi
Liam Mullen
Anna Curzon Price
Matthew Duan .pdf
Gwenllian Davenport
Henry Burns

Book now for our MA/MFA Interim Showcase which takes place between 10–12 December at the main Slade Building, UCL, Gower Street, London WC1E 6BT.

Free, entry is by timed tour only, book via Eventbrite: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/slade-mamfa-interim-showcase-1012-december-2024-tickets-1096375621999

Artists:

Ada Zhang
Anna Candlin
Anna Curzon Price
Ben Qi
Davide Gibson
Gabriel Kidd
Gala Hills
Gwenllian Davenport
Hannah Naify
Harry Whitelock
Henry Burns
Iris Su, Jiayi
Jacob Freeman
Jameela Stenheden Gordon-King
Jess Heritage
Julia-Anna Simonchuk
Katja Farin
Khadija Cecile Niang
Komal Bakshi
Liam Mullen
Lucy XC Liu .xc.liu
Matthew Duan .pdf
Maya Silverberg .silverberg
Mengmeng Zhang
Olivia Harding
Pengtian Li
Qianxi Luo
Rebekka Homann
Seon Hee Jung
Shiying Song
Sophie Smorczewski .s
Teodora Nitsolova
Tobias Gumbrill
Tom Hallimond
Varvara Uhlik
Veronika Peat
Weicheng Tang
Yulin Song
Zijing Rie Ye

Congratulations to 2nd year BA Fine Art student Ruqaiya Asim (.art) who has been awarded the People's Choice award at this year's Cass Art Prize for "Communication with My Guide Dog".

The award is voted for by visitors to the exhibition, which took place at the Copeland Gallery 8–16 November 2024.

Communication with My Guide Dog, 2024
Newsprint & tissue paper ink monoprints, Brailled black card, clay & plaster, 220x110x30cm.
This installation explores the communication between the artist and her guide dog, Bertie, emphasising their trust and bond. The monoprints trace the shape of Bertie's harness, whilst the Braille piece in the centre allows those who cannot read Braille to experience the inaccessibility of art for sight-impaired people.

The Open Call will reopen in spring 2025.

Photos:
1. Ruqaiya Asim and her Guide dog Bertie standing next to The Cass Art Prize 2024 exhibition entrance sign. Photo credit: Dave Benett / Getty Images for The Cass Art Prize.
2. Installation photograph of The Cass Art Prize exhibition, with "Communication with My Guide Dog" in the foreground. Photo credit: Alex Hutch Photography.
3. Ruqaiya Asim and Bertie standing with Mark Cass, Founder & CEO of Cass Art. Photo credit: Dave Benett / Getty Images for The Cass Art Prize.