Slade School of Fine Art

Slade School of Fine Art An art school with a world leading reputation, The Slade makes a significant contribution to the field of national & international contemporary art.

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Join us to find out more about our BA Art and Technology, come to our Information Session and Tour at our studios at UCL...
12/08/2026

Join us to find out more about our BA Art and Technology, come to our Information Session and Tour at our studios at UCL East, Friday 25 September, 2pm–4pm.

Approaching technology as an artistic material, this is a practice-based, interdisciplinary art-making programme focused on the interconnections between art, humanities and science. Students will have the opportunity to explore the power of creative, critical and computational thinking to influence a range of artistic and technical disciplines, blending artistic practice, art and technology histories and theories, creative coding, AI, physical computing, networked technologies, immersive environments and more!

Book: https://app.geckoform.com/events-embed/ #/events-embed?uuid=21FO00ics2l3t9001qeygo2pe3&event_field_id=28358

Can't make it?
Book for a 1-2-1 with the Art and Technology BA team (see: https://www.ucl.ac.uk/slade/study/ba-art-and-technology/)
Coming soon...further virtual and a in-person sessions in October and November.



Join us to find out more about our BA Art and Technology, come to our Information Session and Tour at our studios at UCL...
31/07/2026

Join us to find out more about our BA Art and Technology, come to our Information Session and Tour at our studios at UCL East, Friday 25 September, 2pm–4pm.

This transformative degree, blends artistic practice, creative coding, AI, physical computing, networked technologies, and more.

Book via https://app.geckoform.com/events-embed/ #/events-embed?uuid=21FO00ics2l3t9001qeygo2pe3&event_field_id=28358

📷 Lily Hasioti and Annabelle Ji



+Technology

Many congratulations to current student Sam Morland (.m_art ) , who has been awarded this year’s Max Werner Drawing Priz...
29/07/2026

Many congratulations to current student Sam Morland (.m_art ) , who has been awarded this year’s Max Werner Drawing Prize. The prize is awarded annually to a student who has demonstrated excellence in drawing.

Sam Morland grew up in the woods of the Wye Valley and is studying BFA Fine Art, specialising in the painting area. His image-based work ranges across drawing, painting and printmaking, with a studio practice that explores the delicate interplay between the impermanent and the alchemical. There is leniency in the way he makes and erases marks many times over, leaving ghost-images beneath rendered forms. Elusive narratives and recurrent motifs are sought by instinct and suspended through multiple works.

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Installation photo

Hare (2026)
200cm x 250cm
Charcoal on Paper

Detail from ‘Hare’

Arms Dealer (2026)
150cm x 200cm
Charcoal on Paper

Pelt (2026)
150cm x 200cm
Charcoal on Paper

Great Grandmother’s Crow (2026)
15cm x 21cm
Aluminium Photoetching on Paper

Tin Drum
21cm x 30cm
Copperplate Etching and Aquatint on Paper

UCL Arts and Humanities

The Slade Summer School starts on 6 July! Courses this summer include Papermaking with plants, Drawing, Kintsugi - In P...
25/06/2026

The Slade Summer School starts on 6 July! Courses this summer include Papermaking with plants, Drawing, Kintsugi - In Praise of Brokenness, The Art of Looking, Etching, as well as drawing and painting.

Led by tutors and assistants from across the Slade community, our courses blend traditional and contemporary approaches in a vibrant, creative environment at the Slade building in Bloomsbury, London.The courses offer a great opportunity to learn or develop your skills and suit different levels of experience.

Our Summer School includes a free evening programme of artist talks, exhibitions, and art films — open to all attendees.

Paper Making with Plants, 6–10 July
Drawing, 6–17 July
Kintsugi - In Praise of Brokenness, 13– 5 July
The Art of Looking, 13 - 17 July

And more!

To find out more, see the Short Courses link 🔗 in our bio https://www.ucl.ac.uk/slade/study/short-courses/.

Great to visit Woburn Square Studios to see the Liquitex/Slade Wall Painting Collaboration! The Liquitex/Slade Wall Pain...
22/06/2026

Great to visit Woburn Square Studios to see the Liquitex/Slade Wall Painting Collaboration!

The Liquitex/Slade Wall Painting Collaboration, facilitated by Jo Volley (.volley ), Co-ordinator, Slade Material Research Project ( ), provides a group of graduate 1st year painters the potential to create a temporary wall painting making use of the scale and dimensions of a large site-specific space. It is an opportunity to work to a live brief presenting a context for ideas and intentions. The challenge is to devise a work that fully exploits the scale of the wall, that can be produced safely, within a restricted timescale and to a given palette. Since 2016, locations have changed, but the project focus is still to explore the idea of the ‘artist palette’ through a limited range and engage with the architectural features of a given space.

Thank you to Liquitex and Stephanie Nebbia ( ).

Those involved are:
Zeha Imran
Beth Simcock
Doy Kim
Gaurav Gupta and Rosie Turner (collaboration)
Kaiqi Lyu
Masha Annenkova
Ruby Waage Townsend
Tabitha Rose Owen
Ellathea Jackson-Harris
Jennifer Mesrie

🌞Closing Sunday 21 June - our MA/MFA/PhD Degree Show ends tomorrow at 5pm - don’t miss it!Here are some more of our wond...
20/06/2026

🌞Closing Sunday 21 June - our MA/MFA/PhD Degree Show ends tomorrow at 5pm - don’t miss it!

Here are some more of our wonderful artists, snapped yesterday in their spaces. Do come along and find out more about the work.

There are performances and a shop on the ground floor.

📅Open: until Sunday 21 June
Weekends: 10am–5pm
All welcome, no ticket required

📍Slade School of Fine Art
UCL, Gower Street
London WC1E 6BT

1. Ari Pilhofer
2. Natalia Pavlovicova
3. Liz Harrington
4. William Lowry
5. Noemi Conan
6. Manuel Alejandro Hernández Rivera
7. Bunny Hennessey
8. Lakshya Bhargava
9. Gabriella Day
10. Zane Drees
11. Cecily Loveys Jervoise
12. Harry Maberly
13. James Milner
14. Simon Rai

🚨Closing soon - Slade MA/MFA/PhD Show closes in 3 days.Our MA/MFA/PhD Degree Show is open today until 8pm and ends on Su...
19/06/2026

🚨Closing soon - Slade MA/MFA/PhD Show closes in 3 days.

Our MA/MFA/PhD Degree Show is open today until 8pm and ends on Sunday 21 June.

Four floors of art by our MA/MFA Fine Art Media, Painting and Sculpture artists and the Slade Research Room (PhD).

There are performances throughout the week, and a shop on the ground floor.

📅Open: until Sunday 21 June
Weekdays: 10am–8pm
Weekends: 10am–5pm
All welcome, no ticket required

📍Slade School of Fine Art
UCL, Gower Street
London WC1E 6BT

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1. Elliot Fox
2. Bunny Hennessey
3. Weichen Lin
4. Sarah Roberts
5. Daniel Taylor
6. Flora Hunt
7. Bo Sun
8. Anna Kurkova
9. Lakshya Bhargava
10. Juntao Gao
11. Manuel Alejandro Hernández Rivera

Meet Yukio Yang ( ), who has just completed her MFA Fine Art (Fine Art Media) and is currently showing in the Slade MA/M...
18/06/2026

Meet Yukio Yang ( ), who has just completed her MFA Fine Art (Fine Art Media) and is currently showing in the Slade MA/MFA Degree Show.

Yukio Yang (b.2002, Xinjiang, China) is a London-based artist with a background in film directing, working across sculpture, photography, and writing. Rooted in the border landscapes, nomadic cultures, and migratory histories of Xinjiang, her practice explores landscape, migration, and myth through material labour, bodily experience, and structures of viewing. Through repetitive acts of carving, welding, and wet felting, she works with materials such as steel, salt, bone, and wool, approaching physical labour as a ritual process.

Influenced by oral history and genre cinema, she is interested in landscapes shaped by myth, circulation, violence, and control, as well as the ways they are viewed, consumed, and continuously remythologised. Through suspension and unstable assemblage, cinematic language, props, and material remnants are reorganised into spatial structures that drift between monument, evidence, fiction, and ruin. Originally trained in film directing, she often approaches sculpture as a frozen film scene, where traces, objects, and landscapes remain after the event itself has disappeared.

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1. Yukio Yang
2. frog rain, 2026, steel, salt lick, chain, 300*200*450
3. fidelity, steel, 130*40*47, 2026
4. vein, salt composition, sheep bone, wool, stone, chain, 2026
5. lick, salt lick, steel, 2022-2026, dimensions variable

The Slade MA/MFA Show continues until 21 June. Yukio Yang’s show is in Studio 23 and the mezzanine on the 2nd floor.

🌞The Slade MA/MFA/PhD Degree Show is open today until 8pm and continues until Sunday 21 June.Four floors of art by our M...
18/06/2026

🌞The Slade MA/MFA/PhD Degree Show is open today until 8pm and continues until Sunday 21 June.

Four floors of art by our MA/MFA Fine Art Media, Painting and Sculpture artists and the Slade Research Room (PhD).

There are performances throughout the week and a shop on the ground floor.

📅Open: until Sunday 21 June
Weekdays: 10am–8pm
Weekends: 10am–5pm
All welcome, no ticket required

📍Slade School of Fine Art
UCL, Gower Street
London WC1E 6BT

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1. Loveday Pride
2. James Milner
3. Aaron Kudi
4. Cait Luke-Kelly
5. Cal Mac
6. Zhuyang Liu
7. Simon Rai
8. Nastassja Simensky
9. Euan Francis Gubbins
10. Slade Shop

🎉Join us for Professor Karin Ruggaber's Inaugural Lecture on Monday 22 June, 5:15pm.Karin Ruggaber was born in Germany, ...
15/06/2026

🎉Join us for Professor Karin Ruggaber's Inaugural Lecture on Monday 22 June, 5:15pm.

Karin Ruggaber was born in Germany, and has lived and worked in London since 1992. She makes sculpture and works with photography. Coming out of a studio-based practice, she uses a wide range of materials and is interested in the translation of pictorial principles into sculpture, and how imaginary space materialises within sculptural language and public space. She is Head of Graduate Sculpture at the Slade School of Fine Art, and was Director of Studies for the Slade Graduate Programme between 2019 and 2024.

She was recipient of the Abbey Fellowship at the British School at Rome, Italy, and was commissioned for a permanent sculpture by Selldorf Architects in New York. She received a Library and Archive Award at the British School at Rome, and residency awards at CCA Andratx, Spain. Karin Ruggaber is represented by greengrassi, London, and her work was included in solo and group exhibitions at PEER, London; Paris Internationale; Art Now/Tate Britain; South London Gallery; Cervantes Institute, New Delhi; Towner Gallery Eastbourne; La Casa Encendida, Madrid; MUDAM, Luxembourg; Museo Marino Marini, Florence; Artist's Space, New York; British Art Show 7, Nottingham Contemporary and Hayward Gallery London; Domaine de Chamarande, Paris; East International, Norwich; Camden Arts Centre, London and Bloomberg Space, London. She is currently showing at Neither, London, until 27 July 2026.

Monday 22 June, 5:15–6:30pm
Gustave Tuck Lecture Theatre
Wilkins Building
UCL
Gower Street, London WC1E 6BT

Free, reserve your ticket via Eventbrite: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/slade-inaugural-lecture-professor-karin-ruggaber-tickets-1991473573066

Image credit: Relief #137, 2019, concrete, pigments, at The Weather Garden, Towner Gallery, Eastbourne. Photograph: Anne Hardy

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