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

If you are a Slade alumnus we would like to stay in contact with you. You can keep in touch by:

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22/10/2026

📷 Pinhole London at Bloomsbury Festival Discovery Hub

ℹ️ Come and make a pinhole photograph, developed on the spot in the Chespirator — a tabletop darkroom built by Ben — with every photo yours to keep!

📅 Saturday 24th October (quiet hour 11:00 – 12:00)

⏱️ Sessions — sign up on the day:
• 11:00 – 11:30
• 12:00 – 12:30
• 13:00 – 13:30
• 14:00 – 14:30
• 15:00 – 15:30

📍 Holborn Library, 32-38 Theobalds Road, WC1X 8PA
🎟️ Free — just turn up

Part of Bloomsbury Festival, celebrating 20 years, 1 – 31 October 2026 Bloomsbury Festival

12/10/2026

Find out more about our Art and Technology BA at our Virtual Information Session via Zoom, 11am–12noon on Thursday 15 October.

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 via https://app.geckoform.com/events-embed/ #/events-embed?uuid=21FO00ics2l3t9001qeygo2pe3&event_field_id=28697.

📷
Terminal Club, where 1st year students take apart (and put back together) old laptops and computers to see how they work, and consider the meanings of technological words; and the BA Art & Tech mixer social event.

05/10/2026

✨Slade MA/MFA Interim Show 2026✨
Featuring work by our 2nd year fine art media, painting and sculpture students.

Saturday 10 October 2026
Sunday 11 October 2026

FREE,ntry by timed tour only
Booking essential, tickets via Eventbrite
🎟https://www.eventbrite.com/cc/slade-mamfa-interim-show-2026-4880175

Artists
Abhisith Naoprachul
Aleksi Halttunen .e.ksi
Andrew Obernesser
Ash Bland
Baonan Zhong
Beth Simcock .simcock
b. A. àbíkẹ́ .a._abike
Caleb Pinnell
David Leal
Didi Hu
Doy Kim .work
Elina Steinbergs
Ellathea Jackson-Harris
Esther Forse
Eva Titherington
Fiona Berry
Gaurav Gupta
Hallam Wood
Jennifer Louise Martin
Jichi Zhang 张继弛 .zhang
Jo Ackerley
Juliet Dodson
Jun
Kaiqi Lyu
Kelly Wu
Kirsty McEwan
Lauren May
Liwen Zhang
Luan Xu
Margot Wilson
Masha Barks
Mengjie Li
Mihugo Zhang
Munaye Lichtenstein
Nellie Saunby
Oliver Getley
Olly Winder
Rosalind Wilson
Rosie McLean
Rose Turner Mullan
Ruby Waage Townsend
Samuel Vilanova
Shelley Meng .3303
Tabitha Rose Owen
Taiba Al Nassar
Theo Vasiloudes .vasiloudes
Titus Barker
Tom Motley
Wambui Kamiru
Yinger Ma
Youran Liu
Zeha Imran
Zhixiao Liu
Zina MacWilliams

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.

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

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

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/.

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

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

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

📷

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

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London
WC1E6BT

Website

http://www.ucl.ac.uk/slade/

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