Slade School of Fine Art

🎨 Proud moment: The Slade School of Fine Art has been ranked #1 in the UK in Fine Art by the Guardian University Guide 2026, with a perfect score of 100!

We have multiple departments in the top 10 in Guardian’s 2026 subject tables, find out more: buff.ly/lTzRm8n

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Poster for Slade MA/MFA Interim Showcase (text in white as per post). The image features a green overlay over a photo showing a close up of a window with the reflection of the UCL Portico.

🌟Slade MA/MFA Interim Showcase 2025

Our MA/MFA Interim Showcase, featuring work by our 2nd year fine art media, painting and sculpture students, takes place from 3–5 October.

Entry is by timed tour only
Free, tickets via Eventbrite: www.eventbrite.com/cc/slade-mam...

UCL – University College London UCL is consistently ranked as one of the top ten universities in the world (QS World University Rankings 2010-2022) and is No.2 in the UK for research power (Research Excellence Framework 2021).

We are recruiting for an academic Lecturer position for a practicing artist working broadly in the field of painting.
Lecturer in Fine Art
FTE: 0.5 (2.5 days a week (includes Monday and Tuesday)
Closing date: Monday 18 August 2025 (23:59)
For further details and to apply, see bit.ly/lecturer_fin...

Paper hanging on a line in studio.

Drawing of a hand on paper. A shell is on the paper and words "Slow Down! " written on page.

Slade Summer School: off to a great start with Papermaking and Drawing!
Led by tutors and assistants from across the Slade community, our wide range of courses blend traditional and contemporary approaches in a vibrant, creative environment.

For full programme, see: www.ucl.ac.uk/slade/study/...

Photograph of a workshop, equipped with equipment and machines.

Workshop Manager Fixed-Term
Fixed term 11 month maternity cover
Full-time
Due to the time critical nature of this role, all applicants must already have the right to work in the UK and need to be eligible to start work from 1 September 2025

Apply by 14 July 2025
🔗https://bit.ly/sladeworkshopmanager

Circle print on mesh of UCL with an imagined garden landscape. Artwork by Weicheng Tang.

Our MA/MFA Show continues until Sunday 22 June.
Open:
weekdays 10am–8pm
weekends 10am–5pm

Slade School of Fine Art, UCL, Gower Street, London WC1E 6BT
Entry is via the accessible entrance, see 🔗in bio.

Free, all welcome!

📷
Weicheng Tang, The Ideal UCL

UCL – University College London UCL is consistently ranked as one of the top ten universities in the world (QS World University Rankings 2010-2022) and is No.2 in the UK for research power (Research Excellence Framework 2021).

Join us! We are currently recruiting for a Lecturer (Teaching) post, part-time (0.4 fte), fixed term maternity cover (10 months).

Closing date: Wednesday 11th June at 23:59.

For further details, see bit.ly/ssofalecturer

Slade BA/BFA Degree Show: Opening, Thursday 22 May Entry is by timed ticket slots; each slot is 1.5 hours.

Slade BA/BFA Degree Show

Opening, 5pm–9:30pm, Thurs 22 May
Entry by timed ticket: 5pm/6:30pm/8pm
🎟Free, booking essential via Eventbrite: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/slade-babf...

Open: 23–29 May no ticket needed
10am-8pm* weekdays
10am–5pm weekends
* except 27 May, 10am–6pm

Entrance free, all welcome

Dr Susan Owens will give the Milein Cosman Drawing Lecture: Places of the Mind, Portraits of the Soul: drawings by Jonathan Richardson and John Constable on 6 May at 6:30pm, Gustave Tuck Lecture Theatre, UCL.

Free, reserve via Eventbrite: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1303407730...

InterWorlds- Jasmine Chohan: Curatorial Perspectives Jasmine Chohan, Curator at Tate presents Curatorial Perspectives, part of InterWorlds Hybridity in Art research group series at the Slade.

InterWorlds talk: Transcultural Hybridity in Art   - Jasmine Chohan: Curatorial Perspectives.

Jasmine Chohan is a Curator at Tate.

Thursday 8 May, 11am–1pm
In person and online
For further details and booking, see Eventbrite: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1345010906...

Slade School of Fine Art - Drawing Analogies: Diagrams in Art, Theory and Practice - Book Launch A launch and discussion will take place at the Slade School of Fine Art, UCL to mark the publication of Drawing Analogies: Diagrams in Art, Theory and Practice by David Burrows, John Cussans, Dean Ken...

Book Launch and Discussion:
Drawing Analogies: Diagrams in Art, Theory and Practice

Thursday 1 May, 6pm
The Gallery, Slade School of Fine Art, UCL

For information and to attend, email David Burrows: d.burrows@ucl.ac.uk

Details: www.ucl.ac.uk/slade/news/1...

UCL – University College London UCL is consistently ranked as one of the top ten universities in the world (QS World University Rankings 2010-2022) and is No.2 in the UK for research power (Research Excellence Framework 2021).

Applications are open for two part-time lecturer posts on our Art and Technology BA:

Lecturer in Art and Technology (Gaming): bit.ly/arttechgaming

Lecturer in Art and Technology (History and Theory of Art)
bit.ly/arttechhisth...

Closing date: 22 April 2025

Making paint from pink and red pigments

A photo from a paint making workshop. Blue, yellow and red watercolour paint is being made from pure ultramarine and ochre pigments

Lake pigments are made from dyes. The photo shows small jars filled with multicoloured lake pigments

The image is split screen. The top shows some jars containing pigments which are made from minerals or are synthetic products which are chemically analogous to minerals. The lower part of the image shows brightly coloured mineral specimens

This Saturday, 22 March 2025 is World Pigment Day! Founded by myself and Jo Volley @sladeschoolucl.bsky.social we are now 7 years old. Follow us on instagram #worldpigmentday

Come hang out with me, @uclspeccoll.bsky.social and @sladeschoolucl.bsky.social as our first ever Small Press in Residence. £5,000 to spend flexibly, access to collections, and some super facilities: blogs.ucl.ac.uk/special-coll...

Colour & Poetry: A Symposium VII This year's event celebrating International Colour Day and World Poetry Day on 21 March will take place from Woburn Square online.

Join us for Colour & Poetry: A Symposium VII!
Celebrating International Colour Day and World Poetry Day online on 21 March.
Free, book via Eventbrite: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/colour-poe...

Spineless Wonders at Aberystwyth School of Art Spineless Wonders Exhibition of Small Press Publications, Words and Images: Re:Collection: Out of the Collection: School of Art, (SOA) Aberystwyth University, also runs 10 March–6 May 2025 (check Abe...

Book now for Spineless Wonders at Aberystwyth School of Art in March!
14 Mar: Conversing, traversing, translating the collection
& Off The Shelf–Performing The Collection
15 Mar: Workshop, creative writing and making
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@ies-sas.bsky.social

Free, book via 🔗
bit.ly/sa_soa

Slade Contemporary Art Lecture: Anthea Hamilton We are delighted to welcome Anthea Hamilton, who will be speaking as part of this term's Contemporary Art Lecture series.

We are delighted to welcome Anthea Hamilton who will be giving the next Slade Contemporary Art Lecture on Wednesday 12 February at 5pm.

UCL Cruciform Lecture Theatre 1, B304, Cruciform Building, Gower Street, London WC1E 6BT
Free, book via Eventbrite: www.eventbrite.com/e/slade-cont...

Spineless Wonders at Aberystwyth School of Art Spineless Wonders Exhibition of Small Press Publications, Words and Images: Re:Collection: Out of the Collection: School of Art, (SOA) Aberystwyth University.

Join us for Spineless Wonders at Aberystwyth School of Art in March!

14 Feb: Conversing, traversing, translating the collection
& Off The Shelf – Performing The Collection
15 Feb: Workshop, creative writing and making
Free, book via 🔗

Exhibition: 10 Mar–6 May
www.eventbrite.com/cc/spineless...

UCL 2025 Creative Fellowships open - Encounters: Knowledge Futures in the Age of AI The Institute of Advanced Studies (IAS) at UCL’s Bloomsbury campus, together with the School for the Creative and Cultural Industries (SCCI) at UCL East, is seeking to appoint four Quirk Creative Fell...

UCL Institute of Advanced Studies (IAS) and the UCL School for the Creative and Cultural Industries (SCCI) at UCL East, are seeking to appoint four Quirk Creative Fellows to work with them from March to July 2025, each funded at £5,000.

Apply by 16 Feb

Find out more: www.ucl.ac.uk/institute-of...

Slade Contemporary Art Lecture: Becky Beasley We are delighted to welcome Becky Beasley, who will be speaking as part of this term's Contemporary Art Lecture series.

We are pleased to welcome Becky Beasley, who will be giving next week's Slade Contemporary Art Lecture.

Wednesday 29 January 2025, 5pm
Lecture Theatre 1, B304, UCL Cruciform Building, Gower Street, London WC1E 6BT

Tickets free, book via Eventbrite: www.eventbrite.com/e/1213986158...

Resolving Power: recent works by Carey Young. An inaugural lecture. Join us for Professor Carey Young's Inaugural Lecture on Wednesday 5 February.

Resolving Power: recent works by Carey Young. An inaugural lecture.

Wednesday 5 February, 5:30pm
Cruciform Lecture Theatre 1, UCL Cruciform Building, Gower St, London WC1

Free, 🎟️ via Eventbrite: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/resolving-...

Slade Contemporary Art Lecture: Harold Offeh The Slade is pleased to welcome Harold Offeh as part of our Contemporary Art Lecture series.

We are pleased to welcome Harold Offeh, who will give the first Slade Contemporary Art Lecture of this term.

Wednesday 15 January 2025, 5pm
Lecture Theatre 1, B304, UCL Cruciform Building, Gower Street, London WC1E 6BT

Tickets free, book via Eventbrite:
www.eventbrite.com/e/1142714282...

Slade building (2 floors of windows, with a rotunda at the entrance) in the snow, trees and a lampost framing the image.

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!

Photo of an abstract painting in shades of brown and ochre, taken through the window of a studio.

Interested in our BA or BFA in Fine Art? We are holding 2 events before applications close at the end of January, as follows:
Thursday 16 January, 11am-12noon-Online Q&A via Zoom
Thursday 16 January, 2pm-3:30pm-In person Talk and Tour To book see 🔗 in bio.

📷 BA/BFA Degree Show: Marianna Soukeras

Photo of a long corridor at the Slade School of Fine Art, in the foreground there are 3 paintings on the wall by Ross Head.

Interested in studying for a MA or MFA in Fine Art?
Come along to our online MA/MFA question and answer session on Tuesday 10 December at 9:30am.

Register via Eventbrite.
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/slade-mamf...

📷MA/MFA Degree Show 2024, paintings by Ross Head.

Poster with textured blue background with a red curved shape in front, with details for the Interim Showcase. "free, entry by timed ticket only, book via Eventbrite: Tuesday 10 December, 12noon-5pm*. Wednesday 11 December, 10:30am-5:30pm*, Thursday 12 December 10am–12noon* . *denotes last entry time.

Our MA/MFA Interim Showcase, featuring work by our 2nd year MA and MFA students, 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 www.eventbrite.com/e/slade-mamf....

📷 Simeon Barclay “At Home, Everywhere and Nowhere” at Gathering and Workplace Gallery, London, 2023. Courtesy: Gathering. Photo: Tom Carter

Photo taken from outside Gallery front, inside is a huge inflatable (Donald Duck?) lying on the floor.

We are delighted to welcome Simeon Barclay, who is giving the Slade Contemporary Art Lecture at 5pm on Wednesday 4 December.

Venue: Cruciform Lecture Theatre LT1, B304
Open to the public, tickets free via Eventbrite​: www.eventbrite.com/e/slade-cont...

Roman Sheppard Dawson MA/MFA, double screen film installation, taking place in a rehearsal(?) Isabella Sartori, BFA/BFA, two paintings side by side, brushstrokes breaking up the picture plane: one with a plant the other a bicycle Raquel Yago Boj, MA/MFA, 4 colourful photographs of a room with red walls and a white tiled floor, with large geometric shapes in them. Ross Head, MA/MFA, studio installation 4 images, 1 abstract, 3 figurative.

📷 Installation photos from MA/MFA and BA/BFA Degree Shows 2024
Roman Sheppard Dawson MA/MFA
Isabella Sartori, BFA/BFA
Raquel Yago Boj, MA/MFA
Ross Head, MA/MFA

Congratulations to Roman Sheppard Dawson, Ross Head, Isabella Sartori and Raquel Yago Boj, who have been awarded this year's UCL East Provost Art Prize.

🔗https://www.ucl.ac.uk/ucl-east/news/2024/nov/announcing-2024-ucl-east-provost-art-prize-winners