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2015

Professsor Emeritus Phyllida Barlow and Nicolas Feldmeyer are showing in Weight for the Showing at Maddox Arts, 52 Brook's Mews, London W1K 4ED, from 24 April  - 13 June 2015. See .

The Slade Rock Room Project 1-day pop-up exhibition takes place at the ӰԺ Rock Room, 1st Floor Corridor, South Wing, Gower Street, London WC1E 6BT, on Friday 8th May 2015, from 1 - 5pm. There is a discussion at 3pm. See .

Festival of the Arts logo
Festival of the Arts logo, 2015

Festival of the Arts logo

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As part of the ӰԺ Festival of the Arts, The Slade School of Fine Art will host a series of short taster presentations on current research projects on Monday 18 May, 18:00 – 19:30, Haldane Room, Wilkins Building, ӰԺ.

Lyndsey Gilmour is showing in Shapes and Things at Fill the Gap, Church Lane, London E11 1HE, 24 April - 1 May 2015. See .

Works by Craigie Aitchison, David Bomberg, Christopher Le Brun, Bernard Cohen, Roger Hilton, Sarah Lightman, Jane Millican, Adriana Świerszczek and John Virtue are showing in No Set Rules - A century of selected works at Ben Uri Gallery, 108A Boundary Road, London NW8 0RH, from 15 April - 15 June 2015. See .

Yva Jung has won the KCC 2015 Spring Open Call. She has a show, Mooning Monday, at the Koren Cultural Centre UK, Strand Buildings, 1 - 3 Strand, London WC2N 5BW, from 24 April - 8 May 2015. See .

Nicole Morris, Sarah Pettitt and Robert Rivers are showing in Caprice, curated by Seán Boylan, at Open Space, 512 W. Franklin St. Baltimore, from 12 April - 9 May 2015. See .

Sharon Morris is taking part in The Enemies Project at Rich Mix Arts Centre, 35 - 47 Bethnal Green Road, London E1 6LA, at 8pm on Friday 5 June 2015. See .

The Slade is extremely excited to announce that our graduating postgraduate students are to be offered the opportunity this year to apply to the Chadwell Award.  This annual competition for final year Fine Art postgraduates aims to provide a bridge between art school and professional practice by giving a recent graduate a free studio in Bow, East London for one year together with a bursary of £5000.  Different institutions are targeted each year and we are thrilled that our students will benefit from the opportunity to be considered in 2015. For further information, please see the Chadwell Award website at

Sam Belinfante, David Blandy and Benedict Drew are showing in The Curves of the Needle at Baltic 39, 31–39 High Bridge, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE1 1EW, from 3 April – 17 May 2015. See .

Joy Sleeman is a keynote speaker at the conference, Memory ^ sentiment ^ body ^ space ^ object : dialogues across and between dance and art, at Coventry University, Priory Street, Coventry CV1 5FB, on Friday 16 May 2015, from 10am - 6pm. See .

An exhibition of Clare Winsten drawings is on show at 31 Fournier Street, London E1, from 5 - 16 May 2015. Visits are by appointment only, see .

Matt Copson is the recipient of the inaugural Bloomberg New Contemporaries Studio Award for Graudate Artists, which will provide him with a rent-free studio for one year. The bursary is funded by Bloomberg New Contemporaries Supporters Club.

Professor Sharon Morris is giving her Inaugural Lecture, “The first smile”: A Poetics of the Ephemeral and Durational, at the Wilkins Gustave Tuck Lecture Theatre, 2nd Floor, South Junction, Wilkins Building, ӰԺ, Gower Street, London, WC1E 6BT, on Tuesday 12 May 2015 at 6.30pm. Booking is on .

Jayne Wilton is showing a screening of Vent, at Guy's Hospital, second floor, Southwark Wing, Westminster Bridge Road, London SE1 7EH, on Thursday 30 April 2015, from 12.30 - 1.30pm. See .

In the 2014 Research Excellence Framework, 79% of the Slade's research activity was recognised as being in the top two categories of 4* ('world leading') or 3* ('internationally excellent') while 100% of the impact of our research activity was recognised as having either outstanding or very considerable impact in terms of its reach and significance. With 95% of eligible staff included in the submission, this confirms the Slade as one of the country’s leading university departments for research in Fine Art.

Institutionally ӰԺ is the top-rated university in the UK for research strength in the new Research Excellence Framework 2014 published today, by a measure of average research score multiplied by staff numbers submitted. - See more at: .

Edward Allington, Register of Members and Small Fires, 2014, ink and emulsion on ledger paper 28.1 x 21 cm
Edward Allington, Register of Members and Small Fires, 2014, ink and emulsion on ledger paper 28.1 x 21 cm, 2015

Edward Allington, Register of Members and Small Fires, 2014, ink and emulsion on ledger paper 28.1 x 21 cm

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Slade tutors Edward Allington, Simon Faithfull, Melanie Jackson, Lisa Milroy and Professor Emeritus Phyllida Barlow and alumni Michael Armitage, Rana Begum, David Blandy, Jill Bradley, Nicholas Byrne, Martin Creed, Angela de la Cruz, Tacita Dean, Jess Flood-Paddock, Jamie George, Helena Goldwater, Oona Grimes, Emma Hart, Rowena Hughes, Sarah Macdonald, Vicken Parsons, Aura Satz, Boo Saville, Daniel Silver, Marianna Simnett, Georgina Starr and Patrick Ward. have all donated to the Drawing Biennial 2015. The exhibition takes place at Drawing Room, Tannery Arts, 12 Rich Estate, Crimscott Street, London SE1 5TE, from 5 March - 30 April 2015. Drawings will be auctioned on 16 April 10am - 30 April 9pm. See .

Florian Roithmayr is showing in Things That Tumble Twice at Tenderpixel Gallery, 8 - 10 Cecil Court, London WC2N 4HE, from 29 March - 6 May 2015. See .

Sarah Cameron and Matt Copson are taking part in The Sleeping Giant Painting Exhibition and Music, at the Amersham Arms, 388 New Cross Road, SE14 6TY, on Tuesday 24 March 2015, from 7pm -12 midnight. See .