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The Pigment Farm Presents : Andreea Ionascu
The Pigment Farm Presents : Andreea Ionascu, 2020

Pigment Farm Lecture, 29 July 2020

The Pigment Farm Presents: Andreea Ionascu, A study on the practical applications of microbial fuel cells: from organic waste to electricity on Wednesday 29 July at 4.30pm, on .

The Pigment Farm Presents : Andreea Ionascu
The Pigment Farm Presents : Andreea Ionascu, 2020

Pigment Farm Lecture, 29 July 2020

The Pigment Farm Presents: Andreea Ionascu, A study on the practical applications of microbial fuel cells: from organic waste to electricity on Wednesday 29 July at 4.30pm, on .

The Alternative School of Economics banner
The Alternative School of Economics banner, Ruth Beale and Amy Feneck, 2020

Alumna Amy Feneck and Ruth Beale's new podcast True Currency, is released 16 July - 20 August via Gasworks, London: .Read the review in ArtReview .

Mikhail Karikis: Ferocious Love 2020 - Tate Liverpool
Mikhail Karikis: Ferocious Love 2020 - Tate Liverpool, Mikhail Karikis, 2020

©Mikhail Karikis

Ferocious Love 2020, a new audio-visual installation from Mikhail Karikis, made in collaboration with students and activists, is showing at Tate Liverpool from 27 July – 22 November 2020. See the Tate website: .

Called to Respond
Called to Respond, Shenece Oretha

Cell Projects

Shenece Oretha's new commission by Cell Project Space, Called to Respond, which can be accessed  on desktop on: , or mobile: .

Plastique Fantastique Communiqué and Benedict Drew are showing online at 9pm BST, on 16 September 2020, and Imran Perretta 9pm BST, on 21 October 2020, as part of BALTIC's Season 2 of TRANSMISSIONS. See:

Collage of nominees for Kunstpreis der Böttcherstraße in Bremen 2020
Collage of nominees for Kunstpreis der Böttcherstraße in Bremen 2020, 2020

Die nominierten Künstler*innen für den Kunstpreis der Böttcherstraße in Bremen 2020: Bani Abidi(Foto: Schokofeh Kamiz), Nevin Aladağ, Jesse Darling(Foto: Christa Holka), Toulu Hassani (Foto: Volker Crone), Janine Jembere (© SebastianBodirsky), Anne DukHee Jordan, Ulrike Müller (© Katja Illner), Henrike Naumann (Foto: Henrike Naumann), Raphaela Vogel (Foto: Jane Eyre), Stefan Vogel

Congratulations to Jesse Darling who has been nominated for the prestigious Kunstpreis der Böttcherstraße in Bremen prize.

The “Prize of the Böttcherstraße in Bremen” is among the leading and highest awards in contemporary art in Germany, Austria and Switzerland. The competition features 30,000 Euros in prize money for the winner and, in 2020, it will be held for the 47th time in the Kunsthalle Bremen from 29 August to 1 November 2020. The prize winner will be announced on Tuesday 27 October 2020.

We are committed to addressing systemic racism within the Slade through a series of actions to instigate fundamental and long-term changes to our staffing and curricula. Central to these changes is how we support our Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic students and staff.

Our commitments are:

  • We have formed a Systemic Racism Crisis Group to drive forward the agenda of racial equality for Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic staff and students. This group will report directly to the Slade Director and consult with the Slade Equality, Diversity and Inclusion committee (EDI), established in 2017.
  • To make transparent the EDI policy for staff recruitment and ensure that searches for a diversity of staff are successful.
  • To restructure the School and its curriculum so that we diversify our staff appointments.
  • To continue to diversify the range of visiting artists and speakers invited to the School and speakers at the Contemporary Art Lectures.
  • To support student-led initiatives including seminars, conferences, and publications that address issues of racial inequality.
  • To make it mandatory that all staff engage in training on racism and are aware of and are following ӰԺ policies on racism.
  • To involve all staff in implementing Slade EDI Policy for student recruitment and Widening Participation outreach.
  • To ensure all staff commit to diversifying the curriculum, including a wider presence of artists, writers and theorists addressing racism and colonialism.
  • To ensure that the Slade offers safe spaces so that Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic students are supported, heard and feel cared for.
  • The Slade will consult with students about what we can provide in terms of safe spaces and accountability procedures to address experiences of inequality or discrimination.
  • To hold a full school ‘townhall’ meeting in Autumn 2020 to provide a broad platform for discussing systemic racism, positive action and change.
  • To publish an annual report on the Slade’s widening participation, access, outreach and EDI initiatives.
  • To address the Slade’s historic ties to colonialism through a conference during our 150th anniversary year that explicitly engages with our history.
  • The Slade as a department will lead on these efforts and this process of change. No undue burden will be placed on Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic staff or students in doing this work.
Pigment farm logo
Pigment farm logo, 2020

His research project, life systems, addresses how art can confront ecological issues such as food and energy production through speculative technologies that encourage participation and engagement. He is currently a PhD researcher at the Slade School of Fine Art and The Electrochemical Innovation Laboratory, ӰԺ.

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Tomorrow: London - White Cube
Tomorrow: London - White Cube, 2020

Tomorrow: London, featuring work by 20 graduates of Fine Art Masters is online at White Cube from 10 July to 13 August 2020. Features work by alumna Victoria Cantons (from 24 - 30 July) and 2020 gradaute Bo Choy (31 July - 6 August). See

Slade Radio 2020
Slade Radio 2020

Slade students will be hosting two live online events to go alongside the showcase:

Slade Stream: Video and Performance Event, a live streamed event beaming new work from graduating students straight to your home screen.

Slade Radio: Sound work and Reading Room, a radio show broadcasting audio work, discussion, talks and other aural miscellany from graduating students to a sound source near you from 7pm on Tuesday 14 July 2020 (please note change of date).

All events will be streamed on Twitch:

Slade Radio Programme

Mataio Austin Dean
The Jumbee sugar cane and the Cutty Wren
What is the Cutty Wren?

Geraldine Snell
Making a cuppa etc

Hayley Rackham
The Onion Split
Glass Gills

Maven
Don't Feel Gentle Yet Audio
Happiness Audio

Bo Choy
Sad Leaders

Pav Putley
Touch

Danielle Brathwaite-Shirley's TRANS-PORT ME and  Jennifer Martin's TEETH are showing as part of Selected X – online programme running from 6 - 12 July 2020. See: for further details.

The Selected programme was established 10 years ago with the aims of supporting artist filmmakers to gain greater visibility and to bring new, diverse moving image work to audiences. Each year the artists who are shortlisted for the Film London Jarman Award nominate artists, who are earlier in their careers, and from those nominations a programme is curated by videoclub and Film London Artists’ Moving Image Network (FLAMIN). Last year's shortlisted artists included alumni Imran Perretta and Mikhail Karikis.  This programme is usually shown with venues around the UK. This year, due to the Covid 19 situation, the videos are showing online.

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Cass Art logo

Congratulations to BA/BFA Painting 2020 graduates Lulua Alyahya, Shailee Mehta and Nooka Shepherd, who won a Cass Art Painting Prize 2020: Slade School of Fine Art. Thank you to Cass Art for awarding the prizes.

Read the interviews with the prizewinning artists on the Cass Art blog:

The Slade Degree Showcase continues on: www.ucl.ac.uk/slade/shows/2020

Final, not Over - On the Rocks
Final, not Over - On the Rocks, 2020

Slade BA/BFA graduating sculpture students are showing in Final, not Over - On the Rocks at Unit 1 Gallery/Workshop, 9 -13 July 2020, part of a series of four Final, not Over shows that the gallery are putting on in their space to support 2020 graduates.

Individuals can book up to an hour time slot via the gallery website, to view the show on (social distancing will be observed).

For more information see the Unit 1 Gallery website:

Artists exhibiting: Ishwari Bhalerao and Leonie Rousham, Shauna Cribbin, Jake Fisk, Lettice Gatacre, Ellie Hayward, Georgia Kerr, Pol Wah-Tse, Seren Metcalfe, Anna Metzger, Billy Parker, Zowie Roxanne, Sean Synnuck, Ella Turner-Bridger, Stan Welch, Yom Bo Sung

Students from Graduate Painting have initiated a student fundraiser to raise money to be donated to . The selling work by graduate students, will be live until 20 July 2020.