UCL Slade BA Fine Art Summer Show
“I have been at Slade for two years now, and my personal experience of the show was many-layered. On the one hand, I was viewing the work of friends and fellow students with whom I had regularly...
View ArticleEngland looking outwards
Conservative politicians struggling not to mention Europe at this month’s party conference might take some solace from the fact that the country’s ambivalent relationship with the continent dates back...
View ArticleZoology and Mythology: Looking at Angels, Fairies and Dragons
From a very young age, each of us learns about winged creatures such as angels, dragons and fairies. But how many of us stop to ask exactly how these creatures are able to fly in the first place? This...
View ArticlePeter Cook: Designing for Students
My final blog article of the semester responds to architect Sir Peter Cook’s Lunch Hour Lecture on the subject of designing for students. Despite being in the wrong city at the time, I managed to...
View ArticleFearful Symmetries: a robotic performance at Tate Modern
Fearful Symmetries is a new robotic installation by Ruairi Glynn (UCL Bartlett Faculty of the Built Environment), commissioned for the Tate’s Undercurrent programme at their new Tanks gallery. Clare...
View ArticleDrawing over the colour line
Written by Henry Green, intern with UCL Communications For the uneducated, and I would very much plonk myself in that sprawling mass, awareness of the story of black and Asian people in the UK is...
View ArticleCommunicating without words: the power of art as a tool of expression
Written by Maria Black, retired UCL clinical linguist What would you do if a stroke or head injury robbed you of your ability to communicate verbally? How would you preserve your sense of self and...
View ArticleEclectic designs on show at UCL Slade Print Fair
Written by Jordan Rowe, Editorial Worker for UCL Media Relations The warehouse-style double gated lift that greets you upon arrival at the Slade Research Centre on Woburn Square is the first indication...
View ArticleGrayson Perry’s seven lessons in creativity
Grayson Perry, the Turner-prize-winning-cross-dressing ceramic artist, is fast becoming a national treasure. So when you get the chance to go and see him speak in the flesh, at the inauguration of the...
View ArticleWhat on earth is time-based media?
Written by Jordan Rowe, Editorial Worker for UCL Media Relations What is ‘time-based media’? A clock radio? A calendar? How about the tickers that 24-hour news channels plant at the bottom of the...
View ArticleBuddhas of Suburbia: faith, migration and suburban change in London
If there’s one thing to take home from American film culture, from The Virgin Suicides to American Beauty, it’s that the suburbs are a place to be avoided at all costs. Replete with murderous instincts...
View ArticleMusic revolution! Mozart. Rossini. Whatever next?
After learning about the unity that could be achieved at the opera at my last UCL Festival of the Arts event, I was keen to actually experience an aria or two and learn more about the art form that had...
View ArticleLunch Hour Lectures: Bright Sparks – the history and science of fireworks
With 5 November just around the corner, this Lunch Hour Lecture on how fireworks have helped to develop a relationship between science and art from Dr Simon Werrett (UCL Science and Technology Studies)...
View ArticleThe Great Grant Knit-a-Thon
I’ve always wanted to learn how to knit. Unfortunately a lack of hand-eye coordination and a short attention span mean that it’s a skill I’ve never quite mastered. I also really like quirky museums. So...
View ArticleMD4: Mysticism and Insecurity
The Global Engagement Funds are intended to support UCL academics collaborating with colleagues based in other countries. Last year, they enabled Professor Andrew Stahl of the UCL Slade School of Fine...
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