Slade School of Fine Art

UCL Slade School of Fine Art

Established	1871
Founder	Felix Slade
Parent institution	University College London
Director	Professor Susan Alexis Collins[1]
Administrative staff	51[2]
Students	320[3][3]
Location	Bloomsbury, London, England, United Kingdom
Campus	Urban
Website	ucl.ac.uk/slade/

The UCL Slade School of Fine Art (informally The Slade) is the art school of University College London (UCL) and is based in London, United Kingdom. It is world-renowned^[4] and is consistently ranked as the UK's top art and design educational institution.^[5][6] The school is organised as a department of UCL's Faculty of Arts and Humanities.

History

Students at the Slade in 1905

The school traces its roots back to 1868 when lawyer and philanthropist Felix Slade (1788–1868) bequeathed funds to establish three Chairs in Fine Art, to be based at Oxford University, Cambridge University and University College London, where six studentships were endowed.

Distinguished past teachers include Henry Tonks, Wilson Steer, Randolph Schwabe, William Coldstream, Andrew Forge, Lucian Freud, Phyllida Barlow, John Hilliard, Bruce McLean, Alfred Gerrard.

Edward Allington is currently a Professor of Fine Art and Head of Graduate Sculpture.^[7]

Two of its most important periods were immediately before, and immediately after, the turn of the twentieth century, described by Henry Tonks as its two 'crises of brilliance'. The first included the students Augustus John, William Orpen and Percy Wyndham Lewis; the second – which has been chronicled in David Boyd Haycock's A Crisis of Brilliance: Five Young British Artists and the Great War (Old Street Publishing, 2009) – included the students Dora Carrington, Mark Gertler, Paul Nash, C.R.W. Nevinson and Sir Stanley Spencer.

Slade Centre for Electronic Media in Fine Art

The Slade Centre for Electronic Media in Fine Art (SCEMFA) was opened in 1995. The centre provides opportunities for research into electronic media and fine art with the goal of contributing to debate on national and international levels. The Slade had previously been home to Malcolm Hughes's Computer and Experimental Department in the 1970s.

In 1997 SCEMFA presented Collision, a public lecture series by artists, writers, and curators working with interactivity, telematics, and digital works. This exhibition was followed by Spontaneous Reaction, a week-long seminar funded by the Arts Council, which took a critical look at interactivity with participants from a variety of disciplines, including psychology, architecture, and computer science.

Throughout 1998, SCEMFA collaborated with Channel 4 UK to organise Cached, a monthly event held at the Institute of Contemporary Arts, London. Funded by the Arts Council, this series investigated the conceptual and practical issues of producing art for the internet through a series of artists presentations.

Art collection

The Slade art collection was started when the yearly prizes awarded to top students was combined with a collection scheme in 1897 and the Summer Composition Prize and the Figure and Head Painting Prizes began to be kept by the school.^[8] Works by students and staff of the Slade School of Fine Art form the basis of the UCL Art museum today.^[8]

Rankings

In a 2008 survey conducted by The Sunday Times the Slade recorded perfect scores.^[4]

Faculty Rankings

	2010
The Guardian University Guide	1st[9]
The Complete University Guide	2nd[10]
The Times Good University Guide	2nd[11]

Teaching

The faculty currently offers the following programs:

Undergraduate Studies

• 3-year BFA in Fine Art
• 4-year BA in Fine Art

Graduate Studies

• 2-academic year (18 months) MFA in Fine Art
• 2-calendar (24 months) MA in Fine Art
• 1-term, 2-term, of 1-year Graduate Affiliate Study

Research

• MPhil or PhD in Fine Art

Notable alumni

Full list see Category:Alumni of the Slade School of Art

Mary Adshead, mural painter, designer Anna Airy, artist Rosemary Allan, painter Michael Andrews, painter Phyllis Barron, textile designer James Bateman, painter Amelia Bauerle, painter and illustrator Pauline Baynes, illustrator Elinor Bellingham-Smith, painter David Bomberg, painter Raymond Briggs, illustrator, graphic novelist Cecily Brown, painter Felicia Browne, painter and Spanish Civil War volunteer Rodney Joseph Burn, painter William Bustard, stained glass artist Martin John Callanan, award winning artist, current teaching staff Nancy Carline, artist Sydney Carline, artist Thomas Carr, artist Dora Carrington, artist Chien-Ying Chang, artist Evan Charlton, painter G. K. Chesterton, writer Spartacus Chetwynd, artist, Turner Prize nominee Derek Chittock, portrait painter Dorothy Coke, painter Sir William Coldstream, painter Professor Paul Coldwell, artist John Collier, artist Susan Alexis Collins, artist, current Slade Director & Professor Ithell Colquhoun, painter and writer William George Constable, art historian Martin Creed, artist Dennis Creffield, painter Charles Cundall, painter Yitzhak Danziger, sculptor Tacita Dean, Alfred De Simone, painter Evelyn De Morgan, Anthony Devas, portrait painter Sholto Johnstone Douglas, artist William Dring, portrait painter Robert Fawcett, illustrator Paul Feiler, artist Philip Firsov, artist and sculptor Mary Sargant Florence, painter Nicholas Garland, political cartoonist Alfred Gerrard, sculptor Mark Gertler, artist Colin Gill, painter Dryden Goodwin, artist, current teaching staff Douglas Gordon, artist Antony Gormley, sculptor Duncan Grant, painter and designer Eileen Gray, designer and architect Vaughan Grylls, artist Robin Guthrie, painter Kathleen Guthrie, painter Aya Haidar, multimedia artist Richard Hamilton, painter and collage artist Archibald Standish Hartrick, artist and illustrator Mona Hatoum, artist Keith Henderson, artist and illustrator Nigel Henderson (artist), artist Patrick Heron, abstract painter Ian Holbourn, artist, educator, laird of Foula, writer, and RMS Lusitania survivor Annie Horniman, theatre owner and manager Ray Howard-Jones, artist Edgar Hubert, painter Sidney Hunt, artist and designer

Paul Huson, writer and designer Darsie Japp, artist Derek Jarman, artist George Percy Jacomb-Hood, artist Augustus John, artist Alfred Garth Jones, illustrator Gerry Judah, artist and designer Menashe Kadishman, Israeli sculptor and painter Winifred Knights, painter Kanayi Kunhiraman,sculptor Sir Osbert Lancaster, cartoonist Olga Lehmann, painter, illustrator and designer Maxwell Gordon Lightfoot, painter Kim Lim, sculptor Zhi Lin, artist Nicholas Logsdail, art dealer[12] John Long, painter and teacher Lowes Dalbiac Luard, painter John Luke, painter and sculptor John Lundberg, artist and filmmaker Nicolette Macnamara, artist and author Constance Markievicz, artist, revolutionary nationalist, suffragette, socialist John Mascaro, artist Moina Mathers, artist and occultist Dorothy Mead, painter Robert Medley, painter and designer Oliver Messel, stage designer Daniel Mulloy, film writer and director Donia Nachshen, illustrator Paul Nash, painter Gemma Nelson, painter C.R.W. Nevinson, artist Ben Nicholson, abstract painter Philip Norman, artist and antiquarian Sir Eduardo Paolozzi, artist Katie Paterson, artist Eddie Peake, artist Edward Plunkett, 20th Baron of Dunsany, painter and sculptor Mary Potter (1900–1981), painter Sarah Pucill, film artist Carl Randall, painter Paula Rego, painter, illustrator and printmaker Harold Riley, artist Claude Rogers, artist Isaac Rosenberg, war poet Paul Rotha, documentary film-maker, film historian and critic James Scott, filmmaker and artist Rupert Shephard, artist Sir Matthew Smith, painter Peter Snow (artist), painter and theatre designer Walter Shaw Sparrow, writer Yolanda Sonnabend, theatre and ballet designer and painter[13] Sir Stanley Spencer, artist Andrew Michael Stahl, painter Leo Steinberg, art historian Keith Sutton, artist and critic Ernest Heber Thompson, painter and printmaker William Tillyer, artist Arthur Ralph Middleton Todd, portrait painter Euan Uglow British painter David Vaughan, psychedelic artist Stelios Votsis, painter Edward Wadsworth, artist Rachel Whiteread, artist Victor Willing, artist Charli XCX, successful singer-songwriter Nan Youngman, painter and educationalist Partou Zia, painter and writer

In fiction

• Pat Barker in Life Class and Toby's Room
• Gilbert Cannan in Mendel
• Barbary Deniston in The World My Wilderness
• Miranda Grey in The Collector
• Molly MacDonald in Monarch of the Glen
• David Thompson in Beyond This Horizon

See also

• Art of the United Kingdom
• Electronic Media
• Martin John Callanan
• Susan Alexis Collins

References

1. "The Slade School of Fine Art: Prof Susan Collins". Retrieved 4 February 2015.
2. "Academic Staff". Retrieved 4 February 2015.
3. "Slade School of Fine Art". Retrieved 4 February 2015.
4. McCall, Alastair (19 September 2008). "Double first for Oxford". The Times. London. Archived from the original on 2 December 2008. Retrieved 14 August 2012.
5. "Art and design". The Guardian. London. 22 May 2012.
6. "Art and design". The Guardian. London. 17 May 2011.
7. "The Slade School of Fine Art: Prof Edward Allington". ucl.ac.uk. 2013. Retrieved 11 May 2013.
8. More about the UCL Art museum on the BBC Your Paintings website
9. "The Guardian University Guide". London. 12 May 2009. Retrieved 12 May 2009.
10. "The Complete University Guide". Retrieved 30 April 2009.
11. Foster, Patrick. "The Good University Guide". The Times. London. Retrieved 20 February 2009.
12. "(Christopher) Nicholas Roald LOGSDAIL". Debrett's. Retrieved 8 May 2014.
13. "Yolanda Sonnabend (1935-)". NPG. Retrieved 17 October 2014.

External links

• Slade Website
• Slade Knowledge Base - extensive collection of studio teaching materials available online under Creative Commons
• Slade Centre for Electronic Media in Fine Art
• Slade Centre for Electronic Media in Fine Art Timeline of key events

Coordinates: 51°31′30″N 0°08′04″W / 51.52496°N 0.13440°W