The UCL Slade School of Fine Art (informally The Slade) is the

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(UCL) and is based in London, England. It has been ranked as the UK's top art and design educational institution. The school is organised as a department of UCL's Faculty of Arts and Humanities.

History

The school traces its roots back to 1868 when lawyer and philanthropist

Felix Slade Felix Joseph Slade (6 August 1788 – 29 March 1868) was an English lawyer and collector of glass, books and prints. A fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London, Society of Antiquaries (1866) and a philanthropist who endowed three Slade Pr ...

(1788–1868) bequeathed funds to establish three Chairs in Fine Art, to be based at Oxford University, Cambridge University and

University College London , mottoeng = Let all come who by merit deserve the most reward , established = , type = Public research university , endowment = £143 million (2020) , budget = � ...

, 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 was Professor of Fine Art and Head of Graduate Sculpture until his death in 2017. 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 Augustus Edwin John (4 January 1878 – 31 October 1961) was a Welsh painter, draughtsman, and etcher. For a time he was considered the most important artist at work in Britain: Virginia Woolf remarked that by 1908 the era of John Singer Sarg ...

, 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 Stanley Spencer. Another cherished period followed the Second World War, under the directorship of William Coldstream, who brought in Lucian Freud to teach, and whose students included Paula Rego, Michael Andrews, and the filmmaker Lorenza Mazzetti. Coldstream was responsible for the creation of th
Slade Film Department
the first in any British university, in 1960, with

Thorold Dickinson Thorold Barron Dickinson (16 November 1903 – 14 April 1984) was a British film director, screenwriter, film editor, film producer, and Britain's first university professor of film. Dickinson's work received much praise, with fellow directo ...

as chief lecturer. Filmmakers associated with the Slade Film Department include

Derek Jarman Michael Derek Elworthy Jarman (31 January 1942 – 19 February 1994) was an English artist, film maker, costume designer, stage designer, writer, gardener and gay rights activist. Biography Jarman was born at the Royal Victoria Nursing Ho ...

and Peter Whitehead.

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 Telematics is an interdisciplinary field encompassing telecommunications, vehicular technologies (road transport, road safety, etc.), electrical engineering (sensors, instrumentation, wireless communications, etc.), and computer science (multimedi ...

, and digital works. This exhibition was followed by ''Spontaneous Reaction'', a week-long seminar funded by the Arts Council of England, which took a critical look at interactivity with participants from a variety of disciplines, including psychology, architecture, and

computer science Computer science is the study of computation, automation, and information. Computer science spans theoretical disciplines (such as algorithms, theory of computation, information theory, and automation) to practical disciplines (includ ...

. 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.More about the UCL Art museum
on the BBC Your Paintings website Works by students and staff of the Slade School of Fine Art form the basis of the UCL Art museum today.

Rankings

In a 2008 survey conducted by '' The Sunday Times'' the Slade recorded perfect scores.

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 :Alumni of the Slade School of Art'' * Elinor Proby Adams (1885–1945), painter * Mary Adshead (1904–1995), mural painter, designer * Anna Airy (1882–1964), artist * Rosemary Allan (1911–2008), painter * Kathleen Allen (1906–1983), painter * Edward Allington (1951–2017), sculptor * Michael Andrews (1928–1995), painter * Irene Aronson (born 1918), painter and printmaker * Sue Arrowsmith (1950–2014), photographic artist * Ed Atkins (born 1982), artist * Ray Atkins (born 1937), painter * Joan Ayling (1907–1993), painter * Zainul Abedin (1914－1976), painter * Ethelwyn Baker (1899–1988), sculptor * Phyllis Barron (1890–1964), textile designer * Alvaro Barrington (born 1983), artist * James Bateman (1893–1959), painter * Amelia Bauerle (1873–1916), painter and illustrator *

Pauline Baynes Pauline Diana Baynes (9 September 1922 – 1 August 2008) was an English illustrator, author and commercial artist. She contributed drawings and paintings to more than 200 books, mostly in the children's genre. She was the first illustrat ...

(1922–2008), illustrator * Tessa Beaver (1932–2018), painter and illustrator * Roy Beddington (1910–1995), painter, illustrator, and writer * Elinor Bellingham-Smith (1906–1988), painter * Eleanor Best (1875–1957), painter * Zelma Blakely (1921–1978), illustrator *

David Bomberg David Garshen Bomberg (5 December 1890 – 19 August 1957) was a British painter, and one of the Whitechapel Boys. Bomberg was one of the most audacious of the exceptional generation of artists who studied at the Slade School of Art under Hen ...

(1890–1957), painter * Dorothy Elizabeth Bradford (1897–1986), painter * Danielle Brathwaite-Shirley (born 1995), artist * Phyllis Bray (1911–1991), painter and muralist * Raymond Briggs (born 1934), illustrator, graphic novelist * Cecily Brown (born 1969), painter * Sheila Bownas (1925–2007), textile designer and botanical illustrator * Felicia Browne (1904–1936), painter and

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volunteer * Rodney Joseph Burn (1899–1984), painter * Dorothy Burroughes (1883–1963), illustrator * William Bustard (1894–1973), stained glass artist * Dorothy A. Cadman (fl. 1908–1927), painter * Martin John Callanan (born 1982), artist, current teaching staff * Gina Calleja (1928 – 2017), author and illustrator * Nancy Carline (1909–2004), artist * Sydney Carline (1888–1929), artist * Thomas Carr (1909–1999), artist *

Ethel Carrick Ethel Carrick, later Ethel Carrick Fox (7 February 1872 – 17 June 1952) was an English Impressionist and Post-Impressionist painter. Much of her career was spent in France and in Australia, where she was associated with the movement known as ...

(1872–1951), painter * Dora Carrington (1893–1932), artist * Chien-Ying Chang (1913–2004), artist * Daphne Charlton (1909–1991), painter * Evan Charlton (1904–1984), painter * G. K. Chesterton (1874–1936), writer * Evelyn Cheston (1875–1929), painter * Spartacus Chetwynd (born 1973), artist, Turner Prize nominee * Derek Chittock (1922–1986), portrait painter * Dora Clarke (1895–1989), sculptor * Edna Clarke Hall (1879-1979), painter * Dorothy Coke (1897–1979), painter * Sir William Coldstream (1908–1987), painter * Professor Paul Coldwell (born 1952), artist * Ruth Collet (1909–2001), painter * John Collier (1850–1934), artist * Marian Collier (1859–1887), painter * Susan Alexis Collins (born 1964), artist, current Slade Director & Professor *

Ithell Colquhoun Ithell Colquhoun ( 9 October 1906 – 11 April 1988) was a British painter, occultist, poet and author. Stylistically her artwork was affiliated with surrealism. In the late 1930s, Colquhoun was part of the British Surrealist Group before ...

(1906–1988), painter and writer * William George Constable (1887–1976), art historian * Teresa Copnall (1882–1972), painter * Matt Copson (born 1992), artist * Frank Barrington Craig (1902–1951), painter and teacher * Martin Creed (born 1968), artist * Dennis Creffield (1931–2018), painter * Barbara Crocker (1910–1995), artist, author * Claudia Cuesta, artist * Charles Cundall (1890–1971), painter * Nora Cundell (1889–1948), painter * Esmé Currey (1881–1973), painter, etcher * Yitzhak Danziger (1916–1977), sculptor * Tacita Dean (born 1965), * Alison Debenham (1903–1967) * Evelyn De Morgan (1885–1919) * Angela Delevingne * Brigid Derham (1943–1980), painter * Anthony Devas (1911–1958), portrait painter * Sir

William Dobell Sir William Dobell (24 September 189913 May 1970) was an Australian portrait and landscape artist of the 20th century. Dobell won the Archibald Prize, Australia's premier award for portrait artists on three occasions. The Dobell Prize is named ...

(1899–1970), portrait painter * Barbara Dorf (1933–2016), painter * Sholto Johnstone Douglas (1871–1958), artist * Jane Dowling (born 1925), painter * William Dring (1904–1990), portrait painter * William Easton, artist * Ursula Edgcumbe (1900–1985), sculptor * Ibrahim El-Salahi (born 1930), painter * Florence Engelbach (1872–1951), painter * Grace English (1891–1956), painter * Ben Enwonwu (1921–1994), artist * Jadé Fadojutimi (born 1993), artist * Leila Faithfull (1896–1994), painter * Julia Farrer (born 1950), artist * Robert Fawcett (1903–1967), illustrator * Daphne Fedarb (1912–1992), painter * Paul Feiler (1918–2013), artist * Elsie Few (1909–1980), artist * Philip Firsov (born 1985), artist and sculptor * Myrta Fisher (1917–1999), painter * Mary Sargant Florence (1857–1954), painter * Caroline Sylvia Gabriel (1912–1997), artist * Nicholas Garland (born 1935), political cartoonist * Raimi Gbadamosi (born 1965), neo-conceptual artist * Alfred Gerrard (1899–1998), sculptor * Kaff Gerrard (1894–1970), painter and potter * Mark Gertler (1891–1939), artist * A.A. Gill (1954–2016), journalist * Colin Gill (1892–1940), painter * Elsie Gledstanes (1893–1972), painter * Dryden Goodwin (born 1971), artist, current teaching staff * Douglas Gordon (born 1966), artist * Antony Gormley (born 1950), sculptor * Harold Gosney (born 1937), artist and sculptor * Caroline Gotch (1854–1945), painter * Carmen Gracia (born 1935), printmaker *

Duncan Grant Duncan James Corrowr Grant (21 January 1885 – 8 May 1978) was a British painter and designer of textiles, pottery, theatre sets and costumes. He was a member of the Bloomsbury Group. His father was Bartle Grant, a "poverty-stricken" major i ...

(1885–1978), painter and designer * Eileen Gray (1898–1976), designer and architect * Barbara Greg (1900–1983), wood engraver * Gwenny Griffiths (1867–1953), portrait painter * Oona Grimes (born 1957), artist * Vaughan Grylls (born 1943), artist * Robin Guthrie (1902–1971), painter * Kathleen Guthrie (1906–1981), painter * Edna Guy (1907–1982), marine artist * Richard Hamilton (1922–2011), painter and collage artist * Archibald Standish Hartrick (1864–1950), artist and illustrator * Lucy Harwood (1893–1972), artist * Mona Hatoum (born 1952), artist * Francis Helps (1890–1972), artist * Elsie Henderson (1880–1967), painter and sculptor * Keith Henderson (1883–1982), artist and illustrator * Nigel Henderson (1917–1985), artist *

Patrick Heron Patrick Heron (30 January 1920 – 20 March 1999) was a British abstract and figurative artist, critic, writer, and polemicist, who lived in Zennor, Cornwall. Heron was recognised as one of the leading painters of his generation. Influenced b ...

(1920–1999), abstract painter * Cicely Hey (1896–1980), painter and sculptor * Ian Holbourn (1872–1935), artist, educator, laird of Foula, writer, and RMS ''Lusitania'' survivor * Ruth Hollingsworth (1880–1945), painter *

Annie Horniman Annie Elizabeth Fredericka Horniman CH (3 October 1860 – 6 August 1937) was an English theatre patron and manager. She established the Abbey Theatre in Dublin and founded the first regional repertory theatre company in Britain at the Gaiety ...

(1860–1937), theatre owner and manager * Nancy Horrocks (1900–1989), abstract artist * Ray Howard-Jones (1903–1996), artist * Edgar Hubert (1906–1985), painter * Georgina Hunt (1922–2012), abstract artist * Sidney Hunt (1896–1940), artist and designer * Paul Huson (born 1942), writer and designer * George Percy Jacomb-Hood (1857–1929), artist * Darsie Japp (1883–1973), artist *

(1942–1994), artist *

(1878–1961), artist *

Gwen John Gwendolen Mary John (22 June 1876 – 18 September 1939) was a Welsh artist who worked in France for most of her career. Her paintings, mainly portraits of anonymous female sitters, are rendered in a range of closely related tones. Although s ...

(1876-1939), artist *

Vivien John Vivien John (8 March 1915 – 20 May 1994) was a British artist known for her paintings. Biography Vivien John was born at Alderney Manor in Dorset, the daughter of Dorelia McNeill and the artist Augustus John; she would be the last of their f ...

(1915–1994), artist * Arnrid Johnston (1895-1972), sculptor, illustrator * Alfred Garth Jones (1872–1955), illustrator * Karin Jonzen (1914–1998), sculptor * Gerry Judah (born 1951), artist and designer * Menashe Kadishman (1932–2015), Israeli sculptor and painter * Helen Kapp (1901–1978), artist and curator * Dorothy King (1907–1990), painter and curator * Eve Kirk (1900–1969), painter * Myfanwy Kitchin (1917–2002), painter, ceramicist * Robert Koenig (born 1951), sculptor * Clara Klinghoffer (1900–1970), artist * Paul Kneale (born 1986), artist *

Winifred Knights Winifred Margaret Knights (5 June 1899–7 February 1947) was a British painter. Amongst her most notable works are ''The Marriage at Cana'' produced for the British School at Rome, which is now in the Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa and ...

(1899–1947), painter * Kanayi Kunhiraman (born 1937), sculptor * Sir Osbert Lancaster (1908–1986), cartoonist * Olga Lehmann (1912–2001), painter, illustrator and designer * Maxwell Gordon Lightfoot (1886–1911), painter * Peter Kennard (born 1949), artist *

Bernard Leach Bernard Howell Leach (5 January 1887 – 6 May 1979), was a British studio potter and art teacher. He is regarded as the "Father of British studio pottery". Biography Early years (Japan) Leach was born in Hong Kong. His mother Eleanor (né ...

(1887–1879), ceramic artist, "Father of British studio pottery" * Edith Lawrence (1890–1973), artist * Kim Lim (1937–1997), sculptor * Zhi Lin, artist * Nicholas Logsdail (born 1945), art dealer * John Long (1964–2016), painter and teacher * Lowes Dalbiac Luard (1872–1944), painter * John Luke (1906–1975), painter and sculptor * John Lundberg (born 1968), artist and filmmaker * Sine MacKinnon (1901–1996), painter * Nicolette Macnamara (1911–1987), artist and author * John Mansbridge (1901–1981), painter and World War II official war artist *

Constance Markievicz Constance Georgine Markievicz ( pl, Markiewicz ; ' Gore-Booth; 4 February 1868 – 15 July 1927), also known as Countess Markievicz and Madame Markievicz, was an Irish politician, revolutionary, nationalist, suffragist, socialist, and the firs ...

(1868–1927), artist, revolutionary nationalist, suffragette, socialist * Ellis Martin (1881–1977), map cover illustrator for

Ordnance Survey Ordnance Survey (OS) is the national mapping agency for Great Britain. The agency's name indicates its original military purpose (see ordnance and surveying), which was to map Scotland in the wake of the Jacobite rising of 1745. There was ...

* John Mascaro (born 1970), artist *

Moina Mathers Moina Mathers, born Mina Bergson (28 February 1865 – 25 July 1928), was an artist and occultist at the turn of the 20th century. She was the sister of French philosopher Henri Bergson, the first man of Jewish descent to be awarded the Nobel Pri ...

(1865–1928), artist and occultist * Mary McEvoy (1870–1941), painter * Dorothy Mead (1928–1975), painter * Robert Medley (1905–1994), painter and designer * Elizabeth Merriman (born 1963), painter * Oliver Messel (1904–1978), stage designer * Robert Micklewright (1923–2013), artist and illustrator *

Mother Maribel of Wantage Mother Maribel of Wantage (16 January 1887–29 January 1970) was an Anglican nun, artist and sculptor who was Mother General of the Community of St Mary the Virgin in Wantage from 1940 to 1953. Her artistic works, particularly her sculpture ...

(1887–1970), artist and sculptor * Daniel Mulloy (born 1977), film writer and director * Donia Nachshen (1903–1987), illustrator * Paul Nash (1889–1946), painter * Gemma Nelson (born 1984), painter * C.R.W. Nevinson (1889–1946), artist * Bertha Newcombe (1857–1947), artist and illustrator * Ben Nicholson (1894–1982), abstract painter * Philip Norman (1842–1931), artist and antiquarian * Alanna O'Kelly (born 1955), Irish performance artist * Madge Oliver (1874–1924), painter * Sir Eduardo Paolozzi (1924–2005), artist * Kathleen Parbury (1901–1986), sculptor * Katie Paterson (born 1981), artist * Eddie Peake (born 1981), artist * Margot Perryman (born 1938), painter * Louise Pickard (1865–1928), painter * Edward Plunkett, 20th Baron of Dunsany (1939–2011), painter and sculptor * Mary Potter (1900–1981), painter * Sarah Pucill, film artist * Margaret Fisher Prout (1875–1963), painter *

Carl Randall Carl Randall (born 1975) is a British figurative painter, whose work is based on images of modern Japan and London. Education Randall is a graduate of The Slade School of Fine Art London (BA Fine Art), the Royal Drawing School London (The Dr ...

(born 1975), painter * Paula Rego (1935-2022), painter, illustrator and printmaker * Harold Riley (born 1934), artist * William Roberts (1895–1980), painter * Claude Rogers (1907–1979), artist * Rosemary Rutherford (1912–1972), painter and stained glass artist * Ethel Jenner Rosenberg (1858–1930), first English Bahá'í * Isaac Rosenberg (1890–1918), war poet * Paul Rotha (1907–1984), documentary film-maker, film historian and critic * Hiraki Sawa (born 1977), filmmaker and artist * James Scott (born 1941), filmmaker and artist * Melissa Scott-Miller (1959-), painter * Ina Maud Sheldon-Williams (1876–1956), painter * Rupert Shephard (1909–1992), artist * Edith Simon (1917–2003), artist, sculptor, author * Marianna Simnett (born 1986), artist * Veronica Smirnoff (born 1979), painter * Sir Matthew Smith (1879–1959), painter *

Peter Snow Peter John Snow (born 20 April 1938) is a British radio and television presenter and historian. Between 1969 and 2005, he was an analyst of general election results, first on ITV and later for the BBC. He presented ''Newsnight'' from its l ...

(1927–2008), painter and theatre designer * Walter Shaw Sparrow (1862–1940), writer * Yolanda Sonnabend (1935–2015), theatre and ballet designer and painter * Sir Stanley Spencer (1891–1959), artist * Unity Spencer (1930–2017), artist * Andrew Stahl (born 1954), painter * Leo Steinberg (1920–2011), art historian * John Stezaker (born 1949), artist * David Storey (1933–2017), playwright, screenwriter, novelist * Keith Sutton (1934–2017), artist and critic * Ernest Heber Thompson (1891–1971), painter and printmaker * William Tillyer (born 1938), artist * Arthur Ralph Middleton Todd (1891–1966), portrait painter * Greta Tomlinson (1927–2021), artist * Euan Uglow (1932–2000), painter * David Vaughan (1944–2003), psychedelic artist * Charlotte Verity (born 1954), painter * Stelios Votsis (1929–2012), painter *

Edward Wadsworth Edward Alexander Wadsworth (29 October 1889 – 21 June 1949) was an English artist, closely associated with modernist Vorticism movement. He painted coastal views, abstracts, portraits and still-life in tempera medium and works printed usi ...

(1889–1949), artist * Mary Spencer Watson (1913–2006), sculptor * Edith Grace Wheatley (1888–1970), painter * Rex Whistler (1905–1944), painter, designer, and illustrator * Erica White (1904–1991), sculptor *

Rachel Whiteread Dame Rachel Whiteread (born 20 April 1963) is an English artist who primarily produces sculptures, which typically take the form of casts. She was the first woman to win the annual Turner Prize in 1993. Whiteread was one of the Young British A ...

(born 1963), artist * Victor Willing (1928–1988), artist * Charli XCX (born 1992), singer–songwriter * Nan Youngman (1906–1995), painter and educationalist * Partou Zia (1958–2008), painter and writer * Cecilia Vicuña (born 1948), poet and artist * Christopher Le Brun (born 1951), artist * Anupam Sud (born 1944), Indian printmaker

In fiction

* Pat Barker in '' Life Class'' and '' Toby's Room'' * Gilbert Cannan in ''Mendel'' * Frances Cary in '' Third Girl'' * Barbary Deniston in '' The World My Wilderness'' * Miranda Grey in '' The Collector'' * Imogen Hollins in '' Doctors'' * Molly MacDonald in '' Monarch of the Glen'' * David Thompson in '' Beyond This Horizon''

References

External links

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