Slade School of Fine Art

" 2005/6 saw the completion of a £1.5m enhancement of Slade facilities and infrastructure for research, including an additional fully equipped digital studio, new studios and refurbished workshop spaces for print and sculpture.

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Slade School of Fine Art is the art school of University College London

University College London

University College London is a university institution and constituent college of the University of London based primarily in London, England, United Kingdom....
, UK.

The school traces its roots back to 1868 when Felix Slade

Felix Slade

Felix Joseph Slade FRA , was an England collector of glass, books and engravings, a fellow of the Society of Antiquaries and a philanthropist who endowed chairs of fine art at Oxford University and University of Cambridge, and at University College London, where he also endowed scholarships which formed the beginning of the Slade School of...
 (1788-1868) bequeathed funds to establish three Chairs in Fine Art

Fine art

Fine art describes any art form developed primarily for aesthetics and/or concept rather than utility. This type of art is often expressed in the production of art objects using Visual arts and performing art forms, including painting, sculpture, dance, theatre, architecture, photography and printmaking....
, to be based at Oxford University

University of Oxford

The University of Oxford , located in the city of Oxford, Oxfordshire, England, is the List of oldest universities in continuous operation in the English-speaking world....
, Cambridge University

University of Cambridge

The University of Cambridge , located in Cambridge, England, is the List of oldest universities in continuous operation university in the Anglosphere....
 and University College, London, where six studentship

Studentship

A studentship is similar to a scholarship but involves summer work on a research project. The financial amount paid to the recipient is normally tax-free, but the recipient is required to fulfill work requirements....
s were endowed. The Slade operates two studios, one for undergraduate students, the other for postgraduates only. Distinguished past teachers include Henry Tonks

Henry Tonks

File:Henry Tonks02.jpgHenry Tonks, Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons was an England surgeon, artist and art teacher.He was one of the first English artists to be influenced by the France Impressionists, he exhibited with the New English Art Club and was an associate of many of the more progressive artists of late Victorian England...
, Wilson Steer, Randolph Schwabe, William Coldstream

William Coldstream

Sir William Menzies Coldstream was a British Realism Painting and a long standing art teacher....
, Lucian Freud

Lucian Freud

Lucian Michael Freud, Order of Merit, Order of the Companions of Honour is a British Painting of Germany origin....
, Reg Butler

Reg Butler

Reginald Cotterell Butler was an England sculptor. He studied and lectured at the Architectural Association School of Architecture in London from 1937 to 1939....
, Keith Vaughan

Keith Vaughan

John Keith Vaughan was a United Kingdom painter.Born in Selsey, Vaughan attended Christ's Hospital school. He worked in an advertising agency until the World War II, when as a conscientious objector he joined the St....
, Robert Medley

Robert Medley

Charles Robert Owen Medley Order of the British Empire, RA, , always known as Robert Medley, was an English artist and educator....
 and Roger Fry

Roger Fry

Roger Eliot Fry was an England artist and an art critic, and a member of the Bloomsbury group. Despite establishing his reputation as a scholar of the Old Masters, as he matured as a critic he became an advocate of more recent developments in French painting, to which he gave the name Post-Impressionism....
.

" 2005/6 saw the completion of a £1.5m enhancement of Slade facilities and infrastructure for research, including an additional fully equipped digital studio, new studios and refurbished workshop spaces for print and sculpture. There are currently 260 students registered for taught undergraduate and graduate programmes and around a dozen PhD students " John Aiken Slade Professor.

The Slade Centre for Electronic Media in Fine Art

The Slade Centre for Electronic Media in Fine Art (SCEMFA) opened in 1995 and has provided the opportunity to focus on research into Electronic Media

Electronic media

Electronic media are media that utilize electronics or electromechanical energy for the end user to access the content. This is in contrast to static media , which are most often Desktop publishing, but don't require electronics to be accessed by the end user in the printed form....
 and Fine Art

Fine art

Fine art describes any art form developed primarily for aesthetics and/or concept rather than utility. This type of art is often expressed in the production of art objects using Visual arts and performing art forms, including painting, sculpture, dance, theatre, architecture, photography and printmaking....
, contributing to debate on a national and international level. In 1997 SCEMFA presented Collision, a public lecture series by artists, writers and curators working with interactivity

Interactivity

In the fields of information science, communication, and industrial design, there is debate over the meaning of Interactivity. In the "contingency view" of interactivity, there are three levels: Noninteractive, when a message is not related to previous messages; Reactive, when a message is related only to one immediately previous message; an...
, telematics

Telematics

The term telematics is used in a number of ways:File:Lexus Gen V navigation system.jpg* The integrated use of telecommunications and informatics, also known as ICT ....
 and digital works, followed by Spontaneous Reaction, an Arts Council

Arts Council of Great Britain

The Arts Council of Great Britain was a non-departmental public body dedicated to the promotion of the fine arts in Great Britain. The Arts Council of Great Britain was divided in 1994 to form the Arts Council of England ...
 funded week-long seminar which took a critical look at interactivity with participants drawn from a variety of disciplines including psychology

Psychology

Psychology is an academic and applied science discipline involving the science study of human mental functions and behavior. Occasionally it also relies on symbolic hermeneutics and critical theory, although these traditions are less pronounced than in other social sciences such as sociology....
, architecture

Architecture

The term architecture can refer to a process, a profession or documentation.As a process, architecture is the activity of designing and construction buildings and other physical structures by a person or a computer, primarily to provide shelter....
 and computer science

Computer science

Computer science is the study of the theoretical foundations of information and computation, and of practical techniques for their implementation and application in computer systems....
. Throughout 1998 SCEMFA collaborated with Channel to organise a monthly event called Cached which was held at the Institute of Contemporary Arts

Institute of Contemporary Arts

The Institute of Contemporary Arts is an modernism and cultural centre on The Mall in London, just off Trafalgar Square. It is located within Nash House, part of Carlton House Terrace, near the Duke of York Steps and Admiralty Arch....
, London. Funded by the Arts Council, this series investigated the conceptual and practical issues of making work for the Internet through a series of artists presentations.

Notable alumni

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

• Michael Andrews
  Michael Andrews (artist)
  
  Michael Andrews was a United Kingdom painter....
  , painter
• Amelia Bauerle
  Amelia Bauerle
  
  Amelia Bauerle was a London-born painter, illustrator and etcher who was also known as Amelia Bowerley. She was the daughter of the German artist Karl Wilhelm Bauerle....
  , painter and illustrator
• Pauline Baynes
  Pauline Baynes
  
  Pauline Baynes was an United Kingdom book illustrator, whose work encompassed more than 100 books, notably those by C. S. Lewis and J. R. R. Tolkien....
  , illustrator
• David Bomberg
  David Bomberg
  
  David Garshen Bomberg was an England Painting, and one of the Whitechapel Boys.The most audacious of the exceptional generation of artists that studied under Henry Tonks at the Slade School of Art, Bomberg painted a series of complex geometric compositions combining the influences of cubism and futurism in the years immediately preceding...
  , painter
• Cecily Brown
  Cecily Brown
  
  Cecily Brown is a United Kingdom painter. She has a great respect for art history and her works reveal her reverence and high regard for artists such as Francisco de Goya, Nicolas Poussin, Willem de Kooning, and Joan Mitchell while incorporating into her works her distinct female view point....
  , painter
• Felicia Browne
  Felicia Browne
  
  Felicia Mary Browne , was an England artist. She was the first United Kingdom volunteer to die in the Spanish Civil War....
  , painter and Spanish Civil War
  Spanish Civil War
  
  The Spanish Civil War was a major conflict in Spain that started after an attempted coup d'?tat by a group of Spanish Army generals, supported by the conservative Spanish Confederation of the Autonomous Right , Carlist groups and the fascistic Falange, against the government of the Second Spanish Republic, then under the leadership of pr...
   Volunteer
  Volunteer
  
  A volunteer is someone who works Community service or for the benefit of environment primarily because they choose to do so. The word comes from France, it can also be translated as "will" ....
  =
• G. K. Chesterton
  G. K. Chesterton
  
  Gilbert Keith Chesterton was one of the most influential English writers of the 20th century. His prolific and diverse output included journalism, philosophy, poetry, biography, Christian apologetics, fantasy and detective fiction....
  , writer
• Sir William Coldstream
  William Coldstream
  
  Sir William Menzies Coldstream was a British Realism Painting and a long standing art teacher....
  , painter
• Susan Alexis Collins
  Susan Alexis Collins
  
  Susan Collins PhD, is an United Kingdom artist and academic; one of the UK's leading artists working with digital media.Collins is a Senior Lecturer, Head of Electronic Media, and Head of Undergraduate Fine Art Media, for the Slade School of Art, University College London....
  , artist
• Ithell Colquhoun
  Ithell Colquhoun
  
  Ithell Colquhoun was a United Kingdom Surrealist painter and author. She was born in Shillong, Assam, India. From the 1930s to her death, her work was exhibited widely in Britain and Germany....
  , painter and writer
• William George Constable
  William George Constable
  
  William George Constable...
  , art historian
• Martin Creed
  Martin Creed
  
  Martin Creed is an England artist noted for his works which are grounded in the conceptual art of the 1960s and 1970s. He won the Turner Prize in 2001....
  , artist
• Sholto Johnstone Douglas
  Sholto Johnstone Douglas
  
  Robert Sholto Johnstone Douglas , known as Sholto Douglas, or more formally as Sholto Johnstone Douglas, was a Scotland figurative artist, a painter chiefly of portraits and landscapes....
  , artist
• Benjamin Enwonwu, Nigerian artist
• Douglas Gordon
  Douglas Gordon
  
  'Douglas Gordon' is a Scotland artist....
  , artist
• Antony Gormley
  Antony Gormley
  
  Antony Gormley Officer of the Order of the British Empire Royal Academician is an England sculpture. His best known works include the Angel of the North, a public art in Gateshead commissioned in 1995 and erected in February 1998, and Another Place on Crosby Beach near Liverpool....
  , sculptor
• Eileen Gray
  Eileen Gray
  
  Kathleen Eileen Moray Gray was an Irish furniture designer and architect and a pioneer of the Modern Movement in architecture....
  , designer and architect
• Richard Hamilton
  Richard Hamilton (artist)
  
  Richard Hamilton is an England Painting and collage artist. His 1956 collage titled Just What Is It that Makes Today's Homes So Different, So Appealing?, produced for the This Is Tomorrow exhibition of the Independent Group in London, is considered by critics and historians to be one of the early works of Pop Art....
  , painter and collage artist
• Annie Horniman
  Annie Horniman
  
  Annie Elizabeth Fredericka Horniman Order of the Companions of Honour 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 Theatre, Manchester in Manchester....
  , theatre owner and manager
• Mona Hatoum
  Mona Hatoum
  
  Mona Hatoum is a performance artist and installation artist of Palestinian origin, who lives in London....
  , artist
• Patrick Heron
  Patrick Heron
  
  Patrick Heron , was an England Painting, writer and designer, based in St Ives, Cornwall, Cornwall....
  , abstract painter
• Sir Osbert Lancaster
  Osbert Lancaster
  
  Sir Osbert Lancaster was a cartoonist, author, art critic and stage designer, best known to the public at large for his cartoons published in the Daily Express....
  , cartoonist
• Olga Lehmann
  Olga Lehmann
  
  Olga Lehmann was a visual artsist.Born in San Felipe de Aconcagua Province, Chile, to Mary Grisel Lehmann and mining engineer Andrew William Lehmann, Olga Lehmann had one sister, Monica , and one brother, George ....
  , painter, illustrator and designer
• John Luke (artist)
  John Luke (artist)
  
  The Craftsman Painter John Luke was a Northern Ireland artist. He was born in Belfast at 4 Lewis Street. The fifth of seven sons and one daughter of James Luke and his wife Sarah, originally from Ahoghill....
  , painter and sculptor
• John Lundberg
  John Lundberg
  
  John Lundberg is an England artist and documentary filmmaker. In the early 1990s he founded , a UK based arts collective famous for covertly creating hundreds of the world's largest and most elaborate crop circles....
   artist and filmmaker
• Moina Mathers
  Moina Mathers
  
  Moina Mathers, born as Mina Bergson , 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 Prize for Literature in 1927....
  , artist and occultist
• Robert Medley
  Robert Medley
  
  Charles Robert Owen Medley Order of the British Empire, RA, , always known as Robert Medley, was an English artist and educator....
  , painter and designer
• Oliver Messel
  Oliver Messel
  
  Oliver Hilary Sambourne Messel was an England artist and one of the foremost stage designers of the 20th century.Messel was born in London, the second son of Lieutenant-Colonel Leonard Messel and Maud, the only daughter of Linley Sambourne, the eminent illustrator and contributor to Punch magazine....
  , foremost stage designer
• Daniel Mulloy
  Daniel Mulloy
  
  Daniel Mulloy is a United Kingdom screenwriter and film director.Born in Brixton, London, Mulloy moved to Carmarthen, Wales, as a teenager. He studied painting at Slade School of Fine Art, University College London and in Hunter College New York under Robert Morris ....
  , film writer and director
• Paul Nash
  Paul Nash (artist)
  
  Paul Nash was an England war artist....
  , painter
• Gemma Nelson (artist)
  Gemma Nelson (artist)
  
  Gemma Nelson is a mixed media painter based in London. Nelson studied at The Slade School of Fine Art, London, graduating in 2007.She was shortlisted for the Channel 4 / Saatchi Gallery's 2007 4 New Sensations prize and this generated significant interest in her work....
   painter
• Ben Nicholson
  Ben Nicholson
  
  Benjamin Lauder Nicholson Order of Merit, , known as Ben Nicholson, was an England abstract art....
  , abstract painter
• Philip Norman
  Philip Norman
  
  Philip E Norman FSA was a United Kingdom artist, author and antiquary....
  , artist and antiquarian
• Sir Eduardo Paolozzi
  Eduardo Paolozzi
  
  Eduardo Luigi Paolozzi, Order of the British Empire, Royal Academy , was a Scotland sculpture and artist. He was a major figure in the international art world working without compromise on his own interpretation and vision of the world around us....
  , Scottish sculptor and artist
• Paula Rego
  Paula Rego
  
  Paula Figueiroa Rego, Order of St. James of the Sword, Pronunciation , is a Portugal Painting, illustrator and printmaker....
  , painter, illustrator and printmaker
• Isaac Rosenberg
  Isaac Rosenberg
  
  Isaac Rosenberg was an English poet of the World War I who was considered to be one of the greatest of all British war poets. His "Poems from the Trenches" are recognised as some of the most outstanding written during the First World War....
  , war poet
• Sir Matthew Smith, painter
• Rachel Whiteread
  Rachel Whiteread
  
  Rachel Whiteread, Order of the British Empire is a United Kingdom artist, best known for her sculptures, which typically take the form of castings, and first woman to win the Turner Prize....
  , artist and sculptor
• William Tillyer
  William Tillyer
  
  William Tillyer is an England artist. His work has been shown frequently in London and New York since 1970.He studied art in his home town from 1956-9, moving south to London for the 1960s and the Slade School of Art....
  , artist
• Nan Youngman
  Nan Youngman
  
  Nancy Mayhew Youngman OBE, was an England Painting and educationalist: born Maidstone, Kent 28 June 1906; died Cambridge 17 April 1995.Nan Youngman is remembered primarily as a painter, but from before the war to the mid-1960s she was an influential figure in art education, as a teacher, an author and an impressively efficient organiser of...
  , painter and Educationalist

In fiction

• Barbary Deniston in The World My Wilderness
  The World My Wilderness
  
  The World My Wilderness is a novel published in 1950 by the England novelist, biographer and traveller Rose Macaulay , the last but one of her novels....
  

See also

• University College London
  University College London
  
  University College London is a university institution and constituent college of the University of London based primarily in London, England, United Kingdom....
  
• List of University College London people
  List of University College London people
  
  This is a list of notable individuals associated with University College London, including graduates, former students, and academics....
  
• Slade Professor of Fine Art
  Slade Professor of Fine Art
  
  The Slade Professorship of Fine Art is the senior professorship of art at the universities of University of Cambridge, University of Oxford and University of London....
  

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