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Displays of Power exhibition extended until 5 September 2020
2nd March 2020
Grant Museum of Zoology
Due to popular demand, we are delighted to announce that our exhibition Displays of Power: A Natural History of Empire has been extended until 5 Sepetember 2020. Exploring themes of Empire, we ask, "how did all these things come to be here in the first place"?
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UCL East Provost Art Prize
5th Feb 2021
UCL East Provost Art Prize has been awarded to five new graduates from the Slade School of Fine Art. The annual prize recognises the achievements of Slade graduates, who will each receive a £2,000 award. Their selected artwork will feature at UCL East, on Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park, London.At the 2020 Slade Graduate Show, the selection panel for the Provost Prize included the former UCL President & Provost Prof Michael Arthur, UCL East Director Prof Paola Lettieri, Slade Director Kieren Reed, and UCL Head of Public Art Sam Wilkinson.They selected works from three graduates and invited two artists to create new work specifically for UCL East.The 2020 awardees are:• Lydia Makin: The Hush of Your Breath• Ellie Hayward: Insideout• Francisca Sosa Lopez: persianas• Mataio Austin Dean: commissioned to produce a new work for UCL East• Ishwari Bhalerao and Leonie Rousham: commissioned to produce a new work for UCL EastFind out more about Public Art at UCL
Art UK’s Sculpture Project launches at Art Museum
7th Aug 2017
The Art UK Sculpture Project, which launched in July at the UCL Art Museum will run for three years, and capture seldom-seen works from collections across the country making them freely available online. The charitable organisation which has secured a £2.8 million National Lottery grant for the work, aims to catalogue around 170,000 sculptures. The project will focus on works from the last thousand years (which is probably enough to be getting on with!) exploring a hugely diverse range of cultures from twelfth-century Nigeria, Victorian Britain, and Tokugawa-period Japan, to Renaissance Italy and 1960s New York.Keen followers of լƵ Museums news may remember an equally ambitious project by the charity, to digitise 200,000 oil paintings of international significance from around 3000 British collections. You can see the results of the project here, and the UCL Art Museum pieces here.[[{"fid":"5151","view_mode":"super_xl","fields":{"format":"super_xl","field_file_image_alt_text[und][0][value]":"Art UK banner","field_file_image_title_text[und][0][value]":"","field_caption_heading[und][0][title]":"","field_caption_heading[und][0][url]":"","field_caption[und][0][value]":"","field_caption[und][0][format]":"limited_html","field_float_left_right[und]":"none","field_file_image_decorative[und]":"0"},"type":"media","field_deltas":{"1":{"format":"super_xl","field_file_image_alt_text[und][0][value]":"Art UK banner","field_file_image_title_text[und][0][value]":"","field_caption_heading[und][0][title]":"","field_caption_heading[und][0][url]":"","field_caption[und][0][value]":"","field_caption[und][0][format]":"limited_html","field_float_left_right[und]":"none","field_file_image_decorative[und]":"0"}},"link_text":null,"attributes":{"height":"311","width":"1902","class":"media-element file-super-xl"}}]]This project will focus attention on works of a three-dimensional nature, something that’s long overdue says Stuart Hobley, Head of Heritage Lottery Fund for London, “Wherever you are in the UK you can find public sculpture, quietly existing within our parks, museums and squares. Sculpture can be extraordinary, emotive, even challenging and yet, many of us are unaware that this sort of world-class artwork is on our doorstep and free to access. Thanks to National Lottery players we’re able to help Art UK raise awareness of our sculpture heritage by developing its interactive website with exciting activity to get people involved, inspired and exploring this fascinating collection.”[[{"fid":"5147","view_mode":"large","fields":{"format":"large","field_file_image_alt_text[und][0][value]":"Front Portico sculpture","field_file_image_title_text[und][0][value]":"","field_caption_heading[und][0][title]":"","field_caption_heading[und][0][url]":"","field_caption[und][0][value]":"","field_caption[und][0][format]":"limited_html","field_float_left_right[und]":"none","field_file_image_decorative[und]":"0"},"type":"media","field_deltas":{"1":{"format":"large","field_file_image_alt_text[und][0][value]":"Front Portico sculpture","field_file_image_title_text[und][0][value]":"","field_caption_heading[und][0][title]":"","field_caption_heading[und][0][url]":"","field_caption[und][0][value]":"","field_caption[und][0][format]":"limited_html","field_float_left_right[und]":"none","field_file_image_decorative[und]":"0"}},"link_text":null,"attributes":{"height":"640","width":"751","class":"media-element file-large"}}]]It will help in understanding the history of artists at UCL, says Helen Downes of the Art Museum, “Despite being part of the Slade curriculum since the establishment of the school in 1871, sculpture is severely underrepresented in UCL Art Museum’s collection, with only a handful of prize-winning works having been retained. The new Art UK project may help us locate works by artists who won prizes but whose works were not kept by the school, helping us to build a much better picture of the teaching and development of Sculpture at the Slade School.“As one of the first public collections to collaborate with Art UK (then the Public Catalogue Foundation) in 2005, to digitise and make publicly available our paintings collection, we know first-hand the benefits such a resource can provide. It facilitates research and enables us to make contact and broaden our network with other museums and collections.”The ART UK website not only catalogues artworks, but provides opportunity for dialogue with the public about little-known pieces. Helen told us, “Through the Art Detective facility, people can provide us with information on works via the site which may otherwise remain unknown”. This crowdsourcing of expertise has been successful in identifying work by Walter Sickert, the locations of previously unknown landscape paintings, the longest-running investigation lasting more than a year and involving art historians from around the world. You can read the fascinating discoveries here.[[{"fid":"5159","view_mode":"medium","fields":{"format":"medium","field_file_image_alt_text[und][0][value]":"Art UK map","field_file_image_title_text[und][0][value]":"","field_caption_heading[und][0][title]":"","field_caption_heading[und][0][url]":"https://artuk.org/visit/region/london","field_caption[und][0][value]":"","field_caption[und][0][format]":"limited_html","field_float_left_right[und]":"left","field_file_image_decorative[und]":"0"},"type":"media","field_deltas":{"1":{"format":"medium","field_file_image_alt_text[und][0][value]":"Art UK map","field_file_image_title_text[und][0][value]":"","field_caption_heading[und][0][title]":"","field_caption_heading[und][0][url]":"https://artuk.org/visit/region/london","field_caption[und][0][value]":"","field_caption[und][0][format]":"limited_html","field_float_left_right[und]":"left","field_file_image_decorative[und]":"0"}},"link_text":null,"attributes":{"height":"521","width":"590","class":"media-element file-medium"}}]]Art UK’s Sculpture Project team will travel up and down the country to photograph the works, using 3D photographic techniques in some cases. The project will also offer a UK-wide training and volunteering programme, offering nearly 2,000 people across the UK opportunities to gain photography, digitisation and other museum-centred skills, meaning important work can continue long after this project ends. The first sculptures will be available to view online in early 2018. Watch this space for updates!
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