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Vincula (2012)
Annual UCL Art Museum/Slade Collaboration
Exhibition and events
8 May- 8 June 2012
Exhibition and events
8 May- 8 June 2012
听Twelve artists trace connections through UCL's art collections.听
For the fourth annual Slade collaboration, 12 Slade artists were invited to the UCL Art Museum, where they delved deep into cupboards to discover a number of hidden treasures: a rare portrait print by William Blake of the physiognomist Johann Caspar Lavater, an early chalk drawing of a lion, a hand-coloured Japanese woodblock print of a flying bat.听
In the form of painting, drawing, video and sound art, the Slade students responded to the exhibition title of Vincula, the plural of 鈥榲inculum鈥� 鈥� 鈥榓 horizontal line over a group of terms to show that they have a common relation鈥� (Oxford Dictionary). Recurring themes and motifs included portraiture, the limitations of language and the uncanny.听
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Many of the featured artists have gone on to forge prolific artistic careers, exhibiting internationally and publishing research,听with some like Ian Giles听returning to collaborate with us for the exhibition听RE-LAUNCH听in 2015. Yvonne Feng was receipient of the William Coldstream Prize in 2017.
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The exhibition featured:听,听,听Philippa Connolly,听Robert Crosse,听,听,听Estelle Holland,听,听,听,听 and听.
For more information about the UCL Art Museum/Slade Collaboration series, see here.
