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

art school An art school is an educational institution with a primary focus on the visual arts, including fine art – especially illustration, painting, photography, sculpture, and graphic design. Art schools can offer elementary, secondary, post-second ...

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

(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 (1866) and a philanthropist who endowed three Slade Professorships of Fine Art at the ...

(1788–1868) bequeathed funds to establish three Chairs in

Fine Art In European academic traditions, fine art is developed primarily for aesthetics or creative expression, distinguishing it from decorative art or applied art, which also has to serve some practical function, such as pottery or most metalwork. ...

, 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 Henry Tonks, FRCS (9 April 1862 – 8 January 1937) was a British surgeon and later draughtsman and painter of figure subjects, chiefly interiors, and a caricaturist. He became an influential art teacher. He was one of the first British art ...

, Wilson Steer,

Randolph Schwabe Randolph Schwabe (9 May 1885 – 19 September 1948) was a British draughtsman, painter and etcher who was the Slade Professor of Fine Art at University College London from 1930 until his death. He served as a war artist in both World Wars, crea ...

William Coldstream Sir William Menzies Coldstream, CBE (28 February 1908 – 18 February 1987) was an English realist painter and a long-standing art teacher. Biography Coldstream was born at Belford, Northumberland, in northern England, the second son of coun ...

Andrew Forge Andrew Murray Forge (10 November 1923, Hastingleigh, Kent – 4 September 2002, New Milford, Connecticut, United States) was an English painter, academic, and art critic. After Leighton Park School, Forge studied art at the Camberwell School of ...

Lucian Freud Lucian Michael Freud (; 8 December 1922 – 20 July 2011) was a British painter and draughtsman, specialising in figurative art, and is known as one of the foremost 20th-century English portraitists. He was born in Berlin, the son of Jewis ...

Phyllida Barlow Dame Phyllida Barlow (born 4 April 1944) is a British artist. She studied at Chelsea College of Art (1960–63) and the Slade School of Art (1963–66). She joined the staff of the Slade in the late 1960s and taught there for more than forty ...

, John Hilliard,

Bruce McLean Bruce McLean (born 1944) is a Scottish sculptor, performance artist and painter. McLean was born in Glasgow and studied at Glasgow School of Art from 1961 to 1963, and at Saint Martin's School of Art, London, from 1963 to 1966. At Saint Marti ...

Alfred Gerrard Alfred Horace "Gerry" Gerrard RBS (7 May 1899 – 13 June 1998) was an English modernist sculptor. He was head of the sculpture department at the Slade School of Fine Art from 1925 and professor of sculpture there from 1949 to 1968, where he ...

Edward Allington Edward Thomas Allington (24 June 1951 – 21 September 2017) was a British artist and sculptor, best known for his part in the 1980s New British Sculpture movement. Born at Troutbeck Bridge, Westmorland, to Ralph Allington and his wife, Eve ...

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 Sarge ...

William Orpen Major Sir William Newenham Montague Orpen, (27 November 1878 – 29 September 1931) was an Irish artist who worked mainly in London. Orpen was a fine draughtsman and a popular, commercially successful painter of portraits for the well-to-do in ...

and Percy Wyndham Lewis; the second – which has been chronicled in

David Boyd Haycock David Boyd Haycock (born 1968 in Banbury, Oxfordshire) is a British writer, curator and lecturer. He read 'Modern History' at St John's College, Oxford, and has an MA in the History of Art from the University of Sussex and a PhD in History from Bi ...

's ''A Crisis of Brilliance: Five Young British Artists and the Great War'' (Old Street Publishing, 2009) – included the students

Dora Carrington Dora de Houghton Carrington (29 March 1893 – 11 March 1932), known generally as Carrington, was an English painter and decorative artist, remembered in part for her association with members of the Bloomsbury Group, especially the writer Lytton ...

, Mark Gertler, Paul Nash, C.R.W. Nevinson and

Stanley Spencer Sir Stanley Spencer, CBE RA (30 June 1891 – 14 December 1959) was an English painter. Shortly after leaving the Slade School of Art, Spencer became well known for his paintings depicting Biblical scenes occurring as if in Cookham, the small ...

. Another cherished period followed the Second World War, under the directorship of

, who brought in

to teach, and whose students included

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, Michael Andrews, and the filmmaker

Lorenza Mazzetti Lorenza Mazzetti (26 July 1927 – 4 January 2020) was an Italian film director, novelist, photographer and painter. Early life Mazzetti was born in Florence. Her mother, Olga Liberati, died shortly after giving birth to Lorenza and her twi ...

. 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 Home ...

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 Electronic media are media that use electronics or electromechanical means for the audience to access the content. This is in contrast to static media (mainly print media), which today are most often created digitally, but do not require el ...

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 Across the many fields concerned with interactivity, including information science, computer science, human-computer interaction, communication, and industrial design, there is little agreement over the meaning of the term "interactivity", but mo ...

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 (multime ...

, and digital works. This exhibition was followed by ''Spontaneous Reaction'', a week-long seminar funded by the

Arts Council of England The arts are a very wide range of human practices of creative expression, storytelling and cultural participation. They encompass multiple diverse and plural modes of thinking, doing and being, in an extremely broad range of media. Both hi ...

, 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 The Institute of Contemporary Arts (ICA) is an artistic and cultural centre on The Mall in London, just off Trafalgar Square. Located within Nash House, part of Carlton House Terrace, near the Duke of York Steps and Admiralty Arch, the ICA ...

, 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 ''

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'' 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 Anna Airy (6 June 1882 – 23 October 1964) was an English oil painter, pastel artist and etcher. She was one of the first women officially commissioned as a war artist and was recognised as one of the leading women artists of her generation. ...

(1882–1964), artist * Rosemary Allan (1911–2008), painter * Kathleen Allen (1906–1983), painter *

(1951–2017), sculptor * Michael Andrews (1928–1995), painter * Irene Aronson (born 1918), painter and printmaker * Sue Arrowsmith (1950–2014), photographic artist *

Ed Atkins Ed Atkins (born 1982) is a British contemporary artist best known for his video art and poetry. He is currently based in Berlin. Atkins lectures at Goldsmiths College in London and has been referred to as "one of the great artists of our time" by ...

(born 1982), artist *

Ray Atkins Ray Atkins is a British figurative artist, member of the St Ives School & the London Group and educator. He was born in 1937 in Exeter, Devon, and studied art at Bromley College of Art and at the Slade School of Fine Art. He is known particul ...

(born 1937), painter * Joan Ayling (1907–1993), painter *

Zainul Abedin Zainul Abedin (29 December 1914 – 28 May 1976) was a Bangladeshi painter born in Mymensingh, East Bengal, British India (now Bangladesh). He became well known in 1944 through his series of paintings depicting some of the great famines in ...

(1914－1976), painter * Ethelwyn Baker (1899–1988), sculptor * Phyllis Barron (1890–1964), textile designer *

Alvaro Barrington Alvaro Barrington (born 1983) is a London-based artist. Primarily a painter, Barrington often incorporates yarn, wood and other media into his work. Early life and education Alvaro Barrington was born on 1 February 1983 in Caracas, Venezuela, the ...

(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 Elinor Bellingham-Smith (28 December 1906 – 4 November 1988) was a British painter of landscapes and still life. Her paintings are in the collections of Tate, Museums Sheffield, the Government Art Collection, Arts Council Collection and other ...

(1906–1988), painter *

Eleanor Best Eleanor Best (1875-1957) was a British oil painter known for her portrait and figure paintings. Biography Best was born in Amport in Hampshire and studied at the Slade School of Art in London during 1909. She continued to live in London throu ...

(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 Henry ...

(1890–1957), painter * Dorothy Elizabeth Bradford (1897–1986), painter * Danielle Brathwaite-Shirley (born 1995), artist * Phyllis Bray (1911–1991), painter and muralist *

Raymond Briggs Raymond Redvers Briggs (18 January 1934 – 9 August 2022) was an English illustrator, cartoonist, graphic novelist and author. Achieving critical and popular success among adults and children, he is best known in Britain for his 1978 story ...

(born 1934), illustrator, graphic novelist *

Cecily Brown Cecily Brown (born 1969) is a British painter. Her style displays the influence of a variety of contemporary painters, from Willem de Kooning, Francis BaconScott, Sue (2013). "Cecily Brown" in ''The Reckoning: Women Artists of the New Millennium ...

(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 Dorothy Mary L. Burroughes (1883-18 July 1963) was a British artist known as a painter, illustrator and linocut artist. She designed posters and wrote and illustrated a series of children's books. Biography Burroughes was born and lived most o ...

(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 Sydney William Carline (14 August 1888 – 14 February 1929) was a British artist and teacher known for his depictions of aerial combat painted during World War One. Biography Early life Sydney Carline was born in London, the son of the a ...

(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 *

(1893–1932), artist * Chien-Ying Chang (1913–2004), artist * Daphne Charlton (1909–1991), painter * Evan Charlton (1904–1984), painter *

G. K. Chesterton Gilbert Keith Chesterton (29 May 1874 – 14 June 1936) was an English writer, philosopher, Christian apologist, and literary and art critic. He has been referred to as the "prince of paradox". Of his writing style, ''Time'' observed: "Wh ...

(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

(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 Susan Alexis Collins (born 1964, London) is a British artist and academic. She is currently Slade Professor and Director of the Slade School of Fine Art in London, England. Biographical notes Collins studied Fine Art at Slade School where sh ...

(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 William George Constable (born Derby, England, 27 October 1887, died Cambridge, Massachusetts, 3 February 1976, was an art historian and gallery director. He was the father of Medieval Historian Giles Constable. Education Distantly related t ...

(1887–1976), art historian * Teresa Copnall (1882–1972), painter * Matt Copson (born 1992), artist * Frank Barrington Craig (1902–1951), painter and teacher *

Martin Creed Martin Creed (born 21 October 1968) is a British artist, composer and performer. He won the Turner Prize in 2001 for exhibitions during the preceding year, with the jury praising his audacity for exhibiting a single installation, ''Work No. 22 ...

(born 1968), artist *

Dennis Creffield Dennis Creffield (29 January 1931 – 26 June 2018) was a British artist with work owned by major British and worldwide art collections, including the Tate Gallery, The British Museum, Arts Council of England, the Government Art Collection, The L ...

(1931–2018), painter * Barbara Crocker (1910–1995), artist, author * Claudia Cuesta, artist * Charles Cundall (1890–1971), painter *

Nora Cundell Nora Lucy Mowbray Cundell (20 May 1889 – 3 August 1948) was an English painter of figure subjects, flowers and landscapes in oil and watercolours. Biography Cundell was born in London and was the granddaughter of the artist Henry Cundell. Sh ...

(1889–1948), painter * Esmé Currey (1881–1973), painter, etcher *

Yitzhak Danziger Yitzhak Danziger ( he, יצחק דנציגר; 26 June 1916 – 11 July 1977) was an Israeli sculptor. He was one of the pioneer sculptors of the Canaanite Movement, and later joined the " Ofakim Hadashim" (New Horizons) group. Early lif ...

(1916–1977), sculptor * Tacita Dean (born 1965), * Alison Debenham (1903–1967) *

Evelyn De Morgan Evelyn De Morgan (30 August 1855 – 2 May 1919), née Pickering, was an English painter associated early in her career with the later phase of the Pre-Raphaelite Movement, and working in a range of styles including Aestheticism and Symboli ...

(1885–1919) *

Angela Delevingne Angela Margo Hamar Delevingne (''née'' Greenwood; 8 July 1912 – 30 December 2014) was an English aristocrat and socialite. The daughter of Hamar Greenwood, 1st Viscount Greenwood, she was a prominent debutante in the late 1920s and was presen ...

* Brigid Derham (1943–1980), painter *

Anthony Devas Thomas Anthony Devas (8 January 1911 – 21 December 1958) was a British portrait painter who was associated with members of the Euston Road School. Early life Thomas Anthony Devas, known as Anthony, was born in Bromley in Kent, on 8 January ...

(1911–1958), portrait painter * Sir

William Dobell Sir William Dobell (24 September 189913 May 1970) was an Australian Portrait painting, portrait and Landscape painting, landscape artist of the 20th century. Dobell won the Archibald Prize, Australia's premier award for portrait artists on thre ...

(1899–1970), portrait painter * Barbara Dorf (1933–2016), painter *

Sholto Johnstone Douglas Robert Sholto Johnstone Douglas (3 December 1871 – 10 March 1958), known as Sholto Douglas, or more formally as Sholto Johnstone Douglas, was a Scottish figurative artist, a painter chiefly of portraits and landscapes. In 1895, he stood surety ...

(1871–1958), artist * Jane Dowling (born 1925), painter *

William Dring Dennis William Dring (26 January 1904 – 29 September 1990) was a British portraitist. Early life Dring was born in Streatham, London and studied at the Slade School of Fine Art between 1922 and 1925, where he won several prizes and sc ...

(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 Robert Fawcett (1903–1967) was an English artist. He was trained as a fine artist but achieved fame as an illustrator of books and magazines. Born in England, he grew up in Canada and later in New York. His father, an amateur artist, encoura ...

(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 Emma Mary Sargant Florence (21 July 1857 – 14 December 1954) was a British painter of figure subjects, mural decorations in fresco and occasional landscapes in watercolour and pastel. Biography Emma Mary Sargant was born in London. Her fat ...

(1857–1954), painter * Caroline Sylvia Gabriel (1912–1997), artist * Nicholas Garland (born 1935), political cartoonist * Raimi Gbadamosi (born 1965), neo-conceptual artist *

(1899–1998), sculptor * Kaff Gerrard (1894–1970), painter and potter * Mark Gertler (1891–1939), artist *

A.A. Gill Adrian Anthony Gill (28 June 1954 – 10 December 2016) was a British journalist, critic, and author. Best known for his food and travel writing, he was also a television critic, was restaurant reviewer of ''The Sunday Times'', wrote for '' Van ...

(1954–2016), journalist * Colin Gill (1892–1940), painter * Elsie Gledstanes (1893–1972), painter * Dryden Goodwin (born 1971), artist, current teaching staff *

Douglas Gordon Douglas Gordon (born 20 September 1966) is a Scottish artist. He won the Turner Prize in 1996, the Premio 2000 at the 47th Venice Biennale in 1997 and the Hugo Boss Prize in 1998. He lives and works in Berlin, Germany. Work Much of Gordon's ...

(born 1966), artist *

Antony Gormley Sir Antony Mark David Gormley (born 30 August 1950) is a British sculptor. His works include the ''Angel of the North'', a public sculpture in Gateshead in the north of England, commissioned in 1994 and erected in February 1998; '' Another Pl ...

(born 1950), sculptor * Harold Gosney (born 1937), artist and sculptor *

Caroline Gotch Caroline Burland Gotch (née Yates, 9 May 1854 – 14 December 1945) was a British artist and part of the Newlyn School. Biography Gotch was born in Liverpool. She was the youngest of the three daughters of Edward Yates, a wealthy local propert ...

(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 Eileen Gray (born Kathleen Eileen Moray Smith; 9 August 187831 October 1976) was an Irish architect and furniture designer who became a pioneer of the Modern Movement in architecture. Over her career, she was associated with many notable Eur ...

(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 Robin Andrew Guthrie (born 4 January 1962) is a Scottish musician, songwriter, composer, record producer and audio engineer, best known as the co-founder of the alternative rock band Cocteau Twins. During his career Guthrie has performed ...

(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 Archibald Standish Hartrick (7 August 1864 – 1 February 1950) was a Scottish painter known for the quality of his lithographic work. His works covered urban scenes, landscapes and figure painting and he was a founder member of the Senefelder ...

(1864–1950), artist and illustrator * Lucy Harwood (1893–1972), artist *

Mona Hatoum Mona Hatoum ( ar, منى حاطوم; born 1952) is a British-Palestinian multimedia and installation artist who lives in London. Biography Mona Hatoum was born in 1952 in Beirut, Lebanon, to Palestinian parents. Although born in Lebanon, 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 ...

(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 Sidney Hunt (1896–1940) was a British draughtsman, painter, poet and editor who published the avant-garde journal '' Ray'' between 1926 and 1927. Life Sidney James Hunt was born in 1896 and studied at the Slade School of Fine Art in London. Duri ...

(1896–1940), artist and designer *

Paul Huson Paul Huson (born 19 September 1942) is a British author and artist currently living in the United States. In addition to writing several books about occultism and witchcraft he has worked extensively in the film and television industries. Earl ...

(born 1942), writer and designer *

George Percy Jacomb-Hood George Percy Jacomb-Hood (6 July 1857 – 11 December 1929) was a painter, etcher and illustrator. He was a founding member of the New English Art Club and Society of Portrait Painters. Early life Jacomb-Hood was born on 6 July 1857 at Redhi ...

(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 (1915–1994), artist * Arnrid Johnston (1895-1972), sculptor, illustrator *

Alfred Garth Jones Alfred Garth Jones (1872–1955) was an English artist and illustrator who worked mainly in woodcut, pen and ink line art drawing and watercolour. Early life Alfred Jones was born in Hulme, Manchester in 1872, the son of Thomas Jones (b1844) ...

(1872–1955), illustrator *

Karin Jonzen Karin Margareta Jonzen, née Löwenadler, (22 December 1914 – 29 January 1998) was a British figure sculptor whose works, in bronze, terracotta and stone, were commissioned by a number of public bodies in Britain and abroad. Biography Karin L� ...

(1914–1998), sculptor *

Gerry Judah Gerry Judah FRSS is a British artist and designer who has created settings for theatre, film, television, museums and public spaces. Early life Gerry Judah's maternal and paternal grandparents came from Baghdad to settle in the already es ...

(born 1951), artist and designer * Menashe Kadishman (1932–2015), Israeli sculptor and painter *

Helen Kapp Helen Babette Kapp (17 December 1901 – 13 October 1978) was a British artist. Originally a painter and illustrator, Kapp became a curator and gallery director of some influence. Biography Kapp was born in Hampstead in London into an artistic, ...

(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 Sir Osbert Lancaster, CBE (4 August 1908 – 27 July 1986) was an English cartoonist, architectural historian, stage designer and author. He was known for his cartoons in the British press, and for his lifelong work to inform the general ...

(1908–1986), cartoonist *

Olga Lehmann Olga Lehmann (10 February 1912 – 26 October 2001) was a Chilean-born British visual artist. Early life Born in Catemu, Chile, to Mary Grisel Lehmann (née Bissett) and mining engineer Andrew William Lehmann, Olga Lehmann had one sister, ...

(1912–2001), painter, illustrator and designer *

Maxwell Gordon Lightfoot Maxwell Gordon Lightfoot (19 July 1886 – 27 September 1911) was an artist and painter from Liverpool who became known for his depictions of atmospheric pastoral scenes and sepia illustrations of figures. Lightfoot showed great talent as a st ...

(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 Kim Lim (1936–1997) was a Singaporean-British sculptor and printmaker of Chinese descent. She is most recognized for her abstract wooden and stone-carved sculptures that explore the relationship between art and nature, and works on paper that ...

(1937–1997), sculptor * Zhi Lin, artist *

Nicholas Logsdail Christopher Nicholas Roald Logsdail OBE (born June 1945) is a British art dealer, the owner of the Lisson Gallery, a contemporary art gallery on Bell Street, Lisson Grove, London, founded by Logsdail in 1967, and was joined shortly after by Fiona ...

(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 John Lundberg (born 5 December 1968) is an English artist and documentary filmmaker. His work is concerned with ostension. Underpinning all of his work is an interest in how myth and artifice can shape and alter reality, especially regarding ...

(born 1968), artist and filmmaker * Sine MacKinnon (1901–1996), painter *

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(1911–1987), artist and author * John Mansbridge (1901–1981), painter and World War II official war artist *

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

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* John Mascaro (born 1970), artist * Moina Mathers (1865–1928), artist and occultist * Mary McEvoy (1870–1941), painter *

Dorothy Mead Dorothy Mead (1928–1975) was a British painter. Biography Mead was born in London, England, and adopted at three months old by a family in Walthamstow. Her mother had a florists shop. She first met David Bomberg when he was teaching at the So ...

(1928–1975), painter *

Robert Medley Charles Robert Owen Medley CBE, RA, (19 December 1905 – 20 October 1994), also known as Robert Medley, was an English artist who painted in both abstract and figurative styles, and who also worked as theatre designer. He held several teachi ...

(1905–1994), painter and designer * Elizabeth Merriman (born 1963), painter *

Oliver Messel Oliver Hilary Sambourne Messel (13 January 1904 – 13 July 1978) was an English artist and one of the foremost stage designers of the 20th century. Early life Messel was born in London, the second son of Lieutenant-Colonel Leonard Messel an ...

(1904–1978), stage designer * Robert Micklewright (1923–2013), artist and illustrator * Mother Maribel of Wantage (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 Benjamin Lauder Nicholson, OM (10 April 1894 – 6 February 1982) was an English painter of abstract compositions (sometimes in low relief), landscape and still-life. Background and training Nicholson was born on 10 April 1894 in Den ...

(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 Eddie Peake (born 1981) is a British artist. His work includes performance, video, photography, painting, sculpture and installation. His art focuses on "implicit drama within relationships between people", and "how things like desire, sexuali ...

(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 Mother Mary Potter (22 November 1847 – 9 April 1913) founded the sisters of the Little Company of Mary in 1877. On 8 February 1988, Pope John Paul II proclaimed her Venerable. Early life Mary Potter was born in a rented house at 23 ...

(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 *

(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 Isaac Rosenberg (25 November 1890 – 1 April 1918) was an English poet and artist. His ''Poems from the Trenches'' are recognized as some of the most outstanding poetry written during the First World War. Early life Isaac Rosenberg was born ...

(1890–1918), war poet *

Paul Rotha Paul Rotha (3 June 1907 – 7 March 1984) was a British documentary film-maker, film historian and critic. Early life and education He was born Paul Thompson in London, and educated at Highgate School and at the Slade School of Fine Art. Career ...

(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 la ...

(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 Unity Spencer (24 May 1930 – 18 October 2017) was a British artist. She was the daughter of artists Stanley Spencer and Hilda Carline. Biography Unity Spencer was born on 24 May 1930 in Hampstead, London, the second daughter of Stanley Sp ...

(1930–2017), artist * Andrew Stahl (born 1954), painter *

Leo Steinberg Leo Steinberg (July 9, 1920 – March 13, 2011) was a Russian-born American art critic and art historian. Life Steinberg was born in Moscow, Russian SFSR, the son of Isaac Nachman Steinberg, a Jewish lawyer and Socialist Revolutionary Party poli ...

(1920–2011), art historian * John Stezaker (born 1949), artist *

David Storey David Malcolm Storey (13 July 1933 – 27 March 2017) was an English playwright, screenwriter, award-winning novelist and a professional rugby league player. He won the Booker Prize in 1976 for his novel '' Saville''. He also won the MacMillan ...

(1933–2017), playwright, screenwriter, novelist * Keith Sutton (1934–2017), artist and critic * Ernest Heber Thompson (1891–1971), painter and printmaker *

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(born 1938), artist * Arthur Ralph Middleton Todd (1891–1966), portrait painter *

Greta Tomlinson Greta Tomlinson (1927–2021) was an English artist who worked in watercolours, oils and mixed media. At the outset of her career she produced figurative artwork for the Dan Dare cartoon strip in the ''Eagle'' comic. Birth and education The daugh ...

(1927–2021), artist * Euan Uglow (1932–2000), painter * David Vaughan (1944–2003), psychedelic artist * Charlotte Verity (born 1954), painter * Stelios Votsis (1929–2012), painter *

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Mary Spencer Watson Mary Spencer Watson (7 May 1913 – 7 March 2006) was an English sculptor. Watson was born in London and spent most of her life in Dorset and was inspired by watching masons carving Purbeck stone, close to her family home there. Her works can ...

(1913–2006), sculptor * Edith Grace Wheatley (1888–1970), painter *

Rex Whistler Reginald John "Rex" Whistler (24 June 190518 July 1944) was a British artist, who painted murals and society portraits, and designed theatrical costumes. He was killed in action in Normandy in World War II. Whistler was the brother of poet and ...

(1905–1944), painter, designer, and illustrator * Erica White (1904–1991), sculptor *

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(born 1963), artist *

Victor Willing Victor Arthur James Willing (15 January 1928 – 1 June 1988) was a British painter, noted for his original nude studies. He was a friend and colleague of many notable artists, including Elisabeth Frink, Michael Andrews and Francis Bacon. He ...

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(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 *

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(born 1951), artist * Anupam Sud (born 1944), Indian printmaker

In fiction

Pat Barker Patricia Mary W. Barker, (née Drake; born 8 May 1943) is an English writer and novelist. She has won many awards for her fiction, which centres on themes of memory, trauma, survival and recovery. Her work is described as direct, blunt and pl ...

in ''

Life Class A figure drawing is a drawing of the human form in any of its various shapes and postures using any of the drawing media. The term can also refer to the act of producing such a drawing. The degree of representation may range from highly detailed, ...

'' and ''

Toby's Room ''Toby's Room'' is English novelist Pat Barker's follow up novel to ''Life Class'' (2007). It continues to follow the fortunes of a group of students and teachers of the Slade School of Fine Art during the First World War. Plot summary The n ...

'' *

Gilbert Cannan Gilbert Eric Cannan (25 June 1884 – 30 June 1955) was a British novelist and dramatist. Early life Born in Manchester of Scottish descent, he got on badly with his family, and in 1897 he was sent to live in Oxford with the economist Edwin Can ...

in ''Mendel'' * Frances Cary in '' Third Girl'' * Barbary Deniston in '' The World My Wilderness'' * Miranda Grey in ''

The Collector ''The Collector'' is a 1963 thriller novel by English author John Fowles, in his literary debut. Its plot follows a lonely, psychotic young man who kidnaps a female art student in London and holds her captive in the cellar of his rural farmhous ...

'' *

Imogen Hollins Imogen Hollins is a fictional character from the BBC soap opera '' Doctors'', portrayed by Charlie Clemmow. Before her first appearance, Imogen is mentioned by her on-screen mother Karen (Jan Pearson); Clemmow watched the episode and wrote a ...

in '' Doctors'' *

Molly MacDonald Molly, Mollie or mollies may refer to: Animals * ''Poecilia'', a genus of fishes ** ''Poecilia sphenops'', a fish species * A female mule (horse–donkey hybrid) People * Molly (name) or Mollie, a female given name, including a list of persons ...

in '' Monarch of the Glen'' * David Thompson in ''

Beyond This Horizon ''Beyond This Horizon'' is a science fiction novel by American writer Robert A. Heinlein. It was originally published as a two-part serial in ''Astounding Science Fiction'' (April, May 1942, under the pseudonym Anson MacDonald) and then as a sing ...

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
{{DEFAULTSORT:Slade School of Fine Art Art schools in London Education in the London Borough of Camden Educational institutions established in 1871 Departments of University College London 1871 establishments in England