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

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, 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 arti ...

, Wilson Steer, Randolph Schwabe,

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 co ...

, Andrew Forge,

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 y ...

, John Hilliard, Bruce McLean,

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, Evely ...

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. 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. 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 ...

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, 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 h ...

, 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 (includi ...

. 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 c ...

, 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 Rosemary Elizabeth Allan (1911-2008) was a British painter. Biography Allan was born in Bromley in Kent and attended the Central School of Arts and Crafts in 1928. She became a student at the Slade School of Fine Art in 1930 and would spend ...

(1911–2008), painter *

Kathleen Allen Kathleen Saywell Allen (1906–1983) was a British painter, muralist, designer and art teacher. Allen is known for her urban landscapes and, in particular, scenes depicting post-war rebuilding in London. Biography Allen was born in the Chiswick ...

(1906–1983), painter *

(1951–2017), sculptor * Michael Andrews (1928–1995), painter *

Irene Aronson Irene Hilde Aronson (sometimes Anderson or Aronsohn, 1918–1992) was a German-born American painter and printmaker. Early life and education Aronson was a native of Dresden, and came to England as a refugee in the 1930s. She studied at a number ...

(born 1918), painter and printmaker * Sue Arrowsmith (1950–2014), photographic artist * Ed Atkins (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 particula ...

(born 1937), painter *

Joan Ayling Joan Eleanor Ayling, later Joan Eleanor Rees (16 September 1907 – 1 July 1993) was a British artist, notable for etching and painting miniature portraits. Biography Ayling was born in Edinburgh but educated in England at St Mary's in Mill Hil ...

(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 (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 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 throug ...

(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 Henr ...

(1890–1957), painter *

Dorothy Elizabeth Bradford Dorothy Elizabeth Bradford (1897–1986) was a British painter and etcher. Biography Bradford was born in Cambridge. She was educated at The Perse School in Cambridge and at the Saint Felix School in Southwold. Bradford attended the Slade Scho ...

(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 (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 *

(1893–1932), artist *

Chien-Ying Chang Chien-Ying Chang (25 May 1913, in Wuxi – January 2004) was a Chinese-born painter who settled in Britain in 1946. Early life Chien-Ying Chang was the daughter of a customs official and attended Wuxi secondary school, after which she studied A ...

(1913–2004), artist * Daphne Charlton (1909–1991), painter * Evan Charlton (1904–1984), painter * G. K. Chesterton (1874–1936), writer *

Evelyn Cheston Evelyn Cheston née Davy (8 September 1875 – 31 October 1929) was a British painter in oils and watercolours of landscapes and outdoor scenes. Biography Cheston was born in the Ranmoor suburb of Sheffield and attended the Royal Female School ...

(1875–1929), painter * Spartacus Chetwynd (born 1973), artist, Turner Prize nominee *

Derek Chittock Derek Chittock (21 February 1922 – 21 February 1986) was a British art critic, art historian and portrait painter. He was also active as a cartoonist, creating the gag comics ''Bennie'' and ''Barley Bottom'' in the late 1950s, early 1960s. Bi ...

(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 (born 1964), artist, current Slade Director & Professor * Ithell Colquhoun (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 (born 1968), artist * Dennis Creffield (1931–2018), painter *

Barbara Crocker Barbara Fanny Crocker, later Barbara Crocker Whelpton, (1910–1995) was a British author and artist known for her paintings and murals. Biography Crocker was born in London, one of the five children born to George Ashcombe Crocker, a dealer, a ...

(1910–1995), artist, author *

Claudia Cuesta Claudia Cuesta is a Colombian artist based in Sechelt, Sechelt, British Columbia. Education She obtained a MFA from the Slade School of Fine Art, Slade School of Fine Art, University College of London where she studied with Rachel Whiteread, Marc ...

, artist * Charles Cundall (1890–1971), painter * Nora Cundell (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 life ...

(1916–1977), sculptor *

Tacita Dean Tacita Charlotte Dean CBE, RA (born 1965) is a British / German visual artist who works primarily in film. She was a nominee for the Turner Prize in 1998, won the Hugo Boss Prize in 2006, and was elected to the Royal Academy of Arts in 2008. ...

(born 1965), *

Alison Debenham Alison Edith Debenham (later Le Plat; 1903-1967) was a British painter and artist. Biography Debenham was born in 1903 to Sir Ernest Ridley Debenham, 1st Baronet, and his wife, Lady Cicely, of the Debenhams department store family business. A ...

(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 * 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 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 su ...

(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 Florence Ada Engelbach née Neumegen (9 June 1872 – 27 February 1951) was a painter of portraits, landscapes and flower pieces. She was born in Spain to English parents and, after training in London, established her artistic career in Britain. ...

(1872–1951), painter *

Grace English Grace Geraldine English (1891-4 December 1956) was a British painter and etcher. Biography English was born in London and as a teenager spent time in Paris and Germany. In Germany she met I. A. R. Wylie and produced illustrations for her book ...

(1891–1956), painter * Ben Enwonwu (1921–1994), artist * Jadé Fadojutimi (born 1993), artist * Leila Faithfull (1896–1994), painter *

Julia Farrer Julia Farrer (born 1950) is a contemporary British artist known for her abstract, geometrical paintings. Biography Farrer was born in London and studied at the Slade School of Art from 1968 to 1972 before teaching there until 1974 when she went ...

(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, encou ...

(1903–1967), illustrator * Daphne Fedarb (1912–1992), painter *

Paul Feiler Paul Feiler (30 April 1918 – 8 July 2013) was a German-born artist who was a prominent member of the St Ives School of art: he has pictures hanging in major art galleries across the world. Early life Paul Feiler was born in 1918 in Frankf ...

(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 painting, figure subjects, mural decorations in fresco and occasional landscapes in watercolour and pastel. Biography Emma Mary Sargant was born in ...

(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 '' Va ...

(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 (born 1950), sculptor * Harold Gosney (born 1937), artist and sculptor * Caroline Gotch (1854–1945), painter *

Carmen Gracia Carmen Gracia Royal Society of Painter-Printmakers, RE (born 1935) is an Argentine artist-printmaker. Gracia left Argentina for Paris in 1960 and joined the printmaking studio Atelier 17, run by Stanley William Hayter, William Hayter. She later ...

(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 Euro ...

(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 Eva Lucy Harwood (1 January 1893 – 24 October 1972) was a British artist known for her landscape paintings of East Anglia and Suffolk. Biography Harwood was born at Belstead near Ipswich and moved with her family to East Bergholt while still ...

(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 Francis William Helps (1890-1972) was a British artist who, besides a long career as an art teacher, served as the official artist to the 1924 British expedition to Everest. Biography Helps was born in Dulwich in London and, between 1903 and 19 ...

(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 Cicely Hey (1896–1980) was a British artist known as a painter, sculptor and model-maker. Although born in England she spent much of her career in Wales. Biography Hey was born in Faringdon in Oxfordshire. She first studied art at the Brusse ...

(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 (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 (1914–1998), sculptor * Gerry Judah (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 Dorothy Louise Victoria Lobel King (born 1975) is an American author who lives and works in England. Childhood and education King was born and raised in London where her American father, James King, ran a branch of Oppenheimer & Co. She spent ...

(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 (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 p ...

(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 (née ...

(1887–1879), ceramic artist, "Father of British studio pottery" * Edith Lawrence (1890–1973), artist * Kim Lim (1937–1997), sculptor *

Zhi Lin Zhi Lin is a Chinese American mixed-media artist, a native of Nanjing, China. While he was a graduate fellow at the University College London's Slade School in 1989, the political events and social movements around the world convinced him to use his ...

, 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 Fio ...

(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 Sine MacKinnon (11 February 1901 – 1996) was an Irish people, Irish landscape artist. Early life Selina Mairi Sine MacKinnon was born in Newcastle, County Down to Ranuld Edmund Eliot MacKinnon of Binfield, Surrey and Clementina Alicia née D'A ...

(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

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* John Mascaro (born 1970), artist *

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In fiction

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in ''

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'' and ''

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'' * Gilbert Cannan in ''Mendel'' * Frances Cary in ''

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'' * Barbary Deniston in '' The World My Wilderness'' * Miranda Grey in ''

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'' * Imogen Hollins in '' Doctors'' * Molly MacDonald in '' Monarch of the Glen'' * David Thompson in ''

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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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