The 5th collaboration between UCL Art Museum and Slade students is set to open in May, and I have been selected to be one of the artists to make work for the exhibition!
We are invited to explore the museum's collections and archives in order to interpret them as part of our contemporary practice, and make works responding to them to be displayed in the exhibition.
During the initial project briefing, a sketch of a nude woman caught my eye, I found out she was drawn by one of the women who studied at the Slade - which allowed women to study art from the first day it opened its doors!
This immediately sparked my interest, and I began thinking of an angle for proposed work. Why not celebrate the history of women at the Slade? Both the students and the life models? Life drawing isn't the beginning and end of studies at the Slade anymore, so I though about my position as a woman, making art about the naked body, at the Slade. I'd like to make some watercolour studies of naked women, women who study at Slade currently.
I want the work to be a celebration of 'femaleness' at Slade, both in a historical and a contemporary context.
So keep your eyes peeled for updates as I look at some more archives and create the work for the show. I'm so excited to be given this opportunity!
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