See blog subscription optionsSpotlight on the Slade – February 2016 update
By Jenny M Wedgbury, on 17 February 2016
Anja Olofgörs, Social Constructs, 2015, © The Artist
Acquisitions, prize-winning work and the continuing influence of the Slade collection
As UCL Art Museum’s Spotlight on the Slade project continues, I wanted to share two recent acquisitions, by two very different prize-winning Slade artists, studying and working almost a century apart: Jesse Dale Cast (1900-1976) and Anja Olofgörs (b.1987).
The acquisitions demonstrate not only the range of work within the Slade, but also how the collection continues to grow, recording the history of teaching and practice at the School, both through a prize system, which was instigated when the Slade was first established, and through subsequent gifts which support use of the collection. (more…)
