Sequel – An artistic collaboration between the Slade School of Fine Art and UCL Museums & Collections
Sequel – An artistic collaboration between the Slade School of Fine Art and UCL Museums & Collections
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续集——斯莱德美术学院与伦敦大学学院博物馆和收藏馆之间的艺术合作
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2011
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S. Gould
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Students of the UCL Slade School of Fine Art made new work in response to old works in the UCL Art Collections for on-line and physical exhibition in the first half of 2009. This was the first collaboration of this sort and has already led to further, similar projects. The project provided a fantastic opportunity for students to get hands-on with a remarkable collection of old masters and modern treasures as well as being a rare and valuable experience for their futures as professional artists. At very little expense this collaboration had a large impact providing improved awareness of the Art Collections and UCL Museums and Collections more widely. Introduction Sequel was a collaborative project between the Slade School of Fine Art and UCL Museums & Collections, with a particular focus on the objects of the UCL Art Collections. Sequel began with an invitation to all current students at the Slade to revisit the past masters within the UCL Art Collections and to create new work in response; to continue to develop their own practices using contemporary media and contemporary modes of thinking while taking time to consider and appreciate what has gone before. Despite being on adjacent sides of the same university quadrangle and despite deeply interconnected histories, The Slade School of Fine Art and the UCL Art Collections have in more recent years grown apart. This unprecedented project sought to rejuvenate this seemingly obvious partnership in the spirit of collaboration that has always been at the centre of so much of UCL’s teaching and research. UCL Museums & Collections are committed to strengthening their on-line presence and are always looking for new ways to reach audiences, especially with limited facilities for temporary exhibitions. As such, Sequel was conceived to produce artworks for on-line exhibition, created either as digital works in their own right or as works to be documented digitally. The exhibition of these works continues to exist at www.ucl.ac.uk/museums/sequel. In March 2009 Sequel was launched with a one-night only physical installation of all works, new and old, in the Strang Print Room, where much of the UCL Art Collections are housed. A brief history of the UCL Art Collections and the Slade School of Fine Art The UCL Art Collections contain over 10,000 objects including paintings, drawings, prints and sculptures dating from 1490 to the present day. Works on paper are housed in the Strang Print Room, and paintings and sculptures are displayed in public rooms around UCL as well as in storage on and off site. Only a tiny fraction of these works are exhibited at any one time. The collection was founded in 1847 with a gift of the sculpture models and drawings of the neoclassical artist John Flaxman. For a long time, the objects in the collections were a central part of the Slade’s teaching programme, an invaluable resource on its doorstep. 1 Sequel was organized and curated by: Andrea Fredericksen, Simon Gould, Wynn Abbott, Susan Collins, Brighid Lowe, Jon Thomson and Dryden Goodwin. The participating artists were: Emma Connor, Patricia Delgado, Andrea Greenwood, Erin Gutierez, Hyo Myoung Kim, Janne Malmros, Junko Otake, Stephanie O’Connor, Kate Keara Pelen, Ryan Riddington, Alex Springer, Patricia Townsend, Amanda Wasielewski, Jayne Wilton.