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Handed in my dissertation and I am finally saying good bye to Slade !!!!! It's been a blast and I can't q believe it, thank you and lusm to everyone involved 🖤🖤🖤

@slade_grad_sculpture u have a special place in my heart 🫶 and long live the bonnet monarch

And thank u to @mosesmosa for this beaut b&w pic from degree show 🗝

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Having fun in June

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Soph’s 30th on Kodak Gold

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Sea, friends and fun.
Thank you Sophie

Ponza, July 26

@scrl #scrl #scrlgallery @fujifilmitalia

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A Second Slade Gaze. A retrospective look at the MA/MFA Degree Show 2026 at Slade.

UCL, Gower Street, London WC1E 6BT

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@bagtrust #slademamfa #sladegradfam #sladedegreeshow2026 #sladeshows @zhuyangleiu @z_kai_x @cal_mac_x @elysiabyrd @1peiiii @oliviaharding__ @maryevansartist

#art #contemporaryart #painting #contemporarypainting #sculpture #contemporarysculpture #hkig #hkiger #fashionart @slade_grad_sculpture @women_in_art__

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What a wonderful visit to @sladeschool to see MA Students degree show, so much to experience, this is just part of our tour around the Slade school of arts talents.
Thank you artist @rose_t_mull_an who is studying there for your insight taking us round & @thecharlieporter who also had some historic tales to tell as we explored this show. Definitely worth visiting this weekend art lovers 🌹

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Meet Cal Mac (@cal_mac_x ), finalist MA Fine Art (Sculpture), who is currently showing in the Slade MA/MFA Degree Show.

Cal Mac (b.1997 Paisley, Scotland) is a Glaswegian artist based in London. Mac’s practice is rooted in film, performance, ceramics, and painting. The viewer is at the root of his process. Impressions of Scottish landscapes, home and belonging are extracted from memory and given to the viewer as gestures of care. The ceramics are derived from a pool of early romantic sculpture, spiritual influences, and standing stones, as objects of guardiancy. Recent paintings are simple horizons – blue sea, slightly lighter sky, enacting the respite of dusk. His writing is largely collaged prose. Personal recollections are crossed with objective scientific observation: family dynamics with the inner workings of boat engines; the impressionists with the genetics of roses. They’re expressed intermittently to the viewer, like conversation, each time unearthing more and more of a subconscious.

For the degree show he made a vibrating floor, which harmonises with the sounds of truck engines, bagpipes, humming and the cello. Everything blends together there’s very few edges. Sound and vibration merge and are conducted through the viewers bones. So in way the viewer’s body is the material.

He says: “My work is centred around the concept of care, belonging and landscapes. I made a show that I think invites people to slow down. It’s not about the work being something to look at. It's about it being somewhere to be, for wandering off, for introspection, for daydreaming, whatever. It's about you thinking about whatever you need to think about.”

Catch his performances on Saturday 20 June at 1:30pm and Sunday 21 June at 3pm. Cal Mac’s show is in the Basement, Studio 16.

1: Studio Portrait by Carmen Gray - @gray_carmen
2: Horizon 2 and 3, Watercolour on voile 2x 210x 150cm
3: Untitled ceramic 4, black clay, tiny bit of glaze, sandpaper, vaseline, steel, concrete. 32cm x 15cm x 13cm
4. Untitled ceramics 1 and 2. black clay, tiny bit of glaze, sandpaper, vaseline, steel, concrete. 45cm x 15cm x 15cm, 50cm x 15cm x 15cm
4: Cùram, ceramics, brick. variable dimensions

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Slade Sculpture 2026!!
Degree show open until Sunday 21st!
Open Thursday and Friday 10 - 8
Saturday and Sunday 10 - 5
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Award winners of the (first) inaugural sculpture awards:
Most Valiant Gladiator : Cecily @cecilylj
Best Eyeliner Art/Forester of the Year: Claudia @light.dot
Most Approved “The Yes Award”: Cal @cal_mac_x
Team Spirit Award (for keeping us together despite the stress): Sarah @sarahrobertsfa
Smallest Handwriting Award: Yusi @splendidmendax_yyyyyy
Most Likely to Survive the Apocalypse: Yipei @1peiiii
Best Cinematography (for documenting art for other artists): Yuhui
Matrix Award: Kai @kaia1o
Open Book Award: Bo @the98bo
Best Stitch Award: Anna @annegmschilder
Best Dressed: Elliot @elliot_fox
Playtime Award: Flora @flora.hunt
Coolest Vibes Award/Culture Award (because he works with mold): Tao @juntaoism
Rare Bead Award/ Dog Whisperer: Flo @florence.eadie.art

Honorary Mentions
Fastest Carpenter: Harry (MFA Media) @harrymaberly
Best Nail Art: James (MFA Media) @butterflie__
Most Precarious Suspension Ari (MFA Painting) @pille.xx2
Waterbending Award: Cai (MFA Media) @z_kai_x

@sladeschool

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🌞The Slade MA/MFA/PhD Degree Show is open today until 8pm and continues until Sunday 21 June.

Four floors of art by our MA/MFA Fine Art Media, Painting and Sculpture artists and the Slade Research Room (PhD).

There are performances throughout the week and a shop on the ground floor.

📅Open: until Sunday 21 June
Weekdays: 10am–8pm
Weekends: 10am–5pm
All welcome, no ticket required

📍Slade School of Fine Art
UCL, Gower Street
London WC1E 6BT

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1. Loveday Pride
2. James Milner
3. Aaron Kudi
4. Cait Luke-Kelly
5. Cal Mac
6. Zhuyang Liu
7. Simon Rai
8. Nastassja Simensky
9. Euan Francis Gubbins
10. Slade Shop

#DegreeShow2026 #GraduateShow #SladeShows2026 #SladeDegreeShow #ucl200

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⭐Slade MA/MFA/PhD Degree Show Performances.

Come along at the times below to catch a performance by our artists!

Performances by:
Cal Mac @cal_mac_x
Cecily Loveys Jervoise @cecilyLJ
Euan Francis Gubbins
Gabriella Day @gabrielladay
Harry Maberly @harrymaberly
Sam Kan mrs_s_kan
Zhuyang Liu @zhuyangleiu

Wednesday 17th June
Zhuyang Liu - Studio 15 (Basement)
Durational performance throughout the day

17:30 - Cal Mac - Studio 16 (Basement)
18:00 - Euan Francis Gubbins - Studio 5 (Ground Floor)
18:30 - Sam Kan - Studio 13 (Basement)

Thursday 18th June
Zhuyang Liu - Studio 16 (Basement)
Durational performance throughout the day

17:30 - Cal Mac - Studio 16 (Basement)
18:00 - Euan Francis Gubbins - Studio 5 (Ground Floor)
19:15 - Harry Maberly - Studio 14 (Basement)
19:30 - Cecily Loveys Jervoise - Studio 22 (2nd Floor)

Friday 19th June
Zhuyang Liu - Studio 16 (Basement)
Durational performance throughout the day

18:00 - Euan Francis Gubbins - Studio 5 (Ground Floor)
19:00 - Cecily Loveys Jervoise - Studio 22 (2nd Floor)

Saturday 20th June
12:30 and 15:30 Sam Kan - Studio 13 (Basement)
13:30 - Cal Mac - Studio 16 (Basement)
15:00 - Gabriella Day - Rotunda (1st Floor)
16:00 - Euan Francis Gubbins - Studio 5 (Ground Floor)
16:00 - Zhuyang Liu - Studio 15 (Basement)
16:00 - Cecily Loveys Jervoise- Studio 22 (2nd Floor)
16:30 - Harry Maberly - Studio 14 (Basement)

Sunday 21st June
Zhuyang Liu - Studio 15 (Basement)
Durational performance throughout the day

12:30 and 15:30 Sam Kan - Studio 13 (Basement)
13:30 - Cal Mac - Studio 16 (Basement)
16:00 -Euan Francis Gubbins - Studio 5 (Ground Floor)
16:00 - Cecily Loveys Jervoise - Studio 22 (2nd Floor)

Slade MA/MFA/PhD Degree Show
📅Open: until 21 June 
Weekdays: 10am–8pm 
Weekends: 10am–5pm 
All welcome, no ticket required  

📍Slade School of Fine Art 
UCL, Gower Street 
London WC1E 6BT

#DegreeShows #SladeShows2026 #SladeDegreeShow #ucl200

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This year’s MFA cohort at The Slade have, between them, put on quite the show. Their Grad Show - currently on view on Gower Street in London - is quite the spectacle with some really exciting art on display, covering a spectrum of disciplines, by some tremendously talented young artists. Go see. These artists all caught my eye:

1. James Milner (video detail).
2. Bunny Hennessey.
3. Me and Bunny.
4. Aaron Kudi (detail).
5. More Aaron Kudi.
6. William Lowry.
7. Zhuyang Liu (video detail).
8. Cal Mac.
9. Harry Maberly.
10. Yang-En Hume.
11. Manuel Alejandro Hernández Rivera (detail).
12. Yuchen Li.
13. Yoona Kwon.
14. Lakshya Bhargava (detail).
15. Zane Drees.
16. Laurie Cole.
17. Ethan Caflisch.
18. Sarah Roberts (video detail).
19. Rowan Meredith (detail).

Look ‘em up. Go to their show. Buy something.

#sladeschooloffineart #gradshow #emergingart #emergingartists #onetowatch

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