Duet : fifth annual Slade/UCL Art Museum exhibition

7 May-6 Jun 2013

Overview

Duet began with a challenge to all current students at the Slade to develop their own practices while taking the time to consider and appreciate what has gone before. Over one term students were given special access to thousands of remarkable and historically important artworks from the Museum’s collections. Their in-depth research led to the discovery of a number of hidden treasures that they produced a response to: William Hogarth’s Industry and Idleness series; Eduardo Paollozzi’s collages from the Bunk series; a Gwen John watercolour, painted when she was a Slade student; plaster phrenological heads; Japanese woodblock prints; printing tools and much more.