Click on the links below to learn more about previous displays in our Pop-Up Series. We are working to develop online versions of the Pop-Ups to accompany these texts - watch this space for more developments.Click on the links below to learn more about previous displays in our Pop-Up Series. We are working to develop online versions of the Pop-Ups to accompany these texts - watch this space for more developments.Join UCL Art Museum and artist Kristina Clackson Bonnington
on the eve of International Women's Day 2015 to explore the legacy of
suffrage and investigate the relationship between art, gender and social
change.UCL's Quad will become a site for investigation and
discovery during this two-day creative get-together which will focus on
sharing key findings through new collaborative works of art, workshops
and talks. Come to find out more about our social history and get
creative!Detailed schedule and booking.David Dobson , Reader in Mineralogical Geophysics, Earth Sciences DepartmentWood engraving, with its full tonal and textural range, is an ideal medium to capture the rock and landscapes which I encounter during my holidays in the mountains.— Dave DobsonJoe Cain, Senior Lecturer in History and Philosophy of Biology, Department of Science and Technology StudiesThe two sketches I chose are new arrivals to UCL Art Collections. They are made by Charles Bell....a European powerhouse in medicine, surgery and anatomy [...] Bell must have been a joy to watch in lecture, sketching these things on the fly at the chalkboard. Think of what was erased shortly after one of his classes at UCL?— Joe CainJan Birksted, Senior Lecturer History and Theory, The BartlettAnd what was special about their [Le Club français du livre] Iliad was that they used John Flaxman’s illustrations. And Le Corbusier made his illustrations over Flaxman’s. In do doing, he established his modernity and his originality by writing in a margin: “Not a single sign of life. Homer is assassinated. (Pas un seul signe de vie. Homère est assassiné).”Thus modernist artists and architects establish their originality…— Jan BirkstedJane Spender, Manager, UCL Academic Staff Common RoomI work in the Housman Room surrounded by wonderful paintings, and above my desk is a conversation piece. Painted by Albert Rutherston (Slade 1898–1902), it illustrates a moment from a novel by Emile Zola, one of my favourite authors [...] when I was asked if I would like to curate a Pop-Up Display in the Strang, my immediate thought was to look for conversation pieces and follow whatever direction they might lead.Anne Welsh,
UCL Department of Information Studies, explores discussions about what
happens when illustrations custom-made for publications become works of
art in their own right. Can an image ever escape its words?Helen Hackett, UCL Department of English,
Co-Director of the UCL Centre for Early Modern Exchanges, considers the
cultural factors which influenced how England defined itself politically in the
16th and 17th centuries.You can read more
about this pop-up and how it went on the UCL Events blog.In order to
illustrate published accounts of the journeys of early travelers, some artists
had to draw animals which they themselves had never seen. Subhadra Das, from UCL Museums & Collections,
offers you a chance to take inspiration from these works and others from the
UCL Art Museum to create and draw your own strange creatures. Art supplies will
be provided.Alexander Samson, UCL Department of Spanish and
Latin American Studies, co-director of the UCL Centre for Early Modern
Exchanges, asks how people in the sixteenth century communicated with each
other and learnt foreign languages. By looking at some of the earliest
dictionaries and plurilingual dialogues, we can find out a great deal about
what and how different linguistic communities communicated with each other in
this period.In her own work, artist Jayne Parker,
UCL Slade School of Fine Art, looks at the relationship between film
and the performance of music. What will catch her interest among the
prints and drawings in UCL's art collections? Pop into UCL Art Museum
between 1 and 2pm to find out.Are
prints the first ever examples of hacked content? In collaboration with
Fabien Pinaroli and Claudio Galleri, UCL Mellon Fellow Antony Hudek explores this question by relating prints inspired by Michaelangelo to appropriated imagery from the 1960s to today.Edward Allington, Professor of Fine Art at the Slade School of Fine Art looks at John Flaxman's reliefs.Avi Lifschitz,
UCL History, uses works from the Rousseau 300 exhibition to explore how
the way we perceive Rousseau now is very different from his
18th-century reputation.Nick Grindle,
UCL Centre for the Advancement of Learning and Teaching, looks at the
seaside as a liminal space, in his pick of prints and drawings from the
Museum's collections.Join artist Liz Rideal, Slade School of Fine Art, in revisiting Van Dyck's etchings from his project Iconographia, portraits of his distinguished contemporaries.
Van Dyck often completed the heads but left the rest to specialist engravers. Pop-in, free, no booking required.Dr Melissa Terras
is the Co-Director of UCL's Centre for Digital Humanities and has a
background in both Art History and Computer Science. Her Pop-Up will
look at computer generated art in the Art Museum's collections,
including print and multimedia pieces. Pop-in between 1-2pm, free, no
booking
required.David Jones, Paper Conservator, Special Collections, UCL Library Services,
will talk about the conservation of the 17th-century panorama of London
by Hollar, discussing its preparation for public display in the current
exhibition, One Day in the City Part II. Sections of the map before and after treatment will be presented.Greg Dart,
Department of English Language and Literature, joins the ranks of our
Pop-Up curators to excavate the prints and drawings collections - this
time with a London theme. Pop-in between 1-2pm. Free, no booking
required.'Sweet Thames, run softly till I end my song...'The Thames features in many of the greatest poems written about London, and in this Pop-up Professor Mark Ford, (Department of English Language and Literature), editor of the recently published anthology London: A History in Verse, will be discussing the genre of the Thames poem, and reading some of his favourites.Join One Day in the City co-curator Nick Shepley,
Department of English Language and Literature, as he uncovers the
research behind the exhibition and the novels that inspired it. Pop-in
between 1-2pm. Free, no booking required.Join us to celebrate the launch of Sharon Morris' new book of poetry, Gospel Oak. The visual artist, poet and Senior Lecturer at Slade School of Fine Arts
will curate a unique pop-up display inspired by the oak tree. It will
feature a selection of works from the collection, one of her acclaimed
Film-poem and works by painter Jo Volley.
Pop-in between 6-8:30pm. Free, no booking required.Jane Rendell, Bartlett School of Architecture, investigates
thresholds and transitional spaces by linking up prints and drawings from the
Art Museum’s collections in unexpected ways. Pop-in between 1-2pm. Free, no
booking required.Silva Code Source «HTML: Add horizontal rule»Please join us for a unique process-driven pop-up event from the Bronze
Lab, an initiative of the Slade School of Fine Art.For
this pop-up exhibition and talk, Ed Allington and Giles Corby, two of the founders of the Bronze Lab, and the Slade
students who were selected to participate in last Feburary's bronze pour will discuss the
project and present the works that they created.The 5th annual Slade/UCL Art Museum collaboration artists talk about
their influences and the people who have been instrumental in helping
them shape their practice.Jumpei Kinoshita, Duet artist, discusses the influence of Ohara Koson's prints on his work with his tutor Estelle Thompson.For John Flaxman: the Accidental Revolutionary, Andy Gomez is in
conversation with David Bindman, Emeritus Professor of the History of
Art, about John Flaxman and his influence.For
The Influence of Medieval Aesthetic: Eunice Tsang is in conversation
with Rose Shawe-Taylor, her former tutor and Head of History of Art at
Wellington College.For 'Material, Making, Interpretation and Transcription through Drawing' Duet artist Andy Gomez is in
conversation with his tutor and artist Jo Volley.Dr
Wendy Bracewell, Senior Lecturer In History and Deputy Director, School
of Slavonic and East European Studies, celebrates the launch of her
book Where to Go in Europe, an anthology of travellers' toilet papers.
She will present a special pop-up display to mark the event.Please join us at UCL Art Museum for a pop-up display created by Tom Ue, SSHRC Doctoral Fellow and creator of the Sherlock Holmes: Past and Present conference. The selection of works evocative of mystery, crime and investigations will keep you guessing.Join us for a pop-up exhibition devised in tandem with the Sculptural
Mobilities, a one-day symposium organised by the department of
Scandinavian Studies about the cultural mobility of sculptural artworks.
Come by and see unique works that present the stories of exchanges between the art of the Nordic Countries and Europe.
Pop-in between 1-5pm to find out. Free, no booking required.Join us for a pop-up display combining Japanese woodblock prints and
items from UCL's Special Collections to mark the 150th anniversary of
the arrival of the Choshu Five.
Five young noble men from the Choshu Clan left Japan during the
turbulent times of the 1860s and came to study at UCL. On their return
to Japan they went on to form the core of a new government. Included
amongst them was Ito Hirobumi, the first Prime Minister of modern day
Japan, and father of the Japanese Constitution.Join us for a unique pop-up display by Elizabeth Mead, Associate
Professor of Art (tenured), The College of William and Mary,
Williamsburg, Virginia.What constitutes a part--in what way is a part defined and how does it
relate to or differ from a fragment? When we think of an object, we
think of it as a whole, we don't consider its parts, or about its
detachability. Yet, we cannot think of the part and the whole
simultaneously. In a similar way form and material are not apprehended
simultaneously. We engage the material or we engage the form.The Montefiore coat of armsJoin us for a pop-up display of exceptional books and
objects from the Arthur Sebag-Montefiore Archive illustrating various
aspects of the life of Sir Moses Montefiore (1784-1885), one of the most
admired figures in the Anglo-Jewish community. The display is curated by Dr Piet van Boxel and will take place alongside the 120th anniversary conference of the Jewish Historical Society of England. Anthony Amies, Landscape with Pylons; Corn Field, Norfolk, circa 1973Join us for an afternoon dedicated to exploring the theme of landscape curated by UCL Researchers in Museums.From
the aesthetic of the pastoral horizon, through mythical lands and
blitzed urban spaces, to the gaping expanse between mental and physical
healthcare, visitors will be taken to a variety of locations to learn
about various research projects and discuss the many potential
interpretations and ways of experiencing scape.Art works from UCl Art Museum will be used to illustrate and support the talks and discussions.Light refreshments will be served at the end of the afternoon.Booking required:
https://land-scape.eventbrite.co.ukKevin
Guyan, PhD candidate in the History Department, explores the dance hall
as a site of social and cultural exchange for the black community of
Bloomsbury in the 1940s. This participative event will include music and
images from the period and will also be an opportunity for those in
attendance to share and discuss memories of 'going dancing' in the
mid-20th century.Join us for a pop-up talk on 3D scanning and printing led
by Mona Hess, Research Assistant and PhD Candidate in UCL Civil,
Environmental and Geomatic Engineering.Lunch-hour talk by artist
Marianna Simnett, winner of the 2013 Coldstream Prize for her work Dog.In their installation in the Flaxman Gallery, artists Lynn Dennison and
Gen Doy combine sound with video projection to create an immersive work
which highlights some of the themes explored by John Flaxman in his
lectures and sculptures. The artists will be available for discussion
over drinks from 7pm. Part of the 'Petrie Museum on Tour' series.
Gen Doy’s artistic practice involves sound, sound installation and
performance, with a particular interest in sites with historical or
social significance. She has also made programmes for art radio stations
such as basic fm and resonance fm, and is currently working on a sound
installation with song for the dairy at Uppark House (National Trust),
near Petersfield , in the South of England,
Lynn Dennison’s practice uses film and installations to explore the
meanings created when the exterior enters the interior, when the
bucolic, arcadian and romantic connotations of land and seascape enter,
or encounter in other ways, the built environment. Her projections
invite spectators to experience buildings in a new way, and to immerse
themselves in provocative reveries.Let’s talk about love – specifically, why we should
fall in love with
running. Come join Kai Syng Tan in this wacky
performance-lecture-cum-film-screening.
The
artist-researcher-cum-mover-(salt-)shaker-cum-PhD graduate from the
Slade
School will run
through the ways in which running can empower us to re-imagine our
reality. Part of our Time-Based Media in Conversation
events. Lunch-hour talk by artist
Nicolas Feldmeyer, winner of the 2012 Coldstream Prize for his works I am
unique and so is everyone else and My people, humble people.Join artist Hiroko Imada for this hands-on workshop introducing the
participants to the art of Japanese woodblock printing. Taking
inspiration from UCL Art Museum’s Japanese prints collection, the
participants will learn from an experienced artist to design, carve and
print their own work.What is the nature of the many prints that can be found in a print room?
How are they created? Join us for a lunch-hour performance by artists Dana
Ariel, Julia McKinlay, Eleanor Morgan and Georgina Tate, winners of the
2013 UCL Art Museum Prize for their works A Printers’ Symphony.Join us in the South Cloisters for a drop-in introduction
to linocut printing with artist Lign Chiu and help us produce learning
material in the process. During this lunch-hour workshop you will learn
how to make a block and how to print from it. Your block will be added
to a learning pack that will go to schools across London for young
people to learn about printing and UCL Art Museum's collection.Join artist Hiroko Imada for this hands-on
workshop introducing the participants to the art of Japanese woodblock
printing. Taking inspiration from UCL Art Museum’s Japanese prints
collection, the participants will learn from an experienced artist how
to design, carve and print their own work.Date: 15 October |
Time: 6:30-8:30 pm |
Location: Gustave
Tuck Lecture Theatre, Wilkins Building, University College London |
Price: £5 donation
requested, Popcorn will be provided.
|
Age group: Adults |Stories from the North
Explore the narratives that shape identity with this season of
contemporary Canadian cinema curated by UCL Art Museum in collaboration
with UCL English. Stories We Tell (2012)
In this deeply personal film about how our narratives shape and define
us as individuals and families, writer/director Sarah Polley discovers
that the truth depends on who's telling the story. Polley is both
filmmaker and detective as she investigates the secrets kept by her
family. As each relates their version of the family mythology,
present-day recollections shift into nostalgic glimpses of a mother who
departed too soon, leaving a trail of unanswered questions.
Booking required: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/ucl-art-museum-film-club-stories-we-tell-tickets-12799408375Date: 30 October |
Time: 6pm-9pm |
Location: UCL Art
Museum, Council Room, South Wing, Gower Street, University College
London, WC1E 6BT |
Price: £15 per ticket
as an average donation paid on the day of the workshop. |
Age group: Adults |With Halloween just around the corner, join us
at UCL Art Museum to tap into some collective creativity and make a
unique headdress out of recycled materials.
During this evening of "anti-establishment" millinery, you will look at
the creation and the cultural history of headpieces with Dr Susannah
Walker, teaching fellow in the History of Art department and artist
whose work uses textiles.
Find inspiration in works from our collection and in discussion with the group to make your own fascinator.
Booking required: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/ucl-art-museum-on-tour-subversive-millinery-collective-creativity-tickets-12429991439Date: 1 November |
Time: 1-3pm |
Location: UCL North
Lodge, main entrance of University College London, Gower Street, London
WC1E 6BT |
Price: Free, booking
required |
Age group: Adults |Join artists Kai Syng Tan and Jo Volley in a
hands-on, or rather, feet-on exercise exploring the links between
running, the runner’s high and creativity. Meet Kai at UCL and run/walk
with her to Hampstead Heath (approximately 3.5 miles).
As we run, we will share thoughts, personal anecdotes and speculations
about how running can be conducive to problem-solving or bring about
unusual modes of thinking that depart from how we think when we do not
move or run. At our destination, we run into Jo, who shows us where she
runs and looks out for oak apples that she uses in her artworks which we
proceed to see in her studio located nearby. Who knows, after this run,
you may run home feeling so energized that you go on to create a
masterpiece. Or two.
Part of UCL Art Museum on Tour season.
Free, booking required at https://runners-high-and-creativity.eventbrite.co.ukDate: 20 November |
Time: 6:30-8pm |
Location: Petrie
Museum of Egyptian Archaeology, UCL |
Price: Free, booking
required https://thousand-words-uclam-petrie.eventbrite.co.uk |
Age group: Adults |Join us to explore the longstanding relationship between creative writing and the visual arts.
Using the Petrie Museum’s rich collection of artefacts and works of art,
participants will be led through creative writing exercises exploring
rhetorical means to relate to art differently.Date: 26 November |
Time: 6:30-8:30pm |
Location: TBC |
Price: £5 donation requested, Popcorn will be provided. |
Age group: Adults |Stories from the North
Explore the narratives that shape identity with this season of
contemporary Canadian cinema curated by UCL Art Museum in collaboration
with UCL English.My Winnipeg (2007)
Fact, fantasy and memory are woven seamlessly together in this surreal
portrait of film-maker Guy Maddin's home town of Winnipeg, Manitoba.Date: 3 December |
Time: 6-8pm |
Location: Grant
Museum of Zoology, Rockefeller Building, University College London,
University Street, WC1E 6DE |
Price: Free |
Age group: Adults |Join Dr Chiara Ambrosio, Lecturer in History and
Philosophy of Science, to explore the longstanding relationship between
creative writing and the visual arts. Using the Grant Museum’s rich
collection of specimens and the Art Museum's works of art, participants
will be led through creative writing exercises exploring rhetorical
means to relate to art differently.
Free, limited places. Booking required.https://thousand-words-uclam-grant.eventbrite.co.ukDate: 10 December |
Time: 6:30-8:30pm |
Location: Gustave
Tuck Lecture Theatre, Wilkins Building, University College London, WC1E
6BT |
Price: £5 donation
requested, Popcorn will be provided. |
Age group: Adults |Stories from the North
Explore the narratives that shape identity with this season of
contemporary Canadian cinema curated by UCL Art Museum in collaboration
with UCL English.Barney's Version (2010)
This dark comedy, based on Mordecai Richler’s novel of the same title,
traces the life and memories of Barney Panofsky, played by Paul Giamatti
in a Golden Globe-winning performance. A hard-drinking, cigar-smoking,
foulmouthed 65-year old hockey fanatic and television producer looks
back on his successes and numerous professional and personal failures.Join UCL Art Museum Film Club for a screening of Peter Greenaway’s biography of Rembrandt van Rijn
Nightwatching. There will be an introduction to the film with a viewing of some of UCL Art Museum's Rembrandt prints.Small donations welcome. Wine and popcorn will be provided.Join Carl Randall, artist and Slade alumnus, to discuss one of UCL Art Museum’s latest
acquisitions: his series of drawings of survivors of the Hiroshima bombing.Free, limited places. Booking required: college.art@ucl.ac.ukJoin UCL Art Museum, Dr Chiara
Ambrosio and Dr Carole Reeves to explore the War, Art and Surgery
exhibition at the Hunterian Museum and develop your drawing practice in
discussion with a philosopher of science and an historian of medicine.The
class is suitable for adults of all levels, from beginners to more confident
artists. All materials are provided.Please note that some people might find material included in the War,
Art and Surgery exhibition or in the permanent collection upsetting.
Please contact college.art@ucl.ac.uk if you have questions before
booking.Join
UCL Art Museum and Dr Lucy Lyons to explore the Hunterian Museum and
develop your drawing practice. The workshop consists in a unique
combination of observation, drawing and discussion with an artist and
lecturer.The
class is suitable for adults of all levels, from beginners to more confident
artists. Please bring your own dry materials.Please note that
some people might find material included in the War, Art and Surgery
exhibition or in the permanent collection upsetting. Please contact college.art@ucl.ac.uk if you have questions before booking.Join UCL Art Museum Film Club for a screening of award-winning A Harlot’s Progress with Toby Jones, a film inspired by the work of artist William Hogarth. There will be an
introduction to the film including a viewing of some of UCL Art Museum's Hogarth prints.Small donations welcome. Wine and popcorn will be provided.Limited places. Booking required.