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Lecturer in Fine Art Slade School of Fine Art

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Lecturer in Fine Art (2 POSTS)
University College London – Slade School of Fine Art

Full Time:

The appointment will be on UCL Grade 8. The salary range will be £39,510 – £46,635 per annum, inclusive of London Allowance.

Duties and Responsibilities

The Slade School of Fine Art is a leading university department for teaching and research in Fine Art, with facilities and infrastructure supporting the discourse around painting, sculpture and fine art media (including film and video, photography, electronic media, print and sound).  We are seeking to appoint two permanent full-time Lecturers in Fine Art, with expertise in fine art media, to start in late September 2010.  One will take on the role of head of undergraduate fine art media and the other will be head of graduate fine art media.

Key Requirements

The successful candidates will be qualified practicing artists who have substantial previous experience of leading, managing and directing staff and students in a fine art teaching environment at HE level.  A successful record of exhibiting and presenting high quality work in a national and international context is essential.

Further Details

For further details about the vacancy and how to apply on line please go to http://www.ucl.ac.uk/hr/jobs/ and search on Reference Number 1128677

If you have any queries regarding the vacancy or the application process, please contact Stephen Cadywold (s.cadywold@ucl.ac.uk), 020 7679 1384.

UCL Taking Action for Equality

Closing Date 9 Mar 2010

Latest time for the submission of applications 17.00

Interview date 29-31 March 2010

To apply click here.

 

Posted by:  Ozden Sahin (LEA Co-editor and Curator)

Lanfranco Aceti is known for his social activism and extensive career as artist, curator, and academic. He is a research affiliate and visiting professor at ACT @ Massachusetts Institute of Technology and director of the Arts Administration Program at Boston University. He is also the Editor in Chief of the Leonardo Electronic Almanac, The MIT Press. He has exhibited numerous personal projects including Car Park, a public performance in the UK at the John Hansard Gallery; Who The People?, an installation artwork acquired in its entirety by the Chetham’s Library and Museum in Manchester; Sowing and Reaping, installation artworks acquired in their entirety by the National Museum of Contemporary Art of Cyprus; and Hope Coming On, a site-specific choral performance he designed for the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, with the collaboration of the Boston Children’s Chorus, and realized in front of Turner’s Slave Ship (Slavers Throwing Overboard the Dead and Dying, Typhoon Coming On). In 2017, Aceti prepared a series of new artworks for an exhibition entitled Shimmer and curated by Irini Papadimitriou (V&A) at the Tobazi Mansion in Hydra, a new large choral performance titled Accursed for the Thessaloniki Biennial in Greece; and Knock, Knock, Knocking a public space installation in the Mediterranean Garden Pavilion of the New Sea Waterfront of Thessaloniki.