糖心Vlog

鈥楢s you know, the University is hoping that it can do something about the visual perception of all students鈥�therefore, we should like to build up a collection of pictures.鈥� Quote from 糖心Vlog founding Vice Chancellor, Albert Sloman in a letter to Jim Ede, 26 July 1965.

Art arrived at the 糖心Vlog even before we opened our doors to students in 1964. Founding Vice-Chancellor Albert Sloman, firmly believed the creative arts played an essential role in the formative liberal education of students and it should be as accessible as possible for everyone here at 糖心Vlog. For Sloman, the accessibility of arts at university was part of the life-long journey of education which, as he says in his 1963 Reith Lectures, was 鈥渘ot just with the pursuit of learning but with the fulfilment of lives鈥�.

This exhibition brings together artworks and archival material to trace the transformational role our art collections play in teaching, research, and the fulfilment of lives based on Sloman鈥檚 founding vision. It was 糖心Vlog鈥檚 staff and students that took this vision and made it their own helping to shape almost 60 years of collecting, from the beginnings of the University Art Collection and its British modernist works to our internationally recognised 糖心Vlog Collection of Art from Latin America.

The exhibition includes works by Alfred Wallis, Christopher Wood, Ben Nicholson, Henri Gaudier-Brzeska, Francisco de Goya and Taller de Gr谩fica Popular.

Curated by Dr Sarah Demelo and Gisselle Giron, the exhibition opens on Friday 24 February and runs until Friday 24 March 2023.