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Annual Language-Art Project

A book open on a mainly blank page, with Chinese lettering partly visible.
A book open on a mainly blank page, with Chinese lettering partly visible.
Menglu Yuan (Julie), 2023 BA Fine Arts, Central Saint Martins, UAL

A yearly art exhibition by UAL students from across the world, exploring the theme of language.

The Language-Art Project aims to gather diverse groups of students from across UAL to create a variety language-themed art.

You can interpret the brief in any way you wish and with any medium. You can work collaboratively or solo. All you need is curiosity and enthusiasm.

Join the Language-Art Project to:

  • Meet students from other courses and nationalities.
  • Take part in a cross-cultural artistic collaboration.
  • Contribute to an exhibition in the summer term.

Who is it for?

All UAL students are welcome. Students come together from a range of courses, disciplines, nationalities and language backgrounds.

How to join

If you would like to join the 2024 Language-Art Project, please sign up to the Multilingual Activities Teams page. We will post further information there in January.

If you have any questions before then, you are very welcome to contact Karen Harris: k.harris@arts.ac.uk

Exhibition themes for 2023

Browse our selection of galleries to explore the work and the artists.

  • An image of a brick wall with barely legible wording, partly veiled and with abstract swirls.
    Xiaoyu Wang, 2023 MA Fine Art Sculpture, Camberwell College of Arts, UAL

    Language Beyond Words  

    In allowing us to understand one another, words are fallible. What ideas and connections can we glean from art and language beyond words?

  • Cartoon images of human heads floating in the sky, with the two phrases: people mountain, people sea, and Chinese lettering above.
    Mazy Law, 2023 BA Architecture, Central Saint Martins, UAL and Sophie Chen, BA Graphic Design Communication, Chelsea College of Arts, UAL

    Merging, Evolving, Transforming  

    How might art illustrate the ever-changing face of language - and how it develops and adapts across time and place?

  • Scrunched-up collages of people in photographs, with abstracted lettering running along one side.
    Pearl Jacques, 2023 BA Graphic Design Communication, Chelsea College of Arts, UAL

    The Power of a Word  

    The subtle power of a word is crucial to the human experience. What is the effect that words can have on our interpretation of the world?

  • A display showing stylised planets and their movements, with people below and flowers on either side.
    Kexin Lan, 2023 BA Interior Design, Chelsea College of Arts, UAL

    The Stories It Tells  

    Language has a unique power on the way a story is told and illustrated. How might the intersection of language and storytelling explore both melancholy and incredible happiness?

Thank you to our curation team: Hal Warren, Jasmine Rawlinson (both CSM: BA Culture, Criticism and Curation) and Haoyue Chen (Chelsea: MA Curating and Collections) for all their invaluable suggestions and general input.