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Residencies and Fellowships

The UAL Decolonising Arts Institute provides fellowship and residency opportunities for artists and researchers engaging with decolonial practice.

Residencies

British Council Venice Fellowship Programme

In 2024 and 2026 the Decolonising Arts Institute has been a partner in the British Council Venice Fellowship Programme.The Fellowships Programme enables creative students and professionals to spend a month in Venice during the world’s most important art and architecture biennials.

Image: Outside the British Pavilion at Venice, 2022. © Cristiano Corte, British Council

Decolonising Archives

This programme explores institutional histories, memories and experimental approaches to decolonising UAL from within.

Old black and white photograph of a rally
C.L.R James speaking at a rally in Trafalgar Square in 1935

Decolonising Collections

Our curatorial research network residency programme in collaboration with 3 collections partners: Arts Council Collection, British Council Collection and Manchester Art Gallery.

Digital collage
On Land Imaginaries and Dwellings. Tatiana Muringani, M ARCH, Central Saint Martins UAL. UAL Showcase 2021

Digital Archives

Decolonising Archives: Digital Artist in Residence programme in collaboration with iniva: the Institute of International Visual Arts.

In parallel with the Decolonising Archives Research Residency programme, the artist’s role is to focus critically and creatively on a specific aspect of iniva’s digital materials and online archive.

Artwork commissioned by iniva's x-space
Simon Tegala, Fustigator, 1996. Commissioned by iniva's x-space

Practice Researchers in Residence

Four artists undertook 15-month practice research residencies, generating insights and understandings of the ways in which the Transforming Collections research can interrogate the nation’s heritage and enable new stories to be told.

Their residencies culminated in showcase displays at Tate Modern as part of the Museum x Machine x Me programme.

Installation of artwork by Yu-Chen Wang. A theatre set made up of hanging fabrics, painted boards and white tape on the floor resembles a museum.
Yu-Chen Wang, Museum x Machine x Me: Artists Display, 2-6 October 2024, Tate Modern © UAL and Tate. Photography by Ariel Haviland.

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    Sheffield Museums, Graves Gallery. Photo © Andy Brown

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    Sonia Boyce, Devotional Wallpaper and Placards, 2008-2020. Acquired by the Contemporary Art Society for the Middlesbrough Institute of Modern Art (MIMA) through the Rapid Response Fund, 2020.

    Projects

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    Alena Jarrett, 2023 BA Contemporary Media Cultures. London College of Communication, UAL | Photograph: Alys Tomlinson

    Digital Library

    An archive of our digital recordings.

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    Students using digital facilities at London College of Communication. Photo: Alys Tomlinson

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