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Related UAL activities

Alongside the work of the Decolonising Arts Institute, UAL researchers, teaching staff and students lead many more decolonisation projects each year.

They collaborate to explore and reassess the experiences, lives and work of artists, creatives and students of colour. Explore a selection of these wider UAL activities and projects.

Decolonising Wikipedia network

A thriving Decolonising Wikipedia network formed at London College of Communication in 2020 and expanded across UAL in 2021. It supports UAL students and staff to edit Wikipedia through the lenses of anti-racism and decolonisation.

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

Decolonising the Curriculum zines

Decolonising the Arts Curriculum is a UAL co-production between Arts Student Union and UAL's Teaching, Learning and Employability Exchange.

The 2 zines were published as part of ongoing work to address disparities in experience and attainment for international students and students of colour.

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Visitors reading students' magazine, Show at Oxo Tower. Image: David Poultney.

Black Artists and Modernism

Black Artists and Modernism was a landmark, 3-year research project led by UAL in partnership with Middlesex University. It explored both understated connections and areas of contention between Black British artists’ practice and their art in relation to Modernism.

Brenda Emmanus and UAL Professor Sonia Boyce
BBC Broadcaster Brenda Emmanus and UAL Professor Sonia Boyce on the set of 'Whoever Heard of a Black Artist? Britain’s Hidden Art History' documentary

Research centres

Afterall

Afterall is a Research centre of University of the Arts London, located at Central Saint Martins. Our research explores contemporary art from a global and decolonial perspective.

Find out more about Afterall.

Transnational Art, Identity and Nation (TrAIN)

Founded in 2004, the Research Centre for Transnational Art, Identity and Nation (TrAIN) investigates historical, theoretical and practice-based research in art, architecture, craft and design.

This research is driven by the desire to critique dominant ideas of 'globalisation' and to open up new perspectives that address questions of how art and design can respond to social (in)justice, decolonisation of institutions and the creation of more diverse global art histories.

Find out more about Transnational Art, Identity and Nation (TrAIN).

More to explore

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    Sheffield Museums, Graves Gallery. Photo © Andy Brown

    UAL Decolonising Arts Institute

    Find out more about UAL Decolonising Arts Institute

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    Image: Daniel Day, AHRC Black Artists and Modernism project, David Medalla Study Day. Image: Daniel Day

    About us

    Find out more about our vision and ambitions for decolonising arts.

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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

    Find out more about collaborative projects in arts and education across UAL and beyond