The UAL Decolonising Arts Institute works on collaborative projects in arts and education across UAL and beyond, seeking to drive and support cultural and institutional change.
Our projects have grown out of dialogues and partnerships, including with artists, researchers and other higher education institutions.
Highlights
Transforming Collections: Reimagining Art, Nation and Heritage
Dissolving barriers between collections, surfacing patterns of bias and uncovering hidden connections.
- Find out more about the Transforming Collections project
20/20
Catalysing artists’ careers and change in UK collections through 20 residencies, 20 commissions and 20 new acquisitions.
- Find out more about the 20/20 project
Institute associates
Institute Associates work on a specific piece of work with the Institute as part of their scholarly activity at UAL.
- Discover the work of our Institute Associates
Residencies
Decolonising Archives
This programme explores institutional histories, memories and experimental approaches to decolonising UAL from within.
- Read about our 2021 researchers in residence
- Read about our 2020 researchers in residence
Decolonising Collections
Our curatorial research network residency programme in collaboration with 3 collections partners: Arts Council Collection, British Council Collection and Manchester Art Gallery.
- Read about Decolonising Collections
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.
- Read about Digital Archives
Workshop
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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.
Decolonising British Art
Series of events exploring exhibition practices and curatorial strategies for decentering, resituating and reviewing artworks and collections.
More to explore
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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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Image: Andrew Brooks, AHRC Black Artists & Modernism project, Speech Acts exhibition opening, Manchester Art Gallery. Image: Andrew Brooks
Event recordings
Explore our recorded events.