Annual Language-Art Project
The Language-Art Project aims to gather diverse groups of students from across UAL to create a variety of 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 online 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 2025 Language-Art Project, please check this page in January. We will post further information then.
If you have any questions, you are very welcome to contact Karen Harris: k.harris@arts.ac.uk.
Exhibition themes for 2024
Browse our selection of galleries to explore the work and the artists.
Shuhan (Linda) Wang, 2024 BA Games Art, London College of Communication, UAL Legends and Histories, Old and New
What is the relationship between language and history, legend, myth, cultural legacy? Does language shape the narrative… or is it shaped by the narrative?
Fatima Hussain, 2024 BA Design for Art Direction, London College of Communication, UAL Shaping and Reshaping
Through letters, characters, words and symbols, the permutations are endless. In combining, separating, layering, dismantling and mixing, we can express every facet of existence.
Oriana Anthony, 2024 BA Fine Art Painting, Camberwell College of Arts, UAL What it Means to be Human … or Not Human
Is language more than a mere neurological and physical function: something deeply connected with our deepest ‘self’, our very essence? What does AI bring to the mix?
Yansi Lian, 2024 BA Fine Art, Central Saint Martins, UAL Disconnection and Disorientation
When context is removed, or when communication breaks down, our minds desperately scramble to find meaning in the chaos. And if meaning remains elusive, new interpretations arise.
Talks and Exhibition
- Summer Talks: Students from this year’s Project will discuss their work, and the role of language in their creative practice.
- Online symposium 22 July and 29 July
(open to the public) - Find out more event 31 July
(internal event for UAL staff and students)
- Online symposium 22 July and 29 July
- Exhibition: From 27 July to 26 August, the Language-Art Project will also be on display at the CSM Window Galleries. This space is open to the public.
