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IMPRESSIONS CITY AND GUILDS OF LONDON ART SCHOOL X UGLY DUCK PRESENTS "IMPRESSIONS" This year we are presenting a body of work which celebrates the ongoing development of students from first and second year BA Fine Art at City & Guilds of London Art School. The interim show is a brilliant opportunity to view work…

CLUSTER CRAFTS 2022 FAIR Proud to announce Cluster Crafts 2022 Fair, our first post pandemic Crafts art fair, featuring a physical exhibition of 70+ international artists. Cluster Crafts is officially returning to the physical realm after a long and fruitful virtual season. After our last in-person Crafts Fair in 2019, Cluster is returning to London…

WAXING MOON CEREMONY: WEREWOLF RITUAL-WORKSHOP JOIN OUR WEREWOLF TRANSFORMATION SERIES, AS WE CELEBRATE THE WAXING MOON THROUGH A POETIC-MEDITATIVE MOVEMENT JOURNEY! WORKSHOP DESCRIPTION: As the light of the moon is growing, it’s a fertile time for self-reflection and gathering momentum for new beginnings. This first workshop will be the start of our reconnection to our…

TICKETS ( FREE, BUT A DONATION IS ENCOURAGED ) TRANS TALES FOR TOXIC TIMES A day of workshops, film screenings and performance celebrating the work of trans and non-binary artists curated by the visual culture stream of the FGEN (Feminist Gender Equality Network). The works centre on issues around living and representing gender diversity, and trans and…

Celebrating 10 years of Ugly Duck! We can’t believe it’s already been a decade of Ugly Duck, supporting emerging and underrepresented artists. Help us improve the next 10 years by taking our Impact and Future Survey. We so appreciate everyone who has walked through our doors and would love to hear your feedback. Also, share…

相/Phase is an interactive, algorithmic artwork, exploring how the abstract, mathematical and basic rules of physics evolve into our infinitely varied, macro and observable/tangible world of organisms and things. Originally commissioned by Chinese Arts Now in 2020 as a digital artwork, 相/Phase will be presented as a sculptural, moving image installation for the work’s first…

 Black Magic is an event curated and created by Moses Kamanga. It is held to give black and brown artists a platform to showcase their talents and make connections. Black Magic will be held on August 20th, 2022 at Ugly Duck. About this event Line up Visual artists Marlowe (@4camp) Kemi Talia Blue (@confusedcu1ture) Performers…

These claws shine into belonging is a performance-ritual project created by Byuka (they/them) as part of the Intimate Animals Collective research. Every Tuesday, for the entire month of July, Byuka facilitated ritual-workshops at Ugly Duck in correspondence with the phases of the moon. Informed by these workshops, Byuka will present a performative work in progress piece…

Pop Up Exhibition: Pioneers and Apparitions This one-day exhibition showcases the cutting-edge augmented reality artworks of Luciana Haill and is the London premiere of Pioneer, an ambitious, augmented reality (AR) artwork which explores urgent contemporary themes around innovation, hubris and technology elitism through a reflection on Victorian engineering. The work juxtaposes Victorian engineer Magnus Volk’s…

The Production of Post-Truth is an exhibition investigating how truth is presented and disseminated in the ‘Information Age’. Works engaging with technologies for information production and interpretation, abstract robotics, and digital myth-making will be exhibited. The exhibition employs a disruptive chronology, including a variety of works that; challenge the authority of analogue mass-media mechanisms, analyse…

A Trans Masc Moving Image Exhibit; a wide range of work focusing on the nuances of the trans masc experience. Access: There will be a BSL interpreter for Friday and Saturday Events. The films will all be captioned in English. The space is wheelchair accessible and includes 1 disabled toilet. Seating includes plastic pop out…

A Trans Masc Moving Image Exhibit; a wide range of work focusing on the nuances of the trans masc experience. Access: There will be a BSL interpreter for Friday and Saturday Events. The films will all be captioned in English. The space is wheelchair accessible and includes 1 disabled toilet. Seating includes plastic pop out…

A Trans Masc Moving Image Exhibit; a wide range of work focusing on the nuances of the trans masc experience. Access: There will be a BSL interpreter for Friday and Saturday Events. The films will all be captioned in English. The space is wheelchair accessible and includes 1 disabled toilet. Seating includes plastic pop out…

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