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Katie Paterson graduated with an MFA in 2007 and is widely regarded as one of the leading artists of her generation. Her projects consider our place on Earth in the context of geological time and change, and will speak to us from the next century #IWD2018 https://t.co/ASBFS33Dh4

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Experimental filmmaker Alia Syed uses formal techniques of editing and optical printing to explore issues of identity and representation in her work. Graduating in 1992, Syed shows worldwide and was nominated for the Jarman Award in 2015. #IWD2018 #SladeAlumnae

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Tacita Dean is a highly influential contemporary artist working in analogue film and photography. The unprecedented collaboration between 3 London galleries opens this month, starting with Still Life @NPGLondon next week https://t.co/sDfwaJ4Oak #IWD2018 #SladeAlumnae Image @Tate

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#RachelWhiteread was the 1st woman to win the #TurnerPrize in 1993. Since her retrospective @Tate in 2017, she has won a commission @ucl to be the centrepiece of the new student centre https://t.co/1ua7hX9b1J #SladeAlumnae #IWD2018

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Video, installation and performance artist Catherine Elwes was a member of the Women Artists' Collective & Women's Art Alliance in the 1970s. She co-curated landmark feminist exhibitions, 'Women's Images of Men' and 'About Time' in 1980. #SladeAlumnae #IWD2018

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#MaggiHambling is a celebrated British sculptor and painter, whose portraits predominantly feature women. In 1995, she was awarded the Jerwood Painting Prize, and was awarded an OBE for her services to painting, followed by a CBE in 2010. #IWD2018 #SladeAlumnae

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#TessJaray taught at the Slade from 1968-1999 and was the first female tutor. For more than five decades, Jaray has been examining the geometry of pattern, repetition, and colour within her surroundings, including several public commissions since 1990. #SladeAlumnae #IWD2018

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Italian painter and film director Lorenza Mazzetti made her film Together at the Slade in the 1950s, and cast Eduardo Paolozzi after seeing him at a Bacon exhibition. Watch this rare interview of her at the Slade in 2013 #IWD2018 https://t.co/tlYc1TBAby

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Internationally renowned Portuguese artist Paula Rego's work has powerful feminist themes. Her female figures often take on animal poses, representing their submissive nature but also their fierce independence. The Bride, 1994 @Tate #IWD2018 #SladeAlumnae

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British Surrealist artist, writer and Occultist Ithell Colquhoun studied at the Slade from 1927-31. Her painting, Judith with the Head of Holofernes wont eh Summer Composition prize in 1929 @UCLArtMuseum #IWD2018 #SladeAlumnae

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One of the most famous artists associated with the Bloomsbury group was Slade Alumna #DoraCarrington. Carrington won a 2 year scholarship to the Slade and won 2nd prize in figure painting for the work below @UCLArtMuseum She went on to win 1st prize the following year. #IWD2018

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Slade Alumna Dorothy Coke enrolled aged 17 at the Slade in 1914 and went on to become a well known artist during the 1st World War. She was commissioned by the War Artists Advisory Committee to depict the work being performed by women in various services. #IWD2018 #SladeAlumnae

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Jessica Dismorr, Slade Student in 1902, was one of only two female members of the Vorticist movement (Image: Birmingham Museums Trust) #SladeAlumnae #IWD2018

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Countess Markievicz #SladeStudent in 1892 and suffragette, went on to win the first female seat in the House of Commons & was also the first woman in the world to hold a cabinet position (Minister for Labour of the Irish Republic, 1919–1922) (image: National Library of Ireland)

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Welsh artist Gwen John studied at the Slade in the 1890s, the only university at the time allowing female students to study. This watercolour, Portrait Group, 1897 is currently on display @UCLArtMuseum in the Prize & Prejudice exhibition @ucl #SladeAlumnae #IWD2018

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Kate Greenaway was one of the first women to enrol at the Slade in 1871, and subsequently went on to be one of the most successful book illustrators of the Victorian Era, whose influence is still relevant today #SladeAlumnae #IWD2018

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To celebrate #InternationalWomensDay we will be tweeting all day about #SladeAlumae! #SladeLadies #Sladies Join in the conversation @SladeSchool #IWD2018

[Green and Stone @greenandstone]

Kate #Greenaway, #Illustrator and writer, born this day in 1846
She studied at the @HeatherleyArt School and then the @SladeSchool

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The Diaries of Randolph Schwabe. A good read @SladeSchool @SladeArchive #art

[Nathan CG @followaginger]

@Lisson_Gallery was launched in 1967 when Logsdail converted his house into a showcase for his fellow students from @SladeSchool https://t.co/zI0O6KmJpc