educated_at tomoko takahashi
The UCL ___MASK10___ ( informally The Slade ) is the art school of ___MASK61___ ( UCL ) and is based in London , United Kingdom . It is world - renowned and is consistently ranked as the UK ' s top art and design educational institution . The school is organised as a department of UCL ' s Faculty of Arts and Humanities . ___MASK61___ ( UCL ) is a public research university in London , England , and a constituent college of the federal University of London . It is the largest postgraduate institution in the UK by enrollment and is regarded as one of the world ' s leading multidisciplinary research universities . Established in 1826 as London University by founders inspired by the radical ideas of Jeremy Bentham , UCL was the first university institution to be established in London , and the first in England to be entirely secular and to admit students regardless of their religion . UCL also makes the contested claims of being the third - oldest university in England and the first to admit women . In 1836 UCL became one of the two founding colleges of the University of London , which was granted a royal charter in the same year . It has grown through mergers , including with the Institute of Neurology ( in 1997 ), the Royal Free Hospital Medical School ( in 1998 ), the Eastman Dental Institute ( in 1999 ), the School of Slavonic and East European Studies ( in 1999 ), the School of Pharmacy ( in 2012 ) and the Institute of Education ( in 2014 ). UCL has its main campus in the Bloomsbury area of central London , with a number of institutes and teaching hospitals elsewhere in central London and a satellite campus in Doha , Qatar . UCL is organised into 11 constituent faculties , within which there are over 100 departments , institutes and research centres . UCL operates several culturally significant museums and manages collections in a wide range of fields , including the Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology and the Grant Museum of Zoology and Comparative Anatomy , and administers the annual Orwell Prize in political writing . In 2015 / 16 , UCL had around 38 , 300 students and 12 , 000 staff ( including around 7 , 100 academic staff and 840 professors ) and had a total income of £ 1 . 36 billion , of which £ 530 million was from research grants and contracts . UCL ranks highly in national and international league tables and its graduates rank among the most employable in the world . UCL alumni include the " Father of the Nation " of each of India , Kenya and Mauritius , the founders of Ghana , modern Japan and Nigeria , the inventor of the telephone , and one of the co - discoverers of the structure of DNA . UCL academics discovered five of the naturally occurring noble gases , co - discovered hormones , invented the vacuum tube , and made several foundational advances in modern statistics . There are at least 29 Nobel Prize winners and 3 Fields medalists amongst UCL ' s alumni and current and former staff . UCL is a member of numerous academic organisations , including the Russell Group , and is part of UCL Partners , the world ' s largest academic health science centre , and the ' golden triangle ' of research - intensive English universities . London is the capital and most populous city of England and the United Kingdom , as well as the most populous city proper in the European Union . Standing on the River Thames in the south east of the island of Great Britain , London has been a major settlement for two millennia . It was founded by the Romans , who named it " Londinium ". London ' s ancient core , the City of London , largely retains its medieval boundaries . Since at least the 19th century , " London " has also referred to the metropolis around this core , historically split between Middlesex , Essex , Surrey , Kent , and Hertfordshire , which ___MASK8___ largely makes up Greater London , governed by the Mayor of London and the London Assembly . An art school is an educational institution with a primary focus on the visual arts , especially illustration , painting , photography , sculpture , and graphic design . Art schools are institutions with elementary , secondary , post - secondary or undergraduate , or graduate or postgraduate programs in these areas . They are distinguished from larger institutions which also may offer majors or degrees in the visual arts , but only as one part of a broad - based range of programs ( such as the liberal arts and sciences ). France ' s École des Beaux - Arts is , perhaps , the first model for such organized instruction , breaking with a tradition of " ___MASK70___ and apprentice " instruction when it was formed . The River Thames is a river that flows through southern England . At , it is the longest river entirely in England and the second longest in the United Kingdom , after the River Severn . It also flows through Oxford ( where it is called Isis ), Reading , Henley - on - Thames and ___MASK92___ . The lower reaches of the river are called the Tideway , derived from its long tidal reach up to Teddington Lock . It rises at Thames Head in Gloucestershire , and flows into the North Sea via the Thames Estuary . The Thames drains the whole of Greater London . Tomoko Takahashi is a Japanese artist born in Tokyo in 1966 and based in London , UK . She studied at Tama Art University , Goldsmiths College and the ___MASK10___ . Takahashi ' s main medium is installation art , often made of rubbish . She first came to attention when she won the EAST award at EASTinternational in 1997 and she has exhibited broadly worldwide . She has exhibited her work since at Beaconsfield , London ( 1998 ) , the Saatchi Gallery in the 1999 New Neurotic realism exhibition , UCLA ' s Hammer Gallery ( 2002 -- 03 ) , the Serpentine Gallery in London , the De La Warr Pavilion ( 2010 ) . and her work has been collected by the Tate . In 2000 she was shortlisted for the Turner Prize .