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Last updated 22 July 2024

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The Engagement, Brand & Marketing department handles media enquiries for the RCA and can provide access to expert spokespeople, and coordinate photography, filming or other media requests.

RCA2023

RCA2023. Photograph by Shaun James Cox

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Click here to visit the Royal College of Art's PhotoShelter site.

A selection of high resolution images available for press use can be downloaded at the google drive link below.

If you can't find what you're looking for, contact the press team at [email protected]

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The Royal College of Art started life in 1837 as the Government School of Design. Granted a Royal Charter and university status in 1967, today the RCA remains the world’s most influential postgraduate institution of art and design.

Find out more by downloading our History PDF below.

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If you'd like to film at the RCA, contact our Press team at [email protected] to arrange access.

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Information on filming in Wandsworth, where the RCA Battersea campus is situated, can be found at this link.

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Latest press releases

Terra Carta Design Lab 2023/2024 - Top 10

Royal College of Art announces shortlisted finalists in Sustainable Markets Initiative’s global Terra Carta Design Lab

The Royal College of Art today announces its ten finalists for the Sustainable Markets Initiative’s global 2024 Terra Carta Design Lab.
RCA2024 School of Architecture

RCA2024 School of Arts & Humanities postgraduate exhibitions and events

The Royal College of Art presents RCA2024: School of Arts & Humanities postgraduate exhibitions and events.

Taking place at the RCA Battersea campus from 20 – 23 June, the public can experience the research insights, working processes, and outcomes of graduating students' projects from programmes across the Arts & Humanities.
RCA2024

RCA2024

From 20 June to 4 August students from the Royal College of Art will present RCA2024, a series of exhibitions, events and activities exploring innovative and boundary-pushing art and design projects.
BlueNose-3coms (1)

Royal College of Art’s Design & Innovation startup fund makes its first investments into climate-tech and med-tech companies

The Royal College of Art (RCA) and Infinity Asset Management LLP are delighted to announce the completion of the first two investments from the RCA Design & Innovation S/EIS Investment Fund. The fund has invested in BlueNose Technologies, an innovative climate-tech business in the maritime sector, and Revive Innovations +, a med-tech business developing a new compact class of auto injectors. The fund’s investments will support the two companies’ respective growth strategies.
Yaks in Wetland Pasture, February 2024

CLIMAVORE x Jameel at the Royal College of Art announces recipients of 2024 Food Action Awards

CLIMAVORE x Jameel at the Royal College of Art (RCA), a partnership between CLIMAVORE and Community Jameel developed at the RCA, has announced the recipients of its inaugural Food Action Awards as Yara Dowani (Research Action Award) and Mingxin Li (Emerging Practice Award).
Works on display at the RCA2023 graduate exhibitions and events, Royal College of Art

Royal College of Art celebrates 10th consecutive year as the world’s leading university for art and design

London’s institutions make it the best place to study creative subjects in the world

Press team contact

For any media enquiries please contact the RCA's press team at [email protected] or +44 (0) 207 590 4257

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