Key details
Date
- 11 December 2023
Author
- RCA
Read time
- 2 minutes
The Royal College of Art and Pokémon with You Foundation are proud to announce the winners of the sixth Pokémon Scholarship: MA Sculpture student Betty C Fan and MA/MSc Innovation Design Engineering student Lucie Legrandois.
Key details
Date
- 11 December 2023
Author
- RCA
Read time
- 2 minutes
The annual Pokémon Scholarship for the academic year 2023/2024 provides full-fee support to two pioneering RCA students who demonstrate the potential for breaking new ground in visual arts, design and communications. As well as receiving scholarships for their 2023/2024 studies, the pair will be invited to visit the Pokémon Company in Japan.
Betty C Fan is a multimedia artist based in London and Hong Kong. Her background in architecture and design has equipped her with skills in 3D modelling, materiality, and spatial design which inform her current art studio practice. Fan explores the intersection between urban architecture and evolving global cultures, rendering architectural elements and textures from urban environments and translating them into sculptures, paintings, and immaterial artworks.
Isle of Reverie by Betty C Fan
“I am deeply honoured to be selected as a Pokémon Scholar. The opportunity to explore imaginative worlds, stories, and creative technologies through this award will greatly enrich the development of my art practice. As a former designer in architecture interested in world-building, I am inspired by the Pokémon universe - its expansive storyline centred around adventure, friendship, and cultural immersion showcases creative values that I would like to share in my artwork. I thank the selection committee for this recognition. As an artist and student, I look forward to joining the Pokémon community to embrace cross-discipline opportunities in art, stories, and cutting-edge technology.”
MA Sculpture student
Lucie Legrandois is a mechanical engineer and a passionate transdisciplinary designer. Motivated by fixing people and the planet, her innovative work conveys strong social and sustainable values. She is particularly interested in the relationship between humans and their environment, and delivers both problem-solving projects and open explorations through playful and educational content.
Chimalma by Lucie Legrandois
“It is such an honour to have been selected as a Pokémon Scholar and to join this amazing adventure, and I would even say, to join this family. This Scholarship is a wonderful opportunity that will support my work and enable me to explore new directions in contributing to positively transforming the world we must defend. I believe in playing, be it with societal norms, materials or technologies, and I feel this perfectly aligns with Pokémon with You Foundation values. Indeed, Pokémon impacts human behaviours and makes our lives more enjoyable in the long term. Pokémon’s commitment to diversity and inclusion is a real source of inspiration for me, and I hope to bring the world together as well. I am really excited to develop further this relationship and adopt in my work the philosophy of “Think globally, act locally”.”
MA/MSc Innovation Design Engineering student