Royal College of Art graduates contribute to OLYMP’ARTS relaunch in Athens, Greece

Graduates from a variety of Master’s programmes at the RCA exhibited across a range of disciplines, including Animation, Architecture, Photography and Textiles. The contributing RCA graduates' artworks were displayed at an exhibition at the Zappeion Hall alongside works by other professional artists.

OLYMP’ARTS was created to take up the artistic competitions that had been initiated in ancient Greece, alongside the Olympic Games. The mission of OLYMP’ARTS is to underscore the pivotal role of art in shaping a more harmonious world, bringing together people from diverse cultural backgrounds, and presenting works that embody unique values, including universality, beauty, aesthetics, harmony, and non-violence. Today, the World Olymp’Arts Council commits to promoting worldwide competition, communication and co-operation, covering a total of 18 artistic disciplines under a common theme. The theme for 2023 is Environment, Climate and Energy.

The disciplines on display at the OLYMP’ARTS exhibition at Zappeion Hall, with the RCA Graduates and their works, were:

• Animation: Blossom by Chang Guo
• Architecture and Environmental Architecture: Sticky Volumes by Tima Rabbat and Xuan Lin
• Ceramics and Jewellery: KEEP by Ewan Crallan
• New Media Art: Just Because It’s a Funeral Doesn’t Mean We Can’t Dance by Finn Dovey
• Painting: The Orbit by Alba Botines
• Photography: Figura Serpentinata by Gregor Petrikovič
• Sculpture: Login by Rita Osipova
• Textiles: Domestic Spinner by Yibing Chen

The RCA also received the Artist Development Excellence Award, which was accepted by Vice-Chancellor Dr Paul Thompson at the ceremony in October 2023.