Key details
Date
- 3 April 2019
Read time
- 3 minutes
The Royal College of Art’s annual Show offers visitors a unique opportunity to experience the very best of emerging contemporary art and design practice.
Key details
Date
- 3 April 2019
Read time
- 3 minutes
Saturday 29 June–Sunday 7 July 2019 (closed to public on 3 July)
12–6pm daily
Free entry
RCA Kensington, Kensington Gore, London, SW1P 4RG RCA
Battersea, Hester Road, London, SW11 4AN
The Workshop, Lambeth High Street, SE1 7AG
Over 800 postgraduate art and design students will showcase work of exceptional quality, imagination and skill across a broad spectrum of creative disciplines. The RCA Show presents the opportunity to meet the artists and designers of the future, as well as to see their creations that range from design solutions to pressing global problems, to fine art that informs and enriches our world-view.
Entry to the exhibitions is free, with a selection of paintings, prints, sculptures, glass, ceramics, jewellery, furniture and textiles available for sale or commission.
RCA Architecture
Location: The Workshop, 26 Lambeth High Street, London, SE1 7AG
Programmes featured: MA Architecture, MA Interior Design and Architecture Research Programmes.
RCA Architecture will take over a former fire-engine garage in Lambeth for the third year running to present creative projects from architects who expand the possibilities of their field. Expect to find thought-provoking solutions to important global challenges including migration, housing, urbanism, mobility and manufacturing.
RCA Battersea
Location: Royal College of Art, Hester Road, London SW11 3AN
Programmes featured: MA Ceramics & Glass, MA Critical & Historical Studies, MA Contemporary Art Practice, MA Curating Contemporary Art, MA Jewellery & Metal, MA Painting, MA Photography, MA Print and MA Writing.
RCA Arts & Humanities presents a rich array of work from a school filled with talented emerging artists, makers, historians, theorists, writers and curators. The vibrant Show reflects the very latest in Arts & Humanities practice with a global perspective spanning painting, print, photography and performance to ceramics, glass, jewellery, metal and creative writing.
RCA Kensington
RCA Sculpture
Location: Royal College of Art, Kensington Gore, London, SW7 2EU
Programmes featured: MA Sculpture
Graduating Sculpture students engage visitors in memorable ways throughan ever-expanding approach to place and the material world that includes large-scale object-making, elaborate installations, public art and social practices, site and space, performance, sound, film and video.
RCA Communication
Location: Royal College of Art, Kensington Gore, London SW7 2EU
Programmes featured: MA Animation, MA Information Experience Design, MA Visual Communication and School of Communication Research Programmes
As the world becomes ever-more connected, between networks, people and things, the RCA School of Communication presents a new view of, and for, the world. Visitors can experience the latest in interactive design, AI, virtual augmented reality and award-winning animation.
RCA Design
Location: Royal College of Art, Kensington Gore, London SW7 2EU
Programmes featured: MA Design Products, MA Global Innovation Design, MRes Healthcare & Design, MA / MSC Innovation Design Engineering, MA Service Design, MA Textiles
From game-changing smart fabrics to robotics, AI, healthcare and design-led approaches to computing science and big data, this is a diverse exhibition from designers who are at the forefront of innovation. Visitors will find a host of new inventions and systems with one thing in common: improving people’s lives and changing the world we live in.
Notes to Editors
About the RCA
The Royal College of Art, the internationally renowned art and design university, provides students with unrivalled opportunities to deliver art and design projects that transform the world.
A small, specialist and research-intensive postgraduate university based in the heart of London, the RCA is a high performing institution, a radical traditionalist in a fast paced world.
The RCA's approach is founded on the premise that art, design creative thinking, science, engineering and technology must all collaborate to solve today's global challenges.
The University employs around 1000 professionals from around the world – professors, researchers, art and design practitioners, advisers and visiting lecturers – to teach and develop students in 30 academic programmes.
RCA students are exposed to new knowledge in a way that encourages them to experiment. Working across scientific and technical canvases and beyond set boundaries, RCA students seek to solve real-world problems.
The RCA runs joint courses with Imperial College London and the Victoria & Albert Museum. InnovationRCA, the university's centre for enterprise, entrepreneurship, incubation and business support, has helped over 50 RCA business ideas become a reality that has led to the creation of over 600 UK jobs.
Alumni include David Adjaye, Christopher Bailey, Monster Chetwynd, David Hockney, Tracey Emin, Thomas Heatherwick, Lubaina Himid, Clare Waight Keller and Rose Wylie.
The RCA was named the world's leading university of art and design in the QS World Rankings 2019 for the fifth consecutive year.