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Since 1994, thousands of art lovers have had the opportunity to buy original works of art at affordable prices thanks to the Royal College of Art’s annual RCA Secret exhibition and sale.

Yoko Ono’s was a face without a mouthTracey Emin’s was a woman sitting at a tableGrayson Perry’s was a biker dressed in pinkNick Park’s was a saucy poodlePaul Smith’s was a man’s brogue shoe

Budding art collectors queued outside the College at the weekend for the annual RCA Secret postcard sale.

Where can you buy an original piece of art by the likes of Tracey Emin, Grayson Perry and Yoko Ono for just £40? At RCA Secret 2009.

The Royal College of Art’s annual anonymous postcard exhibition and fundraising sale, Stewarts Law RCA Secret, turns 21 this year. To celebrate, the College is planning a record-breaking event in London, and to go global with RCA Secret Dubai.

The annual anonymous postcard exhibition and fundraising sale has returned to the College’s Kensington campus. Almost 2,000 postcard-sized works of art are on display from 11am 8 April, and will be available to purchase from 8am Sunday 10 April.

If you can tell a Baldesarri from a Blake, or a Wilding from a Weiner, you could be in with a chance of acquiring an extremely reasonably priced masterpiece at Stewarts Law RCA Secret.

RCA Secret Dubai – Dubai’s edition of the Royal College of Art’s renowned, anonymous postcard exhibition and sale – returns to Art Dubai this year, in partnership with Alserkal Avenue. For the first time, the sale will take place across two key locations during Dubai’s Art Week.

Saturday 22 March: all is revealed, go to the Secret website to see the names of all the artists who contributed this year.

The Royal College of Art (RCA) is proud to announce details of its fun and exciting annual fundraising exhibition, RCA Secret, sponsored by Stewarts.

The RCA’s annual anonymous postcard exhibition and fundraising sale, Stewarts RCA Secret, has finally arrived. From 1–3 of December over 1,800 postcard-sized artworks will be displayed in the College’s Senior Common Room in Kensington. Each postcard will be available for a £60 donation to the RCA Fund, offering members of the public the opportunity to treat themselves, or find a very unique Christmas present for someone special, with a gift that also supports the next generation of art and design talent.

RCA Secret, the annual contemporary art exhibition and fundraising sale has opened today with 2,800 original postcard-sized artworks on display, the most the event has received in its 17-year history. 

This year’s RCA Secret Sale has raised £111,000 for the College Fine Art Student Award Fund, which offers bursaries for students needing financial support to study. The annual sale – now in its twentieth year – has raised £1m to date, helping ensure the most talented artists can study at the RCA, regardless of income.

The RCA Secret sale is today, 21 March, until 6pm. Visitors can come and buy the 3,000 postcards donated by artists and designers to support students at the RCA.

For years archaeologists have been mystified as to why giant 'Preseli' bluestones from Mynydd Y Preseli in Pembrokshire, south-west Wales ended up at Stonehenge, almost 200 miles away.But now researchers from the Royal College of Art think they may have found the answer, along with a surprising new role for Britain's most popular heritage site: the bluestones may have been sought for their unique acoustic properties, which together made up a prehistoric soundscape at Stonehenge.The findings have been published today in the Journal of Time & Mind, and come at a timely moment with the opening of the new Stonehenge Visitor Centre later this month (18 December).

‘A walk without a cat’ demonstrates that in 2018, at 70 years old, RCA Fashion continues to be as bold, brave and boundary redefining as ever. Inhabiting 180 The Strand, an iconic Brutalist building transformed into a creative hub, 50 graduating Fashion students – comprising Menswear, Womenswear, Knitwear, Accessories, Footwear and Millinery – are presenting their work not just through a straightforward catwalk, but with performance, dance, food, film, lectures and interactive installations.

This event took place on 18 June 2020.2020 has taught us many things. This is one of them – we need leaders who are creative and creatives who are leaders. This talk brings together Christopher Patnoe from Google and the RCA’s Rama Gheerawo to talk about the emerging area of Creative Leadership, something that we can all benefit from both personally and professionally. They will explore how the three values of Empathy, Clarity and Creativity have inspired their personal practices and have an open discussion about how they can affect yours. This is an opportunity to eavesdrop with Christopher and Rama, hear some of their ‘trade secrets’ and then interact with them to ask your own questions.

Bahareh Saboktakin is a Senior Software Designer at the Ford Human Centred Design Lab. She came to the RCA to discover how design can be used alongside technology to make a real impact in the world.

Two leading experts in design, Don Norman and Sean Carney, kicked off a new series of public webinars hosted by the RCA and Design for Good Academy, exploring Don’s shift from ‘human-centred’ to ‘humanity-centred design’, advice for early-career practitioners and more.

From the Olympics torch to the medals and the cauldron, the designers and artists behind the Games' most symbolic pieces hail from the Royal College of Art.

As part of winning the inaugural Pokémon Scholarship, Fashion Menswear student Marie Isacsson and Intelligent Mobility student Ye Han were given the opportunity to travel to Japan to visit the Pokémon Studios.