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Royal Academy Schools

Royal Academy Schools Postgraduate school of contemporary fine art in London. Admissions for Oct 2019 entry to our full time, three year course are now open.

The RA Schools offers Europe's only free, three year postgraduate arts programme. We welcome artists working in all media and representing a diverse range of positions and approaches. Students work closely with each other, with an emphasis on constructive critique and peer learning. Our students receive a studio space whatever the nature of your practice, as spacious and open plan as possible. Stu

dents have access to specialist workshops in all media and instruction in new skills and technical support in realising projects is available. A full programme of lectures, seminars and visiting artists forms the structure of the working week and exposes students to new voices and methodologies. The RA Schools does not charge tuition fees to anyone. It is part of the Royal Academy of Arts and is supported by the RA’s endowment, by corporate supporters, trusts and foundations, Friends of the Royal Academy, individual patrons and fundraising events.

Operating as usual

In this online event, join artists Anna Higgins and Saroj Patel, Heath Lowndes (Gallery Climate Coalition), and Emily St...
12/07/2022

In this online event, join artists Anna Higgins and Saroj Patel, Heath Lowndes (Gallery Climate Coalition), and Emily Steer (Elephant Magazine) as they discuss what role the next generation of artists could have in this challenge, and their responsibility to influence change through their work. Link in bio.

Image: Anna Higgins, Two Suns (Bright and Crystal Palace), (detail), 2021

Hannah Lister () is one of our graduates currently exhibiting at the RA Schools Show 2022.  Hannah Lister photographs he...
03/07/2022

Hannah Lister () is one of our graduates currently exhibiting at the RA Schools Show 2022.

Hannah Lister photographs her surroundings, embracing chance and allowing shapes and formations to arise and repeat naturally. Her photographs become spaces in which the unexpected manifests and it is this subtle element of mystery that drives her practice forward.

In the darkroom she is guided by the intricacies of the analogue process and the aesthetic potential of its slippages. She bends and manipulates the light, working with crop, scale, repetition, inversions and modes of display to create atmospheres that flit from light spaciousness to brooding intensity.  

With thanks to and  

Today is the last day of the RA Schools Show 2022. Open until 6pm.

   

Hanna Lister () is one of our graduates currently exhibiting at the RA Schools Show 2022.Hannah Lister (b.1990, Lancashi...
02/07/2022

Hanna Lister () is one of our graduates currently exhibiting at the RA Schools Show 2022.

Hannah Lister (b.1990, Lancashire, UK) works with analogue photography to capture subtle, ambiguous and symbolic moments in the play of everyday life.

M–, 2021
Standing Stones, 2022
Sleep, 2021
Sunmirror, 2022
Lung, 2021

Gelatin silver prints on fibre based paper.

This is the last weekend of the RA Schools Show 2022. Open Saturday and Sunday 10-6pm.

   

Some photos of Luke’s studio at the RA Schools. Luke Samuel () is one of our graduates currently exhibiting at the RA Sc...
01/07/2022

Some photos of Luke’s studio at the RA Schools.

Luke Samuel () is one of our graduates currently exhibiting at the RA Schools Show 2022.

Luke’s paintings suggest space that is defined by its relationship to an exterior plane. References to building interiors serve as a motif to speculate upon the way in which paintings convey their own interiority, and from which they seemingly speak.
 
Repeated gestures and individual works are fragmentary in relation to a larger studio process. The paintings denote memories of days spent in the studio.

The show will be open until the 3 of July at the  ⁣open late 9pm on Friday.
   

Luke Samuel () is one of our graduates currently exhibiting at the RA Schools Show 2022.Luke’s paintings suggest space t...
01/07/2022

Luke Samuel () is one of our graduates currently exhibiting at the RA Schools Show 2022.

Luke’s paintings suggest space that is defined by its relationship to an exterior plane. References to building interiors serve as a motif to speculate upon the way in which paintings convey their own interiority, and from which they seemingly speak.
 
Repeated gestures and individual works are fragmentary in relation to a larger studio process. The paintings denote memories of days spent in the studio.

The show will be open until the 3 of July at the  ⁣open late 9pm on Friday.
   

Say hi to Whiskey, Millie Hayton’s studio assistant! 🐩Millie Layton () is one of our graduates currently exhibiting at t...
01/07/2022

Say hi to Whiskey, Millie Hayton’s studio assistant! 🐩
Millie Layton () is one of our graduates currently exhibiting at the RA Schools Show 2022.

Millie Layton was born, lives and works in London. 
 
Millie is a sculptor and image maker. Her work dredges through form and feeling, sometimes quickly, sometimes slowly.

The show will be open until the 3 of July, with a late opening until 9pm on Friday at the ⁣

Say hi to Whiskey, Millie Hayton’s studio assistant! 🐩Millie Layton () is one of our graduates currently exhibiting at t...
30/06/2022

Say hi to Whiskey, Millie Hayton’s studio assistant! 🐩
Millie Layton () is one of our graduates currently exhibiting at the RA Schools Show 2022.

Millie Layton was born, lives and works in London. 
 
Millie is a sculptor and image maker. Her work dredges through form and feeling, sometimes quickly, sometimes slowly.

The show will be open until the 3 of July, with a late opening until 10pm on Friday at the ⁣

Millie Layton () is one of our graduates currently exhibiting at the RA Schools Show 2022.Millie Layton was born, lives ...
30/06/2022

Millie Layton () is one of our graduates currently exhibiting at the RA Schools Show 2022.

Millie Layton was born, lives and works in London. 
 
Millie is a sculptor and image maker. Her work dredges through form and feeling, sometimes quickly, sometimes slowly.

The show will be open until the 3 of July, with a late opening until 10pm on Friday at the ⁣

Kobby Adi () is one of our graduates currently exhibiting at the RA Schools Show 2022.Kobby Adi lives and works.workshop...
29/06/2022

Kobby Adi () is one of our graduates currently exhibiting at the RA Schools Show 2022.
Kobby Adi lives and works.

workshop fire, 2022
16mm positive film print gifted to the Royal Academy of Arts Collection 150ft

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untitled, 2021-22
Super 8mm film transferred to medical grade DVD 100ft, looped

The show will be open until the 3 of July at the ⁣

Kobby Adi () is one of our graduates currently exhibiting at the RA Schools Show 2022.Kobby Adi lives and works.Gallery ...
29/06/2022

Kobby Adi () is one of our graduates currently exhibiting at the RA Schools Show 2022.
Kobby Adi lives and works.

Gallery IX, Burlington House after the explosion of a German bomb in 1917, 1917

An air-raid on 24 September 1917 caused considerable damage to the galleries in Burlington House. Money was received from the Government to assist with the repairs which were completed just in time for the preparation of the Summer Exhibition. A small tablet inserted in the doorway leading to Gallery IX commemorates the event.

Gelatin silver print
On loan from the Royal Academy of Arts Collection
58.5 x 43.5 cm

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The removal of all visible and obscured plaster casts with the promise of being returned. 2022

The show will be open until the 3 of July at the ⁣

Images from the studio of  at the RA Schools, one of our graduates currently exhibiting at the RA Schools Show 2022.Sofí...
27/06/2022

Images from the studio of at the RA Schools, one of our graduates currently exhibiting at the RA Schools Show 2022.

Sofía Clausse (b.1989, Buenos Aires, Argentina) previously studied at the Rhode Island School of Design.
 
Her practice is a research into repetition, time, language, and translation through the use of painting, paper, text, and ceramics. Custom tools and systems are continuously invented to create an ongoing visual lexicon that collapses the distinction between semantics and semiotics – signs and meanings endlessly contain each other.  
 
Clausse’s thinking is guided by a textile logic and a circular use of material. Elements interweave and extend like a labyrinthic path across the practice, and what was discovered or what remains in one piece informs and transforms into the next. 
 
This path of the practice becomes a line through time, that loops and knots, following itself and connecting its ends left loose. The line entangles with other knots on other lines, creating a mesh where playing becomes thinking becomes making.

The show will be open until the 3 of July at the  ⁣
   

Sofía Clausse () is one of our graduates currently exhibiting at the RA Schools Show 2022.Sofía Clausse (b.1989, Buenos ...
27/06/2022

Sofía Clausse () is one of our graduates currently exhibiting at the RA Schools Show 2022.

Sofía Clausse (b.1989, Buenos Aires, Argentina) previously studied at the Rhode Island School of Design.
 
Her practice is a research into repetition, time, language, and translation through the use of painting, paper, text, and ceramics. Custom tools and systems are continuously invented to create an ongoing visual lexicon that collapses the distinction between semantics and semiotics – signs and meanings endlessly contain each other.  
 
Clausse’s thinking is guided by a textile logic and a circular use of material. Elements interweave and extend like a labyrinthic path across the practice, and what was discovered or what remains in one piece informs and transforms into the next. 
 
This path of the practice becomes a line through time, that loops and knots, following itself and connecting its ends left loose. The line entangles with other knots on other lines, creating a mesh where playing becomes thinking becomes making.

The show will be open until the 3 of July at the  ⁣
   

Images from  studio at the Schooos. Matthew Peers is one of our graduates currently exhibiting at the RA Schools Show 20...
25/06/2022

Images from studio at the Schooos. Matthew Peers is one of our graduates currently exhibiting at the RA Schools Show 2022.
(b.1991, Manchester, UK) previously studied at the Slade School of Fine Art.

Working across a range of processes and a variety of media, the primary interest is one of the poetics and possibility of sculpture. Recent works have used found cardboard, sand cast aluminium, water and readymade objects to create, elusive and temporal constellations of found and handmade components. 

The show will be open until the 3 of July at the  ⁣
   

Matthew Peers is one of our graduates currently exhibiting at the RA Schools Show 2022. (b.1990, Manchester, UK) previou...
25/06/2022

Matthew Peers is one of our graduates currently exhibiting at the RA Schools Show 2022.
(b.1990, Manchester, UK) previously studied at the Slade School of Fine Art.

Working across a range of processes and a variety of media, the primary interest is one of the poetics and possibility of sculpture. Recent works have used found cardboard, sand cast aluminium, water and readymade objects to create, elusive and temporal constellations of found and handmade components. 

The show will be open until the 3 of July at the  ⁣
   

Catinca Malaimare is one of our graduates currently exhibiting at the RA Schools Show 2022. (b.1996, Bucharest, Romania)...
24/06/2022

Catinca Malaimare is one of our graduates currently exhibiting at the RA Schools Show 2022.
(b.1996, Bucharest, Romania) previously studied at University for the Creative Arts.
 
Performing alongside anthropomorphised technologies, Malaimare’s choreography manifests our intimate relationship with photographic tools and the screens onto which they project our visages.
 
↲↳ All performance is a code of sorts, the choreographer or director admitting a variable level of deviation from the prescription of movement. The most ardent demand that their dancers obey the strictest regulations, edging them closer to a computer or industrial instrument. Externally the audience can only wager what level of fanaticism underwrites the actions. Translingual performance aid by
 
Malaimare’s work confronts us with the uncomfortable reality that our machines are dance partners, closer than we are ready to admit. Flanked by slender stage lights, barn doors opened on a mesh laced low pressure sodium light, she performs a clambering embrace lifting herself upon her collaborators’ frames, frames. Bodies parallel and mimic one another, design ideologies slowly become entwined.

Photos by Rocio Chacon .ci.cha
Soundscore by Joshua Fay

The show will be open until the 3 of July at the  ⁣
   

Catinca Malaimare is one of our graduates currently exhibiting at the RA Schools Show 2022. (b.1996, Bucharest, Romania)...
24/06/2022

Catinca Malaimare is one of our graduates currently exhibiting at the RA Schools Show 2022.
(b.1996, Bucharest, Romania) previously studied at University for the Creative Arts.
 
Performing alongside anthropomorphised technologies, Malaimare’s choreography manifests our intimate relationship with photographic tools and the screens onto which they project our visages.
 
Reconsider the screens surrounding you, the laptops, smartphones and TVs, the watch that counts calories and the integrated display adorning your washing machine. See them for a second, as appendages and facial features chopped up and bandaged back together, designed to convenience our lives. Stone lions poised at the foot of a temple, barking push notifications. The Cherubim with four faces and a cloak covered in eyes, the mediaeval equivalent of a smart home infused with an internet of things.
 
Malaimare’s work confronts us with the uncomfortable reality that our machines are dance partners, closer than we are ready to admit. Flanked by slender stage lights, barn doors opened on a mesh laced low pressure sodium light, she performs a clambering embrace lifting herself upon her collaborators’ frames, frames. Bodies parallel and mimic one another, design ideologies slowly become entwined.

The show will be open until the 3 of July at the  ⁣
   

Nicola Gunnarsson’s studio at the RA Schools.  is one of our graduates currently exhibiting at the RA Schools Show 2022....
24/06/2022

Nicola Gunnarsson’s studio at the RA Schools. is one of our graduates currently exhibiting at the RA Schools Show 2022.

(b. 1995, London, UK) is a painter. She previously studied at Goldsmiths College, University of London. 
 
“Odd Elegance”, a term coined by Nicola Gunnarsson’s favourite fashion designer Maryam Nassir Zadeh, is what best defines the nature of her paintings. A century of abstract painting is filtered through Nicola’s experience of today’s material and digital world. Love of clothing plays a key role to this experience (a love that which Nicola sees to have been with her since she can remember) and has influenced a decision of painting on alternative materials such as denim and pinstripe suit fabric. Endless nuances to Nicola’s life could be referenced, but one that she feels is particularly integral in informing the colour and form of her current paintings is the regular taking of walks around West Ham Park, in Newham, at sunset, while listening to her favourite albums.
 
The show will be open until the 3 of July at the  ⁣
   

Nicola Gunnarsson is one of our graduates currently exhibiting at the RA Schools Show 2022. (b. 1995, London, UK) is a p...
23/06/2022

Nicola Gunnarsson is one of our graduates currently exhibiting at the RA Schools Show 2022.
(b. 1995, London, UK) is a painter. She previously studied at Goldsmiths College, University of London. 
 
“Odd Elegance”, a term coined by Nicola Gunnarsson’s favourite fashion designer Maryam Nassir Zadeh, is what best defines the nature of her paintings. A century of abstract painting is filtered through Nicola’s experience of today’s material and digital world. Love of clothing plays a key role to this experience (a love that which Nicola sees to have been with her since she can remember) and has influenced a decision of painting on alternative materials such as denim and pinstripe suit fabric. Endless nuances to Nicola’s life could be referenced, but one that she feels is particularly integral in informing the colour and form of her current paintings is the regular taking of walks around West Ham Park, in Newham, at sunset, while listening to her favourite albums.
 
The show will be open until the 3 of July at the  ⁣
   

James Lomax is one of our graduates currently exhibiting at the RA Schools Show 2022. ⁣⁣ (b. 1991, Wi******er, UK) previ...
22/06/2022

James Lomax is one of our graduates currently exhibiting at the RA Schools Show 2022. ⁣⁣ (b. 1991, Wi******er, UK) previously studied at the Ruskin School of Art. ⁣

He is drawn to objects that act as barriers and containers and uses these to investigate the physical and material language of a place. Highlighting the permanent and ephemeral gestures contained in a landscape he works with found objects, reframing and reconstructing them by altering their context, materiality, and form. Often working repetitively in series his studio practice sits alongside an interest in exhibition making. ⁣

The show will be open until the 3 of July at the  ⁣⁣
   

James Lomax is one of our graduates currently exhibiting at the RA Schools Show 2022. ⁣⁣ (b. 1991, Wi******er, UK) previ...
22/06/2022

James Lomax is one of our graduates currently exhibiting at the RA Schools Show 2022. ⁣⁣ (b. 1991, Wi******er, UK) previously studied at the Ruskin School of Art. ⁣

He is drawn to objects that act as barriers and containers and uses these to investigate the physical and material language of a place. Highlighting the permanent and ephemeral gestures contained in a landscape he works with found objects, reframing and reconstructing them by altering their context, materiality, and form. Often working repetitively in series his studio practice sits alongside an interest in exhibition making. ⁣

The show will be open until the 3 of July at the  ⁣⁣
   

Rebecca K. Halliwell-Sutton is one of our graduates currently exhibiting at the RA Schools Show 2022. ⁣⁣ (b.1991, Bolton...
21/06/2022

Rebecca K. Halliwell-Sutton is one of our graduates currently exhibiting at the RA Schools Show 2022. ⁣⁣
(b.1991, Bolton) previously studied at  Manchester School of Art.⁣

Rebecca’s work engages sculpture, photography, written word and curating, making use of the transformative properties of materials. The work meanders through geographies and histories, from the micro and internal expanding outwards into a birds-eye view. It is in-between industrial and biotic, often fragmentary. Grounded in a feminist critique of land ownership, bodies and desires, the undercurrent of the work explores an intergenerational connection through cyclical time, bodies, and place, and the boundaries between them. ⁣

𝘐 𝘭𝘪𝘬𝘦 𝘵𝘰 𝘸𝘦𝘢𝘷𝘦 𝘢𝘭𝘭 𝘬𝘪𝘯𝘥𝘴 𝘰𝘧 𝘪𝘯𝘧𝘰𝘳𝘮𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯; 𝘷𝘪𝘴𝘶𝘢𝘭, 𝘧𝘰𝘶𝘯𝘥, 𝘩𝘦𝘢𝘳𝘥, 𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘥, 𝘪𝘯𝘵𝘰 𝘸𝘰𝘳𝘬 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘥𝘪𝘴𝘴𝘰𝘭𝘷𝘦𝘴 𝘥𝘪𝘳𝘦𝘤𝘵 𝘮𝘦𝘢𝘯𝘪𝘯𝘨, 𝘪𝘯𝘴𝘵𝘦𝘢𝘥 𝘮𝘦𝘢𝘯𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘣𝘦𝘤𝘰𝘮𝘦𝘴 𝘪𝘯𝘩𝘦𝘳𝘦𝘯𝘵 𝘪𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘮𝘢𝘬𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘰𝘧 𝘪𝘵. 𝘏𝘰𝘱𝘦𝘧𝘶𝘭𝘭𝘺 𝘸𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘪𝘴 𝘥𝘪𝘴𝘵𝘪𝘭𝘭𝘦𝘥 𝘪𝘴 𝘮𝘰𝘳𝘦 𝘭𝘪𝘬𝘦 𝘢 𝘱𝘰𝘦𝘮 𝘰𝘳 𝘢 𝘧𝘦𝘦𝘭𝘪𝘯𝘨, 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘯 𝘢𝘯 𝘰𝘣𝘫𝘦𝘤𝘵 𝘵𝘰 𝘶𝘯𝘥𝘦𝘳𝘴𝘵𝘢𝘯𝘥. 𝘞𝘩𝘦𝘯 𝘐 𝘮𝘢𝘬𝘦 𝘴𝘤𝘶𝘭𝘱𝘵𝘶𝘳𝘦 𝘪𝘵'𝘴 𝘢 𝘳𝘦𝘦𝘯𝘢𝘤𝘵𝘮𝘦𝘯𝘵 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘪𝘮𝘢𝘨𝘪𝘯𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘤𝘰𝘭𝘭𝘪𝘥𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘰𝘧 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘴𝘵𝘶𝘧𝘧 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘶𝘯𝘪𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘴𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘳𝘰𝘸𝘴 𝘶𝘱, 𝘥𝘦𝘮𝘢𝘯𝘥𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘮𝘺 𝘢𝘵𝘵𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯, 𝘵𝘰 𝘧𝘪𝘯𝘥 𝘱𝘭𝘦𝘢𝘴𝘶𝘳𝘦 𝘪𝘯 𝘭𝘰𝘰𝘬𝘪𝘯𝘨.⁣

The show will be open until the 3 of July at the ⁣

Rebecca K Halliwell-Sutton () has curated a short archive of fragmented audio from the RA Schools lecture programme as a...
21/06/2022

Rebecca K Halliwell-Sutton () has curated a short archive of fragmented audio from the RA Schools lecture programme as a way to open up the private space of the lecture room and academic programme. The graduating cohort have selected talks and lectures that have stayed with them since they started on the programme in 2018.⁣

The 44 min audio work of 11 talks is available to listen on roy.ac/raschoolsshow along with 5 lectures in full. With kind permission from the lecturers these talks will be available for the duration of the Royal Academy Schools Show 2022.⁣

de Brugerolle   ⁣


Image courtesy of the RA

Rebecca K. Halliwell-Sutton is one of our graduates currently exhibiting at the RA Schools Show 2022. ⁣⁣ (b.1991, Bolton...
21/06/2022

Rebecca K. Halliwell-Sutton is one of our graduates currently exhibiting at the RA Schools Show 2022. ⁣⁣
(b.1991, Bolton) previously studied at  Manchester School of Art.⁣

Rebecca’s work engages sculpture, photography, written word and curating, making use of the transformative properties of materials. The work meanders through geographies and histories, from the micro and internal expanding outwards into a birds-eye view. It is in-between industrial and biotic, often fragmentary. Grounded in a feminist critique of land ownership, bodies and desires, the undercurrent of the work explores an intergenerational connection through cyclical time, bodies, and place, and the boundaries between them. ⁣

I like to weave all kinds of information; visual, found, heard, read, into work that dissolves direct meaning, instead meaning becomes inherent in the making of it. Hopefully what is distilled is more like a poem or a feeling, than an object to understand. When I make sculpture it's a reenactment and imagining and colliding of the stuff the universe throws up, demanding my attention, to find pleasure in looking.⁣

The show will be open until the 3 of July at the ⁣

Emmanuel Awuni is one of our graduates currently exhibiting at the RA Schools Show 2022. ⁣⁣ (b. 1993, Accra, Ghana) prev...
20/06/2022

Emmanuel Awuni is one of our graduates currently exhibiting at the RA Schools Show 2022. ⁣

(b. 1993, Accra, Ghana) previously studied at Goldsmiths College, University of London.

Emmanuel’s practice is informed by the formal structure of indigenous singing commonly expressed as call and response. This is a special form of antiphony when a caller alternates his lines with the regularly timed responses of a chorus. Emmanuel utilises this trait of west African music to develop a practice where painting, sculpture and performance are layered to delineate a world.

The show will be open until the 3 of July at the


First 3 photos by Cat Garcia

Emmanuel Awuni is one of our graduates currently exhibiting at the RA Schools Show 2022. ⁣⁣ (b. 1993, Accra, Ghana) prev...
20/06/2022

Emmanuel Awuni is one of our graduates currently exhibiting at the RA Schools Show 2022. ⁣

(b. 1993, Accra, Ghana) previously studied at Goldsmiths College, University of London.

Emmanuel’s practice is informed by the formal structure of indigenous singing commonly expressed as call and response. This is a special form of antiphony when a caller alternates his lines with the regularly timed responses of a chorus. Emmanuel utilises this trait of west African music to develop a practice where painting, sculpture and performance are layered to delineate a world.

The show will be open until the 3 of July at the

Divine Southgate-Smith is one of our graduates currently exhibiting at the RA Schools Show 2022. ⁣⁣ (b. 1995, Lome, Togo...
19/06/2022

Divine Southgate-Smith is one of our graduates currently exhibiting at the RA Schools Show 2022. ⁣

(b. 1995, Lome, Togo) is a London-based Togolese-British transdisciplinary artist and Royal Academy of Arts, Graduate (2022).⁣

Southgate-Smith has developed a practice comprising film, text, spoken word poetry, performance, sound, installation, sculpture, furniture design, 3D animation, and 3D rendering. The work often references and questions articulations of black, q***r, and female experience. She/They navigates hypothetical spaces where things are abstracted, contextualised, de-contextualised, omitted, revealed, voiced, or silenced.⁣

Questioning the traditional equation between sight and understanding - she/they invites us to observe and question the relationships between visual representation, stereotyping, oppression, position (societal and political), empowerment, and joy. ⁣
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Her/them approach to art-making is trans-disciplinary and collaborative allowing her/them to explore complex narratives through various mediums and disciplines. Southgate-Smith's practice relies on research and intuition, hence, she/they turns to play, literature, music, imagination, intersectional discourse, community, and archive material as a source of inspiration and creation.⁣

The show will be open until the 3 of July at the

Divine Southgate-Smith is one of our graduates currently exhibiting at the RA Schools Show 2022. ⁣⁣ (b. 1995, Lome, Togo...
19/06/2022

Divine Southgate-Smith is one of our graduates currently exhibiting at the RA Schools Show 2022. ⁣

(b. 1995, Lome, Togo) is a London-based Togolese-British transdisciplinary artist and Royal Academy of Arts, Graduate (2022).⁣

Southgate-Smith has developed a practice comprising film, text, spoken word poetry, performance, sound, installation, sculpture, furniture design, 3D animation, and 3D rendering. The work often references and questions articulations of black, q***r, and female experience. She/They navigates hypothetical spaces where things are abstracted, contextualised, de-contextualised, omitted, revealed, voiced, or silenced.⁣

Questioning the traditional equation between sight and understanding - she/they invites us to observe and question the relationships between visual representation, stereotyping, oppression, position (societal and political), empowerment, and joy. ⁣
​⁣
Her/them approach to art-making is trans-disciplinary and collaborative allowing her/them to explore complex narratives through various mediums and disciplines. Southgate-Smith's practice relies on research and intuition, hence, she/they turns to play, literature, music, imagination, intersectional discourse, community, and archive material as a source of inspiration and creation.⁣

The show will be open until the 3 of July at the

Divine Southgate-Smith is one of our graduates currently exhibiting at the RA Schools Show 2022. ⁣⁣ (b. 1995, Lome, Togo...
19/06/2022

Divine Southgate-Smith is one of our graduates currently exhibiting at the RA Schools Show 2022. ⁣

(b. 1995, Lome, Togo) is a London-based Togolese-British transdisciplinary artist and Royal Academy of Arts, Graduate (2022).⁣

Southgate-Smith has developed a practice comprising film, text, spoken word poetry, performance, sound, installation, sculpture, furniture design, 3D animation, and 3D rendering. The work often references and questions articulations of black, q***r, and female experience. She/They navigates hypothetical spaces where things are abstracted, contextualised, de-contextualised, omitted, revealed, voiced, or silenced.⁣

Questioning the traditional equation between sight and understanding - she/they invites us to observe and question the relationships between visual representation, stereotyping, oppression, position (societal and political), empowerment, and joy. ⁣
​⁣
Her/them approach to art-making is trans-disciplinary and collaborative allowing her/them to explore complex narratives through various mediums and disciplines. Southgate-Smith's practice relies on research and intuition, hence, she/they turns to play, literature, music, imagination, intersectional discourse, community, and archive material as a source of inspiration and creation.⁣

The show will be open until the 3 of July at the

Andrew Maughan  is one of our graduates currently exhibiting at the RA Schools Show 2022. ⁣ ⁣Maughan’s paintings centre ...
18/06/2022

Andrew Maughan is one of our graduates currently exhibiting at the RA Schools Show 2022. ⁣
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Maughan’s paintings centre around a protagonist called the Great Assassin, inspired by the Zodiac serial killer.⁣
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Pictured at cinematic scale, the Assassin in Maughan’s paintings wears a hooded mask made of black hair. Half-glimpsed in wing-mirrors, he is caught in moments between action: driving through rain, smoking a cigarette, eating ice cream. In an act inspired by Bertolt Brecht's 'Verfremdungseffekt', blank eyes are cut directly from the canvas, breaking the painting’s fourth wall.⁣
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The story of the Zodiac – a man who murdered people, used the media to spread fear and increase his own infamy, and got away with it all – echoes modern day stories of power-hungry white men who abuse their position. Menacing in its ambiguity, Maughan’s work addresses tropes of control and fear in society, as the Assassin cuts a sinister figure in vivid landscapes.⁣

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Chitra Ramanathan is a contemporary visual artists and art educator, and a Visitor Artist invitee to the Royal Academy of Arts and RA Schools for a visual presentation of her body of work, artist including student tutorials at the RA Schools in 2005.

In connection with Art Basel Miami 2018, a Q & A interview traces the painter's artistic journey since early childhood, varied acquisition details including public art at https://www.themiamiartscene.com/the-elegant-peaceful-abstract-art-of-chitra-ramanathan
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The Danish Embassy is currently looking for applicants for their annual Danish Embassy Art Prize!

The Danish Embassy Art Prize is an annual art competition for students from Denmark studying art in the UK. The recipient of the prize will have the unique possibility of exhibiting at the Danish Embassy in London for a year and receive £1000 towards the cost of the exhibition.

We are looking for applicants from art students from Denmark studying a BA or MA at or recently graduated (up to 24 months following graduation) from UK-based art programmes.

It is the 10th anniversary of the Danish Embassy Art Prize, and the recipient will be chosen by a jury of esteemed art professionals: Mads Damsbo, Director at Brandts Art Museum, Marie Nipper, Director at Copenhagen Contemporary, Gitte Ørskou, Director at Kunsten, and Barry Phipps, Director of Visual Art at The Møller Centre and Fellow at Churchill College, University of Cambridge.

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USA based contemporary painter and art educator Chitra Ramanathan was a 2005 Visitor Artist invitee to the RA Schools, when the Keeper had invited the artist to present her body of work and conduct student tutorials. The artist's unique body of work portrays happiness as a visual entity.

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