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.

Current RA Schools student Francisca Pinto (Class of 2025) is featured in Umbigo, an independent art and culture magazin...
12/01/2025

Current RA Schools student Francisca Pinto (Class of 2025) is featured in Umbigo, an independent art and culture magazine based in Portugal. Her project, "In and Out", was developed as part of the magazine’s Interchange Project, following an invitation from Umbigo and with support from FLAD. You can view her work in the latest issue, #91, which explores the theme of disappearance.

Current RA Schools student Francisca Pinto (Class of 2026) is featured in Umbigo, an independent art and culture magazin...
12/01/2025

Current RA Schools student Francisca Pinto (Class of 2026) is featured in Umbigo, an independent art and culture magazine based in Portugal. Her project, "In and Out", was developed as part of the magazine’s Interchange Project, following an invitation from Umbigo and with support from FLAD. You can view her work in the latest issue, #91, which explores the theme of disappearance.

Elinor Stanley (RA Schools’ 23) has a body of work on show in the cross-generational group exhibition ‘Accordion Fields’...
23/04/2024

Elinor Stanley (RA Schools’ 23) has a body of work on show in the cross-generational group exhibition ‘Accordion Fields’ on until the 4th of May.

At 5pm this Thursday (25/04), Elinor Stanley will be in conversation with artists Varda Caivano, Dexter Dalwood and Pam Evelyn moderated by Chris McCormack.

‘Accordion Fields – a group exhibition of cross-generational painters who initially cultivated their artistic talent in London, studying at one of the city’s prominent arts schools and often in direct dialogue with one another.

Conceived through a variety of approaches, depicted space within the stretcher is folded, tilted, layered, and peeled away so that depth perception is confused and deferred. Imagery is pressed toward the surface of the picture plane, so that an ambiguity between what is representational or abstract space occurs. Elsewhere, figures and forms seen from ambiguous viewpoints are left untethered in disorientating expanses, while in further figuration we witness the re-presenting of histories and the examination of found imagery.’

Rahima Gambo: Alternative Central Area LocationsGasworks () 13 JUN – 8 SEP 24Preview: Wednesday 12 June, 6:30–8:30pmA ne...
22/04/2024

Rahima Gambo: Alternative Central Area Locations
Gasworks ()

13 JUN – 8 SEP 24

Preview: Wednesday 12 June, 6:30–8:30pm

A new commission by Rahima Gambo () examines her relationship to Abuja, Nigeria through a form of intuitive cartography. Records of Nigeria’s planned capital city are malleable sites and symbolic material from which to drift into past impressions, slip into her present migrant life and see-through the filter of the document into possible futures. Through film, sculpture, and installation she speculates on the decision making processes, the omissions, variations and unforeseen needs the city plan evokes.

Three Years17 April - 26 May 2024Weston Studio, Burlington HouseA chance to see work by all 32 current RA Schools studen...
12/04/2024

Three Years
17 April - 26 May 2024
Weston Studio, Burlington House

A chance to see work by all 32 current RA Schools students at this group exhibition which marks the reopening of the newly restored studios.

Three Years is an insight into the work being made now in the Royal Academy Schools, Britain’s longest-established art school. It features work by every student currently studying at the RA Schools, across all three years of the programme and is curated by Margarita Gluzberg (.gluzberg).

From installation and video to sculpture, painting and printmaking, the work on display reflects a fragment of the complex ecosystem of the RA Schools studios, which are in the process of reopening after major refurbishment.

Artists featured: Lolly Adams, Mohammed Adel, Maya Gurung-Russell Campbell, Dwayne Coleman, Katrina Cowling, Joshua Fay, Vitaliia Fedorova, Georgia Kerr, Djofray Makumbu, Francisca Pinto, Zachariah Riley, Suleman Aqeel Khilji, Bishwadhan Rai, Alex Margo Arden, Rosa Klerkx, Esther Gamsu, Charlotte Winifred Guérard, Robert O’Leary, Rahima Gambo, James Sibley, Gusty Ferro, Fleur Dempsey, Ilze Aulmane, Massimiliano Gottardi, Racheal Crowther, Jame St Findlay, Norberto Spina, Fungai Benhura, Lizzie Munn, Kevin Brennan, Tanoa Sasraku, Fischer Mustin

Image 1: (Class of 2026) Dwayne Coleman, Showers At Dusk (Saffron Lane, 19:58), 2023 ()

Image 2: (Class of 2025) Alex Margo Arden, Prop Poster [I], Prop Poster [II], 2022 ()

Image 3: (Class of 2024) Tanoa Sasraku, Untitled, 2023 ()

Gabriella Boyd’s (RA Schools ‘17), institutional exhibition ‘Presser’ is on display at Cample Line, Dumfriesshire until ...
08/04/2024

Gabriella Boyd’s (RA Schools ‘17), institutional exhibition ‘Presser’ is on display at Cample Line, Dumfriesshire until 2nd June 2024.


James Sibley‘The Birds’, 2024 Alfred Hitchcock’s ‘The Birds’ DVDs.Variable dimensions.Currently on show in Premiums 2 in...
03/04/2024

James Sibley
‘The Birds’, 2024
Alfred Hitchcock’s ‘The Birds’ DVDs.
Variable dimensions.

Currently on show in Premiums 2 in the Weston Studio, Royal Academy of Arts. Until 7th April, 2024.

Robert O’Leary, ‘Group Show’, 2023-2024Oil and pigment on plaster polymer (low-relief)305 x 200 x 7cmCurrently on show i...
01/04/2024

Robert O’Leary, ‘Group Show’, 2023-2024
Oil and pigment on plaster polymer (low-relief)
305 x 200 x 7cm

Currently on show in Premiums 2 in the Weston Studio, Royal Academy of Arts. Until 7th April, 2024.

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