"Your brain is a muscle, it needs exercising"
We caught up with Ryan Gander RA to find out how creativity is good for the mind.
How are you going to exercise your imagination in 2025?
Whether you're looking at art or making art, how are you exercising your imagination this year? 🎨
Who made you want to be an artist? We asked five artists who or what inspired them to do what they do now.
Antony Gormley RA's sketchbook
Antony Gormley RA takes us on a quick tour of his sketchbook, or workbook as he calls it. Has he inspired you to start a sketchbook too? ✍️
🚨 Submissions are now open for the 2025 Summer Exhibition!
This year, the co-ordinator is Farshid Moussavi RA and she has chosen Dialogues as her theme.
Submissions close on 11 February, or sooner if the cap of 18,000 entries has been reached.
If you would like a chance to see your work displayed in the world’s largest open-submission exhibition go to our website to find out more https://roy.ac/pyodozve
Last chance to see Flaming June at the RA 🧡
Frederic, Lord Leighton’s Victorian masterpiece leaves the RA on 12 January.
Visit her in our free Collection Gallery before it’s too late.
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Frederic, Lord Leighton PRA, 'Flaming June', c. 1895. Oil on canvas, 119.1 x 119.1 cm. Museo de Arte de Ponce. Luis A. Ferré Foundation, Inc.
Merry Christmas from the Burlington House choir 🎄
Michael Craig-Martin at the RA
Our colourful, career-spanning Michael Craig-Martin exhibition closes its doors today.
From early experimental sculptures to a new 360-degree digital installation, what was your favourite part?
Lead Supporter BNP Paribas. Generously supported by The Blavatnik Family Foundation, Batia and Idan Ofer and The Michael Craig-Martin Supporters Circle.
Michael Craig-Martin RA's wall drawings
No drawing on the walls please?
Michael Craig-Martin RA talks about his wall drawings, featuring instantly recognisable objects, which have "enormous presence and almost no physicality". He uses tape to draw the objects as it removes any of the flaws that come from drawing by hand.
Come and see them for yourself in Michael Craig-Martin, on at the RA until 10 December. Tickets on our website: https://roy.ac/iszqys80
Learning from Leonardo at Windsor Castle
How to draw like Leonardo.
Artist Adebanji Alade went to Windsor Castle to find out more about Leonardo da Vinci’s drawings from Martin Clayton, Head of Prints and Drawings at Royal Collection Trust. And Adebanji brought along his pencils to have a go at drawing like the master himself!
Come and see these drawing and more in:
‘Michelangelo, Leonardo, Raphael Florence, c. 1504’, at the Royal Academy of Arts
And ‘Drawing the Italian Renaissance’ Royal Collection Trust at The King’s Gallery, Buckingham Palace.
Anne Desmet: My Sketchbook
From domes in Italy to the streets of London, Anne Desmet RA takes us through her sketchbook and tells us why sketching is vital to her practice.
To see more of Anne's work, visit her exhibition 'Kaleidoscope/London' at Guildhall Art Gallery and London's Roman Amphitheatre, finishing 12 January.
Art is a serious subject
The value of art in our schools is immeasurable. Urgently, we need to bring it back.
Art is a serious subject.
🔗 Find out more and download your own poster: https://roy.ac/bo7o7cwc