Show RCA 2012
dal 19/6/2012 al 30/6/2012
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19/6/2012
Show RCA 2012
Royal College of Art Galleries, London
The Royal College of Art's annual summer show includes work by the greatest number of graduating students in the College's 175-year history.
This year, the Royal College of Art’s annual summer show will include work by the greatest number of graduating students in the College’s 175-year history. Show RCA 2012 is to take place simultaneously in six buildings across the College’s two campuses in Battersea and Kensington.
Show RCA 2012 offers visitors – some 40,000 last year – a unique opportunity to experience the very best of emerging contemporary art and design practice. Nearly 500 art and design postgraduate students from more than 40 countries will exhibit work of exceptional quality, imagination and technical skill.
The exhibitions are free of charge to the public, with much of the work for sale or commission – ranging from paintings to prints, glassware to jewellery and furniture to textiles. Buyers have the opportunity to invest right at the beginning of an artist or designer’s career, with 15 per cent of sales going towards the Royal College of Art Student Fund.
Show RCA 2012 begins with Show Fashion, the annual graduate fashion show, with collections by 35 MA Fashion students specialising in menswear, womenswear, knitwear and millinery. The students will present their final collections on the catwalk, with footwear and accessory design in a static display.
Show RCA Kensington will include students from the programmes of Architecture; Ceramics & Glass; Fashion Footwear & Accessories; Goldsmithing, Silversmithing, Metalwork & Jewellery; Innovation Design Engineering; Textiles; and Vehicle Design exhibiting in the Darwin Building. Students from Animation and Visual Communication will be taking over the Stevens Building, utilising studio spaces to display their work, alongside the School of Humanities. The first graduating students from the Critical Writing in Art & Design programme will showcase their work in the Darwin Building entrance.
Show RCA Battersea will feature work from the Fine Art programmes of Painting, Photography, Printmaking and Sculpture. Both the Sculpture and Sackler (Painting) Buildings will be used as gallery spaces, with students also using parts of the College’s brand-new Dyson Building and Testbed 2. The College will be making use of the adjacent Testbed 1 space again this year to exhibit work by students from the Design Products and Design Interactions programmes, ensuring a cross-disciplinary approach over both sites.
Alison Sedgwick
media@rca.ac.uk
Phone: +44 (0)20 7590 4123
Fax: +44 (0)20 7590 4124
Show RCA Kensington
Royal College of Art, Kensington Gore, London SW7 2EU
Open to the public: 20 June – 1 July (closed 29 June)
10.00am – 5.30pm daily; late opening to 8pm Saturday 23, Wednesday 27 and Saturday 30 June
Free admission
Show RCA Battersea
Dyson Building, 1 Hester Road, London SW11 4AN
Sculpture Building, 15–25 Howie Street, London SW11 4AS
Sackler Building, 14–22 Howie Street, London SW11 4AY
Testbed 1 & 2, 33 Parkgate Road, London SW11 4NP
Open to the public: 20 June – 1 July (closed 29 June)
10.00am – 5.30pm daily; late opening to 8pm Saturday 23, Wednesday 27 and Saturday 30 June
Free admission