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Royal College of Art staff and students set the agenda for art and design-related news stories globally. The Press Office manages relations between the College and the media, acting as the first point of contact for media queries and issuing news releases and statements on behalf of the College.

Please contact:

Sue Bradburn, Media Relations & Marketing Manager
+44 (0)20 7590 4114
sue.bradburn@rca.ac.uk

Áine Duffy, Head of Media Relations and Marketing
+44 (0)20 7590 4127
aine.duffy@rca.ac.uk

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April 2013: Royal College of Art Graduate Shows 2013
The Royal College of Art have announced dates for their annual graduate shows. Show RCA 2013 will take place simultaneously in six buildings across the College’s two campuses in Battersea and Kensington from 20 to 30 June 2013...Read more
March 2013: Rego, Opie & Bailey Donate Mini Artworks To RCA Secret Postcard Sale
Works of art by Paula Rego, Julian Opie and David Bailey are going on sale for just £45 at the RCA Secret postcard event. But you’ll have to spot them first!...Read more
March 2013: MA Graduate Fashion Shows 2013
The Royal College of Art Fashion MA programme will be hosting its annual graduate fashion shows to the public on Wednesday 29 May 2013 and to press and trade on 30 May 2013, followed by the Fashion Gala in the evening...Read more
February 2013: RCA Student Designs New Interior for Topshop Boutique
The new Interior Design MA programme at the RCA has teamed up with retail brand Topshop to re-design the Boutique area of its Oxford Street store in time for London Fashion Week in February...Read more
January 2013: RCA Architecture Students Winning Design For Community Building In Wembley Announced
The winning proposal for a new community building in Wembley designed by Architecture students from the Royal College of Art has been chosen. The ‘Pop-Down Square’ by Mike Lim, Shoichi Sado, Olivia Wright and Isobel Davies will provide an amphitheatre, outdoor cinema and a multi-purpose public space close to Wembley Stadium...Read more
January 2013: No one lives here – Curating Contemporary Art Announce Title of 2013 Exhibition
2013 marks the twentieth anniversary of Curating Contemporary Art exhibitions at the RCA. This year’s graduating students present No one lives here, an exhibition by international artists exploring aspects of the digital age that permeate contemporary life, from the domestic to the political...Read more
January 2013: Own A Mini Masterpiece For £45 At The RCA Secret Postcard Sale
The Royal College of Art’s annual postcard-sized art exhibition and fundraising sale, RCA Secret is taking place in March 2013 at the College’s new campus in Battersea...Read more
November 2012: Leading Artists Speak About Their ‘Modes Of Production’ For The RCA/Outset Visual Cultures Lecture Series
The RCA School of Fine Art is pleased to announce the first Visual Cultures Lecture Series organised by the Dean of the School of Fine Art, Professor Ute Meta Bauer with the support of the Outset Contemporary Art Fund...Read more
November 2012: RCA Secret 2013
The Royal College of Art’s annual postcard-sized art exhibition and fundraising sale is happening in March and will be located at the College’s new Dyson building in Battersea for the first time...Read more
November 2012: Talking Interiors Lecture Series
To celebrate the first year of the new MA Interior Design at the RCA, Head of Programme, Ab Rogers has curated a new public lecture series, Talking Interiors, that will discuss, dissect and evaluate the role of the interior. Eminent architects, designers and critics have been confirmed, including Jason Bruges, Konstantin Grcic, Eva Jiřičná, Fred Scott and Penny Sparke...Read more
November 2012: The RCA Christmas Fête
This Christmas if you’re bored of giving your granny a set of hankies or your dad another road atlas and you need a bit of retail inspiration then the RCA is the perfect place to shop as it opens its first Christmas Fête to the public from 6 to 9 December...Read more
November 2012: The Unseen – Offsite Project of the Fourth Guangzhou Triennial
The Royal College of Art is pleased to be hosting a new Chinese art exhibition in connection with the Fourth Guangzhou Triennial, a major contemporary art fair now showing across three separate venues in China...Read more
August 2012 – The Perfect Place to Grow:  175 Years of the Royal College of Art
22 August 2012 – As part of a yearlong series of celebrations around its 175th anniversary, the Royal College of Art will present a major exhibition exploring key facets of the RCA over three centuries...Read more
July 2012 – Royal College of Art Announce Plans for the 2012 London Design Festival
As part of the 2012 London Design Festival (LDF), the Royal College of Art (RCA) will be hosting an exhibition at its site in Kensington, along with a presentation of two industry collaborations at the Victoria and Albert Museum...Read more
July 2012 – The Europa Triangle
The Europa Triangle is a group exhibition about how we imagine Europe today, explored by ten international artists and designers whose work is concerned with public space and current affairs. Curated by Kit Hammonds, Tutor from the RCA’s Curating Contemporary Art MA, with additional contributions by students from the programme...Read more
July 2012 – Exhibition Celebrating 175 years of the RCA: 16 November 2012 – 3 January 2013
As part of a yearlong series of celebrations around its 175th anniversary, the Royal College of Art will present a major exhibition exploring key facets of the RCA over three centuries. Open to the public from 16 November 2012 – 3 January 2013, the as-yet-untitled exhibition will provide a fascinating insight into the world’s oldest art and design school in continuous operation, revealing the politics and polemics behind the perennial question of how Britain should train artists and designers, and interrogating the purpose of publicly funded art schools...Read more
July 2012 – RCA Secret Postcard Exhibition & Sale – New Dates & New Venue Announced for 2013
RCA Secret, the Royal College of Art’s annual exhibition and sale of postcard-sized artworks is taking a break in 2012 but will return in March 2013 at the College’s new Dyson Building in Battersea...Read more
June 2012 – Leading Figures from Design and Art To Be Honoured by Royal College of Art
Thomas Demand, Thomas Heatherwick, Tony Hunt and Kazuyo Sejima are all receiving Honorary Doctorates at the Royal College of Art convocation ceremony at 12pm on Friday 29 June 2012...Read more
June 2012 – RCA Graduate Designers Develop Projects to Improve Quality of Life in Helen Hamlyn Design Awards 2012
Architectural schemes to improve end-of-life care in the community and improve the sustainability of office buildings in the City of London were among the award-winning projects created by graduating Master's students at the Royal College of Art in the Helen Hamlyn Design Awards 2012...Read more
March 2012 – Royal College of Art MA Graduate Fashion Shows 2012
The RCA Fashion MA programme will be hosting its annual graduate fashion shows, SHOW FASHION, to the public on Wednesday 30 May 2012 and to press and trade on 31 May 2012, followed by the Fashion Gala in the evening...Read more
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