Due to a major re-furbishment of the School’s premises, SHOW SCULPTURE begins later than usual this year and runs from 25 June to 5 July. The Department vacated the site immediately after the graduate exhibition in June last year and is now back home in its radically improved building. We believe this facility will rank among the best in the world for contemporary sculptors.

The RCA believes strongly in ‘pushing the envelope’ from within subject specialisms, and in clear regard of this, the students exhibiting this year have produced a wide range of work. Work on display includes a snooker table containing 15,000 snooker chalks on the surface; stuffed animals embedded in concrete; African inspired totem poles; a giant fish tank complete with swimming carp around a traffic light; colourful geometric forms and outside the Sculpture building a neon sign reads:
“There are a lot of good people around.”

Head of School and renowned sculptor Professor Glynn Williams said: “We consciously select students who will represent the wide range of sculpture activity as it exists in the world outside, but who share the same philosophy. Some are recent graduates and some at later points in their career. Their common characteristic is that they have already formed the beginnings of a work identity. They want to pursue this, build on it, evolve it, and help it reach a point of higher achievement. Our aim is to help this happen.”

Historically the Royal College of Art has figured large in sculpture – indeed it played a key role in the birth of the modern school of British sculpture in the 1920s, with students including Barbara Hepworth and Henry Moore changing the face of sculpture for ever.

Even more today, the College continues to lead the way, with established sculptors Tony Cragg, Richard Wentworth, David Mach and Jake Chapman being just a few RCA alumni.

More recently, winners of the first Jerwood Sculpture Prize, Benedict Carpenter (2000) and his successor Gereon Krebber (2001), along with graduates Tom Price, Barnaby Hosking, Boo Ritson and Douglas White have been recently tipped as names to watch out for.

The exhibition is sponsored by The Conran Foundation, the educational charity founded in order to promote a better understanding of the benefits of good design.

Show Sculpture

Royal College of Art Sculpture School,
15–25 Howie Street, Battersea, London SW11

Open to the public Wednesday 25 June to Saturday 5 July, 11 am – 6pm daily (closed 4 July).
Nearest tube: Sloane Square/Buses: 19, 49, 319, 345
Free Admission
Tel: +44 (0)20 7590 4498