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.
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Dates and Opening Hours
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