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Last updated 22 May 2025

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The Engagement, Brand & Marketing department handles media enquiries for the RCA and can provide access to expert spokespeople, and coordinate photography, filming or other media requests.

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RCA2023. Photograph by Shaun James Cox

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Click here to visit the Royal College of Art's PhotoShelter site.

A selection of high resolution images available for press use can be downloaded at the google drive link below.

If you can't find what you're looking for, contact the press team at [email protected]

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The Royal College of Art started life in 1837 as the Government School of Design. Granted a Royal Charter and university status in 1967, today the RCA remains the world’s most influential postgraduate institution of art and design.

Find out more by downloading our History PDF below.

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If you'd like to film at the RCA, contact our Press team at [email protected] to arrange access.

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Information on filming in Wandsworth, where the RCA Battersea campus is situated, can be found at this link.

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Latest press releases

Artistic celebration and creative advocacy by project partner, I Stand Beside: ‘Dance of the Sea Nettles’ performed at Green Gathering in August 2024.jpeg

Ecological Citizen(s) Network+ announces recipients of its second round of funding, in a research project empowering communities to use digital tools for sustainable change

The RCA, in collaboration with the Stockholm Environment Institute (SEI) at the University of York, and Wrexham University, has today announced the recipients of the second funding round in the Ecological Citizen(s) Network+ research project.
1st Prize winning team, Interlude, with colleagues from Sodexo and the RCA, credit Xize Xu / Royal College of Art

RCA and Sodexo announce winners of innovative Eats and Algorithms project to design sustainable solutions for digitising food

The RCA has announced the winners of its Eats and Algorithms project, delivered in partnership with Sodexo. The winning projects all demonstrated a commitment to developing future-facing digitised solutions that foreground sustainability in innovative ways.
Museo Pelumpen - 'Invernaderos Fantasmas' (Phantom greenhouses) - Scenic intervention by the theatre company 'Monstruos Postindustriales' in Limache, Chile 2022

CLIMAVORE x Jameel at the Royal College of Art announces recipients of 2025 Food Action Awards at annual symposium

CLIMAVORE x Jameel at the Royal College of Art has announced the recipients of its second annual Food Action Awards as Museo Pelumpen (Research Action Award) and Green Violence (Emerging Practice Award) during its annual symposium held last night in London.
The Grand Challenge 2024/25: Design Resilience exhibition at RCA Battersea, credit: RCA / Chris Lee

Winners of the RCA Grand Challenge 2024/25: Design Resilience revealed as exhibition opens

The Royal College of Art has today announced the winners of the RCA Grand Challenge 2024/25: Design Resilience, as an exhibition of the shortlisted projects opens at the RCA Battersea campus.
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Ten new start-ups join InnovationRCA incubation programme

The Royal College of Art has announced the ten new start-ups that have joined its acclaimed InnovationRCA incubator programme.
Dante's Purgatorio: Higher Dimensions by Kassandra Wei (MA Sculpture, 2022) at RCA2022 graduation show at the RCA’s new Battersea campus

Royal College of Art celebrates 11th consecutive year as the world’s leading university for art and design

London’s institutions make it the best place to study creative subjects in the world

Press team contact

For any media enquiries please contact the RCA's press team at [email protected] or +44 (0) 207 590 4257

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