RCA Secret Dubai Offers Postcard-sized Artworks at Art Week 2016

RCA Secret Dubai features 1,000 original postcard-sized artworks, which are displayed for sale at Alserkal Avenue, the region’s foremost arts and culture neighbourhood located in Al Quoz, Dubai (14–19 March) and at Art Dubai (17–19 March). Visitors have the opportunity to purchase original artwork by regionally and internationally acclaimed artists and designers, plus recent alumni from the Royal College of Art – the artists and designers of the future. All proceeds support the Royal College of Art’s scholarship fund, which supports art and design students at a formative time in their careers.

Previous contributors to RCA Secret Dubai include world-renowned fashion designers Paul Smith, Zandra Rhodes, Christopher Bailey and Orla Kiely; architect Zaha Hadid; artists Hajra Waheed, Adel Abidin, Najat Makki and eL Seed; and iconic photographer David Bailey.

Collectors must register their interest, either online or in person, to select and purchase up to four original postcard-sized works of art for just AED 500 from the RCA Secret wall at Art Dubai and Alserkal Avenue. It’s called RCA Secret, because the names of the artists are only revealed after the London sale closes April 16.

Dr Paul Thompson, Rector RCA, said, ‘The annual RCA Secret exhibition provides a rare art-world moment, when a small part of the global contemporary art market is made accessible to everyone. The artists and designers who donate their work to this much-needed cause, alongside the collectors,  provide opportunities to the emerging artists and designers of the future, who – as students – are often stretched to their limits financially.’

RCA Secret at Art Dubai
17 March, 4–9pm
18 March, 2–9pm
19 March, 12–6pm

RCA Secret at Alserkal Avenue
14 March, 11am – 5pm (exhibition only), 5–9pm (sale)
15–19 March, 10am –7pm