RCA2020 Spotlight: 28 July
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RCA2020 is in its final week and there is still so much graduate work to explore, many events to attend, collections to immerse yourself in and stories to help give you a peek behind the scenes of the art.Â
Wherever you are, join us online to navigate, explore and immerse yourself in the work – and thinking – of the world's most talented emerging artists and designers.
Explore the graduate work by School:Â Â
Architecture        Arts and Humanities         Communication        Design
Explore
Colum Lowe, is the Director for the RCA's Design Age Institute (DAI). The DAI has been set up to support the government’s grand challenge on ageing and is part of the RCA’s Helen Hamlyn Centre for Design. Here he shares his Collection which looks at artists and designers tackling some of society’s most difficult challenges, working with and for underrepresented and marginalised groups.Â
‘One of the things that has most impressed me about RCA students is their enthusiasm for tackling some of society’s most difficult challenges.’ Colum Lowe, Director, Design Age Institute.
Check out more collections from luminaries on RCA2020 Collections.Â
Dinner’s Ready! Take a look at the Tasty Collection, a cross-college collection with a focus on food.
Participate
MA Sculpture is holding a panel discussion "Making art in a time of social distancing? Â with panellists Lisa Le Feuvre, Thomas J Price and Rebecca Edwards at 6pm BST today.
Also today: Drop into a panel discussion about new ways to configure and reconsider the role of art, design and organisation today when confronting challenges and opportunities arising during and after the pandemic. In the Realm of Re-Sensing: Sense-Making for Sharing Sensibilities – Art, Design and Social Change begins at 5pm BST.
To explore more events head to RCA2020 Events.Â
Watch
Fascinated by the little details of everyday life, Léon Moh-Cah (MA Animation) took to the habit of carrying a sketchbook in her bag when she started studying art in 2010. Her graduate films explore the beauty and complexities of everyday life.Â
Martyn Tinto (MA Interior Design) created his own visual language referencing the architectural styles of postmodernism, brutalism, science fiction, utopian and dystopian narratives. Watch Martyn’s ‘1984 / THE TOTALITARIAN LENS’ which reimagines Orwell’s 1984 through a series of hyper stylised environments.
Discover
Asimis Alexiou (MA Contemporary Art Practice) is a multidisciplinary Greek artist. In 2018 he was awarded a scholarship by Leverhulme Trust and NEON Organisation for Culture and Development. Dive into some of his work including the eye-catching ‘THE RED CATTLE OF GERYON’.
Go to MA Contemporary Art Practice - Performance to discover more performances.Â
Jake Treddenick’s (MA Fashion) Menswear collection investigates the role of the ‘masculine’ within class structures, through humour and the contrasts of identities, whilst researching traditional embroidery techniques to create vivid textures in a modern context. Be sure to click through to discover his incredible work and his arresting imagery.
Check out previous editions of RCA2020 Spotlight here