RCA2025

The School of Arts & Humanities Show will take place at the RCA Battersea campus from 19 - 22 June. Highlights of student work include:

Damien Cifelli (MA Painting), an award-winning artist who has exhibited at the likes of Whitechapel and Saatchi Gallery, presents a series of paintings exploring the fictional land of ‘Tarogramma’. Rich in imagined culture and traditions, the series documents images from a somewhat ordinary yet subtly unsettling imagined landscape.

Yuzhou Zhu’s (MA Print) distinct practice revolves around the delicate medium of intaglio etching. Using materials such as dust and hair she captures traces of memory and time to sensitively explore her connection to the world.

The School of Architecture Postgraduate Show will take place at RCA Kensington campus from 4 - 6 July. Highlights of student work include:

Urara Hatano (MA Interior Design) presents Sonic Urban Landscape, a spatial reimagining of a redundant office space as a multi-purpose cultural facility for sound-based collaboration.

The School of Design EXPO will take place at RCA Battersea campus from 3 - 5 July (Part 1) and the 17 - 19 July (Part 2). Highlights of student work include:

Zhong-Wei Lin (MA Design Products) presents Reefine, a modular and eco-friendly artificial reef designed to improve Taiwanese waters. Reefine has been selected for the Next Gen Design Competition, make me! International competition and will be exhibited at five major European design festivals this year.

Ru Gajadeera (MA Fashion) presents S.O.S. (Save Our Seas), a sustainable fashion collection exploring the emotional and ecological impact of ocean pollution, made from waste materials. Gajadeera’s work has been featured in the likes of Vogue, Sunday Times and more.

The School of Communication’s Festival of Communication will take place at RCA White City campus and surrounding area from 4 - 23 July. Highlights of student work include:

Yeonmi Kim (MA Visual Communication) also known as ‘mustard’ presents Love Is Not Rich, a research project exploring romance scams; emotional frauds built on trust and vulnerability. Through documenting the trauma caused by these crimes onto everyday garments, Kim seeks to reframe perpetrator language and raise awareness.

The official schedule of exhibitions, events and activities from all schools at the RCA can be accessed here. A selection of works from RCA2025 graduating students will be available for purchase through RCA Sales, a sales platform, which opens from 5pm BST, Wednesday 18 June - 10am BST, Monday 21 July.