RCA2025: School of Arts and Humanities Postgraduate Show

Taking place at Battersea campus from 19 - 22 June, the public can experience the richly diverse work created by students graduating from programmes across the School of Arts and Humanities.

Featured programmes include:

• Ceramics & Glass MA
• Contemporary Art Practice MA
• Curating Contemporary Art MA
• Jewellery & Metal MA
• Painting MA
• Photography MA
• Print MA
• Sculpture MA
• Writing MA
• Arts & Humanities MFA

Highlights of student work include:

Franco American artist Lucie d’Halluin (MA Painting) is interested in the space between the physical and psychological worlds. Her exhibiting works feature a series of flowing, ambiguous forms that feel familiar yet unsettling.

Tori McLean (MA Print) is an award-winning artist whose prints have been exhibited at numerous galleries including the British Museum and the V&A. Her exhibiting works use upcycled materials to interrogate structures of female identity, gender expectation and misogyny.

Emma Goring (MA Ceramics & Glass) is interested in themes of Biophilia, microbiology and environmental anxiety. Her practice uses the medium of hot glass to explore an imagined, scientific narrative.

Pakistani-American artist and Forbes 30 under 30 honoree, Maliha Abidi’s (MA Contemporary Art Practice) exhibiting pieces explore the politicisation of hair and its weaponisation against women in both Islamic and Western contexts.

Through crafting delicate pieces of fallen tree bark, Yujin Ok’s (MA Jewellery & Metal) exhibiting work explores the quiet power of nature through metal.

Paloma Passetto de Souza’s (MA Photography) exhibiting works, ‘The Museum of Disobedience’, turn ritualistic practices into disruptive forces that confront cultural oppression and celebrate ancestral knowledge.

Edward Vince’s (MA Sculpture) practice is entirely based on the use and re-use of found materials. Drawing on his background as a Creative Director for major international brands, Vince critically examines the intersections of globalisation, production, consumer culture and capitalism.

Alison Dollery’s (MFA Arts & Humanities) exhibiting works explore her research on the materiality of the body as a canvas. Her practice is deeply influenced by her long term health conditions, stigmatisation of the body and her journey with drastic weight loss and body transformation.

Yiqiang Li (MA Writing) is interested in the tension between visual storytelling and text-based forms. Her exhibiting project explores the emotional dynamics of pet parenting as a reflection of early childhood experiences and intergenerational trauma.

Francesca Fantoni, Leonie Herweg, Heeyon Jung, Diana Kazarian, Fangtong Liu, Jasmine Rawlinson and Yifei Xu (MA Curating Contemporary Art) present THRESHOLDS, a project inspired by Richard Billingham’s 1998 film Fishtank, that explores themes of intimacy and hospitality.