School of Arts & Humanities

Catalina Correa, Other White Mixed Background (2021) — Series digital collages, variable dimensions.

Dean, School of Arts & Humanities – Ken Neil

One year on from the first instantiation of the RCA’s discovery platform, we are here again with RCA2021: and what an incredibly challenging year it has been for all our students and staff in the School and College. Once again, our graduating students are to be commended for the ambition and ingenuity of the work on display here, and our staff commended for the tremendous support they have given across the year.

Particularly impressive are the rich and diverse ways in which our contemporary world is seen for us by our students, shedding new light and testing new ideas in the process. In significant and enduring ways, the world comes into being through Arts and Humanities subjects, and, moreover, including in tumultuous times, our world is diagnosed and treated, urgently and gradually, by their attention and care. They help us make the world for us and help us make our way in that world, navigating the intricacies of place, identity, and history, while seeking common foundations that might underpin art and humanity.

Please enjoy the achievements of our students on RCA2021, register the inventiveness that has driven so many of the enquiries and the outcomes, and celebrate with our students by discovering the new perspectives on common foundations that their work brings to bear.

Click here to watch a video collaboration by over 150 graduating students across the School of Arts & Humanities, edited by Milo Creese (MA Sculpture 2017).

Image: Catalina Correa (MA Contemporary Art Practice). Digital collage from the series: Other White Mixed Background, 2021

Ken Neil, decano de la Escuela de Artes y Humanidades

Un año después de la primera ejemplificación de la plataforma de descubrimiento RCA, volvemos con RCA2021; este ha sido un año realmente intrincado para todos nuestros estudiantes y nuestro personal de la Escuela y la Facultad. De nuevo, felicitamos a todos los estudiantes licenciados, por su esfuerzo y habilidad en el trabajo que mostramos aquí, así como a nuestros empleados, por su enorme apoyo a lo largo del año.

Es especialmente notable la manera tan rica y diversa como vemos el mundo actual a través de nuestros estudiantes, arrojando una nueva luz y aplicando nuevas ideas en este proceso. De una manera significativa y perdurable, el mundo se crea a través del arte y las humanidades; incluso en las épocas más convulsas, son estas disciplinas las que, de una manera urgente y gradual, diagnostican y se ocupan con atención y cuidado del mundo. Nos ayudan a crear nuestro mundo y a marcar nuestro camino en él, navegando por el laberinto de lugares, identidades e historia, buscando bases comunes que cimienten el arte y la humanidad.

Por favor, disfrutad de los logros de nuestros estudiantes en RCA2021, recordad el ingenio que ha originado tantas preguntas y tantos logros y celebrad junto a ellos el descubrimiento de nuevas perspectivas sobre las bases comunes que aporta su trabajo.

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Machine thinking

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Individual experiences and tools for disabled communities

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Museums, Libraries and Archives

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Curation by Francesca Amfitheatrof

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Curated by Coco Capitán

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Touch

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Strategies towards a detoxified earth

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As we begin to emerge from successive lockdowns we start to have a sense of what went before, and what changed.

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Video Games

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Emotional response and recovery

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Innovation in healthcare

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Pets, pests and beasts

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All sorts of sounds

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Accessible and experimental approaches to drawing

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What does the workplace of tomorrow look like?

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The elemental in its broadest sense.

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The Community Collection

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Where you live or where the heart is?

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Earthly ecological encounters

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A feast of delights

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Imagined events

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The human spirit

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Speculative and Imagined Worlds

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Traditional tall tales

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The works in this Collection have been drawn from memories

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Queer Union Ethics Engaging Anti-Racism

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Skewing the world

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Home Sweet Home

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The body from the corporeal to the molecular, psycological to the political.

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Crafts and customs passed down through generations

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Colour

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Surreal and absurd

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SustainLab is a student society for recognising the importance of maintaining a space for sustainability

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What’s left?

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Between the virtual and the real

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Who’s watching?

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Curation by Jade Montserrat

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What does it mean to be a womxn?

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