Explore collections that bring together graduate work across common themes. Selected by students, staff and invited curators, these collections take a deep dive into work in a given discipline, or connect practices with shared concerns across the College’s Schools and programmes.
Collections
I selected these four artists’ projects because they raise the perennial question about what is nature?
What’s left?
Over the past year, the Design Age Institute has had the opportunity to work with teams of RCA students on projects focusing on healthy ageing.
Who’s watching?
Between the virtual and the real
As we begin to emerge from successive lockdowns we start to have a sense of what went before, and what changed.
The body from the corporeal to the molecular, psycological to the political.
The Burberry Foundation have been supporting the work of the RCA for over ten years. They established the Burberry Design Scholarships in 2017.
Curated by Coco Capitán
Curated by Jeanie Annan-Lewin, Perfect Magazine
Curation by Francesca Amfitheatrof
Curation by Jade Montserrat
Decolonial discourse and diasporic identity
The future is not a linear path – we have to adapt, reflecting on the achievements of the past and at the same time looking with optimism to the future.
Individual experiences and tools for disabled communities
Machine thinking
Earthly ecological encounters
This is work fuelled by creative tenacity and resourcefulness; work that in years to come will be understood in the context of this formative global experience. A curation by Sir Jony Ive.
Imagined events
Museums, Libraries and Archives
Innovation in healthcare
Multidimensionality and multiplicity are at the core of the practice of a new generation of artists that have grown up with the internet. Curated by Sofia Lemos.
Curated by Olivia Ahmad
Video Games
Home Sweet Home
Curated by Peter Russell-Clarke
Traditional tall tales
Surreal and absurd
Queer Union Ethics Engaging Anti-Racism
Accessible and experimental approaches to drawing
The works in this Collection have been drawn from memories
The human spirit
Touch
The Community Collection
SustainLab is a student society for recognising the importance of maintaining a space for sustainability
Skewing the world
Curated by Grant Gibson
The elemental in its broadest sense.
What does the workplace of tomorrow look like?
The joy of an RCA show may also be its curse: the quantity, diversity and depth of the work is impressive, but it can be overwhelming.
Colour
Pets, pests and beasts
Strategies towards a detoxified earth
Crafts and customs passed down through generations
Emotional response and recovery
All sorts of sounds
Speculative and Imagined Worlds
Curated by Thomas J. Price
Curated by Ian Griffiths
Where you live or where the heart is?
What does it mean to be a womxn?
A feast of delights