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4 months ago

Great expectations: students of the RA Schools prepare for their final show

The stage is set and the pressure is on as third-year students from the RA Schools prepare work for their final show, which opens to the public this summer in the studios of the RA. Jonathan P. Watts goes behind the scenes to meet the artists at this critical point.

RA Recommends

7 months ago

Gabriella Boyd: illustrating dreams, as interpreted by Freud

How do you illustrate a dream – or harder still, Freud’s interpretation of it? RA Schools student Gabriella Boyd has done just that in a new edition of Interpreting Dreams by the Folio Society.

Inside the Academy

8 months ago

New rules and new tools: life at the RA Schools

At the RA Schools, post-graduate students have three years to develop their ideas and work. Here second-year students reveal how the course is changing their art, as they prepare their first group show at the RA, Premiums: Interim Projects.

Artists

11 months ago

Lessons in life, love and art from Marina Abramovic

From losing consciousness to sitting motionless every day for three months, the inimitable artist pushes her body to its limits. Watch her in conversation with Bryan Appleyard.

Opinion

1 year ago

In two minds: Eddie Peake and Prem Sahib

Ahead of their solo shows this autumn, RA Schools alumni and artistic collaborators Eddie Peake and Prem Sahib describe the thought and themes behind each other’s works.

Artists

1 year ago

Catching up with… Tim Ellis

Six years on from leaving the RA Schools and selling his final year show to the Saatchi Gallery, Tim Ellis has been exhibiting across the world. We head to his Dalston studio.

Inside the Academy

> 1 year ago

Henry Coleman’s ‘The Greater Order’

Have you noticed something different about our banners? Artist Henry Coleman has co-opted them in a sculptural response to the Academy’s forthcoming architectural transformation.

RA Recommends

> 1 year ago

Our pick of this week’s art events: 23 – 28 May

From international photography event Photo London to a Magna Carta tapestry by Cornelia Parker RA, we guide you through the week’s top art events.

Artists

> 1 year ago

Preview: Lynette Yiadom-Boakye at the Serpentine

The imagined portraits by this RA Schools alumna and Turner Prize nominee are revelations from another world, says Kelly Grovier.

Inside the Academy

> 1 year ago

Catching up with… Lucy Williams

As she launches her new book, Lucy Williams discusses her time at the RA Schools and tells us how her block colour, architectural collages bring a fresh perspective to urban landscapes.

Inside the Academy

> 1 year ago

Catching up with… Mary Ramsden

Before she departs for a residency in Connecticut, Mary Ramsden discusses her time at the RA Schools and tells us what she’s been up to since graduating in 2013.

Our Collection

> 1 year ago

“Striving after excellence”: Victorian women and the fight for arts training

Amy Bluett discovers how 19th-century women aspiring to be artists had an uphill struggle to get equal access to training at the Royal Academy Schools.

Inside the Academy

> 1 year ago

Behind the scenes of ‘Premiums: Interim Projects’

We went behind the scenes in the RA Schools to follow the progress of second-year students putting together their interim exhibition.

Opinion

< 2 years ago

Inspirations: RA Schools students on their artistic heroes

As RA Schools students prepare to show their own work midway through their course in ‘Premiums’, some of the students select artists who inspire them.

Artists

< 2 years ago

Catching up with… Grace O‘Connor

From her studio in Southwark, the former RA Schools student Grace O’Connor describes how her experience at the Academy formed her future painting practice.

Opinion

< 2 years ago

Urgent appeal to save William Blake’s cottage

The country has until 28 November to donate, if the Blake Society is to transform his seaside cottage into a permanent home for the artist-poet.

RA Exhibitions

< 2 years ago

From Rubens to Ai Weiwei: 2015 at the RA

Today we launched our 2015 exhibition programme. Artistic Director, Tim Marlow, shows us what’s in store for the year ahead.

Artists

2 years ago

Mathew Tom & the RA Schools Starr Fellowship

Vivid colours are coupled with formal simplicity in the recent artworks exhibited by Mathew Tom in the RA Schools studios.

Our Collection

2 years ago

RA Collection acquires first film work

The film ‘Love has no reason’ by RA Schools graduate Julie Born Schwartz has been added to the Royal Academy’s historic Collection.

Artists

> 2 years ago

An interview with Amy Petra Woodward

The artist discusses her exhibition in the RA’s Gallery Café.

RA Exhibitions

> 2 years ago

Judging the A-level Summer Exhibition Online

The judging panel of this year’s A-level Summer Exhibition Online discusses their selection process.

RA Exhibitions

> 2 years ago

RA Schools students discuss their upcoming final show

As students from the RA Schools prepare for their final show, what are their feelings about leaving after three intensive years of study? Some of them discuss the issues they face with Schools tutor Brian Griffiths and Phyllida Barlow RA, who has been involved in art education for 45 years.

Inside the Academy

> 2 years ago

Where art meets fashion

For the first time we have joined forces with the British Designers’ Collective to celebrate British talent.

RA Recommends

> 2 years ago

Our pick of this week’s art events: 9 - 15 May

From an ex-RA Schools student to Architect and designer Daniel Weil.

Artists

> 2 years ago

Ancient and modern

From traditional engravings to cutting edge digital techniques: the RA Schools is a hive of creative approaches to printmaking.

Artists

> 2 years ago

Last chance to bid in RA Schools Auction

Your chance to own work by an Academician and help us to continue to meet the cost of tuition fees for all students at the RA Schools.

RA Exhibitions

> 2 years ago

Premiums: Meet the artists

Meet some of the RA Schools students exhibiting in this year’s ‘Premiums: Interim Projects’

RA Exhibitions

> 2 years ago

New prints on the block

There is a fresh spirit of experimentation at this year’s London Original Print Fair, which takes place in the RA’s Main Galleries. Mark Hampson, the RA Schools’ Head of Material Processes, picks the printmakers to watch.

RA Exhibitions

> 2 years ago

Under the influence

What is in the minds of art students today? We find out what’s feeding the imaginations of RA Schools’ second-year students – and what direction their work is taking – ahead of their group exhibition in the Royal Academy’s galleries.