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Articles

RA Schools Show

Filmmaker and performance artist Jenkin van Zyl at the RA Schools.

RA Exhibitions

4 months ago

Meet three artists in the RA Schools Show 2021

From PVC-clad performance art to site-specific sculptural interventions, the work of RA Schools students has thrived despite the pandemic. Charlotte Jansen meets three of the artists as they prepare their long-planned final-year show.
Mark Corfield-Moore preparing work for RA schools show 2018

Inside the Academy

> 3 years ago

249 years of teaching artists in the RA Schools

At the heart of the Royal Academy, you can find Britain’s longest-running art school, which has been training artists since 1769. As soon-to-be graduates present their final year show, Skye Sherwin speaks to students and tutors to find out what’s changed in the last quarter millennia.
Installation view of 'Love has no reason' by Julie Born Schwartz, RA Schools Show 2014

Our Collection

7 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.
Installation view of YOU LOOK SO GOOD IN STEREO by Amy Petra Woodward in the Gallery Café, Royal Academy of Arts, 2014

Artists

> 7 years ago

An interview with Amy Petra Woodward

The artist discusses her exhibition in the RA’s Gallery Café.
From left: Daniel Lipp, Aimee Parrott, Brian Griffiths, Marisa J. Futernick, Ellen Macdonald and Julie Born Schwartz, Coco Crampton, Phyllida Barlow RA, Alex Clarke, Ariane Schick, Gabriel Stones, Alice Theobold, Alex Chase White (seated), Hannah Perry, P

RA Exhibitions

> 7 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.