Nine works to know from Summer Exhibition 2024

Published on 3 June 2024

Find out more about nine works featured in this year's Summer Exhibition.

A Cold Glass of Sorrel by Andrew Pierre Hart

This scene in cool blues and mauves of a figure playing music speaks to the artist's focus on "the symbiotic relationship between sound and painting".

Andrew Pierre Hart, A Cold Glass of Sorrel — Oil on canvas. 180 x 117 cm
Courtesy of the artist. Photo: Max Jones

Finding Stones 4 by Ann Christopher

The coordinator of this year's exhibition makes sculptures which have a mysterious presence without being directly descriptive.

Ann Christopher RA, Finding Stones 4 — Bronze. 11 x 21.5 cm
Courtesy of the artist. Photo: Steve Russell Studio

Flowers: Iris by Michael Craig-Martin

Craig-Martin transforms natural forms, with bold colours and simple uninflected lines, in his latest work.

Michael Craig-Martin, Flowers: Iris — Screenprint on Somerset satin white 410gsm paper. 90 x 90 cm
Courtesy of the artist and Cristea Roberts Gallery

Neural by Diana Copperwhite

Over three meters wide, Neural pulses with colour, applied with brush and knife. Copperwhite draws on personal memories and her interest in science to create ambiguous space.

Diana Copperwhite, Neural — Oil on canvas. 223 x 335 cm
© Diana Copperwhite, Courtesy of Flowers Gallery

Africell Top-Up Kiosk by Ibiye Camp

Camp's playful 3D printed model situates a mobile credit top-up stop inside a fragment of a shell.

Ibiye Camp, Africell Top-Up Kiosk — 3D printed model with plaster powder. 9.1 x 15 x 87 cm
Courtesy of the artist

The Warriors' Strength Navigates the Inhospitable by Charmaine Watkiss

Watkiss personifies the endangered plant argyroderma fissum, native to southern Africa, as a defiant warrior.

Charmaine Watkiss, The Warriors' Strength Navigates the Inhospitable — Coffee, water soluble graphite, pencil, watercolour, coloured pencil and ink on paper. 76 x 56 cm
Courtesy of the artist

Gary Clam by Joe Lycett

Usually used by Lycett to store things in his kitchen, look out for glazed ceramic Gary Clam in the Lecture Room.

Joe Lycett, Gary Clam — Glazed ceramic. 15 x 20 x 10 cm
Photo: Dave Parry

Vauxhall by Clare Woods

Following the COVID-19 national lockdowns Woods turned her attention to the objects which fill our homes, beginning an ongoing series of still-life printmaking.

Clare Woods, Vauxhall — Screenprint on Somerset satin 410gsm paper. 50 x 50 cm
Courtesy of the artist and Cristea Roberts Gallery

Meddling Fiend by Nicola Turner

Turner's dramatic sculpture, created from tentacles of horsehair and sheep fleece, looms in front of Alfred Drury's statue of Sir Joshua Reynolds in the courtyard outside Burlington House.

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Nicola Turner, The Meddling Fiend, at the Royal Academy of Arts, London, 2024 — Courtesy of the artist. Photography by Maxwell Attenborough

Installation view of the Summer Exhibition 2024 at the Royal Academy of Arts in London, 18 June - 18 August 2024

Browse and buy art from the Summer Exhibition online

Most art in the Summer Exhibition are available to buy in-person or online, including work by Andrew Pierre Hart, Ann Christopher, Michael Craig-Martin and Clare Woods.

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