RA Schools Show 2023
8 June - 25 June 2023
RA Schools Studios and display spaces around the RA
Tues–Sun: 10am–6pm
Fri: 10am–9pm
Free
no booking required
Having completed their postgraduate studies at the Royal Academy Schools, 14 artists transform their studios to present new work across a range of media.
Essential to the Royal Academy since its foundation, the RA Schools provides a postgraduate programme in contemporary art that is free for all participating students. Each year the RA Schools Show is an opportunity to see bold new forms and ideas that result from three years of intense study.
Displayed throughout the RA Schools’ studios and various sites throughout the Royal Academy, the exhibition presents a wide range of practice from performance, installation and moving image, to sculpture, painting, and print.
This year’s exhibition includes paintings that push figure and ground into vertigo inducing compositions, sculptures that are brought to life through digital manipulation and animation, and live performance that embrace versions of autobiography through choreography, music, text and moving image.
Recent graduates include Michael Armitage, Sung Tieu, Rachel Jones, Adham Faramawy, Rebecca Ackroyd, Sebastian Jefford, Issy Wood, Jala Wahid, Roland Carline, Mary Ramsden, Prem Sahib, Lewis Hammond, Peter Linde Busk, Kira Freije and Turner Prize nominated Lynette Yiadom-Boakye.
Exhibiting artists: Motunrayo Akinola, Nancy Allen, Daria Blum, Max Boyla, Daniel Davies, Enej Gala, Anna Higgins, Rachel Hobkirk, Clark Keatley, Louis Morlæ, Thirza Smith, Elinor Stanley, Mary Stephenson and Oliver Tirré.
This show is accessible to wheelchair users. For more information, please visit our access page.
Supporters
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Performance timetable
Daria Blum
Not Something You Say, 2023
Duration: 30 minutes
Timetable
Friday, 9 June, 7pm
Saturday, 10 June – 4pm
Friday, 16 June – 7pm
Saturday, 17 June – 4pm
Saturday, 24 June – 4pm
Sunday, 25 June – 4pm
(Additional performances may take place unannounced)
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