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Catching the Fire

Our collective, RCA BLK, catch the fire of the African diaspora, shine it bright and pass it on. As a conduit to relationships with pre, past and present students, we burn with passion for our craft acknowledging the connecting roots of our past. We occupy this space to merge our legacies and ignite future manifestations of community through transforming our future history.

RCA BLK, our grassroot collective, is committed to supporting and facilitating black students here at the RCA. Continuing our role of shining a light on powerful stories across the diaspora, this collection includes works from members and non-members of RCA BLK.

Enjoy and be inspired by these works born of the African diaspora.

Curated by RCA BLK members Natasha Fontenelle, Roxanne Simone and Timi Oyedeji

Image with a black background with a thin white horizontal straight line about a quarter of the way down, with three floating thin horizontal streaks and a few small dots of electrified yellow.
Tami Soji-Akinyemi - Edge
A frayed fabric square, of smudgy colours, on a white background. The fabric is speckled with lighter colours and four thin streaks of colour running across the image, in different directions.
Joseph Aina - Metaverse
Photograph of a corner of a gallery. On the walls are a large painting of a black woman in an armchair, and a smaller painting featuring a silhouette. Half of a chair is emerging from the wall beneath the painting.
Emma Prempeh - And so and Come way are we go
Photograph taken from the front and above of a person crouching, holding a rounded clay-coloured stone, on a raised rectangular platform, painted white, in an outdoor setting.
Natasha Fontenelle - Six and Six (Day One film still)
An blue tinted aerial image of woman bent over, reaching up to her legs, which are at the top of the image, on a black background.
Joshua Woolford - and you say you never met the devil?
Animated image of changing streaks of colour and an undefined head and upper torso with bright white eyes, on a black background.
Benjy Nug - Hybrid
Two red swirls of paint and black, graffiti-style, spray paint, layered over photographic images and a large smudge of green paint, with a bright pink background,
Alexander Ikhide - Synthesis
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