School of Arts & Humanities

A row of three rectangular objects, including a record turntable, in pink and white, featuring the number 3607

Introduction

Dean, School of Arts & Humanities – Ken Neil

RCA2022 shares with us once again a wonderful platform to experience the outcomes, research insights, and working processes of our graduating students. For Arts & Humanities, this is a presentation of work from across our specialist areas, Applied Arts, Fine Art, and Humanities.

As you move through the pages and links you will see many connections across these specialist areas as the creative attention of our students coalesces around topics of contemporary concern. This combined interdisciplinary insight complements the poetic instances of individual practices and adds up to a powerful and persuasive body of work, one that seeks to illuminate its constituent diversity of perspectives and, hence, encourage us to see our world anew.

After two years of considerable challenge and disruption, we are all immensely proud of what our students have achieved this session, and express thanks here to all staff, academic and administrative, technical and support, for such a concerted effort to successfully produce this public exhibition.

Congratulations to all of our graduating students - enjoy the diversity of insights.

Programmes

Collections
An image by Hao Zhang, of drawn figures in movement, in tones of black, white and bronze, including a horse, winged creatures and a bearded man wearing armour, a cape and carrying a sword.
Pride and Prejudice

LGBTQ+ communities and experiences

School of Architecture
School of Arts & Humanities
School of Communication
Photograph of a woman from the knees up, standing in a park, with buildings in the distance behind her, playing a musical instrument resembling a large violin made from various materials.
Good Vibrations

Turn it up!

School of Architecture
School of Arts & Humanities
School of Communication
School of Design
A skate-park inside a tunnel. Sweeping, curved, wall-like structures, composed of yellow polystyrene takeaway boxes are at the centre of the image. By Jacob Talkowski.
The RCA Working-Class Collective Presents

Promoting the work and interests of working-class artists

School of Arts & Humanities
Black and white image of the thin trunk of a tree, such as a pine or fir, bristling with lots of thin spiky branches.
Ain't no Mountain High Enough

The world around us

School of Architecture
School of Arts & Humanities
School of Communication
Grainy black and white photograph of the edge of a curved solid shape, against a black background, with short lines of white text running top to bottom of the image. By Mandi Stewart
Nothing about Us, without Us

Curated by the Disabled Students’ Network

School of Architecture
School of Arts & Humanities
School of Communication
School of Design
A ginger, black and white cat hunched down, back towards us, but turning around to face the camera, on a dusty, gravel ground, in front of some rocks, by Dayun Jung.
Who let the dogs out?

Pets, pests and beasts

School of Architecture
School of Arts & Humanities
School of Communication
School of Design
Image of a bearded man wearing an orange high visibility waistcoat and white hard hat, face on, squeezed between tall walls of cardboard boxes with ‘Amazon.com’ printed on them. By Andreea Iliescu
If you tolerate this, your children will be next

Politics and society

School of Architecture
School of Arts & Humanities
School of Communication
Image of a collage of black and white photographs, some overlapping or transparent, and one featuring four people on horses next to rocks or cliffs, and a long, dark unknown object. By Georgia May Jaeckle
Preservations

Museums, Libraries and Archives

School of Architecture
School of Arts & Humanities
School of Communication
An image of a hairless, all-white female figure, wrapped in a green net of long strands and floating in what looks like deep ocean, next to a large, crumbling deep blue structure, by Peiyi Liang.
Another World

Speculative and critical imagined worlds

School of Architecture
School of Arts & Humanities
School of Communication
School of Design
An image of various photographs and blocks of text, on a satellite view of an area of the USA, by Lars Stannard.
Just an Illusion

Fiction and storytelling

School of Architecture
School of Arts & Humanities
School of Communication
Image of a person with their back to the camera, their head bowed, and their back and upper arms covered in a veil of white soapy foam. By Joe Zijian Zhou
RCA Soma presents: Undoing the Body

Bodies are everywhere

School of Architecture
School of Arts & Humanities
School of Communication
Image of a close-up on what looks like a black, white and red board, with a grid pattern over a street map background, and a red translucent tower shaped object, placed on it. By Zhetong Shen
London Calling

Home sweet home

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School of Arts & Humanities
School of Communication
School of Design
A close-up photograph of a bare neck, wearing a chain of melted chocolates like a necklace, with chocolate smeared over the upper chest and neck, by Francesca Hummler.
Sniff and Savour

Sensory delight and dissonance

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School of Arts & Humanities
School of Communication
School of Design
A drawing by Kinga Oktabska. Black cloud-like shapes, small circles and spheres, a tower and its shadow and some written notes on a cream and ochre background.
RCA Drawing Presents

Cross disciplinary mark making

School of Arts & Humanities
School of Communication
School of Design
Photograph of a close-up on a hand holding some sort of circular gold button, which is being pressed by the thumb, against a black background with a technical drawing of a similarly shaped object on it. By Britton Jeffrey Kroessler
Neurodiverse Society presents

Works by members of the society

School of Arts & Humanities
School of Communication
School of Design
Image of what looks like a golden creature with many wings, hovering above a round pool, filled with a black substance, in a circular room. By Bin Wen
Hadoken

Video Games

School of Architecture
School of Arts & Humanities
School of Design
Black and white photograph of a tall upright plant or flower, with single leaves up the length of the stem.
Could it be Magic

Rituals, superstitions, belief and spirituality

School of Architecture
School of Arts & Humanities
School of Communication
School of Design
Image of various colourful shapes, handwriting and objects, including a rainbow and a creature like a teddy bear, filling the white background. By Aoibhin Maguire
True Colours

Shining through

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School of Arts & Humanities
School of Communication
School of Design
Photograph of two small piles of bundles of various sizes, some wrapped in fabric, some in string, placed on a pavement, and blurred people walking past in the background. By Roberta Schreyer
Make it Last

Sustainable practices

School of Architecture
School of Arts & Humanities
School of Communication
School of Design
Black and white photograph, which looks as if it was taken in the 1970s or 1980s, of a smiling woman in a top covered in images of skulls, being dragged along by two uniformed British policemen. By Liz Murray
Feminist Society presents

To create, we must first break

School of Architecture
School of Arts & Humanities
School of Design
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, by Alexander Ikhide.
Catching the Fire

Curated by RCA BLK

School of Arts & Humanities
Image of an unknown object in close-up, with a metallic elliptical shape, with a circular shape out of focus, behind it. By Georgia Mackenzie
Everybody Hurts

Healing

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School of Arts & Humanities
School of Communication
School of Design
Image of the back of a completely white human figure, from the shoulders up, wearing a frosted transparent headpiece, with an illuminated section, attached to a neck collar. By Yutong Fu
Robots have feelings too

AI and Cyborgs

School of Arts & Humanities
School of Communication
School of Design
Photograph of a pair of hands drawing on yellow paper placed on the concrete ground. Next to the paper are pens, a plasticine image of the sun and another person’s feet wearing trainers.
All Together Now

Building communities

School of Architecture
School of Arts & Humanities
School of Communication
School of Design
A photograph featuring a person completely dressed in feathers, crouching in front of a table decorated with model figures and paintings, turning their head to face the camera, by Fernanda Liberti.
New Narratives, New Futures

Curated by RCA BLK

School of Architecture
School of Arts & Humanities
School of Design
Image of, what looks like, a close-up on the back of someone wearing a black leather jacket. There is an image attached to the jacket, featuring green figures and a seated golden figure. By Franziska Windolf
Merziety presents: Serious Play

Inspired by Kurt Schwitters’ “Merz” philosophy

School of Arts & Humanities
School of Communication
School of Design