School of Communication

Image of a white jumble of shapes, some almost resembling letters, and outlined in broken black marks in various thicknesses.

Introduction

Dean, School of Communication – Kerry Curtis

We are immensely proud of the achievements of students in the School of Communication and across the RCA. Our graduating students have created compelling and innovative work engaging with, and most importantly contributing to key social, environmental, and cultural concerns in our uncertain times.

On this journey, our students have further developed their unique identity through critical thinking, their friendships and empathy towards others.

The necessity for new narratives and methods of story-telling could not be more relevant today. Our students have been agile and adaptive bringing new insights and knowledge to the world through wide-ranging creative responses including animations, publications, XR experiences, moving image, illustrations, graphic design, workshops and installations.

We hope you enjoy RCA2022 and the conversations that follow.

@rcasoc

Programmes

Collections
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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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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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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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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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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!

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