Exhibition
The Perfect Place to Grow: 175 Years of the Royal College of Art
16 Nov 2012 – 3 Jan 2013
Cost of entry
Free admission
Address
- Kensington site: Kensington Gore, London SW7 2EU
- London
- SW7 2EU
- United Kingdom
Travel Information
- Bus 9,10,52
- South Kensington/High Street Kensington
About
To commemorate its 175th anniversary, the Royal College of Art will present a major exhibition exploring key facets of the RCA over three centuries. The Perfect Place to Grow: 175 Years of the Royal College of Art will provide a fascinating insight into the world's oldest art and design school in continuous operation, revealing the politics and polemics behind the perennial question of how Britain should train artists and designers, and interrogating the purpose of publicly funded art schools.The exhibition will feature work by RCA faculty and alumni according to four principal themes: 'Art for Industry'; 'Public Purpose'; 'Personal Expression'; and 'Political Expression'. The exhibition will include both student work and later professional achievements of such alumni and faculty as: Gertrude Jekyll, Sir Edwin Lutyens, Eric Ravilious, Edward Bawden, Lucie Rie, Sir James Dyson, Eric Parry, David Adjaye, Tord Boontje, Ron Arad, Graphic Thought Facility and Neville Brody from the broad disciplines of Design, Architecture, and Applied Art; Lady Elizabeth Butler, Dame Barbara Hepworth, Henry Moore OM, David Hockney OM, Eduardo Paolozzi, Tracey Emin, Chris Ofili, George Shaw and Spartacus Chetywnd will be represented from the field of Fine Art in the sections on Personal and Political Expression.