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Summer Exhibition 2023 at the Royal Academy from 13 June to 20 August 2023
The Royal Academy presents the 255th Summer Exhibition, a unique celebration of contemporary art and architecture, providing a platform and support for artists at all stages of their career. British artist David Remfry RA will co-ordinate this year’s Summer Exhibition and, working with the rest of the Summer Exhibition Committee, will explore the theme of Only Connect, inspired by a quote from the novel Howards End by E. M. Forster.
Artists exhibiting new work this year include British artist Lindsey Mendick, who has created three playful ceramic works, and Barbados born painter Paul Dash who will show compositions that bridge figuration and abstraction. Other artists invited to exhibit this year include Royal Academy Schools graduates Jenkin van Zyl and Harminder Judge, American multi-media artist Ida Applebroog, St Lucia born painter Winston Branch, Colombian sculptor Carlos Zapata and British painters Caragh Thuring and Caroline Walker. A dramatic mobile installation by Irish fashion designer Richard Malone will hang in the Central Hall, traversing the line between fashion and sculpture.
In addition to the large number of public submissions, the exhibition will feature work by Royal Academicians including Frank Bowling, Michael Craig-Martin, Tracey Emin, Gillian Wearing and the late Paula Rego, as well as Honorary Royal Academicians Mimmo Paladino, Pipilotti Rist and Kiki Smith. Newly elected Royal Academicians Roger Hiorns, Hew Locke, Veronica Ryan and Barbara Walker will be submitting works, as well as newly elected Honorary Royal Academician Kara Walker.
Curated by Royal Academician Peter Barber, this year’s Architecture Room will focus on the process of construction and making, showing work that is analogue, crafted and handmade. On display will be models, maquettes, drawings, textiles and ceramics. Two towering works by the late Phyllida Barlow RA will form the centrepiece of the gallery, while a large structure formed of a truss and a found tree,conceived by the students of the Architectural Association’s Design + Make MA programme, will dissect half the room. Turner prize-winning collective Assemble, exhibiting for the first time as Royal Academicians, will show prototypes of the ceramic tiles used in their 2017 Art on the Underground project at Seven Sisters station. Ugandan designer Jonah Luswata has been invited to present his Moonlight Towers (2021), inspired by the form of an obelisk and made from the underused and highly
sustainable material American red oak.
The Royal Academy Summer Exhibition is one of the great English Art traditions, it is the world’s oldest open-submission exhibition being established in 1768 whose long line of exhibitors reads like a Who’s Who of British Art. Some of the earliest exhibitors included the likes of Reynolds, Constable and Turner, however the exhibition prides itself that it offers a snapshot of contemporary art.
Part of the fun is walking around the exhibition and spotting work by established artists.
Each room offers a kaleidoscope of colour and images in a range of media, from painting, printmaking, film and photography to sculpture and architectural works.
Works from all over the world are judged democratically on merit and the final selection is made during the eight-day hang in the galleries. The Royal Academy receives thousands of entries, of which around 1200 works, in a range of media, will go on display. This open, inclusive and democratic show supports the artistic community and art education.
The majority of works in the Summer Exhibition are for sale, offering visitors an opportunity to purchase original work. Funds raised support the exhibiting artists, the postgraduate students studying in the RA Schools and the not-for-profit work of the Royal Academy.
For more information and tickets, visit the Royal Academy website here
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Making Modernism: Paula Modersohn-Becker, Käthe Kollwitz, Gabriele Münter, Marianne Werefkin at the Royal Academy from 12 November 2022 to 12 February 2023
The Royal Academy of Arts will present Making Modernism, the first major UK exhibition devoted to women artists working in Germany in the early 20th century. It will include 67 paintings and works on paper primarily by Paula Modersohn-Becker, Käthe Kollwitz, Gabriele Münter and Marianne Werefkin, with additional works by Erma Bossi, Ottilie Reylaender and Jacoba van Heemskerck. Most of these artworks have never been exhibited in this country before. Although less known than their male counterparts, these artists were central to the development and dissemination of modernism.
Gabriele Münter, Portrait of Anna Roslund, 1917.
The exhibition will be arranged thematically. The opening section, Ourselves and Others will feature self-portraits and portraits, showing the increasing participation of women artists in public life and revealing their crucial role in creating and sustaining the networks that supported various aspects of emergent modernism in Germany. These artists challenged prevailing ideals of feminine roles as confined to the home, and through their questioned how they saw themselves and others. Paintings include Erma Bossi’s Portrait of Marianne Werefkin, 1910 and Gabriele Münter, Portrait of Anna Roslund, 1917.
Marianne Werefkin, Twins, 1909.
The second section, The Century of the Child, titled after Swedish writer Ellen Key’s influential 1900 publication, will explore how each of the artists depicted children. Although domestic themes were part of an established genre, modernist treatments of such subjects depart from sentimental works in which children symbolised simplicity, joy, hope and innocence, to explore melancholy, tension, curiosity and unfulfilled desire. Paintings and drawings will include Werefkin’s Twins, 1909, Kollwitz’s Woman with Dead Child, 1903, Modersohn-Becker’s Girl with Child, 1902 and Münter’s Portrait of a Boy (Willi Blabb), 1908/09.
Käthe Kollwitz, Lovers Nestling Against Each Other, 1909/10.
The next section, Sites of Intimacy will delve into the inner lives of Modersohn-Becker and Kollwitz, further exploring maternal instinct as well as the female body, intimate relationships and eroticism. Key works in this section will include Kollwitz’s Love Scene I, c.1909/1910, Ottilie Reyaender’s Beta naked, c. 1900 and Modersohn-Becker’s Mother with Child on her Arm, Nude II, autumn 1906 and Self-portrait as a Standing Nude with Hat, summer 1906.
A section entitled City and Country: Journeys and Migrations will present paintings of urban life and explore changing roles for women in a variety of contexts; at leisure, at work, while rural subjects reveal the need to take refuge away from the metropolis to produce art that celebrated the natural beauty of the countryside. Works highlight the importance of a sense of place, for example, the artist’s colony of Worpswede for Modersohn-Becker, Murnau for Münter and Ascona for Werefkin. Key works in this section include Landscape with Windblown Trees, 1900; Still-life on the Tram (After Shopping), c.1912, and Circus – Before the Show, 1908/10.
Paula Modersohn-Becker, Still-life with Goldfish Bowl, 1906.
The final part of the exhibition will consider the important role of still life in the work of these artists. The concept of ‘still lives’ brings to mind quiet moments of reflection and meditation recorded by the artists in their letters, diaries and journals. Highlights within this section include Münter’s Apples on the Wall, 1908 and Modersohn-Becker’s Still-life with Goldfish Bowl, 1906.
Open from 12 November 2022 – 12 February 2023
10am – 6pm Tuesday to Sunday
Admission From £17; concessions available; under 16s go free (T&Cs apply);.
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William Kentridge at the Royal Academy from 24 September to 11 December 2022
In September 2022, the Royal Academy of Arts will host a major exhibition of the work of the internationally celebrated South African artist, William Kentridge. Working closely with the artist and his studio, this ambitious and immersive exhibition has been specifically curated for the Royal Academy and will encompass the broad repertoire of Kentridge’s forty-year career. It will bring together important works spanning from the 1980s through to the present day, including charcoal drawings, animated films, a mechanical theatre, sculptures, tapestries and performance pieces.
William Kentridge, Drawing for The Head & The Load (The trumpets we used to blow), 2018.
William Kentridge is known for his distinctive drawings, animated films, performances, and largescale productions. While at times his work is semi-autobiographical, he also uses history to highlight the inequities, barbarity, and absurdities of the modern world. A particular area of focus is the European colonisation of and the ongoing post-colonial legacy across the African continent. The issues of racial inequality combined with social, political, and economic injustices are a critical component of Kentridge’s work. For many years Kentridge has also worked closely with a group of creative collaborators including composers, dancers, stage designers, puppeteers, weavers, printmakers, and metalsmiths.
William Kentridge,The Conservationists’ Ball, 1985.
A selection of Kentridge’s early, rarely-seen drawings from the 1980s and 1990s will be presented, including three triptychs displayed together for the first time and the most significant work from the period, The Conservationist’s Ball, 1985. Around 25 large charcoal drawings, made for the creative process of the eleven animated Drawings for Projection, will also be shown. An extensive selection of drawings from the entire series will be displayed together with five of the eleven animated charcoal-drawing films made between 1989 – 2020.
Several further important films, performances and installations will feature in the exhibition. A key installation will be Black Box / Chambre Noire, 2005, a mechanical theatre piece including puppets and projections, which interrogates the harrowing story of the massacre of the Herero people in Namibia, now considered the first genocide of the twentieth century.
Ubu Tells the Truth, 1997, is a sharply critical animated film referencing the play Ubu Roi (1986) by French symbolist writer Alfred Jarry, which reveals the brutality of the apartheid system in South Africa. Alongside the film, Kentridge will create a large site-specific wall drawing to complement the film. Notes Towards a Model Opera, 2015, is a three-screen projection which reflects on modern Chinese history and Chairman Mao’s Cultural Revolution. Two of Kentridge’s films will have their first UK presentations in the exhibition; the short, animated film, De como não fui ministro d’estado, 2012 and Sibyl, 2019.
Willliam Kentridge, Comrade Tree, I Report to You, 2020.
Amongst the most recent works, made in 2021 – 2022, will be a sequence of large-scale tapestries, created especially for the Royal Academy galleries and made in the Stephens Tapestry Studio in Diepsloot, Johannesburg. There will also be a group of large flower drawings, as well as a selection of Kentridge’s distinctive tree drawings. Many of these include rubrics, recalling a tradition that dates back to medieval manuscripts to emphasise certain words within a text. Conjunctions of words are gathered by Kentridge and used in his drawings in an apparently random manner.
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Exhibition Review: Summer Exhibition 2022 at the Royal Academy from 21 June to 21 August 2022
The Royal Academy presents this year’s Summer Exhibition, which is back to its position in the London Summer scene. The 254th Summer Exhibition is a unique celebration of contemporary art and architecture, providing a vital platform and support for the artistic community. British sculptor Alison Wilding RA co-ordinates this year’s Summer Exhibition, and working with the rest of the Summer Exhibition Committee, will explore the theme of Climate.
Artists exhibiting new work this year include artistic duos Harvey & Ackroyd, The Singh Twins, and Special Olympics GB Athlete and artist Niall Guite.
Other artists invited to exhibit this year include Royal Academy Schools graduate Clara Hastrup, Dominica-born British painter Tam Joseph, sculptor Kathleen Ryan, conceptual artist Simon Starling, sculptor Gavin Turk, Brazil-based artists Denilson Baniwa and Sallisa Rosa, and art-activist Jerilea Zempel.
Newly elected Royal Academicians Michael Armitage, Peter Barber and Ryan Gander have submitting works, as well as newly elected Honorary Academician Pipilotti Rist.
Royal Academicians Rana Begum and Níall McLaughlin are working collaboratively and curate the architecture sections across two galleries, alongside artworks.
Alongside the Summer Exhibition this year will be a large-scale, immersive installation designed specifically for the Royal Academy’s Annenberg Courtyard by the renowned Spanish artist and 2020 Royal Academy Architecture Prize winner, Cristina Iglesias. Iglesias has explored themes of nature, climate, and the environment throughout her career, and the installation for the RA, Humid Labyrinth Room (with Spontaneous Landscape), has been conceived to bring the experience of intimacy and landscape to a public urban space.
The Royal Academy Summer Exhibition is one of the great English Art traditions, it is the world’s oldest open-submission exhibition being established in 1768 whose long line of exhibitors reads like a Who’s Who of British Art. Some of the earliest exhibitors included the likes of Reynolds, Constable and Turner, however the exhibition prides itself that it offers a snapshot of contemporary art.
Part of the fun is walking around the exhibition and spotting work by established artists, work that particularly caught my eye was Covid Bell by Grayson Perry, Sunset by Eileen Cooper, Lost Boat Party by Jock McFadyen and The Dream Emporium by Mick Rooney.
Each room offers a kaleidoscope of colour and images in a range of media, from painting, printmaking, film and photography to sculpture and architectural works.
Works from all over the world are judged democratically on merit and the final selection is made during the eight-day hang in the galleries. This year the Royal Academy received over 15,000 entries, of which around 1200 works, in a range of media, will go on display. This open, inclusive and democratic show supports the artistic community and art education.
The majority of works in the Summer Exhibition are for sale, offering visitors an opportunity to purchase original work. Funds raised support the exhibiting artists, the postgraduate students studying in the RA Schools and the not-for-profit work of the Royal Academy.
This fascinating exhibition has a large number of wonderfully eclectic works on display, there is really something for everyone regardless of your particular artistic taste. The Summer Exhibition is one of the highlights of the art world and usually attracts a wide range of visitors. It also offers a rare opportunity to buy works from well-known and not so well-known artists with prices ranging from a few hundred to over a hundred thousand pounds.
Visiting London Guide Rating – Highly Recommended
For more information and tickets, visit the Royal Academy website here
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Whistler’s Woman in White: Joanna Hiffernan at the Royal Academy from 26 February to 22 May 2022
The Royal Academy’s Whistler’s Woman in White: Joanna Hiffernan will be the first exhibition to examine the important role played by the Irish-born model Joanna Hiffernan in establishing the reputation of the American artist James Abbott McNeill Whistler (1834-1903) as one of the most influential artists of the late 19th century.
The exhibition consists of over 70 works, and brings together nearly all of Whistler’s depictions of Hiffernan, and will include paintings, prints, drawings, and related art works and ephemera. Whistler’s Woman in White: Joanna Hiffernan explores the pair’s professional and personal relationship over more than 20 years and examine how the artwork resulting from their collaboration has influenced and resonated with artists into the 20th century.
The exhibition will be arranged thematically in six sections. London in the 1860s will feature depictions of London including Whistler’s Wapping, 1860-64 and other paintings from the 1850s and 1860s by British artists that portray the theme of the woman in white in various guises, including Dante Gabrielle Rosetti’s Ecce Ancilla Domine! [The Annunciation], 1849-50.
The following section, Symphonies in White, will be devoted to the artistic collaboration between Whistler and Hiffernan in the 1860s. A key highlight will be Whistler’s three Symphony in White paintings that are rarely shown together: Symphony in White, No. I: The White Girl, 1862, Symphony in White, No.II: The Little White Girl, 1864, and Symphony in White, No. III, 1865-67.
Whistler and Hiffernan: The Prints will demonstrate Whistler’s skills as a printmaker, especially in his images of Hiffernan. The following section will examine the influence of Japonisme on Whistler, in works such as his Purple and Rose: The Lange Leizen of the Six Marks, 1864, which shows Hiffernan wearing a kimono and surrounded with Asian objects from Whistler’s collection.
Whistler and Courbet presents the works of Gustave Courbet, who painted Hiffernan when she and Whistler joined Courbet in 1865 in Trouville, Normandy.
Whistler and Hiffernan’s legacy is revealed through the final section entitled Women in White, which will include paintings from the late 1860s until just after the turn of the century by a group of international artists, many of whom knew Whistler and were directly influenced by his treatment of the theme. Highlights will include John Everett Millais’ The Somnambulist, 1871, Gustav Klimt’s Portrait of Hermine Gallia, 1904 and Andrée Karpelés’ Symphonie en blanc, 1908.
The exhibition is organised by the Royal Academy of Arts, London and by the National Gallery of Art, Washington.
For more information and tickets, visit the Royal Academy website here
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Exhibition Review – Francis Bacon: Man and Beast at the Royal Academy from 29 January to 17 April 2022
The Royal Academy of Arts presents Francis Bacon: Man and Beast, the first exhibition to chart the development of the artist’s work through his fascination with animals and the human figure.
Francis Bacon (1909–1992) is considered one of the most important artists of the twentieth century and this exhibition includes around 45 paintings spanning his career; from his earliest works of the 1930s and 40s through to the final painting he ever made in 1991, which are exhibited publicly for the first time in the UK. Among the works, a trio of paintings of bullfights, all made in 1969, which also are displayed together for the first time.
The underlying theme of the exhibition is Bacon’s belief that man is never far from beast and beneath the veneer of civilisation, humans are just animals.
The exhibition is broadly chronological and begins with a group of paintings of creatures produced between 1944 and 1946 which suggest a disintegration of civilised humanity. The figures, which he described as being a distortion of the human body, relate to the Eumenides, or ‘Furies’ –ghostly apparitions, derived from his reading of Greek tragedy, particularly The Oresteia by Aeschylus.
One of Bacon’s earliest surviving works, Crucifixion, 1933 (Private Collection), is also displayed in this gallery.
In the later Fragment of a Crucifixion, 1950, a dog and an owl-like creature haunt the ‘cross’ while daily life continues in the background.
In the early 1950s, Bacon made two trips to South Africa. He was influenced by the vast landscapes, at this time Bacon’s began to observe animals in the wild and in captivity and this began to inform his treatment of the human body.
Portraiture was used by Bacon to explore the boundaries between the human and non-human animal. In preparation for his first solo exhibition in 1949, the artist produced a series of six Heads, portraits that questioned humanity. Head I, 1949 is displayed at the start of the exhibition.
The movement of human and animal bodies is the subject of the next gallery. Bacon was fascinated by the work of Eadweard Muybridge, whose photographic sequences of humans and animals in motion had a considerable effect on his treatment of the human body, exemplified by Paralytic Child Walking on All Fours (from Muybridge), 1961.
Bacon’s blurring of human and animal bodies became a theme from the 1960s onwards. The next section explores Bacon’s subversion of traditional representations of the nude.
In Triptych – Studies of the Human Body, 1970, three female figures clamber across a rail.
At the centre of the exhibition is a powerful trio of paintings of bullfights that present a most direct encounter between man and beast.
The ‘Furies’ are one of the most enigmatic motifs in Bacon’s works. A series of Triptych are featured which explore Bacon’s interest in Greek mythology especially The Oresteia.
The exhibition concludes with the last painting Bacon ever made, Study of a Bull, 1991, which was not discovered until 2016. The bull either emerges from the picture or falls back into the black void.
This thought provoking and fascinating exhibition illustrates Bacon’s disgust and obsession with the human condition. After the Second World War, the artist provides a number of canvases that question whether we are as civilised as we think we are. His answer later in life is to project animal and human tendencies in the same body providing a visual message that is powerful but also disconcerting.
Visiting London Guide Rating – Highly Recommended
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Exhibition Review: Late Constable at the Royal Academy from 30 October 2021 to 13 February 2022
The Royal Academy presents the first survey of the late work of John Constable (1776-1837). The exhibition entitled Late Constable explores the last twelve years of the artist’s career, from 1825 until his death in 1837. The exhibition brings together over 50 works including paintings and oil sketches as well as watercolours, drawings and prints, taking an in-depth look at the development of the artist’s late style.
Constable had many close ties with the Royal Academy, he became a student at the Royal Academy Schools in 1800, aged 24 and was elected a Royal Academician in 1829, at the age of 53. His relationship with the institution was mixed, from many years he was rejected as a full member but when he was elected he contributed in the exhibitions and teaching.
The exhibition is arranged in three sections. The first section, 1825-1829, starts with the last of Constable’s celebrated six-foot Suffolk ‘canal’ scenes, The Leaping Horse, 1825, one of the highlights of the Royal Academy’s collection.
This section also includes all of Constable’s major exhibition pictures from the period, including The Cornfield, 1825 and Dedham Vale, 1828,
as well as the artist’s Diploma Work, A Boat Passing a Lock, 1826, presented to the Royal Academy in 1829 upon his election as Royal Academician.
The second section, Works on Paper, features watercolours, drawings and prints. In his late career, Constable turned his attention to watercolour, highlights include his two exhibition watercolours, Old Sarum, 1834 and, most famously, Stonehenge, 1835.
The third section, 1830-37, explores Constable’s work in the 1830s leading up to his last two exhibition pictures: Cenotaph to the Memory of Sir Joshua Reynolds, 1833-36 and Arundel Mill and Castle, 1837.
This intriguing exhibition explores the last twelve years of Constable’s career and life, it was a time of tragedy and success for the artist. In 1828, Constable’s wife died and he was left with seven children under the age of 12 to bring up. In 1829, Constable was at last elected as a full Academician, the artist had achieved considerable success in his career but acknowledgement from the fellow artists was a long process.
Constable always seems to have suffered due to his comparison to Turner, Constable is always seen as the uninspired traditionalist, whilst Turner was seen as more modern and experimental. Any one who visits this exhibition may ask the question Is this a fair comparison?
Constable’s later work especially is full of movement and detail, his ability to capture the various weather patterns provide the landscapes with arresting pictures of light and shade. The artist’s Stonehenge, 1835 is a wonderful example of bring a static subject alive by providing a vibrant background.
This exhibition provides plenty of evidence that the old Constable v Turner debate often obscures the reality that Constable was not just a great technician but had great affinity to nature and the landscape.
Visiting London Guide Rating – Highly Recommended
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Exhibition Review : Summer Exhibition 2021 at the Royal Academy from 22 September 2021 – 2 January 2022
The Royal Academy presents this year’s Summer Exhibition, which has been delayed to the autumn for the second time in its long history due to the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic. At a time when artists have been denied important opportunities to show work, the 253rd Summer Exhibition is a unique celebration of contemporary art and architecture, providing a vital platform and support for the artistic community. It remains the world’s largest open submission contemporary art show and has been held every year without interruption since 1769, even throughout the war years.
© 2021 Visiting London Guide.com – Photograph by Alan Kean
Yinka Shonibare RA is the co-ordinator of the Summer Exhibition 2021 and the exhibition will explore the theme of ‘Reclaiming Magic’ to celebrate the joy of creating art. Shonibare said “This exhibition seeks a return to the visceral aspects and the sheer joy of art making.
© 2021 Visiting London Guide.com – Photograph by Alan Kean
Invited artists this year will include Michael Armitage, Njideka Akunyili Crosby, Ellen Gallagher, Rita Keegan, Jade Montserrat, Magdalene Odundo, Faith Ringgold and Betye Saar. New work for the exhibition will be shown by Alvaro Barrington, Angela de la Cruz, Hew Locke, Cassi Namoda, and Lawrence Lemaoana, who has created a large-scale textile kanga. The exhibition has a special dedication to the self-taught American artist Bill Traylor (1853 – 1949) who was born into slavery and only began to draw his recollections and observations in 1939. Further self-taught artists will include Souleymane Fall, Nnena Kalu, Frantz Lamothe, Bärbel Lange, Marie-Rose Lortet, Frank Walter and Johnson Weree.
© 2021 Visiting London Guide.com – Photograph by Alan Kean
David Adjaye RA is curating this year’s Architecture Room which will consider architecture through the expression of ‘Climate and Geography (or vice versa)’ focusing on the context of site, geography, climate, political climate, people, community and culture. Royal Academician architects featured will include Farshid Moussavi, Richard Rogers and Caruso St John, and invited architects will include Sean Canty, Counterspace and Atelier Masomi. As part of the sound programme, Peter Adjaye, a conceptual sound artist, has created a ‘soundtrack’ for the Architecture Room.
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In addition to the large number of public submissions, Royal Academicians and Honorary Academicians will be showing new works, including Allen Jones, Phyllida Barlow, William Kentridge, Conrad Shawcross, Wolfgang Tillmans and Rose Wylie.
© 2021 Visiting London Guide.com – Photograph by Alan Kean
The Royal Academy Summer Exhibition is one of the great English Art traditions, it is the world’s oldest open-submission exhibition being established in 1768 whose long line of exhibitors reads like a Who’s Who of British Art. Some of the earliest exhibitors included the likes of Reynolds, Constable and Turner, however the exhibition prides itself that it offers a snapshot of contemporary art.
© 2021 Visiting London Guide.com – Photograph by Alan Kean
Part of the fun is walking around the exhibition and spotting work by established artists, work that particularly caught my eye was Der Gordische Knoten by Anselm Kiefer, Matrix VII by Antony Gormley, Bethnal Green and Mont Blanc by Jock McFadyen and Lovelocks Whole Earth by Frank Bowling.
© 2021 Visiting London Guide.com – Photograph by Alan Kean
Each room offers a kaleidoscope of colour and images in a range of media, from painting, printmaking, film and photography to sculpture and architectural works.
© 2021 Visiting London Guide.com – Photograph by Alan Kean
Works from all over the world are judged democratically on merit and the final selection is made during the eight-day hang in the galleries. This year the Royal Academy received over 15,000 entries, of which around 1200 works, in a range of media, will go on display. This open, inclusive and democratic show supports the artistic community and art education.
© 2021 Visiting London Guide.com – Photograph by Alan Kean
The majority of works in the Summer Exhibition are for sale, offering visitors an opportunity to purchase original work. Funds raised support the exhibiting artists, the postgraduate students studying in the RA Schools and the not-for-profit work of the Royal Academy.
© 2021 Visiting London Guide.com – Photograph by Alan Kean
This fascinating exhibition has a large number of wonderfully eclectic works on display, there is really something for everyone regardless of your particular artistic taste. The Summer Exhibition is one of the highlights of the art world and usually attracts a wide range of visitors. It also offers a rare opportunity to buy works from well-known and not so well-known artists with prices ranging from a few hundred to over a hundred thousand pounds.
Visiting London Guide Rating – Highly Recommended
For more information and tickets, visit the Royal Academy website here
London Visitors is the official blog for the Visiting London Guide .com website. The website was developed to bring practical advice and latest up to date news and reviews of events in London.
Since our launch in January 2014, we have attracted thousands of readers each month, the site is constantly updated.
We have sections on Museums and Art Galleries, Transport, Food and Drink, Places to Stay, Security, Music, Sport, Books and many more.
There are also hundreds of links to interesting articles on our blog.
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Summer Exhibition 2021 at the Royal Academy from 22 September 2021 – 2 January 2022
The Royal Academy presents this year’s Summer Exhibition, which has been delayed to the autumn for the second time in its long history due to the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic. At a time when artists have been denied important opportunities to show work, the 253rd Summer Exhibition will be a unique celebration of contemporary art and architecture, providing a vital platform and support for the artistic community. It remains the world’s largest open submission contemporary art show and has been held every year without interruption since 1769, even throughout the war years.
Yinka Shonibare RA is the co-ordinator of the Summer Exhibition 2021 and the exhibition will explore the theme of ‘Reclaiming Magic’ to celebrate the joy of creating art. Shonibare said “This exhibition seeks a return to the visceral aspects and the sheer joy of art making.
Invited artists this year will include Michael Armitage, Njideka Akunyili Crosby, Ellen Gallagher, Rita Keegan, Jade Montserrat, Magdalene Odundo, Faith Ringgold and Betye Saar. New work for the exhibition will be shown by Alvaro Barrington, Angela de la Cruz, Hew Locke, Cassi Namoda, andLawrence Lemaoana, who has created a large-scale textile kanga. The exhibition will be anchored to a special dedication to the self-taught American artist Bill Traylor (1853 – 1949) who was born into slavery and only began to draw his recollections and observations in 1939. Further self-taught artists will include Souleymane Fall, Nnena Kalu, Frantz Lamothe, Bärbel Lange, Marie-Rose Lortet, Frank Walter and Johnson Weree.
David Adjaye RA is curating this year’s Architecture Room which will consider architecture through the expression of ‘Climate and Geography (or vice versa)’ focusing on the context of site, geography, climate, political climate, people, community and culture. Royal Academician architects featured will include Farshid Moussavi, Richard Rogers and Caruso St John, and invited architects will include Sean Canty, Counterspace and Atelier Masomi. As part of the sound programme, Peter Adjaye, a conceptual sound artist, has created a ‘soundtrack’ for the Architecture Room.
In addition to the large number of public submissions, Royal Academicians and Honorary Academicians will be showing new works, including Phyllida Barlow, William Kentridge, Conrad Shawcross, Wolfgang Tillmans and Rose Wylie. John Akomfrah RA will have a dedicated gallery showing his video work Peripeteia, 2012.
This year, the Summer Exhibition will expand beyond the spatial and visual with a sound programme. The programme, which is intended to be played through personal headphones to enhance the experience of the exhibition, will include soundscapes and poetry by six artists.
Works from all over the world are judged democratically on merit and the final selection is made during the eight-day hang in the galleries. This year the Royal Academy received over 15,000 entries, of which around 1200 works, in a range of media, will go on display. This open, inclusive and democratic show supports the artistic community, art education and provides a display of creativity and joy for the public.
The majority of works in the Summer Exhibition will be for sale, offering visitors an opportunity to purchase original work. Funds raised support the exhibiting artists, the postgraduate students studying in the RA Schools and the not-for-profit work of the Royal Academy.
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Royal Academy Revised Exhibition Programme 2021
The Royal Academy intends to reopen on Tuesday 18 May 2021, pending government confirmation that ‘Step 3’ of the roadmap will proceed as planned.
Following the national lockdown and temporary closure of the Royal Academy due to the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, the exhibition programme for the remainder of 2021 has changed. Upon reopening, the Royal Academy the following programme will take place:
Exhibition Programme 2021
Tracey Emin/Edvard Munch: The Loneliness of the Soul
The Gabrielle Jungels-Winkler Galleries
From reopening until 30 May 2021
Michael Armitage: Paradise Edict
The Jillian and Arthur M. Sackler Wing of Galleries
22 May – 19 September 2021
David Hockney: The Arrival of Spring, Normandy, 2020
Main Galleries (Galleries 2, 3, Central Hall and Lecture Room)
23 May – 1 August 2021
The Gabrielle Jungels-Winkler Galleries
8 August – 26 September 2021
Summer Exhibition 2021
Main Galleries
22 September 2021 – 2 January 2022
Late Constable
The Gabrielle Jungels-Winkler Galleries
30 October 2021 – 13 February 2022
RA Schools Show 2021
RA Schools Studios and Weston Studio
17 June – 4 July 2021
EXHIBITION POSTPONEMENTS
Francis Bacon: Man and Beast
Main Galleries
Postponed until 29 January – 17 April 2022
Milton Avery
The Jillian and Arthur M. Sackler Wing of Galleries
Postponed until 16 July – 16 October 2022
Herzog & de Meuron
The Jillian and Arthur M. Sackler Wing of Galleries
Postponed. New dates to be announced in due course.
Marina Abramović
Main Galleries
Postponed until 2023. New dates to be announced in due course.
Jock McFadyen RA: Tourist without a Guidebook
The Weston Rooms
Postponed until 2022. New dates to be announced in due course.
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