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Postgraduate school of contemporary fine art in London. Admissions for Oct 2019 entry to our full time, three year course are now open.

The RA Schools offers Europe's only free, three year postgraduate arts programme. We welcome artists working in all media and representing a diverse range of positions and approaches. Students work closely with each other, with an emphasis on constructive critique and peer learning. Our students receive a studio space whatever the nature of your practice, as spacious and open plan as possible. Stu

dents have access to specialist workshops in all media and instruction in new skills and technical support in realising projects is available. A full programme of lectures, seminars and visiting artists forms the structure of the working week and exposes students to new voices and methodologies. The RA Schools does not charge tuition fees to anyone. It is part of the Royal Academy of Arts and is supported by the RA’s endowment, by corporate supporters, trusts and foundations, Friends of the Royal Academy, individual patrons and fundraising events.

26/05/2026

The Royal Academy Schools Show 2026 will run from 12 – 28 June 2026.

Exhibiting artists: Lolly Adams (), Mohammed Adel (.art) Maya Gurung-Russell Campbell (), Dwayne Coleman (), Katrina Cowling (), Vitaliia Fedorova ( , Rahima Gambo (), Georgia Kerr (), Djofray Makumbu (), Robert O’Leary (), Francisca Pinto (.cisca_pinto), Zachariah Riley ().

Open Tuesday–Sunday from 10am–6pm, with later opening on Friday til 9pm. Closed on Mondays.

Displayed throughout the RA Schools’ Studios and Weston Studio, the exhibition presents a wide range of practices from moving image and installation to sculpture, painting, and print.

This year’s exhibition features hybrid, monumental sculptures whose material skins are self-consciously staged; paintings that hold personal history within interior spaces through restrained colour and surface; and an animation of the subterranean sewer princess, Miss HerNia, where excess just keeps on coming.

The RA Schools Show 2026 is sponsored by Stewarts.

19/05/2026

Last week to see ‘Love letters to you and me’, an exhibition by Royal Academy Schools’ 2026 Starr Fellow Obi Agwam, on display in our Weston Studios from Friday 1 May to Sunday 24 May 2026.

Obi Agwam is a figurative surrealist painter whose work delves into the complexities of black identity through personal introspection, visual metaphors, and the influence of Western animation. Rather than focusing on what the black identity looks like, Obi aims to represent that feeling with visual metaphors.
Each artwork is prompted from journal entries, where an excerpt is taken and turned into a figure that represents a moment of reflection. These indistinct characters carry visual metaphors that allude to the feelings expressed in aforementioned journal entries. Within these artworks the design of the characters are heavily inspired by animation. Obi aims to highlight and preserve the different ways black figures have been represented in history and his love for animation as a medium.

Photography: Andy Keate

18/05/2026

Introducing class of 2028, Seren Metcalfe (b.1997, Yorkshire) is a London-based artist, writer, and curator whose practice spans installation, performance, sculpture, moving image, text, and sound.

She is the founder and director of The Working Class Creatives Database, through which she develops exhibitions, residencies, and events in collaboration with institutions across the UK.

Her artwork examines how everyday life is collectively performed through systems of labour, belief, and repetition, creating environments where sound, robotics, objects, choreography, and text intersect to reveal how attention and behaviour are organised. She is interested in the tension between system and rupture, where the structures of daily life are disrupted by shifts in rhythm, misalignment, or forms of attention that exceed control. Writing operates as both method and residue, emerging through observation and movement and returning as text, sound, or material within the work.

Currently, within the Royal Academy Schools context, her practice is shifting towards slowing down and reassessing installation, sculpture, and performance, moving away from constructed spectacle towards something more reduced, durational, and uncertain.

23/04/2026

Reimagining the canon - Panel discussion
Wednesday 6 May 2026 6.30 - 7.45pm
The John Madejski Fine Rooms | Burlington House

Tickets: £12/£8

Our panel discusses how creative practice can unsettle prevailing narratives and spark new perspectives.
Imagination has long been a catalyst for change. It allows us to question inherited narratives, envision possibilities beyond existing structures and create space for new realities to emerge. This panel explores how imagination functions as a powerful tool for cultural and social transformation, particularly in the context of Black history and representation.
Bringing together a panel of artists, curators and critics, we explore how artists can use imagination to rewrite histories, expand representation, and resist the confines of established cultural canons.
This conversation accompanies ‘Love letters to you and me’, an exhibition by Royal Academy Schools’ 2026 Starr Fellow Obi Agwam, on display in our Weston Studios from Friday 1 May to Sunday 24 May 2026.

For more information: https://www.royalacademy.org.uk/event/reimaginging-the-canon
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08/04/2026

‘Response to a Request (or spasm of the soul)’ a new show opening in , curated by

1st May – 14th June 2026

Part of the sixth edition of London Gallery Weekend: 5th – 7th June 2026 Private View: 30th April 2026

Artists: Judith Dean, Gina Fischli, Nicola Gunnarsson, Sebastian Jefford, Sarah Jones, Richard Kirwan, Hamish Pearch, Cathie Pilkington, Max Prus, Elinor Stanley, Oliver Tirré, Chris Thompson, David Thorpe, Francis Upritchard, and Robert Walser.

Response to a Request (or spasm of the soul) brings together paintings, drawings, sculptures and text that consider what happens when artistic production is shaped by pressures that are not always fully articulated. Rather than resolving the request placed upon them, the works in the exhibition absorb it, sometimes misinterpreting or even pushing against it. Curated by Brian Griffiths, the exhibition examines the space between instruction and impulse, extending his longstanding interest in the artist as an unreliable narrator and exhibition-making as staged and provisional.

26/03/2026

‘The Losers’, by Anaï Salem (Class of 2027), is on display at the Royal Academy of Arts, Weston Studio, as part of Premiums II, until 22nd April.

‘The Losers’
Wood, pomegranate, fabric, plaster, ready-made
Variable dimensions
2026

Opening hours:
Tuesday-Sunday: 10am-6pm
Friday: 10am-9pm
Monday: close

Photo: Andy Keate

23/03/2026

RA Schools Open Studios 2026

‘Giraffe neck circling the earth three times’ performance by Huang Ziyue

Performed by .bby

In January we had the pleasure of opening our doors to friends and Patrons of the RA Schools for our Open Studios! A favourite in the RA Supporters’ calendar, this vibrant and eclectic evening complete with live performances provides a unique opportunity for supporters to meet current students, see upcoming projects, and find out more about their work and life at the RA Schools.
Photos by Justine Trickett

16/03/2026

RA Schools Open Studios 2026

“Skin Model” a Movement piece by first year student Karoline Franka Foldager

With Victoria Gill, Penny Oliver, Tess McMillan and Rosalind Duguid.

In January we had the pleasure of opening our doors to friends and Patrons of the RA Schools for our Open Studios! A favourite in the RA Supporters’ calendar, this vibrant and eclectic evening complete with live performances provides a unique opportunity for supporters to meet current students, see upcoming projects, and find out more about their work and life at the RA Schools.

Photos by Justine Trickett

05/03/2026

Introducing class of 2028, Alex Argyros Amerikanos (b.1999 Athens) works with drawing and painting. Taking images from the mind and puzzling them to make sense of the world, one after the other . Presence, body, escape are themes surrounding his practice.

03/03/2026

Premiums 2 opens next week!
From 13th March - 22nd April in the Weston Studio, Burlington House. Includes the work of:

Tom Crossley
Dandy-Day
Ziyue Huang
Renoir Saulter
Wincent Szczerba
Anaï Salem
Linnea Skoglösa
Taika Tontti
Sam Tromp

Premiums is an annual exhibition of new works by current 2nd year students at the interim point during their time at the Royal Academy Schools.

This year it’s divided into two shows, of which this is the second.

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Monday: close

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