'Plum Pictures' - in association with 'Hat Trick' - are looking for couples to take part in a new programme for Channel 4 in which a man will treat his wife or long-term partner to a whole new wardrobe.  It maybe that she feels completely lost when it comes to clothes, maybe she has low self-esteem, or finds it hard to get out of her comfort clothes. She might have quite a whacky/overly sexy dress sense or since having children hasn’t had any time to focus on herself and her clothes are utterly outdated.

The annual Fashion Degree Show at the College is always a must see.
RCA Society members and associates were there too - using the occasion to also select a winner for the 'RCA Society and T&H Art Book Prize'. Amidst all the fashion aficionados you may recognise members and design colleagues from the trade who are designing, co-ordinating, buying, teaching or reporting - See picture gallery and video.

Sunday 20th June 2010 • from 2pm

The Box: Conceptual, abstract, ultra real, poetic are just a few of the possible meanings to signify ‘Boxed in Time’... anything goes. Translate your thoughts into a ‘box’ - but it should be no bigger than a ‘chair seat’.

RCA Society
Annual General Meeting
Sunday 20th June 2010
(11am for coffee) 11.30 am – 1pm
venue • AND “EventSpace 1”
10 Back Church Lane, London E1 1LX

You can download the AGM Report 09-2010 as an Acrobat pdf document

Agenda Items
1 Welcome by the Chair
2 Apologies
3 Approval of last years AGM minutes
4 Officers’ Reports
5 Approval of Treasurer’s Report

Nominations* and Elections
6 Election of Chair
7 Election of officers
8 Election of committee members
9 Resolutions and Any Other Business

28 May–6 June 2010: SHOW One - Kensington Gore, London SW7 2EU - Photography, Printmaking, Ceramics & Glass, GSM&J.
Show One has opened (see photos)
RCA Society members met up at the opening of "Show One" - not only to enjoy what is a jolly occasion to bump into old friends (and maybe make new ones) but also to decide on their nominations for this year's "RCA Society and Thames & Hudson Art Book Prize". Send your nominations immediately and make sure to meet up at the other shows opening nights.

A series of educational debates connected to the exhibition “Peter Kardia: From Floor to Sky” was launched at Tate Britain and was organised in collaboration with Tate Britain’s educational department. The RCA Society will be launching a third debate at the Royal College after the St Martins debates on the 26th and 27 March.

As expected the exhibition ‘From Floor to Sky’ curated by Peter Kardia attracted huge interest at its opening night at P3 Ambika Galleries in London. The gallery was packed with hundreds of visitors including artists, students, and lecturers of all ages. The large turnout was a significant response to what is a signifying exhibition.

This significant exhibition, curated by Peter Kardia, of contemporary British sculpture opened 5 March 2010 at the P3 Galleries. "From Floor to Sky" brings together 28 artists, all graduates of the RCA and St Martins, whose radical and political approaches shifted the practice of sculpture away from the established forms or subject matters.

Don't wait for the Degrees shows to come around as you can catch up with how the work by the College's current student intake is developing. The interim shows are good to see because the pressure is not yet quite on for the students so the work is still experimental and personal. The first of this year's 'interim shows' included work from the Fashion and Textiles, Photography, Gold/Silver/Metalwork schools.

A large audience gathered in London's east end Toynbee Hall theatre space, Whitechapel, to see two films by "director extraordinaire" Ian Johnson. The first film to be shown was "Bruce Lacey: The Original Performance Artist" (56mins) a film documenting the work of 60's robotics and performance artist Bruce Lacey. Ian's second film "No Problem..." (33mins), was a tense documentary film about actor, writer and man of notorious and experimental theatre, Ken Campbell.