News

Displacement
Lost heritage
Social and Humanitarian aspects
Unifying Cultural elements
Site + theme specific considerations

Had Harry Beck, the creator of the original iconic Tube Map, been a psychologist at the University of Essex then this exhibition shows the range of work he would have created. Maxwell Roberts has pushed the boundaries of the diagrammatic mapping from the rules set by tools of the trade at the time, a draughting board with a T-square and 45% set-square, and change the rules not just by angles but by lines being curved and also wavy.

16 March - 22 April 2012
Venue: Ambika P3 Galleries - University of Westminster
35 Marylebone Road, London NW1 5LS
nearest underground Baker Street (op Mme Tussaud)

A student, lecturer, and Fellow at The Royal College of Art and Committee member and friend to the RCA Society.

No Past Is Mine, No Future: Look at Me
An exhibition and installation by Güler Ateş
1- 26 September - Leighton House, Kensington.

Lord Frederic Leighton's former home and studio is an example of Victorian opulence, fashionable exoticism, and the industrial dynamic of 19th Century trading. It is a reminder of the British Empire's ability to absorb outside influences, manufacture them as its own, then export and capitalise upon them world-wide. An environment which underlines a history of universal hegemony and cultural hybrids.

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 year's Forum took place at the Indigo2 (aka The Dome) - a move away from it's original venue at the spacy and impressive Dockland's Excel Centre. The squeeze into a new environment was almost reflective of the financial squeeze of the 'world banking crisis' has brought up us. Not that anyone would admit as much. In acclimatizing to the reduced size and attendance at the show the forum took on a more intimate and human ethos than the "flash corporate land grabbing money grubbing" approach seen in previous years.

Ken Livingstone, when Mayor of London, not only looked at Trafalgar Square and transformed it into a unique pedestrianised (pigeon-free) area he took the opportunity to engineer into it an invaluable role for the vacant plinth. It became the location for specially commissioned, though temporary, artworks, where each year artists are specially invited to submit proposals for works to be located on the plinth. There is something very refreshing about maintaining a space for change. It's very 'emptiness' has significance - in itself it could be an art work expressing potentiality...

The international design team, O’Donnell + Tuomey, has been selected to design and build the new home for London’s “Photographers’ Gallery”. Sheila O’Donnell, a graduate of the RCA School of Architecture (1978 – 1980) and her partner John Tuomey have built up an international reputation for cultural and educational projects and produce spectacular buildings that enhance visitors’ experiences while expanding the language of modernism. The Gallery will be located at 16 – 18 Ramillies Street - just off Oxford Street, in the heart of London’s Soho district.

Excel 22 - 23 November 2006 The recent annual Thames Gateway Forum held at east London’s Excel Centre in November attracted record numbers of people, organisations and businesses involved in ‘regeneration’. They all came together for two days to discuss how far the massive re-development of land alongside the easterly section of the River Thames had progressed. Amongst them was a group of RCA Society members who also wanted to see what had happened since last year's event.