The Royal College of Art opens its graduate showcase across London, presenting work that explores memory, identity, and material innovation.
From 19 June to 23 July, the Royal College of Art will open its campuses to the public for RCA2025, a summer programme of graduate exhibitions and events showcasing work across art, design, architecture, and communication. Taking place at the RCA’s sites in Battersea, Kensington, and White City, the event offers a window into the practices of emerging creatives from around the world.
Oil on Canvas
The School of Arts & Humanities begins the season with its postgraduate show, running 19–22 June at Battersea. Among the exhibitors is Damien Cifelli, an MA Painting graduate whose paintings explore Tarogramma—a fictional land shaped by imagined traditions and quiet surrealism.
Xavier Leopold, a multidisciplinary artist completing an MA in Sculpture and the current Sir Frank Bowling Scholar, will present new sculptural work. Meanwhile, Lala Drona contributes paintings that consider bodily presence and absence through the visual language of gesture and movement in transitional space.
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Nearby, Yuzhou Zhu, graduating from the MA Print programme, uses fragile materials such as dust and hair to create intaglio etchings. These works examine memory and time through a subdued, tactile lens.
The School of Architecture will present its graduate exhibition from 4 to 6 July at the Kensington campus. Urara Hatano, an MA Interior Design graduate, proposes Sonic Urban Landscape—a repurposing of a disused office building as a space for sound-based artistic collaboration.
Love is not rich
The School of Design EXPO, split across two instalments—3–5 July and 17–19 July at Battersea—features projects responding to ecological and social questions. Zhong-Wei Lin (MA Design Products) introduces Reefine, a modular artificial reef designed to support marine biodiversity in Taiwanese waters. The project has received international recognition and will appear in exhibitions across Europe.
Also exhibiting is U Gajadeera (MA Fashion), whose collection S.O.S. (Save Our Seas) transforms waste material into garments that reflect the emotional and environmental consequences of ocean pollution. Her work has been featured in Vogue, The Sunday Times, and other publications.
Ocean deity and bleaching coral Yarn & fabric
In White City, the School of Communication will hold its Festival of Communication from 4 to 23 July, with events and installations extending into the surrounding neighbourhood. Yeonmi Kim (MA Visual Communication), who works under the name mustard, presents Love Is Not Rich, a research-based project exploring the language and impact of romance scams. Her work uses clothing to record and reinterpret the emotional residue of online deception.
A full schedule of events and exhibitions can be found on the RCA website. Selected works will also be available for purchase via RCA Sales, the college’s official sales platform, open from 5pm BST on 18 June to 10am BST on 21 July.
The Royal College of Art’s RCA2025 Graduate Showcase runs from 19 June to 23 July across its Battersea, Kensington, and White City campuses
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