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Date
- 24 June 2022
Author
- RCA
Read time
- 2 minutes
At RCA2022, the Royal College of Art’s graduate exhibition, four themes tie together works by emerging artists, designers and practitioners: Bodies, Deep Connections, Environments and the Big Beyond.
Explore work that addresses our relationship with ‘Environments’ – from students inspired by their immediate locality to those tackling global issues with sustainability at the forefront of their practice.
Key details
Date
- 24 June 2022
Author
- RCA
Read time
- 2 minutes
For life to thrive it must exist in perfectly balanced conditions. For billions of years life on earth has maintained a symbiotic relationship with its habitat, but the effects of the Anthropocene’s climate crisis threaten this stability.
Students in this theme have found the perfect conditions to consider this balancing act. Whether looking to their immediate surroundings or further afield, they are thoughtfully contributing to the delicate ecology of creativity, asking: ‘How do we affect the environment and how in turn does it affect us?’
Elise Guillaume | MA Contemporary Art Practice
Location: Battersea South, Studio Building, Second floor
Elise Guillaume’s work explores our complex relationship with nature, with the body a key vessel for interpreting living and non-living beings that form our world. At RCA2022, she shows her latest film Where I Learn to Breathe alongside a body of multi-media works addressing themes at the intersection of feminism and ecology.
Working ecologically both on the conceptual and practical level, negative photographs taken while location scouting for Where I Learn to Breathe were developed with her own plant-based developer, using seaweed as an alternative to chemical substances.
Xiaoyi Lin | MA Textiles
Location: Battersea South, Studio Building, Third floor
Xiaoyi Lin’s project revolves around landscape and the perception of time. During walks along the River Thames, water samples were taken in different weather conditions and times of the day. By experimenting with dyeing and cyanotype using this water collected from the Thames, instead of more harmful chemical processes, Xiaoyi Lin's work invites nature itself to become a material.
Harry R. Masson | MA Print
Location: Battersea North, Dyson & Woo Buildings, First floor and mezzanine
Harry R. Masson’s work The Great Divide examines humanity’s relationship to nature and the endeavour to make sense of a world increasingly filled with both natural and man-made objects. His installation surrounds the observer in an excess of images and objects that question the materiality of our everyday environments through a variety of photographic approaches, including nature, still life and iPhone photography.
Amanda Dolgā | MA Architecture
Location: Kensington, Darwin Building, Upper ground floor
Discover a testing ground for alternative forms of living through the work of Amanda Dolgā who posits that a disused former corporate campus in Stuttgart, Germany can become a testing ground for a way of life that works in tandem with the local ecology. Campus in a Forest implements sustainable adaptation through strategies of maintenance and repair across three scales of intervention – building, landscape and territory.
Collection: Ain't no Mountain High Enough
Discover new terrain in this collection of works focusing on landscapes and our relationship with nature. Image: 360 Degree Drawing by Phoebe Hayes (MA Visual Communication).