RCA2025 School of Communication: Festival of Communication

Taking place at the RCA White City campus and the surrounding areas (as well as at Frameless, Outernet, Television Centre and the BFI) from 4–30 July, the public can experience the boundary-pushing works created by this year's cohort of talent graduating from programmes across the School of Communication.

Exhibitions and events will be split into two parts. Featured programmes include:

Part 1: 4-6 July (12-8pm on Friday 4 July, 12-6pm on Saturday 5 & Sunday 6 July)

• Visual Communication MA
• Digital Direction MA

Part 2: 11-13 July (12-8pm on Friday 11 July, 12-6pm on Saturday 12 & Sunday 13 July)

• Animation MA
• Information Experience Design MA
• Communication MFA

View mobile-friendly exhibition map (PDF).

Highlights of student work include:

Ventcislava Nekova (MA Digital Direction) presents Cycles, an immersive performance exploring how power and control are enforced through gender dynamics at the dinner table.

Lukman Ipese (MA Visual Communication) presents Kitted for Culture, a visual communications project exploring the identity, heritage and self expression found in Hackney Marshes through grassroots football and fashion.

Fatima Nader’s (MA Information Experience Design) immersive audio-visual experience Mirage, explores technology’s place in cultural interaction through a speculative dialogue in Saudi Arabia’s desert.

Jadwiga Ligeza’s (MA Animation) exhibiting film Rock Song, is a stop motion animation exploring emotional trauma and resilience through the journey of a rolling rock.

Part 2 of the exhibition will also include research and works from MFA Communication students, who will explore how communication can influence the world around us via an interdisciplinary and playful process.

A number of MA Digital Direction students will showcase their work at Frameless on 2 July, before three artworks by four students continue in residency, as Bodies Unbound in the Blank Canvas gallery, until September.

The official schedule of exhibitions, events and activities from all schools at the RCA can be accessed here. A selection of works from RCA2025 graduating students will be available for purchase through RCA Sales, a sales platform, which opens from 5pm BST, Wednesday 18 June - 10am BST, Monday 21 July.