RCA2020 at New Creatives, Oxo Tower Wharf
OXO TOWER WHARF, SOUTH BANK, LONDON SE1 / AGILITYPR.NEWS / May 16, 2022 / Two shows featuring the graduate work from four schools of The Royal College of Art (RCA) are part of this year’s New Creatives, Oxo Tower Wharf’s graduate season. RCA2020 brings to life graduate work from its 2020 cohort, the “show that never happened” because of the global pandemic. Each show spans two weekends from 20 May until 12 June.
RCA2020 Part One (20-22 May & 27-29 May, 11am-6pm) features the work of graduates from the School of Architecture and the School of Design. The School of Architecture graduates exhibit work from the Interior Design and Architecture programmes. The exhibition also features work by graduates from Service Design, Textiles, Design Products, Fashion, Global Innovation Design and Innovation Design Engineering from the School of Design.
RCA2020 Part Two (3-5 June & 10-12 June, 11am-6pm) features the work of graduates from the School of Arts and Humanities and the School of Communication. The show features graduates from Painting, Print and Contemporary Art Practice from The School of Arts and Humanities and Visual Communication, Animation and Information Experience Design from the School of Communication.
RCA2020 is not simply about putting art and design on display but recapturing the energy and enthusiasm of a degree show in a normal year.
Visit the shows / Just turn up / admission FREE.
The exhibitions take place at Bargehouse and gallery@oxo, Oxo Tower Wharf, Bargehouse Street, South Bank, London SE1 9PH.
Find out what’s on when and how to get there https://coinstreet.org/new-creatives or social media @oxotowerwharf
New Creatives Programme
20-22 May & 27-29 May, 11am-6pm, Bargehouse
RCA2020 Part One
Royal College of Art – School of Design and School of Architecture
25-29 May, 11am-6pm, gallery@oxo
Perspective – Documentary Photography BA (Hons) Degree Show
University of Gloucestershire
3-5 June & 10-12 June, 11am-6pm, Bargehouse
RCA2020 Part Two
Royal College of Art – School of Communication and School of Arts and Humanities
16-19 June, 11am-6pm, Bargehouse and gallery@oxo
Blueprints Made in Brunel
Brunel University London
1-3 July, 11am-6pm, Bargehouse
Balance 2022
Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama
8-9 July, 11am-6pm, Bargehouse
ARSOC Summer Show 2022
University of Cambridge Department of Architecture
15-17 July, 11am-6pm, Bargehouse and gallery@oxo
re-Form 2022 - The Interior Educators Summer Show 2022
Collective exhibition of the best work produced by BA and MA interior design and architecture graduates from national courses from 22 UK universities.
22-24 July, 11am-6pm, Bargehouse
Evoke
The Arts University Bournemouth
The Rainwater Fountain, Matyas Barak, Interior Design (MA) - RCA2020 Show One
The Rainwater Fountain tackles water scarcity in high-density urban areas by making rainwater drinkable while creating an arresting space. Rainwater is collected, filtered and disinfected by selected materials which ensure its drinkability. It explores how materials can be used to harvest rainwater and how water and materials can be combined to create an eye-catching space where people can take a moment, pause, and enjoy a refreshing drink.
Similies, Isabel Alonso, Design Products (MA) - RCA2020 Show One
Similes is a lighting collection that aims to communicate glassblowing in a new way for social and cultural benefit. Based on an artisan-designer collaboration and ethnographic research, the glassblowers’ tools and actions are captured in three lamps operated by mimicking the movements used to craft them. They resemble a blowpipe with molten glass and light up when twisted or turned. These lights work to illustrate glassblowing, prompt conversations about it and, ultimately, stimulate further interest in it.
Tripus, Matyas Barak, Interior Design (MA) - RCA2020 Show One
Tripus creates a new kind of landscape in a public space. It helps individuals maintain their personal space. Have a seat on the Tripus and let it protect your personal space with its tentacles, you might even see flowers grow from them!
The Four-Leaf Clover Farm Shop, Nina Coulson, Contemporary Art Practice: Public Sphere - RCA2020 Show One
The Four-Leaf Clover Farm Shop features the distribution of over 4000 Fortis Fortuna Adiuvat, pressed four-leaf clover leaves in zip bags (dimensions: 8x6cm) that were grown by the artist as part of an ongoing long-term project finding, growing and dispersing four leaf clovers internationally. The farm shop will operate to the public via an honesty-box/pay point system and the intention is to distribute the entire harvest during the duration of the show.
Ornithanthropon 1480/2020, Arieh Frosh, Contemporary Art Practice (MA) - RCA2020 Show Two
Frosh uses writing, 3D computer animation, motorised sculptures, and film to form narrative-based projects. Ornithanthropon revisits ideas of hybridity, interspecies and technological thinking to create a series of lo-fi animatronics. An accompanying text will reflect on poor decision-making processes, alongside pieced-together drawings by Ulisse Aldrovandi, among others.
How May I Serve You, José García Oliva, Visual Communication (MA) - RCA2020 Show Two
How May I Serve You aims to humanise and reveal the experiences of those individuals hidden behind calls and online chats. The work takes place through open online conversations between customer service agents based in Pakistan, outsourced by the UK, and an online UK-based audience. This participatory performance occurred in the middle of the pandemic when call centre agents were key workers to keep the current system running. A book containing these conversations will be published on 31 May with the profits going to Malik and Saadia to start a union for call centre agents in Pakistan.
About Us
Oxo Tower Wharf is a cultural hub and creative community at the heart of London’s South Bank and Bankside. Right on the riverside, Oxo Tower Wharf is more than just a restaurant. It is a lively community of designer-maker studios, gallery and event spaces, shops, and cafes. There’s always something going on. The iconic building with its famous art deco tower is owned and managed by Coin Street, a local social enterprise creating a thriving, diverse, and welcoming place for people to live, work and play.
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