See/ The Perfect Place to Grow:175 Years of the Royal College of Art/ 16 November 2012 to 3 January 2013
London
General Information
The exhibition will feature work by RCA faculty and alumni according to four principal themes: ‘Art and Industry’; ‘Public Purpose’; ‘Personal Expression’; and ‘Political Expression’. The exhibition will include both student work and later professional achievements of such alumni and faculty as: Gertrude Jekyll, Sir Edwin Lutyens, Eric Ravilious, Edward Bawden, Hans Coper, Ossie Clark, Bill Gibb, Zandra Rhodes, Sir James Dyson, Eric Parry, David Adjaye, Tord Boontje, Ron Arad, Graphic Thought Facility and Neville Brody from the broad disciplines of Design, Architecture and Applied Art; Lady Elizabeth Butler, Dame Barbara Hepworth, Henry Moore OM, David Hockney OM, Bridget Riley, Eduardo Paolozzi, Tracey Emin (whose 2001 work The Perfect Place to Grow, is both exhibited and referenced in the exhibition title), Chris Ofili, George Shaw and Spartacus Chetywnd will be represented from the field of Fine Art in the sections on Personal and Political Expression.
Exploring the evolution of the renowned institution, since its founding to the present day, the exhibition will offer a contemporary assessment of the impact of new thinking on art education, the relationship of art to industry and the reforms and debates affecting British art education across three centuries.
