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unusual facts about The Royal College of Art



Mania Akbari

The Royal College of Art - screening of Video Arts Self and Sin (London, UK - October 2009)


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Eleonora Aguiari

In 2004, for her final show at the Royal College of Art, she wrapped an equestrian statue of Lord Napier of Magdala, situated on Queen's Gate in West London, in bright red duct tape, giving the appearance of the statue being painted red.

Grace Chia

In the UK, she performed her poetry as part of an artistic multimedia ensemble at the Royal College of Art and the Guildhall School of Music & Drama with Vuk Krakovic and Len Massey.

L. Bruce Archer

In 1984, Jocelyn Stevens was appointed as Rector of the Royal College of Art, and he peremptorily closed the Department of Design Research.

Mick Manning

Born in 1959 and brought up in Haworth, near Keighey, Yorkshire, England, Manning studied Graphic Design at The University of Northumbria and then Illustration at The Royal College of Art where his tutors included John Norris Wood, Quentin Blake and Sheila Robinson.

Raymond Hawkey

During his time at the Royal College of Art Hawkey first encountered Len Deighton when Deighton (another RCA scholarship student at that time) gatecrashed a literary party that Hawkey was helping to organise.

Sandy Nairne

In this capacity, Nairne oversaw the re-invigoration of the British Art Show, the establishing of the Institute of International Visual Arts (InIVA) as a permanent organisation to promote culturally diverse projects, the furtherance of Percent for Art and the creation of the Curating Contemporary Art Course at the Royal College of Art.