These two articles feature contributor news and some images of cards from this years sale.
Some great new contributors to get interested in - Damon Albarn, Steve McQueen, Thomas Heatherwick and William Orbit plus some now familiar favourites.
Watch this space for more contributor news and also we've got some artist interviews coming up shortly as well....
It's nice that
The Royal College of Art has
revealed further details of the RCA Secret 2016 show, including the
participating artist and designers contributing anonymous postcard-sized
artworks for this year’s event. Almost 2,000 works have been created
for the show, now in its 22nd year. Names from the star-studded line-up
include Peter Blake, Margaret Calvert, Jeremy Deller, Lawrence Weiner,
Steve McQueen, Thomas Heatherwick and musicians Damon Albarn, William
Orbit and Pete Fowler. Each of the postcards will be sold for a fixed
price of £55, with the maker’s identity only revealed once their work
has been bought, and all profits support emerging artists and designers
through the RCA Fund.
RCA Secret 2016 exhibition in on 8 – 15 April at the Royal College of Art in London.
RCA Secret 2016 exhibition in on 8 – 15 April at the Royal College of Art in London.
Design week
Stewarts Law RCA Secret 2016, now in its 22nd year, will be taking place in April and will feature roughly 2,000 postcard-sized designs that will be exhibited and sold anonymously.
Spanning all professions
Makers of the postcards will span professions including designers, cartoonists, illustrators, ceramicists, sculptors, artists, and musicians, as well as alumni and current students at the RCA.Designers will include Peter Blake, Margaret Calvert, Steve McQueen, Alison Wilding, Yinka Shonibare, Joseph Kosuth, Thomas Heatherwick, James Dyson, David Bailey, Zandra Rhodes and Pete Fowler.
Musicians Damon Albarn and William Orbit will also be taking part, alongside up-and-coming designers.
Buyers encouraged to “crack secret”
All postcards will be exhibited together and sold at a fixed price of £55 per artwork. Buyers will only find out the identity of the designer once they’ve bought a postcard, with the RCA encouraging art collectors to “take the challenge to crack the secret”.Alongside these, there will also be a series of 23 limited edition Shakespeare-based prints, as part of Shakespeare Lives: a yearlong selection of events organised by the British Council to mark the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare’s death.
These will be available at a steeper £350 each, and the RCA will also donate a set of these prints to the British Council Collection.
Funds raised go to training young designers
All profits from the exhibition and sale will go to the RCA Fund, which aims to support emerging artists and designers through scholarships to the college.Running alongside London’s RCA Secret 2016, will also be an exhibition and sale in Dubai, now in its second year. Postcard artworks will be available to buy for 500 AED.
Stewarts Law RCA Secret 2016 will take place at London’s Royal College of Art, Kensington, Kensington Gore, London SW7 2EU from 8-15 April.
RCA Secret with Art Dubai will take place at Alserkal Avenue, Dubai on 14 March and at Art Dubai on 17 March.
Some of this year’s anonymous postcards – can you guess the designer?
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