The Royal Academy of Arts Summer Exhibition 2015 will be coordinated by the leading British artist and influential teacher, Michael Craig-Martin RA. The hanging committee for the Summer Exhibition includes Royal Academicians Norman Ackroyd, Olwyn Bowey, Gus Cummins, Jock McFadyen, David Remfry, Mick Rooney, Alison Wilding and Bill Woodrow. The architecture room will be curated by Ian Ritchie RA.
As the world’s largest open submission exhibition, the Summer Exhibition provides a unique platform for emerging and established artists and architects to showcase their works to an international audience, comprising a range of media from painting to printmaking, photography, sculpture, architecture and film. This year the Royal Academy received 12,000 entries, from which a committee of Royal Academicians, will make a selection to hang on the walls of the Main Galleries in Burlington House. As co-ordinator of the Summer Exhibition Craig-Martin decided to focus on a significant number of mature artists whose work he has long admired to exhibit works this year, some of whom have balanced work as artists with distinguished teaching careers. They include Vanessa Jackson (RA Schools), Stephen Buckley (University of Reading), Jon Thompson (Goldsmiths) and John Hilliard (Slade School of Fine Art), as well as Dick Smith, Keith Milow and Andrew Lord.
One of the founding principles of the Royal Academy of Arts was to 'mount an annual exhibition open to all artists of distinguished merit' to finance the training of young artists in the Royal Academy Schools. The Summer Exhibition has been held every year without interruption since 1769 and continues to play a significant part in raising funds to finance the current students of the RA Schools.
Where.- Royal Academy. Burlington House, Piccadilly, London W1J 0BD, UK.
When.- Monday 8th. June – Sunday 16th. August 2015
Admissions.- 10am – 6pm daily (last admission 5.30pm)
Entrance.- £13.50 (without donation £12).
