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Bartlett Master's Students Exhibit at the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition 2022
8 June 2022
A collaborative piece of work produced by a group of Architecture MArch students during the pandemic will be included in this year’s summer show.
The Royal Academy Summer Exhibition is the largest open-submission annual art show in the world. Established in 1769, the exhibition takes place at the Royal Academy in London and showcases work from across myriad disciplines, with Royal Academicians’ work displayed alongside that of emerging artists and designers, and with a part of the exhibition always dedicated to architecture. This year’s theme is ‘Climate’.
The collaborative piece was produced in isolation last year during the pandemic by the PG17 unit of Architecture March (ARB/RIBA Part 2). The seventeen students, who spanned the two years of the Master’s programme, worked remotely to produce the component parts of the final work. The students were invited to construct a singular re-imagined landscape of their work throughout the past year. Students who were based overseas during the pandemic worked on digital files, while their peers in London were among the first Bartlett students to return to the school campus, using the B-Made workshop to produce the physical parts and bring the seventeen ideas together into one unified work.
The students were tutored and supported in the project by Yeoryia Manolopoulou and Thomas Parker.
The Extended Village
by PG17, Architecture MArch (ARB/RIBA Part 2), 2020-21
Pravin Abraham, Daeyong Bae, Ross Burns, Hoyin (Jackie) Cheung, Thomas Dobbins, Naysan Foroudi, Nina Georgieva, Yangzi (Cherry) Guo, Zhongliang Huang, Hyesung Lee, Rebecca Lim, George Newton, Benedicte Zorde Rahbek, Kaye Song, Negar Taatizadeh, Ella Thorns and Janet Vutcheva
The Extended Village distills the essence of 17 year-long architectural projects which respond to Avebury. The monumental earthworks of Avebury were constructed collectively as public theatres for ceremonies. The act of building brought communities together and gave physical expression to their ideas.
The making and assembling of these carved oak models was an opportunity for us as students to physically come together after a year of working in isolation. Assembling the artefacts into a unified circle attempts to embody our collective ideas as an extended mind.”
The show opening will take place on Monday 13 June, with the exhibition opening to the public on 21 June.
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Image: ‘The Extended Village’ by Pravin Abraham, Daeyong Bae, Ross Burns, Hoyin (Jackie) Cheung, Thomas Dobbins, Naysan Foroudi, Nina Georgieva, Yangzi (Cherry) Guo, Zhongliang Huang, Hyesung Lee, Rebecca Lim, George Newton, Benedicte Zorde Rahbek, Kaye Song, Negar Taatizadeh, Ella Thorns and Janet Vutcheva