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| John Hoyland Taking a Dive 23.2.85 1985 acrylic on cotton duck (diploma work) Royal Academy of Arts, London |
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| Allen Jones Spice Island 1986 monoprint (diploma work) Royal Academy of Arts, London |
"Allen Jones was elected a Royal Academician as a printmaker and submitted Spice Island as his Diploma Work. As a monotype, the picture occupies an ambiguous position, neither entirely a print nor a painting."
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| Philip Forbes Dowson Design for Mellon Library, Clare College, Cambridge ca. 1986 drawing (diploma work) Royal Academy of Arts, London |
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| Frank Bowling Wintergreens 1986 acrylic on canvas (diploma work) Royal Academy of Arts, London |
"Frank Bowling was born in British Guiana in South America, moving to England in 1953. He was originally attracted to poetry-writing, but in 1959 won a scholarship to the Royal College of Art. His early work as a painter was figurative, but following a move to New York in 1966 he was drawn toward abstraction. Wintergreens was created at a time when Bowling's work had become much larger in scale, so much so that he had abandoned easel painting and instead either pinned his canvases to the wall to work on them, or spread them out on the floor."
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| Ian Stephenson Schrödinger's Cat ca. 1986 oil on canvas (diploma work) Royal Academy of Arts, London |
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| Sonia Lawson Tobias and the Angel 1986-87 oil on canvas (diploma work) Royal Academy of Arts, London |
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| Patrick Procktor Portrait of HRH Prince Charles 1987 oil on canvas (diploma work) Royal Academy of Arts, London |
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| John Bellany The Pianist Entertains 1987 oil on canvas (diploma work) Royal Academy of Arts, London |
"Being born into a family of fishermen and brought up as a strict Calvinist in the village of Port Seton near Edinburgh left lifelong marks on John Bellany, both in terms of subject matter and a pervading sense of the frailty of human existence. The theme of fate is evoked in the present painting by the card game, where the only two visible cards are the Ace of Hearts (a reference to love) and the Ace of Clubs, which resembles a Celtic cross and thus suggests virtue.
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| Theo Crosby Design for Battle of Britain Monument, Southwark, London ca. 1987 hand-colored print (diploma work) Royal Academy of Arts, London |
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| Ben Levene Mother-in-law's Tongue ca. 1987 oil on canvas (diploma work) Royal Academy of Arts, London |
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| Helen Lessore Portrait of Miss Edna Brook ca. 1987 oil on canvas (diploma work) Royal Academy of Arts, London |
"Beyond the title, nothing is known of the sitter or the relationship between artist and model. Given the close cropping and informal loose brushwork, it is likely that Miss Edna Brook was well known to Lessore. The artist was an influential proponent of the mid-20th century version of British realism that came to be known as the 'Kitchen Sink School' of painting."
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| John Partridge Design for Crown & County Courthouse, Warrington, Cheshire ca. 1989 drawing, with added watercolor (diploma work) Royal Academy of Arts, London |
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| Albert Irvin Blue Anchor 1989 acrylic on canvas (diploma work) Royal Academy of Arts, London |
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| Fiona Rae Untitled (six on brown) 1989 oil on canvas (diploma work) Royal Academy of Arts, London |
"This painting is one of Fiona Rae's earliest. It was painted before her first solo exhibition in 1992 at Kunsthalle Basel. In the catalogue essay for that show Thomas Kellein writes that 'the first impression created by one of the canvases is of a calligraphic technique, with which a plethora of basically conceivable motifs is applied in shorthand form using various painting methods.' Nicolas Bourriaud in a text for Rae's 2009 exhibition at Galerie Nathalie Obadia wrote that an 'encyclopaedic quality has been a hallmark of Rae's work ever since the start of her career . . . when she embarked on a formal alphabet juxtaposing archetypal figures on a canvas divided into invisible squares.' Bourriaud emphasizes the order in Rae's early work whereas Kellein sees its more playful qualities."
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| David Remfry Dancers 1989 watercolor on paper (diploma work) Royal Academy of Arts, London |
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| Philip Sutton Alas, Poor Romeo ca. 1989 oil on canvas (diploma work) Royal Academy of Arts, London |
– quoted texts adapted from Royal Academy notes