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| Ian Ritchie A Study of the British Museum 2006 etching (diploma work) Royal Academy of Arts, London |
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| David Nash Crack and Warp Column 2006 oak (diploma work) Royal Academy of Arts, London |
"The artist obtained the tree from which this sculpture was made after it had been damaged in a storm. He carved the column when the wood was unseasoned. The cracking and warping occurred as the wood shrank and dried. It appears here in its location on long-term loan to the Quincentenary Library of Jesus College, Cambridge."
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| Emma Stibbon The Whaling Station, Deception Island 2007 woodcut (diploma work) Royal Academy of Arts, London |
"Emma Stibbon's woodcut depicts an abandoned station in Antarctica on an island where commercial whaling took place from the early twentieth century to the 1930s, when the market for whale oil collapsed. "I think," says the artist, "I'm attracted to those landscapes that have a tension between the natural forces and the manmade; particularly this place, which is really black terrain, being volcanic."
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| Will Alsop Fog is an Urban Experience ca. 2007 acrylic and collage on paper (diploma work) Royal Academy of Arts, London |
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| Michael Craig-Martin Self Portrait 2007 acrylic on aluminum (diploma work) Royal Academy of Arts, London |
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| Tracey Emin Trying to Find You 1 2007 acrylic on canvas (diploma work) Royal Academy of Arts, London |
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| Isaac Julien The Leopard (WESTERN UNION: small boats) 2007 film still (diploma work) Royal Academy of Arts, London |
"I come from cinema; it's cinema I'm quoting from and cinema I reappropriate. As much as I work to disentangle myself from genre, cinema remains my home and my reference."
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| Jock McFadyen K.M.B. 2007-2008 oil on canvas (diploma work) Royal Academy of Arts, London |
"The horizontal bands of sky and street give a cinematic feel to McFadyen's work, as if it was an image glimpsed form a moving car or train, emphasising the essential transiency of the scene."
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| David Chipperfield Design for Restoration of Neues Museum, Berlin 2008 digital print on canvas (diploma work) Royal Academy of Arts, London |
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| Stephen Cox Figure: Curved 2008 Hammamat breccia (diploma work) Royal Academy of Arts, London |
"Stephen Cox describes the Egyptian stone he used for his Diploma Work: 'It is variously known as 'antique Egyptian' or 'Hammamat breccia' and is a conglomerate with bright-coloured 'pebbles' and fragments of diverse stones . . . it has been recognised for its beauty since pre-dynastic times, making its source one of the oldest, if not the oldest, 'decorative' stone quarries in the world. Its fame has yielded up stone to expeditions sent by early kings and pharaohs of Egypt, as well as from distant lands, including Xerxes and Darius of Persia and Philip of Macedon, father of Alexander."
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| Gary Hume American Tan XXVIII 1 2008 gloss paint on aluminum (diploma work) Royal Academy of Arts, London |
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| Chris Wilkinson Mary Rose Museum, Portsmouth 2009 digital print and drawings (diploma work) Royal Academy of Arts, London |
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| Paula Rego Stitched and Bound 2009 etching and aquatint (diploma work) Royal Academy of Arts, London |
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| Piers Gough Canada Water Library, Southwark 2009 drawing (diploma work) Royal Academy of Arts, London |
"Gough has described his playful, postmodernist buildings as 'celebratory,' and they are inventive while at the same time responsive to their environment. He belongs to the last generation of architects trained to draw by hand before the introduction of computer-aided design, enabling him to make presentation drawings such as this one for a library that hangs over the water it borders."
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| Bob and Roberta Smith Make Your Own Damn Art 2010 oil on board (diploma work) Royal Academy of Arts, London |
"Bob and Roberta Smith is the pseudonym of the artist Patrick Brill. Born in London, he studied at the University of Reading and Goldsmiths College. He trained as a sign painter in New York and uses text as an art form, creating colourful slogans on banners and placards."
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| John Akomfrah Mnemosyne 2010 film still (diploma work) Royal Academy of Arts, London |
– quoted texts adapted from Royal Academy notes