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| Zaha Hadid MAXXI National Museum of XXI Century Arts, Rome (aerial view) 2010 acrylic on gelatine and chrome polyester (diploma work) Royal Academy of Arts, London |
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| Mali Morris North & South 2010 acrylic on canvas (diploma work) Royal Academy of Arts, London |
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| Alan Davie Opus O.2178 Camin's Concept 2010 oil on canvas (diploma work) Royal Academy of Arts, London |
"As with much of Davie's work, this painting features shapes that intermingle and fight for space on the canvas. Appropriated from a wide swathe of world cultures, they seem to resent and resist their forced juxtaposition."
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| Anne Desmet Olympic Shadows 2011 wood-engraving (diploma work) Royal Academy of Arts, London |
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| Sean Scully Doric Persephone 2012 oil on linen (diploma work) Royal Academy of Arts, London |
"I would always start in the afternoon. I would never have any lights on and it was next to a big window, so I had magnificent side light. That's where I would make the Doric paintings, and I would paint them into the evenings when I could hardly see what I was doing. I like that clarity."
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| Cathie Pilkington Reclining Doll 2013 painted bronze (diploma work) Royal Academy of Arts, London |
"Cathy Pilkington is interested in objects that 'pretend to represent something.' She draws on iconic imagery and low-cultural objects, juxtaposing aesthetics of the sacred and the kitsch. 'The doll is a perfect object to put lots of ideas into,' says Pilkington."
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| Eva Rothschild Tír Na nÓg 2014 jesmonite, steel, resin (diploma work) Royal Academy of Arts, London |
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| Louisa Hutton Étude-b4, 1 2014 digital print (diploma work) Royal Academy of Arts, London |
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| Vanessa Jackson Look on the Bright Side 2014 oil on canvas (diploma work) Royal Academy of Arts, London |
"Jackson often begins with one colour that she applies to two or three paintings at one time. She chooses the other colours based on the reaction between them, making work that 'is both harmonious and dissonant.' In the present work she started with the sap green of the background, which reminded her of autumn in America, next chose the orange-red to counter it, and then the blue to react against that."
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| Tim Shaw Tank on Fire (version 2) 2015 wax, polythene, steel (diploma work) Royal Academy of Arts, London |
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| Conrad Shawcross Paradigm Slender (Solid) 2016 steel on concrete base (diploma work) Royal Academy of Arts, London |
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| Chantal Joffe Looking Towards Bexhill 2016 oil on canvas (diploma work) Royal Academy of Arts, London |
"Looking Towards Bexhill comes from a series of portraits of the artist and her daughter, all of which explore a tension between the two figures. Joffe explained, 'I'm a bit dominant and stoic, I suppose, in some ways. And in the way of someone that's twelve, she's becoming separated, or trying to. All the paintings in that series are about that: about power and that shift of mothers and daughters."
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| Thomas Heatherwick London 2012 Olympic Cauldron 2016-2017 copper and steel (diploma work) Royal Academy of Arts, London |
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| David Adjaye Smithsonian National Museum of African-American History & Culture 2017 digital print (diploma work) Royal Academy of Arts, London |
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| Phyllida Barlow untitled: female; 2018 2018 cement and steel (diploma work) Royal Academy of Arts, London |
– quoted texts adapted from Royal Academy notes