My London summer to-do list usually includes the Summer Exhibition at the Royal Academy of the Arts. It’s usually a little bit mad because there are so many pieces of art spanning the spectrum of traditional, alternative and 3-dimensional media. And they’ve been running this big open entry exhibition for 250 years. That’s just amazing.
To start with, when you walk into the Wohl Central Hall, you are greeted by a life-sized sculpture of a man balancing a dozen cakes on his back. It made me smile and it wasn’t the quirkiest piece I saw that evening. Several of the rooms were hung with wall to wall, floor to ceiling pieces of art in a jigsaw of frames – so many that you don’t know where to look first. You need to go to the exhibition more than once to take it all in properly … although I’ve never done that.
The best thing about the Summer Exhibition is that it is accessible. There is £20 art and there is £20,000 art, but it doesn’t matter. As long as a piece speaks to you in some way, it has made its mark.
~ Spotted Cow
Wandering Cows 
Looks like a fantastic exhibit – great photos.
Thanks. They’re all taken with the smartphone. One can’t be carrying the big camera everywhere !
Interesting work – not the sort of thing we were encouraged to do at school though, lol!
Nor mine. The most out-there thing I did in art was to make a model house out of ice-cream sticks. It was a somewhat sad looking house in spite of coaxing my entire family into eating ice lollies.
Are these Hares? they look fabulous.
I think they are! But I don’t think they’re real !