Animation is always radical, often disruptive, endlessly transformative, ultimately metamorphic. This final cohort of the two year programme encapsulates animation’s mutable self by interpreting and elucidating varied and complex ideas through its lens.

The work covers a gamut of expanded animation practice, but each practice has a core of curiosity and provocation at its heart. From the intensely personal, where animation can tenderly unpack previously uncharted emotional landscapes, to exploring enormous societal and existential questions, the work shown here truly expands our understanding of the way that animation communicates.

The body of work shown sits within a wider history of animation at the Royal College of Art over the past almost half century, and marks the metamorphosis of the two year programme with a wonderful flowering of evocative work.

Student Show leads: Shiyu Icy Qiao and Joseph Whitmore

Supported by staff lead Samantha Moore