The R.A Summer Show has taken place annually since 1769 – the year after the RA was founded with Joshua Reynolds as its President. David Remfry’s theme for the exhibition, which consists variously of works by Royal Academicians, invited artists and the public, is ‘Only Connect’. The famous phrase comes from E.M. Forster’s 1910 novel Howards End, at the moment when the protagonist Margaret Schlegel resolves to replenish the soul of the conservative, complacent Henry Wilcox (a man “afraid of emotion”), whom she has settled to marry. “Only connect! That was the whole of her sermon. Only connect the prose and the passion, and both will be exalted, and human love will be seen at its height. Live in fragments no longer.”
The R.A received more than 15,000 entries, below are 6 of the artists who were selected...
Above: Sarah Wood
Above: Sandra Turnbull
Above: Karl Bielik
Above: David Micheaud
Above: Russell Herron
Above:Harry Pye
The RA Summer show runs from 13 June – 20 August 2023.
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