Now in its 241st year, the Royal Academy’s Summer Exhibition 2009 continues the tradition of displaying a wide range of new work by both established and unknown artists in all media including painting, printmaking, photography, sculpture and architecture

This year’s co-ordinators, Royal Academicians Ann Christopher, Eileen Cooper and Will Alsop have selected works for the exhibition around the theme of ‘Making Space’. Since the founding of the Royal Academy of Arts in 1768, the annual Summer Exhibition has become the world’s largest open-submission contemporary art exhibition. Royal Academy of Arts

Extra exciting for me this year~Dean Melbourne, a featured Artist on this blog~has been accepted to this years Summer Exhibition (congratulations Dean). See Dean’s accepted piece and his experience of the summer show HERE

A couple of other works that caught my eye from the exhibition~

Julie Yip and Agata Zaleszczyk
Untitled 2
Digital print
76x100cm
This collaborative artwork brought together the artists’ contrasting practices. Zaleszczyk’s penchant for theatricality and pigs’ heads fused with Yip’s more understated photographic representations of the mundane aspects of contemporary life.(RA)

Joe Bampton
Corridor, Friedrich Strasse 112A, Berlin
Cardboard, boxes, plaster, PVA, drinking straws, string, spot lamps, oil
45x45x130cm
The piece is based on and was originally displayed in the Friederich Strasse, Berlin, a one-time centre for the Stasi. At the time of the artwork’s creation the centre had become an artists’ squat. It was exhibited inside a cupboard in the actual corridor the artwork represents. The interior of Corridor … can be observed through a peep-hole. (RA)

Any opportunity for emerging and unknown artists to access a wider audience is applauded by me.