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Festus

The Hangar

Royal College of Art

Howie Street

SW11 4NL

11-12 December 2025

Festus is an annual happening and one of the most significant at the Royal College of Art's MA Sculpture programme - a series

of collaborative projects between the MA and a host of external partners: galleries, museums, councils, communities where

students have an opportunity to meet and work with curators, artists, activists, archivists, makers to learn skills, make connections,

make, work, think and present their ideas in all their forms to each other, to invited guests and to new publics.

It may involve going towards the dark, publishing a book, working out for peak fitness - wilding genders, making a pavilion or

thinking anthropologically.

Festus is an exhibition where we gather our forces and the dynamic range of approaches students and staff bring to sculpture in the

21st century and the partnerships and networks we make. Students work intensively with a range of galleries, museums, public arts

trusts and cultural organisations to develop new ways of working, thinking and making together.

Our group project theme was entitled Wild Genders, and was developed through workshops and exchanges with Queer Britain, and

artists Claye Bowler and Yarli Allison; as well as through exhibition visits to Serpentine Gallery, Gasworks and Camden Art Centre.

Participating artists:

Ever Grainger

Francisco Zhan

James Prorok

Laura Perdomo Suarez

Linxia Li

Miao Miao

Raneece Buddan

Shilpa Bhalchandra Chavan

Xin Fang

Xinrou Wu

Xuening Wang

Yushan Liu

Yu Yu

Project led by Whiskey Chow