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Student from Leeds Met displays work at Summer Exhibition

August 4, 2009

The Royal Academy of Art first began the Summer Exhibition in 1769 and from then it has increasingly gained respect and interest from people all over the world. It is currently the worldâ€™s biggest open-submission exhibition featuring contemporary art. The exhibition moved to Burlington House in 1869 and that remains its home today.

The Summer Exhibition encourages artists of all kinds to send in their work to be displayed. Painters, sculptors, printers, photographers, architects and film-makers are all included in this event meaning a wide and varied range of creative pieces are shared with the public. Well-known and unknown artists all take part and are all considered. The work of a professional architect, a young unknown painter and a successful commercial photographer can all be brought together and put on display in an exhibition like this.

Richard Baker, a graduate from Leeds Met, has had one of his paintings accepted and it is now currently on show at this exhibition. Richard studied fine art and decided to enter one his paintings of furniture, a chair. The painting is titled â€˜ITC007â€™ and is receiving a lot of praise from visitors. Richard works at Leeds College of Art & Design.

This exhibition is highly respected due to the stunning collections of photographs, paintings, sculptures and films that are on display. It started on 8th June 2009 and will be on display until 16th August. For more information, please visit http://www.royalacademy.org.uk/exhibitions/summer-exhibition/