{"id":5212,"date":"2025-09-01T08:15:17","date_gmt":"2025-09-01T08:15:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/westnorfolkartists.org\/blog\/?p=5212"},"modified":"2025-09-01T08:22:17","modified_gmt":"2025-09-01T08:22:17","slug":"royal-academy-summer-exhibition-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/westnorfolkartists.org\/blog\/2025\/09\/royal-academy-summer-exhibition-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"Royal Academy Summer Exhibition 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>For many years it was an annual tradition for me to meet up with my grandfather to visit the Summer Exhibition at the Royal Academy. This continued until he was well into his 90s. He always wore his hat and waved his walking stick to point out features of interest in various works of art as people ducked out of the way and would proclaim his admiring or questioning opinions with conviction despite, in later years, his failing eyesight. His mind was always razor sharp and he had a lively curiosity about life, with an interest in art and architecture.
\nI\u2019ve kept the tradition of annual visits, sometimes with company or alone but as something catches my eye as I pass through the throngs of visitors, I think \u201cI wonder what granddad would have made of that.\u201d
\nThis year\u2019s exhibition was the usual mixture of bonkers, beautiful and inspiring.
\nIt is wonderful that every artist has a chance to have their work exhibited at the Royal Academy alongside royal academicians. This year there were 1728 entries in the catalogue, so many different interpretations of \u201cart\u201d. Architecture was no longer relegated to one gallery but dispersed throughout.<\/p>\n\n\t\t