Help Harry attend The Royal College of Art

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I want to show young people from towns like mine that a life in the arts is possible.

I’m Harry, a neurodivergent artist from a small working-class town with little creative infrastructure or opportunity. Despite this, I’ve just been accepted to the Royal College of Art - the world’s top art and design school - for a Master’s in Sculpture.

But without funding, I can’t take my place.

I’ve secured the maximum postgraduate loan, which covers rent in London - but my tuition, over £15,000, remains unfunded. I’ve applied for every scholarship I can, but the options are limited. I’ve stretched every available resource. What I need now is support.

This is more than a personal milestone. It’s a rare chance to step into an institution that wasn’t built for people like me and to use that access to reshape the system from within.

I live with autism, ADHD, and chronic health conditions that shape how I move, process, and experience the world. Despite these challenges, I’ve built a multidisciplinary practice that transforms sensory experience into immersive, emotional installations.

My work asks: What does it mean to connect, to feel, to stay human in an increasingly mediated world?

I explore how technology shapes perception and relationships - mirroring the emotional dissonance so many people now live with.

At a climate lecture, Brian Eno told a story that’s stayed with me. A scientist he knew, a lifelong smoker, had studied the harms of tobacco for years - yet couldn’t quit. But when she became pregnant, she stopped within a month. Not because she learned something new, but because something changed in her emotional reality.

That’s why I make art. Not to explain - but to move. Because change doesn’t always come from knowing. Sometimes, it comes from feeling differently.

Sponsorship wouldn’t just fund my education - it would validate that people like me belong in spaces like the RCA.

No one should have to give up their ideas or talent because of where they’re from, how they grew up, or the challenges they live with. And in a time when the arts are underfunded and devalued, that message matters more than ever.

My long-term goal is to build support structures for working-class and neurodivergent creatives - to create the systems I need now, for others in the future.

My work explores technology, perception, and connection through spatial storytelling,

but my career will extend beyond making.

I want to advocate, mentor, and reshape access to creativity.

I feel an increasing responsibility to envision alternative futures.

Through my work, I want to create spaces that make people think,

to provoke reflection, inspire hope, and spark speculative conversation.

The future we were promised never arrived. Now it’s our turn to shape it. That’s why I’m applying to the RCA, and why I want to be part of communities that believe art still has the power to change the world.

If we don’t shape the future, someone else will.

Every donation - no matter the size - brings this future closer.
If you can’t donate, sharing this campaign is just as powerful.

Thank you for reading, sharing, and believing.
—Harry