In pictures: RA Summer Exhibition

English artist Tracey Emin stands in front of her artwork Ruined, an acrylic, oil pastel and pencil on canvas that features in the gallery she has curated for the Royal Academy of Arts' Summer Exhibition.

Now in its 240th year, the exhibition features a wide range of recent work by both established and emerging artists in all media including painting, printmaking, photography, sculpture and architecture.

Around 1,200 artworks are on display in the six-week exhibition, the majority of them for sale. Budding artists were invited to submit their efforts to London's Royal Academy in March.

Highlights include a memorial gallery dedicated to the late American-born artist RB Kitaj. The Royal Academy courtyard, meanwhile, plays host to Promenade, a monumental sculpture by Sir Anthony Caro.

More controversial exhibits, not pictured here, include a video of a naked woman using barbed wire as a hula hoop and a piece depicting a sexual act between a naked woman and a zebra.

A security guard stands in a doorway close to an artwork entitled Suburban Totem, one of many works structured around this year's "man made" theme. The exhibition runs from 9 June to 17 August.

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