Exhibition

The Drawing Year 2015-16 End of Year Exhibition

2 Dec 2016 – 18 Jan 2017

Regular hours

Friday
09:00 – 21:00
Saturday
09:00 – 17:00
Monday
09:00 – 21:00
Tuesday
09:00 – 21:00
Wednesday
09:00 – 21:00
Thursday
09:00 – 21:00

Cost of entry

Free

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The Royal Drawing School presents a selling exhibition of drawings by students studying on the School’s postgraduate programme, The Drawing Year featuring over 300 works by 28 emerging artists.

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The Drawing Year End of Year Exhibition 2015-16 will feature a variety of media including pencil, marker pen, ink, watercolour, woodcuts, and etching. As the culmination of the School’s intensive postgraduate programme for 2015-16, the exhibition celebrates the range and scope of drawing from observation in contemporary practice. Exhibiting artists originate from the UK, Germany, and China, with previous education and experience in fine art, illustration, printmaking, architecture and design.

Artistic Director Catherine Goodman says: “The Drawing Year is a course of study at postgraduate level which provides an opportunity for intensive research and practice in drawing from observation. Drawing can be direct, incisive, intimate, surprising, funny or confrontational. Using the most limited of means, it offers some of the most demanding opportunities for growth to a contemporary artist, both visually and intellectually, allowing a free transition between mediums. It is one of the simplest and yet the most endlessly complex of human activities, encompassing a wide scope of practice and interpretation.” 

Featured self-taught artist Daniel Blumberg has been lauded by the music industry as a member of Cajun Dance Party, Yuck and Hebronix, for which he designed the artwork and record covers. After 13 years of service Thomas Harrison left the Royal Marines to pursue his art practice, going on to win first prize in the Jerwood Drawing Prize in 2015 for his anatomical views of scaffolding, just before beginning his postgraduate studies at the Royal Drawing School. 

Graduate of Edinburgh College of Art Liam Walker applied to The Drawing Year with a fictional alter ego – a failed contemporary of David Hockney (Walker is a fellow Yorkshireman from Bradford) – and produced cinematic pencil drawings such as A Love Scene From the North and Alec on Ilkley Moor. As well being shortlisted for the Jerwood Drawing Prize 2016, Sam Little’s watercolour and pencil cityscapes earned him the ADAM Architecture Travel Scholarship, giving him the opportunity to travel through central Iran in early 2017 to study the Seljuk towers and minarets that remain standing.

The Royal Drawing School’s highly subscribed postgraduate programme offers up to 30 students a full scholarship to spend a year on an MA-level course, taught by a faculty of over 55 practising artists. Since 2000 over 300 students have graduated from The Drawing Year, with alumni going on to pursue careers as practising fine art artists and careers in illustration, animation, architecture, film and theatre design. Other success stories include Poppy Chancellor, author and artist behind CUT IT OUT (2016), and Harry Parker, author of Anatomy of a Soldier (2016).

An Open Studios exhibition will run alongside this exhibition, from 1 - 9 December at Royal Drawing School Central with a Closing Event on 9 December. Works in all exhibitions are for sale, and the commission goes towards funding the School’s scholarship and bursaries programmes so that high-quality drawing tuition is available to all regardless of background or circumstance. 

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