Brand New!! Best Of The Drawing Twelvemonth 2017

Students of the Royal Drawing School’s postgraduate programme - the Drawing Year - are having exhibitions of their operate this month.

• The Best of The Drawing Year 2016-17 is displaying over xc drawings, prints too plant on newspaper at Christie’s King Street 10–15 Nov 2017 Monday to Fri 9am–4.30pm, (Wed fifteen Nov 9am–2pm)
• An expanded present of over 300 drawings in  The Drawing Year End of Year Exhibition 2016-17 at the Royal Drawing School Shoreditch 29 Nov 2017 to xvi Jan 2018.

The plant are past times artists graduating from the School’s intensive postgraduate programme who convey spent the final twelvemonth exploring their exercise through drawing from observation.

The Best of the Drawing Year 2017 Exhibition at Christies Ground Floor Gallery

The Drawing Year

The Drawing Year was founded inwards 2000 every bit the School’s flagship programme. It offers:

• a twelvemonth of intensive study, enquiry too exercise inwards drawing from life
• high-quality teaching from a distinguished faculty. 
• Every pupil is given a total scholarship too gratuitous studio space, allowing artists of all backgrounds to prepare their artistic professions too careers inwards the creative industries

The orbit to study for gratuitous is especially relevant too helpful at a fourth dimension of rise fees for instruction too the high cost of living inwards London.

Past graduates of The Drawing Year convey gone on to operate every bit fine artists, or convey professional
practices inwards illustration, animation, architecture, celluloid too home design.

Recent success stories include:

• Clara Drummond, First Prize winner of the BP Portrait Award 2016
• Kathryn Maples, winner of the Lord's Day Times Watercolour Competition inwards 2014 too 2016
• Alice Shirley, acclaimed designer of Hermès silk scarves. 

Alumni convey also exhibited widely inwards the United Kingdom of Great Britain too Northern Ireland of Britain too Northern Republic of Ireland too internationally, too their operate is included inwards major collections, such every bit Tate, the Royal Collection, British Museum too the V&A Museum.

The Drawing Year 2016-17

Graduates of the most recent Drawing Year include the showtime always graduate who started out on the Drawing School's Young Artists courses who has thus gone on to consummate The Drawing Year.

• Londoner Drawings of Holocaust Survivors.
• He displays 2 of his portraits inwards this exhibition, including a pencil portrait of British immunologist Dr William Frankland MBE, which won showtime prize inwards the Hermione Hammond Drawing Award 2017. 
• An expanded pick of his operate displayed at Shoreditch, volition characteristic his reportage representative documenting the refugee crisis, entitled ‘Love the Stranger every bit Yourself, which lately captured the attending of the media including the BBC.
• Lee Cutter’s ink drawings of Japanese gardens symbolise the presence of harmony too balance. This metaphor of finding peace is of import to Cutter – he led a hard childhood, facing challenges inwards his education, a lack of back upwards networks, too some bad decisions, which led to spending fourth dimension inwards prison. Upon discovering drawing, it ‘gave him a novel life’; he went to study fine fine art at university, too straight off plant at the Koestler Trust, helping others transform their lives through the ability of art.

drawings past times Christabel McCreevy

• Christabel MacGreevy came to The Drawing Year from Central St Martins, amongst a background inwards fashion too commercial textiles, looking to expand her practice. Christabel took upwards drawing too representative to create the designs for her fashion construct launched inwards May 2017, Itchy Scratchy Patchy, featured inwards Vogue, NY Times Style too Financial Times Fashion
• Richard Ayodeji Ikhide has used drawing to prepare his cloth designs into fine art.
• Jack Fawdry Tatham’s involvement inwards aquatint etchings (pictured above), has led to plans to reopen the printing press nether Pollock’s Toy Museum, a Victoriana museum inwards Fitzrovia owned past times his Grandmother. 

All the drawings inwards this exhibition are for sale; prices for a small-scale print, study, or a large-scale drawing attain betwixt £150 - £2000.

The committee goes towards funding the School’s scholarship too bursaries programmes thus that high-quality drawing tuition is available to all regardless of background or circumstance.

Exhibiting Artists

• Joshua Bristow, 
• Rosie Chamberlain, 
• Jessica Jane Charleston, 
• Ben Westley Clarke, 
• Becca Collins, 
• Mark Connolly, 
• Laurie Crean, 
• Somaya Critchlow, 
• Lee Cutter, 
• Joana Galego,
• Alexander Gilmour, 
• Judith Hagan, 
• Nancy Haslam-Chance, 
• Emily Hill, 
• Richard Ayodeji Ikhide, 
• Charlotte Johnston, 
• Alice Macdonald, 
• Christabel MacGreevy, 
• Isaac Nugent, 
• Jackson Rees, 
• Tom Scotcher, 
• Dorry Spikes, 
• Jamie Stenhouse, 
• Gideon Summerfield, 
• Jack Fawdry Tatham, 
• Stefan Tiburcio, 
• Catherine Watson, 
• Peter Wenman

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