Royal Drawing School

See over 300 drawings and works on paper by students of The Drawing Year:
The Drawing Year 2017-18 End of Year Exhibition Royal Drawing School Shoreditch 28 Nov - 16 Jan 2019... Private View: Tuesday 27 November, 6.30-8.30pm http://royaldrawingschool.org/…/drawing -year-201718-end-ye…/ …
Drawing by Rachel Hodgson
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Tonight's the PV, 6-10pm, of the final exhibition at Mercer Chance gallery before it closes... See new paintings by Drawing Year alumnus Michael Chance in 'Nudge Nudge Wink Wink' until 28th October. Featuring 'Free Market' (below) and other large paintings on paper

Have you signed up to this year’s UCAS Create Your Future event at London’s ExCeL Centre? Join us to find out how The Foundation Year at the Royal Drawing School can help you discover your path to a career in the creative industries. Our team will be there next Monday 15 and Tuesday 16 Oct from 10am - 3pm. You can also join us for a FREE collaborative drawing workshop on Monday 15, 12.45pm at The Stage. See you there!
... #creativecareers #foundationyear #drawing
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Applications are now open!
The Foundation Year, run by the Royal Drawing School, is a one year accredited skills-based course with five days teaching per week.
Limited to 50 places, the School ensures one-to-one tuition, with a supportive learning environment in an inspiring part of London’s Docklands buzzing with creatives and artist studios. This intensive course helps students to develop the making and thinking skills needed for the next level of study and provides a rout...e to a number of creative disciplines. The School awards a minimum of 50% of students a scholarship or fee reduction every year.
Read more about The Foundation Year: https://royaldrawingschool.org/courses/fo undation/ Sign up to an Open Day: https://royaldrawingschool.org/…/founda tion-year-open-day-…/ Read Student Stories: https://royaldrawingschool.org/…/founda tion/student-stories/ Download the Brochure: https://royaldrawingschool.org/…/The_Fo undation_Year_Brochu…
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Applications are now open for The Foundation Year 2019-20! Read all about the course and how to apply here 👉 http://bit.ly/FYApplications
🗓️ Closing on Sunday 17 Feb 2019 🗓️

Applications for The Foundation Year 2019/20 open next week!
Sign up to our newsletter for details of how to apply: http://bit.ly/FYNews Book an Open Day on our website: http://bit.ly/RDSFYOpenDay
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David Remfry RA is perhaps best known for his large-scale watercolours of dancers.
‘I’m fascinated by the human predicament. I’m obsessed with how people behave together - how we embrace as we dance, how we ‘distract ourselves’ as Francis Bacon put it. I love observing this and recording it in a painting. In the process, I hope to discover something of what we are.’
David Remfry in conversation with William Feaver. Weds 3 Oct, Shoreditch studios, 6.45pm

We're pleased to announce the Best of The Drawing Year 2018!
Drawings and works on paper by postgraduate students will go on display in this selling exhibition at Christie's from 9 to 14 November 2018: bit.ly/BestofDY18
Drawing by Sara Anstis

A selection of drawings and works on paper from the Royal Drawing School’s postgraduate programme, The Drawing Year 2017–18 End of Year Exhibition will be on display for 6 days at Christie’s King Street.
9 – 14 November 2018 Monday to Friday 9am–4.30pm, Saturday & Sunday 12pm–5pm (no appointment necessary / free admission)
... The expanded show of over 300 drawings The Drawing Year 2017-18 End of Year Exhibition continues at Royal Drawing School Shoreditch from 28 November 2018 to 16 January 2019.
Gabriela Adach / Charlotte Ager / Sara Anstis / Phoebe Barnicoat / Raphael Barratt / Michael Bartlett / Clémentine Bedos / William Brickel / Nell Brookfield / Tommy Butt / Jemima Carter-Lewis / Sophie Chatham / Matt Cotton / Matilda Ellis / Nest Fitzgerald / Arjuna Gunarathne / Mary Herbert / Willa Hilditch / Ali RLH / Rachel Louise Hodgson / Martin Jackson / Oliver Macdonald Oulds / Holly Mills / Irene Montemurro / Rachael Neale / Veronika Peat / Beth Rodway / Cheri Smith / Ella Walker / Naomi Workman
This is a selling exhibition, for any sales enquires please contact fraser.scarfe@royaldrawingschool.org
Drawing by Sara Anstis
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Congratulations to Trinity Buoy Wharf for celebrating 20 years!
It was great to open our Foundation Year studios at last night's big celebration, alongside the announcement of the winners of the Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize 2018. Don't forget to visit the TBW Drawing Prize (formally Jerwood), which runs until 17 Oct.
Here's to another 20 years of drawing at Trinity Buoy Wharf!

The Dumfries House Residency is now open to Scottish artists who use drawing in their practice. Ten, 2-week long residencies between January – May 2019 are open to Scottish Artists, alumni of a Scottish Art School or who are a practising artist currently living and working in Scotland (Apply via the website / deadline extended until 21 October): https://royaldrawingschool.org/residencie s/scotland/

Apply now for the Don Bachardy Fellowship - Open to postgraduate artists from outside the UK who want to study at the Royal Drawing School next Spring, deadline 2 October. More information and how to apply: https://royaldrawingschool.org/re…/don- bachardy-fellowship/…
The fellowship is named after the Californian portrait painter, Don Bachardy (b. 1934), who studied at the Slade in 1961, had his first show at the Redfern Gallery in Mayfair that year, and has gone on to draw and paint over 10,000 portraits from life.
The Don Bachardy Fellowship is sponsored by The Christopher Isherwood Foundation, www.IsherwoodFoundation.org.

Drawing Year alumnus (2017) Jack Fawdry Tatham is having an exhibition at Camberwell College of Arts, opening next week:

Don't miss Turner Prize nominee Hurvin Anderson in conversation with Bill Feaver, tonight 6.45pm:

Announcing the line-up for our Wednesday lecture series, starting next week! Artists Pablo Bronstein, Hurvin Anderson, Sophie Seita and David Remfry RA, writer Marina Warner, RDS Tutor and artist Sarah Pickstone and ceramicist Magdalene Odundo: bit.ly/RDSLecturesEvents

£5 / £3.50 concessions. No booking required, just turn up
Magdalene Odundo was born in Nairobi, Kenya, and received her early education in both India and Kenya. She attended the Nairobi Polytechnic in Kenya to study Graphics and Commercial Art and moved to England in 1971 completing qualifications in foundation art and graphics at the Cambridge College of Art. In England she discovered pottery, and in 1974–75 she visited Nigeria, attending the Pottery Training Centre in Abuja..., and Kenya to study traditional hand-built pottery techniques. In 1976, Odundo received a BA from West Surrey College of Art & Design before earning a master's degree at the Royal College of Art in London. She taught at the Commonwealth Institute in London from 1976 to 1979 and at the Royal College of Art in London from 1979 to 1982, before returning to teach at Surrey Institute of Art & Design (now University for the Creative Arts) in 1997, becoming Professor of Ceramics in 2001.In March 2016 she was inaugurated as an Emerita Professor of UCA.
Odundo's best-known ceramics are hand built, using a coiling technique. She uses the same types of techniques used by the Ancient Greeks and Romans and likes to take inspiration from countries like China and Mexico. Many of the vessels Odundo creates are reminiscent of the human form. Her work may be found in museum and private collections worldwide. She lives and works in Surrey.
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Sarah Pickstone will talk about her installation: An Allegory of Painting, recently installed at the Royal Academy of Arts, London. The work has been commissioned as part of RA250 to explore the history of the RA collection. The paintings pay homage to Swiss-born artist and founder member of the RA, Angelica Kauffman (1741-1807). The talk will broadly encompass subjects such as the contemporary relevance of allegory, t...he legacy of classical iconography and engaging with historical narrative as a contemporary artist. Sarah will discuss her process -from research, through drawing to large scale wall painting.
Sarah Pickstone was born in Manchester. She studied at the Royal Academy Schools 1988-91 from where she went on to win the Rome scholarship in Painting and won first prize in the John Moores Painting Prize in 2012. Sarah works from her studio in central London and shows her work internationally. She is a tutor at the Royal Drawing School.
She is currently showing An Allegory of Painting at the Royal Academy of Arts, London (5 September – 18 August 2019). https://www.royalacademy.org.uk/…/sarah -pickstone-allegory-…
Video / Sarah Pickstone talks about the role of drawing in her work. https://royaldrawingschool.org/royal-draw ing-school-vide…/…/
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Sophie Seita’s lecture-performance will address how metaphors of drawing, modes of visual analysis, questions of representation, and an interest in lines, shapes, and colour enter her writing, and how both the materiality of paper and a visual language can be made manifest in performance. It will also consider drawing as a powerful poetic imaginary and as an embodied choreographic practice.
Sophie Seita is an interdisc...iplinary artist, writer, researcher, and translator. Her performances, lecture-performances, and videos which visualise, embody, or translate text via poetic dialogue, sculpture, costume, installation, and choreography, have been presented at Art Night London, SAAS Fee Summer Institute of Art (Berlin), Kettle’s Yard (Cambridge), the Royal Academy, Bold Tendencies (London), the Arnolfini (Bristol), La MaMa Galleria (NYC), Cité Internationale des Arts (Paris), Parasol Unit (London), Company Gallery (NYC), Neue Töne Festival (Stuttgart), Tactic Gallery (Cork, Ireland), and elsewhere. A commitment to collaboration and queer-feminist politics underpins all her work and she recently co-founded the feminist performance collective GORGONIA. She’s the author of the poetry books Meat (Little Red Leaves, 2015), Fantasias in Counting (BlazeVOX, 2014), and the artist book 12 Steps (Wide Range, 2012); the translator of Uljana Wolf’s Subsisters: Selected Poems (Belladonna*, 2017); and the editor of a facsimile reprint of The Blind Man (Ugly Duckling Presse, 2017; named one of the Best Art Books of 2017 in The New York Times). Other writing, translations, and interviews have been featured in Best American Experimental Writing 2018, The White Review, Bomb, Lana Turner, The LRB, the TLS, and 3:AM.
As a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Queens’ College, University of Cambridge, she’s currently finishing her critical book Provisional Avant-Gardes: Little Magazine Communities from Dada to Digital, which is forthcoming from Stanford University Press in late 2019. Recent scholarly work includes an essay on contemporary post-digital publishing in Chicago Review, an essay on multilingual poetry and poetics in Reading Experimental Writing (forthcoming from Edinburgh UP), and a co-written google document conversation on little magazines (with Danny Snelson) in Hotel. She has received fellowships and awards from Cambridge, Yale, Princeton, Buffalo, Columbia, PEN America, Queen Mary University of London, NYU, DAAD, and Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes, among others, in recognition of her creative and critical work.
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Pablo Bronstein is an Argentinian born artist who lives and works in London. He is focused on architecture and the decorative arts, and makes drawings, prints, installations, videos and live performances.
Bronstein has had solo exhibitions at the Metropolitan Museum, New York; Tate Britain, London; Centre d'Art Contemporain, Geneve; Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; Lenbachhaus, Munich; and the ICA, London. His work forms ...part of the collections of the British Museum, the V&A, Tate, Metropolitan Museum, and the Centre Pompidou. His publications include Postmodern Architecture in London, A is Building B is Architecture, and Pseudo Georgian London. In 2019 Bronstein will create a large-scale performance installation for the OGR, Turin, and in 2020 he will have an exhibition of his drawings at the Soane Museum, London.
'Red Objects in a Museum Interior' Pablo Bronstein, 2012, ink and watercolour on paper, 133.5 x 118.5 cm Courtesy the artist; Herald St, London; Galleria Franco Noero, Turin © Pablo Bronstein
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We are following the example of this School of Drawing in Westbury by starting our own drawing group.10-30am / 12-30 Is this first open life drawing session in Westbury ? enjoyed every minute. Next weeks group seems as though its going to be well attended.

Saturday Life drawing Group in Westbury

Address: 35 Church St, Westbury BA13 3BZ

10-30 / 12-30

£14

I love it. It's a fantastic place to be in and being surrounded by so many talented people.

Exceptional and without equal...........

This institute is a temple of creations.....and u can search urself ...with ...divine....spritual approach....

My plans were ruined today after my friend and I were turned away from a drop-in session. Although early, the class had been booked in advance (which we didn't realise was an option). I know of many other places which offer life drawing who are much more accommodating and better at communicating who I will be sure to visit instead in future.

We are following the example of this School of Drawing in Westbury by starting our own drawing group.10-30am / 12-30 Is this first open life drawing session in Westbury ? enjoyed every minute. Next weeks group seems as though its going to be well attended.

Saturday Life drawing Group in Westbury

Address: 35 Church St, Westbury BA13 3BZ

10-30 / 12-30

£14

I love it. It's a fantastic place to be in and being surrounded by so many talented people.

Exceptional and without equal...........

This institute is a temple of creations.....and u can search urself ...with ...divine....spritual approach....

My plans were ruined today after my friend and I were turned away from a drop-in session. Although early, the class had been booked in advance (which we didn't realise was an option). I know of many other places which offer life drawing who are much more accommodating and better at communicating who I will be sure to visit instead in future.