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Each year the alumni of our postgraduate-level programme, The Drawing Year, are invited to apply for national and international funded artist residencies organised by the School.

This course takes students from working in two-dimensions to three-dimensions over the course of 5 days. Students will draw from the diverse collection at the Victoria and Albert Museum before ...

Drawing Year alumna Nell Brookfield is currently studying at the Pratt Institute in New York. In December 2019 she visited artist Philemona Williamson in her studio in East Orange, New ...

Spring Term 2020 sees the return of one of our newest courses, Mindfulness and Drawing. This 5-week course aims to slow things down and focus attention inward.

Sara Anstis, Somaya Critchlow and Ella Walker were selected for The Great Women Artists x Palazzo Monti Residency 2019 in Brescia, Italy.

Royal Drawing School alumni Rachel Mercer and Qiong Wu spent 7 weeks in the city of Chengdu in Sichuan Province, China. This funded residency (which included a stipend for an ...

What do our Foundation Year students go on to do? Here recent alumni who have gone on to university tell us about their experience of the course and how it ...

Drawing Year alumna Nell Brookfield is currently studying at the Pratt Institute in New York. Here she gives us a round up of the exhibitions that she has visited, the ...

Sara Anstis graduated from The Drawing Year in November 2018 and was awarded the Royal Drawing School residency in ESMoA, Los Angeles. Here she describes how she spent her time ...

Ways of Drawing (Thames and Hudson) is the first book from the Royal Drawing School. A lavishly illustrated collection of reflections and in-practice sessions on drawing by contemporary artists and ...

We are pleased to announce a new Young Artists Drawing Club in New Cumnock, East Ayrshire, Scotland. Free to attend for all students, bookings are now open.

As our Summer School course Van Gogh: Drawing and the Everyday approaches, we take a look at five drawings which either feature, or are related to artwork on display in ...