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Born in Iran and currently living in the UK, Mohammad Barrangi joined The Drawing Year in 2019 after a chance encounter with an alumna of the course...

The Self-Portrait Prize is a biennial art prize in association with the Ruth Borchard Collection that promotes and celebrates the practice of self-portraiture. Here nine Drawing Year alumni who ...

Over the last year we have all missed being able to wander around a gallery or museum; to be transported to a different place, have our imaginations ignited and ...

Students studying on The Drawing Year 2020 were in their second term of studio-based tuition when the pandemic hit and whilst the programme had to adapt, so did the ...

Kathryn Maple (Drawing Year 2013) has been awarded First Prize in the John Moores Painting Prize 2020, for her painting The Common, which is among 67 paintings on display ...

To mark International Women's Day on 8th March, we ve rounded up some of our favourite talks from our Wednesday evening series, featuring talented and inspiring female artists, art ...

Alumni of the Drawing Year, including Gideon Summerfield and Jennifer McRae, are currently exhibiting in The Sunday Times Watercolour Competition. Here they discuss the works that were selected.

This summer Tom Scotcher (Drawing Year 2017), Katy Papineau (Drawing Year 2019) and Ali Farley (Drawing Year 2020) were selected to compete in Sky Portrait Artist of the Year ...

Nancy Haslam Chance and Holly Mills tell us about their practices, how their work has been affected by lockdown and what is coming up for them in the not ...

For students living outside of London or abroad, those who have specific access needs or have found it difficult to fit a course into a working week, our online ...

“Hibernating artists - having honed their abilities in forced isolation - burst forth with brushes in hands, to dismantle the spectres illusion and paint a future of their own ...

This September alumnus of the Drawing Year, Nahem Shoa, opens his most recent curatorial project at Southampton City Art Gallery. Face of Britain asks the question: What does it ...