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Dec. 7, 2022Buy an Artwork, Invest in an Artist
With over 450 works to choose from in The Drawing Year 2022 End of Year Exhibition, and prices starting from under £100, there is no better time to add …
Oct. 24, 2022Three months in LA: alumna Beth Rodway reflects on her ESMoA residency experience
Drawing Year alumna Beth Rodway has just returned from a three month residency at El Segundo Museum of Art (ESMoA) in California. Here she describes her time there, and …
Aug. 25, 2022Jack McGarrity: The Denis Mahon Award 2022
Jack McGarrity is the 2021/22 recipient of the Sir Denis Mahon Award. Presented annually to an outgoing Drawing Year student, the award supports them in making new work and …
July 25, 2022The large-scale power of the mural
Murals are often a revolutionary act, a political statement, a public piece of street art that can be viewed and interpreted en-masse as people go about their everyday lives. …
June 8, 2022Drawing Year Alumnus Geraint Ross Evans: Artist-in-Residence at BBC Radio 6 Music Festival
Geraint Ross Evans is an alumnus of The Drawing Year and a tutor at the School on our public courses and Young Artists programme. Here he tells us about …
May 31, 2022Drawing and teaching in the Caribbean: Artist Residency in Antigua
At the end of 2021, two Royal Drawing School artists, Cherry Pickles and Oliver Macdonald Oulds spent three months in Antigua. Supported by the Halo Foundation and the Jumby …
Dec. 8, 2021Gabriela Adach, Drawing Year Alumna: Drawing as an embodied experience
Gabriela Adach's work is often of a personal nature and she tries to capture feelings as they evolve during the process of artmaking. She completed the Drawing Year in …
Dec. 8, 2021Drawing Year Alumna: Pia Bramley's Pandemic Baby
Pia Bramley is one of our Drawing Year 2014 alumni. Now a professional illustrator, she has just published a set of drawings documenting the experience of becoming a parent …
Sept. 22, 2021Deanio X: Sir Denis Mahon Award 2021
Deanio X (Drawing Year 2019) is the recipient of the Sir Denis Mahon Award 2021. Presented to one outgoing Drawing Year student annually, the award allows them to continue …
June 7, 2021Student Focus: Mohammad Barrangi
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...
May 17, 2021Self-Portrait Prize 2021: Alumni Success
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 …
March 29, 2021How The Drawing Year has Adapted During the Pandemic