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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 …

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 …

“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 …

Drawing Year alumni Claire Price and James Harrison recount their experiences of working in Mexico and the US

Here, two alumni living in the US and Israel share their experience of being a practising artist during an international pandemic, and how these countries have influenced their work.

Our alumni community in Scotland is thriving and here they reveal how the Scottish identity, landscape and culture influences their work and the impact that lockdown has had on …

Drawing Year alumna Nell Brookfield has just finished her last term at the Pratt Institute in New York where she experienced both online learning and teaching. Nell talks about …

Irene Montemurro is the recipient of the Denis Mahon Award 2020. Presented to one outgoing Drawing Year student annually, the award allows them to continue their practice, providing them …

The Artist Support Pledge is an online movement that aims to support artists financially during the coronavirus crisis.

Every year, two Drawing Year alumni are awarded a place on the intensive four week Drawing Marathon at the Rhode Island School of Design, Providence. This January Jordan Cook …