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There are so many exciting opportunities out there for artists at the moment. We have compiled a list of competitions, prizes and awards that you can enter this June …

Nikki Gardham is a painter, born in Essex, now living and working in London. She graduated from The Drawing Year in 2013 and now teaches on our Public Programme …

Oliver Macdonald Oulds, artist, RDS tutor and Drawing Year alumnus, shares where he gets his inspiration, and recommends what to see, watch, listen and read about:

Artist, writer and RDS tutor Sarah Lightman takes us on a journey to Italy and tells about her favourite places to visit and art works to see.

There are some exciting exhibition opportunities and open call competitions coming up this summer. Here we've chosen our highlights:

David Gardner, artist, RDS tutor and Drawing Year alumnus, takes us through his perfect Bank Holiday Monday in London including art, food and some historic cultural gems...

Keziah Philipps is a multidisciplinary artist who studied on the Royal Drawing School’s postgraduate programme, The Drawing Year, and is the 2023-24 recipient of the Sir Denis Mahon Award. …

The application deadline for The Drawing Year is 3 April 2024. Are you thinking about applying? Hear from some of our past students about their experience of the course...

Did you know that we are a charity? We believe everyone, whatever their financial circumstance, should be able to benefit from high-quality tuition in drawing. All of our courses …

The Drawing Year 2023 End of Year Exhibition sees our Shoreditch gallery filled with over 400 drawings and works on paper by our graduating students. All works in the …

To coincide with The Drawing Year 2023 End of Year Exhibition, Louis Pohl Koseda, a graduating student of the course has been announced as the winner of the first …

Pace Taylor, from Portland, Oregon, was awarded the Don Bachardy fellowship in 2023. They joined us at the Royal Drawing School for Summer Term. Here they tell us about …