We are delighted to announce on Tuesday 18th November the Prince’s Drawing School became the Royal Drawing School. Our new blog can be found at: royaldrawingschool.org/blog
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Drawing at Hay Festival!
We’ve just returned from running our Pop Up Drawing Studio at this year’s Hay Festival, where an amazing number of festival goers queued up to draw with us every day, come rain or shine. Artists aged 8-80 were tutored by our Drawing Year alumni Perienne Christian, Constanza Dessain, Jonathan Farr and Clara Drummond, who did a wonderful job and adapted to the changing weather with good humour … Continue reading
Prince’s Drawing Clubs Student Callum Malcolm-Kelly reviews ‘Hockney, Printmaker’ at the Dulwich Picture Gallery
In this post Prince’s Drawing Clubs student and young artist Callum Malcolm-Kelly, aged 15, reviews Hockney, Printmaker at the Dulwich Picture Gallery. The exhibition closes this Sunday 11 May, so try to get along this weekend if you haven’t seen it yet. As a student from The Princes Drawing Clubs I was lucky enough to be on a work … Continue reading
Student Stories: Jonathan Farr, Sir Denis Mahon Award Winner
Drawing Year alumnus Jonathan Farr is the 2013-14 Sir Denis Mahon Scholar. He graduated with a BA in Sculpture from the Slade in 1997, and then lived and worked as an English language teacher, magazine illustrator and children’s book author and illustrator in Barcelona and Mexico City until 2009 before applying to The Prince’s Drawing School’s Drawing Year … Continue reading
Success for Drawing Year students, alumni and tutors in 2013!
2013 was a successful year for our Drawing Year students, alumni and tutors, with The Prince’s Drawing School featuring heavily in the art world’s most prestigious awards. Lovelock (I) by Catherine Story Drawing Year alumnus Catherine Story was selected as one of just four painters to exhibit in Tate’s Painting Now show last year, while four Drawing Year alumni … Continue reading
Student Stories: Drawing Year Alumnus Sam Marshall
Printmaker and painter Sam Marshall was a Drawing Year student from 2006-7. In the run-up to the Drawing Year 2014-15 application deadline we share her story about studying at The Prince’s Drawing School and how it affected her practice in the long-term… I studied Fine Art in the 1990’s before coming to The Prince’s Drawing … Continue reading
Save the Van Dyck: The Prince’s Drawing Clubs at the National Portrait Gallery
On Saturday 25th January eighteen of our Prince’s Drawing Club students met at the National Portrait Gallery to draw from the last self-portrait of Sir Anthony Van Dyck. The painting is currently the subject of a campaign by the Art Fund and the National Portrait Gallery to secure it for the nation. The students, aged 10–14 … Continue reading
Student Stories: Isabeau Gervais, New Fine Art Foundation Course
In the run up to this year’s application deadline for our New Fine Art Foundation Course on 14th February, we asked Isabeau, one of our current cohort, to tell us about her experience of studying on the course, and share some of the work she’s made this year… Before enrolling on the New Fine Art … Continue reading
‘Best of The Drawing Year’ at Christie’s
Before The Drawing Year 2012-13 Exhibition was installed at Shoreditch, it had already led a secret life in central London. In our first ever West End show on Wednesday 27th November 2013, a select 56 drawings were displayed at Christie’s International for one night only as part of our special collectors’ preview, Best of The Drawing … Continue reading
The Drawing Year Exhibition 2012-13
The Drawing Year 2012-13 Postgraduate Programme End of Year Exhibition is now up! We were inundated by over 800 guests our Shoreditch gallery last Thursday night who came to view more than 300 drawings by our very talented outgoing Drawing Year students at the opening of their end of year exhibition. We’ll be sad to say goodbye … Continue reading
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