Over 500 works by Royal Drawing School students on display in Shoreditch

Over 500 contemporary drawings have gone on display in Shoreditch, all by this year’s students from the Royal Drawing School.

The Drawing Year is a full scholarship postgraduate-level course which provides an opportunity for intensive practice in drawing from observation. Approximately thirty students are selected from a pool of over 500 applicants to attend the course. A faculty of practising artists lead teaching, and students are provided with a dedicated studio space for the year.

Now, their year of effort has gone on display in a free exhibition.

As you might expect, it’s a very wide-ranging show, featuring tiny artworks to monumental pieces in a wide range of materials and styles. The main criteria, generally followed, is that the work should be two-dimensional and hang on a wall.

Dominating the entrance is a large red portrait reminiscent of the recent Red King by Jonathan Yeo. The rest of the exhibition fills every wall of the drawing school, showing an impressive range of skills and genres.

It’s such a mixed display that it’s likely something in the display will appeal to most people.

The exhibition The Drawing Year 2024 End of Year Exhibition is at the Royal Drawing School until 18th December 2024 and entry is free.

It’s open Monday to Friday 9am to 7pm and on Saturdays 10am to 4pm.

Royal Drawing School,
19-22 Charlotte Road,
London,
EC2A 3SG

All the works are available to purchase with prices ranging from £70 – £4000.

The Royal Drawing School was established by HM King Charles III and artist, Catherine Goodman in 2000, and the course was founded in that first year. It is unique in the spectrum of tertiary level art education in the UK.