The Royal Drawing School based in Shoreditch, London, today opens The Drawing Year 2024, a special exhibition showcasing more than 500 works by 31 students who have studied in the School’s year-long, postgraduate-level scholarship course. The exhibition runs until Thursday 19th December 2024. All the works are available to purchase in person and online with prices ranging from £70 – £4000.
To coincide with the exhibition, Zoe Andrews, a graduating student of the course was announced as the winner of the Christie’s Award, presented in partnership with the Royal Drawing School.
Zoe Andrews, said:
“The Drawing Year has been transformative – a journey where drawing became a language of discovery. Observational drawing taught me to see with fresh eyes, every line a mark of presence. This practice now lives within my ceramics, where drawing fuels the dialogue between fleeting observation and enduring form. The Christie’s Award will allow me to continue this journey, deepening my exploration of form and presence. My deepest gratitude goes to my peers, tutors, and family who supported me through this extraordinary year.”
The winner was selected from The Drawing Year 2024 exhibition by the School’s External Assessment Board: Sydney Picasso, Writer and Researcher, Bharti Kher, Artist and Rachel Campbell-Johnston, Art Critic. The £15,000 Award supports a year of creative development and production, culminating in a solo exhibition at the Royal Drawing School.
You can buy Zoe Andrew’s winning work: HERE
The External Assessment Board, said:
“Zoe’s work is an exciting exploration of how the classical can remain firmly contemporary. At first glance her materials and practices seem familiar, well known, and subtle even, but when explored they give way to a great searching complexity. They speak of an interplay between the permanent and the fleeting, the objects are physical but the glazes, marks and figures all suggest life and energy. Her approach to her subject through sensitivity to drawing and her materials impressed us all enormously.”
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. Teaching is led by a faculty of practicing artists, and students are provided with a dedicated studio space for the year. 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.
The Drawing Year 2024 exhibition features work by artists from many backgrounds including painting, printmaking, animation, illustration, drama, architecture, fashion and textiles, art history, philosophy and English literature.
The artists are:
Zoe Andrews, Bek Ashton, Ikesha Avo, Arthur Boothby, Akilah Chambers, Natalie Charles, Tom Cubitt, Samuel Donagh, Maj Lisa Dörig, Myrtle Glanville, Clover Godsal, Heera Gul, Isaac Heard, Phoebe Howard, Angus Macdonald, Paul Majek, Nancy Martin, Esme McMillan-Scott, George Meadows, Keziah Mornin, Carlos Pancorbo, Will Powers, Anna Redwood, Jack Shearing, Tobias Tatham, Rosie Tuff, Daniel C. Turner, Roman Vaughan-Williams, Vito Walker, Rebecca Willing and Madeleine Wood.
The Drawing Year 2024: 4th – 19th December 2024 The Royal Drawing School
Admission free Opening hours: Monday to Friday 9am – 7pm, Saturdays 10am – 4pm
Works from the exhibition can be purchased at: royaldrawingschool.org
