The Royal Drawing School: The Drawing Year 2023 End of Year Exhibition
18.12.23
On Charlotte Road, in Shoreditch, East London, is the Royal Drawing School, where the End of Year Exhibition for the Drawing Year, a one year postgraduate course, is currently open. The exhibition is bustling, and there is a promising number of red dots to be spotted next to the artworks, which are presented in a jumble of different frames, pleasingly at odds with the white cube space. There are racks of prints to rummage through.
The exhibition features painting, drawing and printmaking, with artists’ bios and price lists for their works mounted on the wall. In what feels like a slight oversight, the media aren’t specified.
It is enjoyable to absorb such a volume of works on paper (over 400 pieces, according to their website) and a sense of practice, process and study are palpable in the way the work is curated; a highlight of the exhibition is a vitrine in which students’ open sketchbooks are displayed.
The Royal Drawing School was founded in 2000, and is a part of the Princes Charities, which are affiliated with Charles III. The school runs a variety of programmes including The Drawing Year, a Foundation Year, and a public programme which includes courses for children and adults, and free etching and life drawing classes for London art students.
This exhibition ran from 7 December 2023 – 19 December 2023
