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  Bermondsey
  London, SE1 5WS
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  Tannery Arts is a small, independent charity concerned with supporting the professional development of emerging and established artists through the provision of affordable studios, promoting their practice through opportunities to exhibit work, develop projects, generate partnerships with local authorities, private property owners and social housing organisations as well as engage in learning activities.

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Gallery:
Closed until 15 May

Library:
Closed until 15 May

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Drawing Room Invites…

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Glenn Brown personal tour

Director's Circle & Drawing Patrons

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Drawing Club: Alicia Reyes McNamara

Drawing Course for Adults

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Simon Moretti & Paul Heber Percy personal collection tour

Director's Circle & Drawing Patrons

Learning

We shape projects alongside artists, children, schools, families, teachers, young people, students, adults and local community groups to explore drawing in all its forms. Drawing is used as a means to play, experiment, communicate, collaborate and come together in a process of collective learning.

Library & Research

Our Library & Research Centre is a growing specialist reference library currently includes approximately 4,000 books and 70 journal titles on drawing since the 1970s, and includes rare items not held in other major UK and Irish libraries. The general reference collection includes artists’ monographs featuring drawing, exhibition catalogues, journals, theory, collection catalogues, and surveys on drawing.

Updates from Instagram

Join us this Sunday, 26th April, for our Director’s Circle and Drawing Patrons visit - a personal tour event led by Glenn Brown.

Artist Glenn Brown will conduct a personal tour of his collection and archive, which is housed in his mews building in Marylebone. Across four floors, the Brown Collection displays a blend of Glenn’s work alongside work by other contemporary and historical artists that continue to inform and inspire the British artist’s practice.

This private studio visit tour is part of Drawing Room’s exclusive Supporters events programme. If you wish to become a Supporter and access our private events please contact mary@drawingroom.org.uk or visit our Join page.

At the beginning of this week, we said goodbye to

At the beginning of this week, we said goodbye to the wonderful Winter/Spring group of the Re-Discovery Programme, co-facilitated by artist and Rare Space coordinator Charlie Harrison and Drawing Room librarian Yamuna Ravindran.

Working in collaboration with Rare Space, this was an opportunity for people with dementia and their carers to explore the materials and themes of the works on display in our current exhibitions through practical making, discussion or just meeting and connecting with other people over a cup of tea in a relaxed creative setting.

Thank you to Charlie Harrison, Yamuna Ravindran and all the lovely attendees that came along.

We hope to see you again for the Autumn Re-Discovery Programme 2025!

Drawing Room Invites… Anna Paterson, Alicia Reye

Drawing Room Invites… Anna Paterson, Alicia Reyes McNamara, Amba Sayal-Bennett. From 15th May 2025 – 27th July 2025.

Drawing Room Invites… exhibits solo presentations from three artists who contributed to Drawing Biennial 2024, giving greater insight into their practices and the innovative art being made within the expanded field of drawing today. These artists were co-selected by our team and the local community and this will be the first show in a public gallery for each artist.

Before we open, find out more via our website at drawingroom.org.uk or using the link in our bio.

Images:
1. Anna Paterson, Quadrat, 2024, oil on paper, 102 x 68 cm, courtesy the artist
2. Alicia Reyes McNamara, Taste of Dirt, 2022, pastel on paper, 21 x 29.7 cm, courtesy the artist
3. Amba Sayal-Bennett, Curb, 2020, ink, pro-marker and graphite on paper, 21cm x 29.7cm, courtesy the artist

This bank holiday weekend, if you're a parent or a

This bank holiday weekend, if you're a parent or a carer we can recommend to you the Learning Resources on our website.

All resources, including creative activities as well as disability/learning difficulty and behavioural packs, are completely free and available to use.

Have a sunny weekend and we look forward to seeing you again soon!

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