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Emma McNally

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Wednesday–Sunday 12-6pm

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Wednesday–Sunday 12-6pm or by appointment

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Exhibition

Emma McNally: The Earth is Knot Flat

Can you draw a river exhibition image scaled. Photograph: Mirko Boffelli

Event

Can You Draw a River?

Event

Draw Breath

A coming together

Event

Drawing Club: Giulia Ricci

Drawing Workshop for Adults

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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.

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Our Library & Research Centre is a growing specialist reference library currently includes approximately 3,500 books and 70 journal titles on international contemporary 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

Tomorrow for our next Family Studio this Autumn we

Tomorrow for our next Family Studio this Autumn we have artist Lydia CS who will be inviting children, parents and carers to experiment with paper sculptures, creating a moving installation! Taking inspiration from Emma McNally's exhibition, The Earth is Knot Flat, there will be moments of lights-out to explore the work by torch light and play with reflections!

Sunday 3rd November
Drop in anytime between 12-4pm

All Free. All Welcome!

(IMG credit: Sadegh Aleahmad, ROCK PAPER SCISSORS In School Project with Sadegh Aleahmad and Grange Primary School. Image curtesy of Sadegh Aleahmad.)

Join artist Giulia Ricci who will lead our next Dr

Join artist Giulia Ricci who will lead our next Drawing Club workshop in our Community Studio on Wednesday 13th November, 6.30-8.30pm.

The workshop will focus on lines and grids; it will be a playful exploration of how these elements give origin to the patterns that are all around us and what happens when these structures are disrupted. The activity will include a range of materials and will feature a meditative and mindfulness element. Giulia will begin the evening with a short presentation on her references and work at 6.30pm.

Giulia Ricci makes finely detailed geometrical abstract works using a variety of hand-made and digital processes and a diverse range of materials, primarily paper and ink, but also leather, wood, vinyl and paint; drawing underpins her practice across the various media. Ricci is interested in the relationship between ornament and abstraction with references to objects like textiles, tiles, bricks and various other artifacts.

We will also keep Emma McNally: The Earth is Knot Flat open slightly later than normal until 6.30pm, if you want to visit the exhibition before the class begins.

Location: Community Studio, Drawing Room, Unit 1B, New Tannery Way, SE1 5WS

Ticket price: £25.00 per person, booking is essential. Concessions available, see below:

Universal/Pension Credit Recipients – 50% off (£12.50)
Southwark residents – 25% off (£18.75)
Full-time Students – 25% off (£18.75)
Over 60s/Under 30s – 10% off (£22.50)
Drawing Biennial 2024/Tannery Artists – 10% off (£22.50)
Drawing Members – 10% off (£22.50)
For further information about this event and/or to address any access needs, please contact mariana@drawingroom.org.uk / 020 4547 6200

Book your tickets via our website!

Join us on Monday 4th of November from 2-4pm, for

Join us on Monday 4th of November from 2-4pm, for our Re-Descovery creative sessions for those living with dementia and their carers, led by Alice Blackstock. This is an opportunity to explore materials and themes in 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.

Monday 4th November 2024:

After a catch up, there will be a demonstration of how to weave strips of fabric onto a cardboard loom. Everyone will be given a shaped loom based on their drawing of a river from the previous week. Everyone will begin their weaving, choosing different colours of fabric.

We have space for 16 participants at each session, please book by emailing yamuna@drawingroom.org.uk

Each session is designed as a continuation of the last, however participants are not required to join all three sessions if they are not able to do so.

Tea, coffee and biscuits will be provided at each session.

Read Studio International’s fantastic review by

Read Studio International’s fantastic review by Bronac Ferran of our current exhibition Emma McNally’s ‘The Earth is Knot Flat’.

The show is open until the 15th December 2024, don’t miss your chance to see how Emma has ‘transformed the main gallery space at Drawing Room into a landscape where nature, so to speak, is not just remembered but re-enchanted.’

The gallery is open Wednesday - Sunday, 12-6pm.

https://www.studiointernational.com/index.php/emma-mcnally-the-earth-is-knot-flat-review-drawing-room-tannery-arts-london

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