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  Bermondsey
  London, SE1 5WS
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Emma McNally

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Gallery:
Wednesday–Sunday 12-6pm

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Wednesday–Sunday 12-6pm or by appointment

Current exhibition & display

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Exhibition

Emma McNally: The Earth is Knot Flat

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

Display

Can You Draw a River?

Event

Draw Breath

A coming together

News

We are recruiting a Learning Programme Manager (Maternity Cover)

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Draw!

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

APPLY NOW! Drawing Room is recruiting maternity co

APPLY NOW! Drawing Room is recruiting maternity cover to lead on the delivery of our dynamic Learning Programme. Through projects, workshops and events the Learning Programme seeks to enact broad and experimental forms of drawing for artistic, educational, social and emotional development.

We invite applications from people who are passionate about contemporary drawing practice and its broad and valuable use within educational settings and community contexts.

Temporary: Fixed Term, 1 year

Part Time: 3 days per week

For more information about the role and how to apply, please visit our website by following the link in our Instagram bio.

Application deadline: Monday 9th December, Midnight

Join us on the second Wednesday of every month dur

Join us on the second Wednesday of every month during exhibitions for a discussion of a selection of literature from around the world. Wednesday 13th November, 6.30-7.30 pm – We'll be reading the Dispossessed by Ursula K. Le Guin. We’ll be taking it in turns to read selected passages out loud together (for those who wish to) from which we’ll start off the conversation. You are welcome to join in with the discussion or just listen, we do not provide copies of the books, so please do source your own copy from a public library or bookshop in advance of each event.

15 places available, please book your place by 11th November by emailing yamuna@drawingroom.org.uk.

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!

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