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  Unit 1b, New Tannery Way
  58 Grange Road
  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.

Emma McNally

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Gallery:
Wednesday–Sunday 12-6pm
Last entry 15 minutes before closing

Library:
Wednesday–Sunday 12-6pm

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Exhibition

Emma McNally: The Earth is Knot Flat

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

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Can You Draw a River?

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We are recruiting a Learning Programme Manager (Maternity Cover)

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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.

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

‘At first glance the swirling, palimpsestic haze

‘At first glance the swirling, palimpsestic haze of marks in each evokes, especially in this low light, a Turneresque maelstrom, but coming closer with my torch the component atoms come into focus. Fields of furtive dashes alternate with patches of tidy benday dots. The circles and ellipses of pure geometry are jostled by the repetitive stabbings of a pencil attached to a power tool. Faint white furrows and curing grey spirals are crossed by long-distance striations. In places the graphite has been smudged into a grey cloud and the paper sanded back to a lighter, mottled shade. As I point my light towards a slew of marks in one area the image seems to list to one side, only to glide off in a different direction as I turn the beam and another layer of marks draws my eye.’

Andrew Chesher writing in November’s Art Monthly about the Choral Field works (pictured) in our current Emma McNally exhibition. You can visit the exhibition from 12-6pm, Wednesday–Sunday, from now until 15 December. ‘The Earth is Knot Flat’ is Emma McNally’s first solo institutional exhibition in the UK and her most ambitious installation to date.

Join us tomorrow for our next Family Studio event

Join us tomorrow for our next Family Studio event with artist Asha Fontenelle, who will be inviting children, parents and carers to use drawing and clay to explore what makes us wonderful! Join us on Sunday 1st December, drop in anytime between 12-4pm. All free! All ages! All welcome!

(Please note there will be no Family Studio in January).

How to find us:

Our address is Drawing Room, New Tannery Way, Bermondsey, London, SE1 5WS

The main entrance to Drawing Room is on Grange Road, next to the white Alaska Building. Our building is behind a set of grey steel gates. We are the first building on the right. Access is also via Crimscott Street through a pedestrian gate.

Buses: 1 & 78 stop outside on Grange Road. 188 & 42 stop on Tower Bridge Road. C10 stops at Bermondsey Square.

Tube/Rail: London Bridge station then 15-minute walk via Bermondsey Street. Jubilee line to Bermondsey station, then 15-minute walk.

Please get in touch for more information or with any access needs

Contact: 07438277020/ betsy@drawingroom.org.uk

Join us on Wednesday 11th December 2024, 6-7.30pm

Join us on Wednesday 11th December 2024, 6-7.30pm for our Book Marks Bookclub. Join us from 6pm for stollen, mulled wine, and non-alcoholic drinks in reception before moving into the library at 6.30pm for the bookclub. We'll be reading 'Creation Lake' by Rachel Kushner, taking it in turns to read selected passages out loud together (for those who wish to) as a starting point for the conversation. You are welcome to join in with the discussion or just listen. Please note, 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 Tue 10th Dec by emailing yamuna@drawingroom.org.uk.

Drawing Room is recruiting maternity cover to lead

Drawing Room is recruiting maternity cover to lead on the delivery of our dynamic Learning Programme. Join us this Thursday 28th at 2pm for an online information session about the position. It will be hosted by our current Learning Curator Betsy Dadd, to give an overview of the role and be an opportunity to ask questions ahead of the application deadline.

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

Please email betsy@drawingroom.org.uk to book a place.

For more information about the role and how to apply, please visit our website.

Application deadline: Monday 9th December, Midnight

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