On the first day of our Shop Pop-Up , join the artist Lisa Milroy and Drawing Room co-director Mary Doyle in an informal discussion about Milroys drawing practice and her project Hands On. Drawings from Hands On are exclusively available for…

An in conversation between artist Daniel Guzmán and Elizabeth Baquedano, Senior Lecturer at UCL, London and Institute of Archaeology, British Museum. Guzmán’s artwork is steeped in the context of Mexican and…

A special screening of the film Bad Timing (1980). The film was directed by Nicolas Roeg and is set amid the decaying elegance of cold-war Vienna. It sees  psychoanalyst Dr. Alex Linden (Art Garfunkel) become mired in an erotically charged…

A seminar exploring contemporary artists’ representation of the naked body and the role of drawing in this, Schiele’s legacy in relation to art and the pornographic image, myth and the figure in the work of Leon Golub…

​Figuring the Naked Body / Drawing from The Nakeds A Making Study Group led by artist Donna Huddleston. The Nakeds exhibition provides the setting for two dynamic sessions that explore different ways of figuring the naked body. Huddleston’s approach…

Participating artists Christopher Bond, Keith Roberts and Lizi Sánchez, from offsite exhibition Full Circle, will be in conversation about the project with the exhibition curators Jacqui McIntosh & Mairia Evripidou. Full Circle is the fifth exhibition curated by…

​Figuring the Naked Body / Drawing from Life A Making Study Group led by artist Donna Huddleston. The Nakeds exhibition provides the setting for two dynamic sessions that explore different ways of figuring the naked body. Huddleston’s approach…

This seminar event addresses the question: how can we write about art today? It looks at opportunities and challenges faced by writers, editors and curators of contemporary art. Speakers will include Patricia Bickers, Omar Kholeif, Sally O’Reilly and…

Writing on Art is happening again in February 2016 here

Our Network Summer Social will include our first Study Forum, a special tour of The Nakeds led by David Austen, artist and the exhibitions co-curator, and celebrate the launch of our new digital Artist Directory. Light refreshments will be served. …

A special SLAM Friday event, introducing you to three neighbouring organisations in Bermondsey. Meet at Arthouse1, 45 Grange Road, SE1 3BH to see Elemental Perspectives, a group exhibition which explores the tactile nature of sensory experience. Then we’ll visit…

Network members are invited to a visit and informal discussion at our offsite exhibition Full Circle. Bringing together a diverse range of artists and works, the exhibition explores both the continuation and evolution of ideas within individual artistic practice.…

Hosted by artist Peter Liversidge

A fundraising event to support Outset Study

Join us and take part in Peter Liversidge’s infamous ‘Gin Proposal’, supported by Sipsmith. This performance event lasts the duration of the gin supply; once the bottles and glasses are empty, the performance is over!

An informal discussion group looking at physical, visual and aural ways of exploring our built environment, using extracts from theory texts, film and sound works as the starting point for the conversation. Works considered will include texts by Situationist International…

Family event

The first of our Making Groups will be a drawing workshop led by artist Sarah Macdonald and will explore the practice of making field drawings as a way of interpreting the built environment.  The workshop will focus…

A panel discussion about drawing and architecture between exhibiting artist Aleksandra Mir with invited artists Pablo Bronstein and Adam Dant moderated by co-director Mary Doyle.  The conversation will centre on Aleksandra’s major scale drawing project titled Drawing…

An informal tour of Aleksandra Mir's solo exhibition Drawing Room with Mary Doyle, co-director of Drawing Room. Free, all welcome - no booking necessary

Artist Richard Woods and children’s author Jessica Spanyol invite Drawing Room Patrons to their new build family home and studio designed by DRMM Architects. It is the first industrial building to be built entirely of wood in…

We are hosting the launch of Brandon Taylor’s new book After Constructivism, published by Yale University Press. The evening will consist of an informal discussion chaired by artist and curator Andrew Bick, with the artist Katrina Blannin and…

An informal session providing an opportunity to discuss sonic themes in our current exhibition Abstract Drawing.  The group will be led by Abstract Drawing artist Emma McNally, and researcher and artist Seth Guy.  As a…

In this Saturday talk join independent curator Sacha Craddock, as she discusses ideas and key works within our current exhibition Abstract Drawing. Sacha Craddock is a freelance critic and curator. Former Director of Programme at Max Wigram Gallery (2011- 2012)…

​ Exhibition tour during our late night opening.

An informal session providing an opportunity to discuss themes and issues raised in our current exhibition Abstract Drawing. The group will by led by Abstract Drawing artist Emma McNally, and researcher and artist Seth Guy.  …

An afternoon of presentations and in conversations exploring ideas presented in Abstract Drawing. The afternoon will include: Curating Abstract Drawing  Artist Richard Deacon will talk about his curatorial approach to Abstract Drawing. Drawing, Withdrawing: Degrees of Abstraction by Anna…

Artist, and curator of Drawing Room exhibition Abstract Drawing, Richard Deacon in conversation with Drawing Room co-director, Kate Macfarlane. They will discuss Deacon's relationship to drawing in his own practice and his approach to curating Abstract Drawing. Richard…

Michael Armitage, Frank Pudney, paula roush, Lucia Vera

An exclusive Drawing Room Network 2014 event. Join us for a glass of wine, meet the directors, view highlights from the Outset Study collections and see the recently opened exhibition Abstract Drawing. To find out more about joining us, click…

A talk by Emilia Terracciano about Abstract Drawing artist Nasreen Mohamedi.

An informal tour of highlights from the exhibition Abstract Drawing with Kate Macfarlane, co-director of Drawing Room. Free, no booking nessecary

3-4pm: Cornelia Parker in conversation with Jack Southern 4-5pm: Reflections on the Drawing making: Making drawing project with Tim Knowles, Jack Southern and other participants For some years Cornelia Parker's work has been concerned with formalising things…

Workshop with Claude Heath + Jack Southern as part of Drawing making - Making drawing

Since 2004 Scottish artist Charles Avery (Oban, 1973) has dedicated his practice to the description of a fictional island which he continues to elaborate, with its own population, customs and philosophies, nature and architecture, expressed in the form of large-scale drawings, sculptures,…

Creative Morphology workshop with Gemma Anderson + Jack Southern as part of Drawing making - Making drawing

Franziska Furter’s practice spans both two and three-dimensional making. In a process of copying, scanning and enlarging, Furter's two-dimensional drawings develop from a wide range of references and found imagery. Works are often visualizations of the …

Workshop with Tim Knowles + Jack Southern as part of Drawing making - Making drawing

3pm: Introduction to Drawing making Making Drawing project by Jack Southern 3.30: -5pm: Dryden Goodwin in conversation Jack Southern Dryden Goodwin’s work includes drawing, often in combination with photography and video, he also creates etchings, screen-based installations, works…