Drawing Club: Amba Sayal-Bennett

This class explores the relationship between the body and drawing through various lenses — abstraction, dissection, distribution, and emplacement. It examines hybrid forms of bodily representation through medical imagery, anatomical drawing and architectural cut-throughs, incorporating layered drawing techniques inspired by anatomical transparencies. Participants will imagine ways bodies can be constructed across different media and spaces, tracing lived bodily experiences and interweaving them with drawing practice.

All levels welcome, including beginners.

All drawing materials will be provided such as pencils, pens, pastels etc. It is not required that you bring any materials with you, but you are welcome to do so if you wish. The class will accommodate max. 20 people.

We will  keep Drawing Room Invites… open later than normal especially for this event, so that you can visit the exhibition during a break.

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

Price: £30 (Discounted price)

For further information about this event and/or to address any access needs, please contact [email protected] / 020 4547 6200

About the artist

Amba Sayal-Bennett is exhibiting at Drawing Room with her first UK institutional show: Drawing Room Invites… . Sayal-Bennett received her BFA from Oxford University, and her MA in Sculpture from the Royal College of Art. She was awarded her PhD in Art Practice and Learning from Goldsmiths and has published her practice-based research with Tate Papers. Between January and March 2022, she was The Derek Hill Foundation scholar at the British School at Rome in Italy. Recent exhibitions include: Anatomy of parts, Indigo+Madder, London, (2025); Artist’s Rooms, Jameel Arts Centre, Dubai (2024); Geometries of Difference, Somerset House, London (2022); Horror in the Modernist Block, IKON, Birmingham (2022); My Mother Was a Computer, Indigo+Madder, London (2022); and Tomorrow, White Cube, London (2021).  Amba Sayal-Bennett (b. 1991) lives and works in London, England.