Drawing Club: Amba Sayal-Bennett

Tracing the Body Through Drawing

Through a series of talks, text discussions and practical activities, this course will explore how the body is produced in different ways through practices of drawing. Please see weekly course breakdown.

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: £250.00 per person for all 4 sessions, booking is essential. Concessions available, see below:

• Drawing Room Supporters – 10% off
• Universal/Pension Credit Recipients – 10% off
• Southwark residents – 10% off
• Full-time Students – 10% off
• Over 60s/Under 30s – 10% off
• Drawing Biennial 2024/Tannery Artists – 10% off

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.