Exhibitions, Events, Talks, Learning Projects and more – find out what’s happening at Drawing Room!
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Drawing Room/Tannery Arts CIO Unit 1b New Tannery Way Bermondsey London, SE1 5WS
Our Learning projects make drawing relevant and accessible to our community – for schools, teachers, families & local groups. Come and draw!
Free and open to all, our Library is a unique collection of around 4,000 books dedicated to the exploration of contemporary drawing.
Our Supporters help fund all that we do and enjoy exclusive events, talks, tours and studio visits – find out how you can join!
Buy publications related to our exhibitions, as well as unique artworks and limited editions.
Find out more about Drawing Room, what we do, and our relationship with studio provider Tannery Arts.
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.
Since December 2024, we have delivered sessions to service users who are under the care of the Maudsley community team, which also extends to people recently discharged from the wards.
Outside the gallery there is a vitrine dedicated to displaying and celebrating the work of service users and staff from South London and Maudsley Hospital. Our current exhibition displays a new collaborative textile drawing, made across 5 months with over 23 different members and uses needle felting and gouache to celebrate pattern, colour and the collective joy of working together.
From the Drawing Room Studio, sessions have explored painting, printmaking, embroidery, clay and poetry and have been guided by the principle that one thing leads to another. Sessions begin with a collaborative drawing exercise to invite people to make a mark that is not just their own, and from this, discover new marks and imagery that can become a starting point for something new. The process of collaboration invites creative freedom as well as an opening for self-compassion. Each session introduces new processes and the opportunity to learn a new skill as well as nurturing the time for an individual to be present with a process or material. The displaying of work, if only momentary, offers everybody the opportunity to look and celebrate what has been created and discovered that day.