Exhibitions, Events, Talks, Learning Projects and more – find out what’s happening at Drawing Room!
Find out our opening hours, how to get here and learn more about our space & local area.
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 September 2024, Making Room has been based at Maudsley Hospital. Here we have been situated on Lucas ward, Jim Birley Unit, Ruskin ward and Eileen Skellern 1; acute and psychiatric intensive care wards for women.
Sessions invite both service users and staff to participate and are centred on automation, collaboration, and making. The space is social and people are invited to be with others, make decisions for themselves and have time to not just work through something alone. All materials and snacks are provided and service users are invited to join community sessions once discharged.
Work is displayed throughout the wards, along corridors, directly onto service users bedroom wall’s and in family and activity rooms. Over the summer of 2025, our first mural, In your hands was painted with artist’s Nicole Morris and Boudicca Paloma, in the garden of Lucas ward, and echoes many of the sessions that have been delivered on the very same ward.