Drawing Correspondence are offering a themed six-week program, Nature as Witness, which will be delivered from 2 May to 6 June 2022 with applications sought by 31 March 2022.

The Drawing Correspondence programs are designed to support the growth and critical evolution of each participant's drawing practice in a supportive atmosphere. Nature as Witness is the third six-week online program conceived under the Drawing Correspondence umbrella and invites participants to consider how we think about our interaction with nature and how this encounter with the non-human or beyond human is explored through drawing. The six-week program comprises drawing sessions, prompted independent drawing projects, drawing discussions, group and individual tutorials, feedback, surgeries, and recommendations.

The program is devised by the Drawing Correspondence founders: Chloe Briggs, Tania Kovats and Anita Taylor, and delivered by the Drawing Correspondence team and invited contributors. The first four weeks are guided and designed to inspire participants to re-think, re-animate and revive their individual drawing practice.

The first four weeks of the program are themed by the elements: Fire, Earth, Water, Air. The second part of the program involves reflection on what was achieved in the structured element of the program and facilitates identification for each participant of an independent focus for personal development. The program concludes with an online presentation of the work that each participant selects to share with the Drawing Correspondence participants and team. A collaborative publication is also produced that includes images and text by the program participants, which forms a documentary record of the Nature as Witness cohort and program.

Applications are sought for the 10 available places by 31 March 2022, with all applicants advised of the outcomes by 8 April 2022. There is a participation fee of £600 for the six-week program. Drawing Correspondence has also has a fee-waiver bursary available. More details are available here.

Join a Drawing Session with Sarah Casey on Saturday 12 November from 2pm to 4pm. This Drawing Session will be held in-person at Drawing Projects UK in association with Sarah Casey's solo exhibition - Emergency! - which opens on 12 November 2022.

This Drawing Session will introduce the idea of floating drawings, using techniques of cutting and ripping paper to draw, assembling compositions to be ‘frozen’ or trapped between sheets of waxed paper. It introduces participants to the principles of drawing used by Sarah Casey in the Emergency! exhibition.

Participants are encouraged to bring their own paper fragments to recycle into drawing –e.g. old artworks, found paper – whatever you fancy.  Other materials will be provided. 

The Drawing Session is free to attend and tickets may be booked here. Places are limited for this event, so please only book a place if you will be joining this practical Drawing Session, which will take place in the Project Space at Drawing Projects UK in Wiltshire. A programme of online Drawing Discussions and Drawing Sessions will accompany the exhibition too. 

Emergency! is an exhibition of new work by Sarah Casey developed in response to glacial archaeology. In 2018, at Valais Museums, Switzerland, Sarah began drawing artefacts that have emerged from alpine glaciers as the ice in which they have been preserved for 50, 500 or 5000 years is now melting at unprecedented rates. This glacial archaeology embodies a position of extreme precarity: these rare and valuable finds preserve important knowledge about the human past, yet insight comes at the cost of environmental change and threatened futures. Moreover, the artefacts themselves, once released from their frozen slumber, will rapidly decay and disintegrate when exposed. The Emergency! exhibition aims to explore this precarity asking how might processes of drawing – with its use of marking and erasure, presence and absence – negotiate these tensions and find new ways of thinking through loss and change? The drawings in the exhibition are made by trapping dust in wax and so, like the archaeology they depict, are contingent on their environmental conditions to survive – if they get exposed to heat, they will melt away. This research was developed through a Henry Moore Institute Research Fellowship 2021 and undertaken in dialogue with Valais History Museum, Switzerland. The exhibition is kindly supported by Lancaster University and Arts Council England. 

Sarah Casey is a visual artist and researcher working at the cusp of drawing and sculpture. Her drawings exploring the limits of visibility and material existence arise from working alongside researchers from other fields, ranging from archaeology to astrophysics. Solo exhibitions of her work have been at Kensington Palace, The Bowes Museum and most recently at Ryerson University, Toronto. She also writes on drawing and is co-author of Drawing Investigations: graphic relationships with science, culture and environment (Bloomsbury 2020). She is Senior Lecturer in Drawing and Installation at Lancaster University, UK where she is Director for the School of Fine Art. Sarah was a Royal Drawing School Scottish artist-in-residence in 2020 and a Visiting Research Fellow at The Henry Moore Institute from 2020-21. Her current work explores the provocations of glacial archaeology. With Rebecca Birch and Jen Southern she is co-founder of the Rocky Climates network bringing together artists concerned with the mobilities and temporal, spatial, cultural instabilities of landscapes in uncertain times.

The exhibition and public programmes are supported by Arts Council England.

Watermarks is the fifth Drawing Correspondence six-week online drawing program, and will use drawing to explore our relationship with water. 

Drawing Correspondence programs are designed to support the growth and critical evolution of each participant's drawing practice in a supportive atmosphere. Watermarks is the fifth six-week online program conceived under the Drawing Correspondence umbrella and invites participants to use drawing to explore our relationship with water. The six-week program comprises drawing sessions, prompted independent drawing projects, drawing discussions, group and individual tutorials, feedback, surgeries, and recommendations.

The program is devised by the Drawing Correspondence founders: Chloe Briggs, Tania Kovats and Anita Taylor. The programs are delivered by members of the Drawing Correspondence team and invited contributors. The program concludes with an online presentation of the work that each participant selects to share with the Drawing Correspondence participants and team. A collaborative publication is also produced that includes images and texts by the program participants and that forms a documentary record of the Watermarks cohort and program.

More information about the Watermarks 6-week program can be found here.

Deadline: 26th March 2023. 
Selected Participants Informed: 29th March 2023. 
Start date: 17th April 2023. 
End date: 26th May 2023

During the Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize 2023 exhibition at Trinity Buoy Wharf in London there are a number of in-person events:

30th September 2023, 2pm to 4pm: Drawing Session with Elisa Alaluusua at Trinity Buoy Wharf
On Saturday 30 September award-winning artist, Elisa Alaluusua, will lead a practical drawing session at Trinity Buoy Wharf in London as part of the programme of events accompanying the Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize 2023. Elisa Alaluusua has two drawings included in the 2023 exhibition - Two Months Apart, 2023, Video Drawing and Great-Grandmother’s Little Dress with a Collar, 2021-2023, Graphite on handmade paper - and was the First Prize winner of Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize 2022.

Join Elisa to explore the drawings on show in the exhibition through drawing in the Buoy Store; the drawing materials for this session will be provided and are included in the ticket price. All levels of experience welcome to join this drawing session.

Elisa Alaluusua (b.1970 Rovaniemi, Finland) studied MA Art as Environment at Manchester Metropolitan University (1994-95); MA Art Education at University of Lapland (1991-99); and a PhD at Chelsea College of Arts, University of the Arts London (2009-16). Selected group exhibitions include: Aika ja Ajallisuus, Gallery Valo, Arktikum, Rovaniemi, Finland (2022); Jerwood Drawing Prize 2017 & 2015, Jerwood Space London and UK tour (2017-18 & 2015-16); Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize 2022, Trinity Buoy Wharf, London and UK tour (2022-23); Driven to Draw: 20th Century Drawings and Sketchbooks from the Royal Academy Collection, the Royal Academy of Arts, London (2011-12). Solo exhibitions include: Memory Nuclei, Gallery Duetto, Helsinki, Finland (2022); Sketchbooks – A Revelation, Art Space Gallery, London, UK (2018); Sketchbooks – An Obsession, Drawing Projects UK, Wiltshire (2017). Recent awards include: First Prize, Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize 2022; Second Prize, Jerwood Drawing Prize 2015. Elisa lives and works in London and Finnish Lapland.BOOK HERE

8th October 2023, 2pm to 4pm: Drawing Session with Jeanette Barnes at Trinity Buoy Wharf
Join artist Jeanette Barnes for this practical drawing session at Trinity Buoy Wharf alongside the Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize 2023.
On Sunday 8 October at 2pm, award-winning artist, Jeanette Barnes, will lead a practical Drawing Session at Trinity Buoy Wharf in London as part of the programme of events accompanying the Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize 2023.

Jeanette Barnes' large drawing, New Battersea Tube Station & Developments, 2023, made with compressed charcoal on paper, is included in the 2023 exhibition. Jeanette won the Working Drawing Award in 2019 and Second Prize in the Jerwood Drawing Prize 2003.

Jeanette says of her drawing: "This work is not about one moment in time, but more a history of the development. On location, I gather information from multiple viewpoints to make the resulting studio drawing slightly uncomfortable. The sketches that fed this image were made over many years, the sense of that evolution had to be accommodated within the final drawing, statements suggested and erased many times over. As much as the work documents the site itself, it also uses the movement of people and the energy of construction as a metaphor for urban experience and change. The development of the drawing isn’t preconceived, it’s much more of a journey of discoveries and losses than a straight line from beginning to end. Buildings jostle and compete for attention and space, as they always have done and always will do. "

Join Jeanette to explore drawing Trinity Buoy Wharf inspired by drawings in the exhibition; the drawing materials for this session will be provided and are included in the ticket price. All levels of experience welcome to join this drawing session.

Jeanette Barnes (b.1961) Great Harwood, Lancashire, UK) studied BA Hons Fine Art, Liverpool Polytechnic (1980-83); Postgraduate Painting, Royal Academy Schools (1984-87); MA Printmaking, Royal College of Art (1987-89). Group exhibitions include: Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, London (2023, 2013, 2011, 2009, 2007); Wren300, Guildhall, London (2023); Bainbridge Print Open (2023 ); Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize 2022, 2020, 2019, London & tours (2022-23, 2020-21, 2019-20); Woolwich Contemporary Print (2023, 2021, 2020); Creative Debuts, Adidas Flagship Store, London (2022); Moving Cities, Anise Gallery, London (2022); Drawn to Carbon, Graham Hunter Gallery, London (2020); ING Discerning Eye, online (2020); National Print Exhibition, Bankside, London (2019); Lynn Painter Stainers Exhibition, Mall Galleries, London (2019, 2016, 2015, 2014, 2013). Solo exhibitions: Urban Journeys, Felix & Spear London (2019); Docklands Diary, Clifford Chance, London (2018); Metropolis, Felix & Spear, London (2018); Urban Connections, Broadgate Tower London (2016); Sense of Place, Sewell Centre, Radley College (2016); Time & Tide, Anise Gallery, London (2015); Site Specific, Spitalfields Gallery, London (2015). Awards: Hugh Casson Drawing Award, Royal Academy Summer Exhibition (2013); Second Prize, Lynn Painter Stainers (2019); Working Drawing Award, Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize 2019; Second Prize, Jerwood Drawing Prize 2003. She lives and works in London in the UK. BOOK HERE

14th October 2023, 10.30am: Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize 2023-an introduction with Director, Anita Taylor
Join us for an introduction to the Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize 2023 exhibition with founding director, Professor Anita Taylor.
On Saturday 14 October at 10.30am, join Professor Anita Taylor, the founding Director of the Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize, for this special introduction to the Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize 2023 exhibition at Trinity Buoy Wharf in London.

Professor Anita Taylor studied at Mid-Cheshire College of Art, Gloucestershire College of Art & Technology, and the Royal College of Art. She was Artist-in-Residence at Durham Cathedral [1987-88]; Cheltenham Fellow in Painting [1988-89]; Artist-in-Residence with the NSW National Parks and Wildlife Service with the National Art School in Sydney [2004]. Recent solo exhibitions include: Witness, Young Gallery, Salisbury [2018]; DRAWN, The Customs House, South Shields [2017]; William Wright Artists Projects, Sydney [2014]; The Drawing Room, Sydney [2011]; Peter Pinson Gallery, Sydney [2009]; The Drawing Gallery [2009, 2004]. Recent group shows include Kazı İzleri / Lines of Site in Istanbul, touring to Dundee, Barcelona and Aksaray [2022], for which she made a series of large drawings in response to the Neolithic settlement of Aşıklı Höyük in Central Anatolia as part of an EU-funded project; inclusion in exhibitions of drawing at: The Global Centre for Drawing, Langford120, Melbourne [2018, 2013, 2011]; Jerwood Gallery, Hastings [2016, 2014]; Victoria & Albert Museum [2009]; Tate Britain (2006-07). Awards include the Malvern Award for Drawing [1993]; Drawing Award, Hunting Art Prize [1999]; First Prize, Hunting Art Prize [2000].

Currently Dean of Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art & Design at the University of Dundee, her previous academic roles include: Executive Dean of Bath School of Art and Design at Bath Spa University [2013-19]; Director & Chief Executive Officer of the National Art School, Sydney, Australia [2009-13]; Dean, Wimbledon College of Art & Director, The Centre for Drawing, University of the Arts London [2006-09]; Vice Principal of Wimbledon School of Art [2004-06]. She was first awarded a Personal Chair/Professorial title in 2002 at the University of Gloucestershire, where she was initially appointed as Head of Painting in 1991. She is founding Director of the annual Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize exhibition since 1994 (known as Jerwood Drawing Prize from 2001-17); and established Drawing Projects UK in 2009 to develop and promote research initiatives in drawing, including the Jerwood Drawing Prize, and developed Drawing Projects UK as a physical Centre for Drawing and Contemporary Art in Wiltshire in 2015; a second Drawing Projects UK planned to open in Dundee, Scotland in 2024. BOOK HERE

Shadowlands is the sixth Drawing Correspondence online drawing program and will run over 5 weeks from 13 November to 15 December 2023. 

SHADOWLANDS: 

Drawing is an energetic dance between light and dark. The approaching shorter days and longer nights of winter in this part of the world put us all into the shadow of the season. 

Drawing is a perfect medium to explore these darker days full of the drama of winter light and cold suns where we have more time with the moon and stars. Shadowlands is full of the lights we switch on and the shadows that they cast. The screens that glow in the evening, the candles and fires that we ignite, the acidity of street lights, and the company we blanket ourselves with to keep warm. 

The shadowlands are also places at the political margins, at the edge of things, again a space drawing is well suited to occupy. 

In the dark our other senses become more alert as we explore gardens glowing at night. The kingdom of plants in the northern temporal zone start to retreat back underground to escape frosts leaving behind the bare bones of skeletal trees. 

We also slip into winter’s hibernation, sleeping and dreaming more. 

What better way to notice, celebrate and play in the Shadowlands than with drawing.  

The Drawing Correspondence online programs are designed to support the growth and critical evolution of each participant's drawing practice in a supportive atmosphere. The five-week programs comprise drawing sessions, prompted independent drawing projects, drawing discussions, group and individual feedback sessions, surgeries, and recommendations. The programs are devised by the Drawing Correspondence founders: Chloe Briggs, Tania Kovats and Anita Taylor; they are delivered by members of the Drawing Correspondence team along with a team of guest contributors. Each program concludes with an online presentation of the work that each participant has produced and selects to share with the Drawing Correspondence participants and team. A collaborative publication is also produced that includes images and texts by the program participants and that forms a documentary record of each Drawing Correspondence cohort and program. 

More information about the Shadowlands 5-week program can be found here. An online information session will take place on Sunday 15 October at 5pm and you can register here.

Key Dates:
Deadline: 29 October 2023
Selected Participants Informed: 31 October 2023
Start date: 13 November 2023
End date: 15 December 2023 

We are presenting a further two Online Drawing Sessions with Chloe Briggs (AKA Drawing is Free) in association with the Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize 2021 exhibition as part of our public engagement programme accompanying the Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize 2021 exhibition, on show at Drawing Projects UK until 5 March 2022, The exhibition, events and engagement programmes at Drawing Projects UK are supported using public funding by Arts Council England.

Both online Drawing Sessions led by Chloe Briggs are inspired by the exhibition, and reflect two of the ten themes identified in the free downloadable Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize 2021 Education Pack devised by Drawing is Free with Drawing Projects UK for the exhibition. 

Nature as Witness on Wednesday 23 February 2022 at 9am is the first of these two Online Drawing Sessions with Chloe Briggs. The session will  begin by looking at nature: the plants and flowers that surround us. This could be personal or political or both.The exceptional writer and teacher, Robin Wall Kimmerer, describes the difference between learning about something and learning from something. When we learn from, we listen, suspend judgement and do not claim to own or master. Learning to draw goes hand in hand with developing the ability to get yourself into a state of awe with almost anything, small things, common things. When starting, you do not yet know what the drawing will look like, what you will see, what you will discover. More information and booking is available here. 

Inside the Body on Wednesday 2 March 2022 at 9am is the second of two online Drawing Sessions with Chloe Briggs. An X-ray of the human body is still an extraordinary thing to see even 120+ years since the process was invented. The inky, black and white qualities of an X-ray could be seen as a form of drawing in its own right. In this Drawing Session, you are invited to put your own body through an imagined X-ray machine. A machine so powerful, it can pick up not just bones, veins, organs, cells, but feelings and thoughts as well... More information and booking is available here.

The free downloadable Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize 2021 Education Pack devised by Drawing is Free with Drawing Projects UK for the exhibition is downloadable here. 

Please follow us on social media or our Eventbrite page for other events in our exhibitions and engagement programmes. We look forward to seeing you here at Drawing Projects UK or online for our Drawing Discussions, Drawing Sessions and Drawing Symposium.  

#TBWPD21 #DrawingSessions #DrawingProjectsUK #ACEsupported #LetsCreate #LetsDraw

Join us for this special Drawing Session, exploring drawing as a form of discovery with Alex Roberts on Saturday 7 December 2019, from 1.30pm to 4pm.

Following on from the life drawing session in the morning, Alex will be offering an afternoon Saturday workshop from 1.30-4.00pm focusing on drawing as a form of discovery. The approach and alternative sources to a life model will be motivated by letting our senses lead as a means to observe our surroundings. This guided drawing session will support each participant to developing your skills, facility and confidence in your drawing practice. The drawing session is suitable for adults of all levels of ability, including beginners and those seeking to refresh or update their skills.

Please bring a sketchbook. Other materials are included - so all you need to do, once you’ve booked, is come along ready to draw!

Miranda's Coffee Shop at Drawing Projects UK will be open from 8am to 4pm, serving delicious food and drinks, which include gluten-free and vegan-friendly options.

Advance booking is essential. Please book via Eventbrite or directly with us.

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Join us for this special Life Drawing Session with Alex Roberts on Saturday 7 December 2019, from 9.30am to 12.30pm.

This guided life drawing session will support each participant to draw from the life model and to develop their technical skills and proficiency in drawing from observation with the aim of developing your skills, facility and confidence in your drawing practice. The drawing session is suitable for adults of all levels of ability, including beginners and those seeking to refresh or update their skills.

The drawing session takes place in our teaching Room 1, equipped with easels and drawing boards. Our small group sizes ensure you will receive individual and guidance, and we have an excellent team of models.

Basic materials are included - so all you need to do, once you’ve booked, is come along ready to draw!

Miranda's Coffee Shop at Drawing Projects UK will be open from 8am to 4pm, serving delicious food and drinks, which include gluten-free and vegan-friendly options.

Advance booking is essential. Please book via Eventbrite or directly with us.

Please email This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. if you need more information.

Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize 2019 - Education and Events Programme - from 18 January to 1 February 2020 at Trinity Buoy Wharf in London. 
A number of artists, designers and makers and institutional partners will present events that complement the Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize 2019 exhibition, and that celebrate and explore the role of drawing with the aim of encouraging participation and engagement with drawing by all. All events are held in The Chainstore at Trinity Buoy Wharf in London, and the programme is outlined below. Please click on the links for more information and how to book for each drawing session or drawing discussion event.

Saturday 18 January 2020: From 12noon to 4pm there will be a Drawing Session: Sketchbook Workshop led by designer Jude Maguire to explore making and using sketchbooks. More information and how to book via the link here. 

Sunday 19 January 2020: Free drawing workshops and portfolio advice sessions for students applying to art and design programmes with staff from Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art and Design at the University of Dundee. More information and booking for the free drawing workshops - Drawing Me, Drawing You with Frances Stevenson - is available here. More information on Applying for Art and Design Courses and Portfolio Advice Sessions is here.

Monday 20 January 2020: Free drawing workshops and portfolio advice sessions for students applying to art and design programmes with staff from Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art and Design at the University of Dundee. More information and booking for the free drawing workshops - Drawing Me, Drawing You with Frances Stevenson - is available here. More information on Applying for Art and Design Courses and Portfolio Advice Sessions is here.

Tuesday 21 January 2020: Exhibiting artist Charmaine Watkiss will lead a Drawing Session on Drawing Memories. More information and how to book via the link here.

Wednesday 22 January 2020: There will be two Life Drawing Sessions for Students led by The Royal Drawing School tutor, Rossen Daskalov. The morning session will run from 11am to 1pm and the afternoon session from 2pm to 4pm. Booking and further information available here.

Thursday 23 January 2020: Parker Harris will hold a Professional Development for Artists session on social media for artists and creatives. Booking and further information available here. 

Friday 24 January 2020: From 1pm to 4pm there will be a Drawing Session: Drawing for Sculpture led by Andy Bannister, Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize 2018 Working Drawing Award-winner. More information and how to book here. 

Saturday 25 January 2020: There will be a Drawing Discussion: On Working Drawings at 2pm chaired by Anita Taylor. Booking and information available here. 

Sunday 26 January 2020: Exhibiting artist and Working Drawing Awardwinner, Jeanette Barnes, will lead a Drawing Session Sketch Club - Collaborative Cityscape. Booking and more information available here.

Monday 27 January 2020:There will be two Drawing Sessions exploring Drawing and Stitch led by Jill Kennedy-McNeill in association with the Future Textiles Studio at Trinity Buoy Wharf. The first session Stitched Responses: Drawing with Machines, runs from 10am to 12noon, more information and booking here. The second session, Stitched Responses: Traditional Techniques Reimagined, runs from 1pm to 3pm, more information and booking here. 

Tuesday 28 January 2020: There will be a Drawing Session: Drawing Faces with Ink led by Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize 2019 exhibiting artist, Fiona G. Roberts. Booking and more information here.

Wednesday 29 January 2020: There will be a morning and afternoon Life Drawing Session led by Lindsay Sekulowicz of The Royal Drawing School from 11am to 1pm and from 2pm to 4pm. Suitable for all abilities. Booking and further information available here. 

Thursday 30 January 2020: Parker Harris will hold a Professional Development for Artists session on developing and sustaining a successful artistic career. Booking and further information available here.

Friday 31 January 2020: There will be a Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize Director's Talk at 2pm by the Director of the Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize, Anita Taylor. Free event, please book here.

Saturday 1 February 2020: There will be a Drawing Discussion: On Transcription with Evelyn Williams Drawing Award-winner 2019, Penny McCarthy and Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize Director, Professor Anita Taylor. More information available and tickets available here.

During the exhibition at Trinity Buoy Wharf we will be launching the Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize 2020 - more information available soon! Watch this space for more information - we hope you'll join in, and be inspired by the Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize 2019, and why drawing matters! 

Join us for this special Life Drawing Session with Alex Roberts on Wednesday 4 March from 1pm to 4pm.

This guided life drawing session will support each participant to draw from the life model and to develop their technical skills and proficiency in drawing from observation with the aim of developing your skills, facility and confidence in your drawing practice. The drawing session is suitable for adults of all levels of ability, including beginners and those seeking to refresh or update their skills.

The drawing session takes place in our beautiful drawing studio, equipped with easels and drawing boards. Our small group sizes ensure you will receive individual and guidance, and we have an excellent team of models.

Basic materials are included - so all you need to do, once you have booked here on Eventbrite, is come along ready to draw!

Miranda's Coffee Shop at Drawing Projects UK will be open from 8am to 3pm, serving delicious food and drinks, which include gluten-free and vegan-friendly options.

Advance booking is essential. Please email This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. if you would like more information.

The next Drawing Correspondence Six-Week Program - The Body I Am In - runs from 19 October to 23 November 2021. The program includes a live session online every Tuesday evening from 5-7pm (UK time).

As soon as we can draw, we try to draw the figure. Drawing the body, either ourselves or others is an endless exploration of what it means to be alive. Drawing from ourselves, people we know, or from ‘life models’, wrapped or unwrapped by the layers we cover ourselves with, measuring and expressing how we occupy space in the world.  This program reflects on the changing body, body acceptance, gratitude and reverence, encouraging the grounding benefits of a drawing practice. Closer observation of the body through drawing encourages how we are part of nature, our authenticity, and celebrates vibrant physicality in all its complexity, as well as being a much-celebrated drawing discipline.  The program has a non-judgemental approach to drawing and takes the opportunity of drawing together as a chance to build respect for the participants and others - drawing together and exploring a range of dynamic approaches to drawing the body.  

This program will be led by Drawing Correspondence founders, Chloe Briggs, Tania Kovats and Anita Taylor, with invited guests including Ioi Choi, Lilli Math, Alex Mein, Callen McKeon. Drawing Correspondence programs are designed to support the growth and critical evolution of your drawing practice in a supportive atmosphere and will connect participants to wider drawing networks and debates around drawing from the figure. The Drawing Correspondence six-week program consists of shared drawing sessions, prompted independent drawing projects, feedback, surgeries and recommendations and drawing discussions. 

More information about this and other Drawing Correspondence Program, fees and bursaries, and how to apply can be found on the Drawing Correspondence website here. The deadline to apply for The Body I Am In is 10 October 2021.

We are presenting two Online Drawing Sessions with Chloe Briggs (AKA Drawing is Free) in association with the Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize 2021 exhibition as part of our public engagement programme accompanying the Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize 2021 exhibition, on show at Drawing Projects UK until 5 March 2022, The exhibition, events and engagement programmes at Drawing Projects UK are supported using public funding by Arts Council England.

Both online Drawing Sessions led by Chloe Briggs are inspired by the exhibition, and reflect two of the ten themes identified in the free downloadable Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize 2021 Education Pack devised by Drawing is Free with Drawing Projects UK for the exhibition. 

Nature as Witness on Wednesday 26 January 2022 at 9am is the first of these two Online Drawing Sessions with Chloe Briggs. The session will  begin by looking at nature: the plants and flowers that surround us. This could be personal or political or both.The exceptional writer and teacher, Robin Wall Kimmerer, describes the difference between learning about something and learning from something. When we learn from, we listen, suspend judgement and do not claim to own or master. Learning to draw goes hand in hand with developing the ability to get yourself into a state of awe with almost anything, small things, common things. When starting, you do not yet know what the drawing will look like, what you will see, what you will discover. More information and booking is available here. 

Inside the Body on Wednesday 9 February 2022 at 9am is the second of two online Drawing Sessions with Chloe Briggs. An X-ray of the human body is still an extraordinary thing to see even 120+ years since the process was invented. The inky, black and white qualities of an X-ray could be seen as a form of drawing in its own right. In this Drawing Session, you are invited to put your own body through an imagined X-ray machine. A machine so powerful, it can pick up not just bones, veins, organs, cells, but feelings and thoughts as well... More information and booking is available here.

The free downloadable Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize 2021 Education Pack devised by Drawing is Free with Drawing Projects UK for the exhibition is downloadable here. 

Please follow us on social media or our Eventbrite page for other events in our exhibitions and engagement programmes. We look forward to seeing you here at Drawing Projects UK or online for our Drawing Discussions, Drawing Sessions and Drawing Symposium.  

#TBWPD21 #DrawingSessions #DrawingProjectsUK #ACEsupported #LetsCreate #LetsDraw

We are presenting two free Online Drawing Sessions led by Alex Roberts in association with the Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize 2021 exhibition as part of our public engagement programme accompanying the Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize 2021 exhibition, on show at Drawing Projects UK until 5 March 2022, The exhibition, events and engagement programmes at Drawing Projects UK are supported using public funding by Arts Council England.

Both of these online life drawing sessions are delivered from the Drawing Projects UK Virtual Life Drawing Studio and are led by popular artist-tutor Alex Roberts. The sessions will focus on observation and connectivity and will include drawing exercises, quick and long poses, using various materials. To book for the free Online Drawing Session, click on the date you would like to attend below and this will take you to the booking page. 

Saturday 5 February from 11am to 1pm: Online Drawing Session with Alex Roberts

Saturday 19 February from 11am to 1pm: Online Drawing Session with Alex Roberts

Drawing Projects UK is dedicated to research and public engagement in and through drawing and during lockdown we worked with Alex Roberts to support the development of online life drawing sessions for university students (Leicester School of Art at De Montfort University and students at Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art & Design at the University of Dundee). These online sessions from our Virtual Life Drawing Studio have proven to be an effective way to learn to draw in addition to life drawing sessions 'in the real'. As we return to more usual activities post-pandemic, we aim to offer both online and in-person Drawing Sessions from Drawing Projects UK for our drawing community, later in 2022.

Please follow us on social media or our Eventbrite page for other events in our exhibitions and engagement programmes. We look forward to seeing you here at Drawing Projects UK or online for our Drawing Discussions, Drawing Sessions and Drawing Symposium.  

#TBWPD21 #DrawingSessions #DrawingProjectsUK #ACEsupported #LetsCreate #LetsDraw

Following on from the Why Drawing Matters Symposium at The Salisbury Museum on Friday 15 November, our programme exploring Drawing Matters continues on Saturday 16 November at Drawing Projects UK. 

Drawing Matters includes artist-led workshops with Tania Kovats and Charmaine Watkiss, and a Drawing Discussion with Ian Chamberlain, Mike Collier and Anita Taylor during the preview of Ian Chamberlain's solo exhibition, Monuments Remain, at Drawing Projects UK on Saturday 16 November from 2-5pm.

Drawing Matters at Drawing Projects UK provides the opportunity to engage with the materiality of drawing through practical drawing sessions and presentations by leading artists and makers, with each session booked individually by participants.

For more information, and to book for individual workshops, please click on the links below:

Saturday 16 November 2019:

- Drawing Ecologies with Tania Kovats on Saturday 16 November from 9.30am to 3.30pm.

- Drawing Memories with Charmaine Watkiss on Saturday 16 November from 10am to 1pm.

- Monuments Remain, a solo exhibition by Ian Chamberlain: Exhibition Preview from 2-5pm.

- Drawing Discussion with Ian Chamberlain, Mike Collier and Anita Taylor on Saturday 16 November at 3.45pm. 

For participants attending the events in Salisbury and Trowbridge, please note that Drawing Projects UK is adjacent to Trowbridge train station and there are regular direct services to Salisbury, where The Salisbury Museum is located. If driving, there are a number of public car parks close to Drawing Projects UK.

In 2013 Chloe Briggs created Drawing is Free in order to offer people of all ages and backgrounds opportunities to draw together.  On Saturday 24 August at 11am Chloe Briggs and Alys Scott-Hawkins will present a one-hour Drawing is Free Drawing Session at Drawing Projects UK.  

Come along and join in this fun, free one-hour Drawing Session set to music - no experience necessary, just the desire to draw!

Everyone is welcome to attend. Please bring your own materials, and be prepared to draw and be drawn. 

Chloe Briggs is an artist-educator living in Paris. She is the Chair of Foundation, Coordinator of the MA/MFA Drawing, and Drawing Instructor in the Fine Arts Program, at Paris College of Art and founder of Drawng is Free. 

Alys Scott-Hawkins is an artist who works with drawing and documentary, performance and film. She has worked in education roles, teaching at Central St. Martin’s, Camberwell (both University of the Arts London), Arts University Bournemouth, BAFTA and the BBC.

Drawing is Free is a free event. All welcome.

After the Drawing is Free session, participants are welcome to continue the conversation about drawing with Alys and Chloe at lunchtime in Miranda's Coffee Shop.

Join us for this special Sunday Life Drawing Session with Alex Roberts on Sunday 30 June 2019, from 11am to 4pm. 

This guided life drawing session will support each participant to draw from the life model and to develop their technical skills and proficiency in drawing from observation with the aim of developing your skills, facility and confidence in your drawing practice. The drawing session is suitable for adults of all levels of ability, including beginners and those seeking to refresh or update their skills. 

The drawing session takes place in our beautiful drawing studio, which is well-equipped with easels and drawing boards. Our small group sizes ensure you will receive individual and guidance, and we have an excellent team of models. 

Basic materials are included - so all you need to do, once you’ve booked, is come along ready to draw!

Miranda's Coffee Shop at Drawing Projects UK will be open from 10am to 2pm, serving Sunday brunch and other delicious food and drinks, which include gluten-free and vegan-friendly options. 

Advance booking is essential. Please book via Eventbrite or directly with us.

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Join us for this special daytime Life Drawing Session with Anita Taylor on Tuesday 25 June 2019, from 10am to 2pm. 

This guided life drawing session will support each participant to draw from the life model and to develop their technical skills and proficiency in drawing from observation with the aim of developing your skills, facility and confidence in your drawing practice. The drawing session is suitable for adults of all levels of ability, including beginners and those seeking to refresh or update their skills. 

The drawing session takes place in our beautiful drawing studio, which is well-equipped with easels and drawing boards. Our small group sizes ensure you will receive individual and guidance, and we have an excellent team of models. 

Basic materials are included - so all you need to do, once you’ve booked, is come along ready to draw!

Miranda's Coffee Shop at Drawing Projects UK will be open from 8am to 4pm, and you will be able to buy food and drinks throughout the day. Miranda's delicious food includes gluten-free and vegan-friendly options. 

Advance booking is essential. Please book via Eventbrite or directly with us.

Please email This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. or call us on 01225 767993 if you need more information.

Join us for this special evening of Life Drawing with Anita Taylor on Tuesday 18 June 2019 from 6-8pm. 

This guided life drawing session will support each participant to draw from the life model and to develop their proficiency in drawing from observation with the aim of developing your skills, facility and confidence in your drawing practice. The drawing session is suitable for adults of all levels of ability, including beginners and those seeking to refresh or update their skills. 

The drawing session takes place in our beautiful drawing studio, which is well-equipped with easels and drawing boards. Our small group sizes ensure you will receive individual and guidance, and we have an excellent team of models. 

Basic materials are included - so all you need to do, once you’ve booked, is come along ready to draw!

Advance booking is essential. Please book here via Eventbrite or directly with us.

Please email This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. or call us on 01225 767993 if you would like more information.

We are pleased to present this special Drawing Session with Caroline Burraway on Saturday 30 March 2019 from 1pm to 3pm. 

This Drawing Session is held in association with the Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize 2018 exhibition at Drawing Projects UK. Caroline Burraway's drawing, Eden, The Jungle Calais, 2016 (2017) won First Prize in the Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize 2018. Eden and Samuel, the subjects of her two large powerful charcoal drawings included in the exhibition, are refugees that Caroline met while undertaking field research in the French migrant camps in 2016. Her work lies in the interval where art and life rub together in the everyday lived experience of the marginal individual.

During this two hour Drawing Session, you are invited to explore and experiment through the materiality of drawing the everyday reality of your lives or a socio-cultural or political issue that you are interested in. These issues may be, for example, mental health, ageing parents, homelessness, concerns over Brexit, the migrant crisis … the list is endless. Anything which makes you feel something.

Basic materials will be provided. More information and booking is via the link here.

Exploring Drawing: Four Evening Drawing Sessions held in association with the Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize 2018 exhibition at Drawing Projects UK on Tuesdays from 6-8pm, commencing on 19 March 2019.

These four sessions will explore the role of drawing, mark-making and representation, with each session led by a highly experienced artist-educator - including Alex Roberts, Michele Whiting and Anita Taylor - and will focus on drawing as a essential means of communication and expression. Suitable for all levels of ability, with a small group size that ensures individual attention and guidance as needed, and an energy and enthusiasm for the possibilities of drawing.

Details of the four sessions are as follows:

Drawing Session 1: Tuesday 19 March led by Alex Roberts.

Something Seen: Set in the context of Drawing Projects UK and the Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize we will explore how drawing can be used to gather information and to convey our experiences, by making marks and images in an exploratory and experimental way. Materials: paper and basic drawing materials provided.

Drawing Session 2: Tuesday 26th March led by Michele Whiting.

Something Special: Bring a single object that means something to you. In this class we will experience unfamiliar ways of drawing through observing something known and familiar. The class will be fast paced and fun, with time for reflection at the end. Materials: paper and basic drawing materials provided.

Drawing Session 3: Tuesday 2nd April led by Michele Whiting.

Speaking Pencil: Bring your pencils soft to hard. In this class we will talk the language of pencils, to experience this most simple of drawing tools in new ways through challenging our pre-conceptions and assumptions of drawing with a pencil, extending into an exciting vocabulary of mark making that we can then apply to our everyday drawing. Materials: paper and basic drawing materials provided. Please bring a range of pencils, from soft to hard (grades range from 9B to 9H).

Drawing Session 4: Tuesday 9 April led by Anita Taylor.

Drawing as Rehearsal: This workshop will explore the idea of drawing a head to develop characterisation and depict expression through observation. We will work from observation using mirrors to make a series of drawings that explore how the pose, gesture, expression and mark-making can be used to depict a figure or character (rather than an identifiable face or portrait) as the subject is captured as a drawn study in its own right, or to be used for future reference as a rehearsal for another work. Materials: paper and basic drawing materials provided. Please bring a small mirror.

Please find the booking link here for the Exploring Drawing Sessions, and contact us by email if you have any questions.

We look forward to exploring drawing with you!

nokyorsoxoff is a Drawing Session held in association with Mapping Bones - 3, an exhibition and performance by Saranjit Birdi. The Drawing Session takes place from 2pm to 4pm on Friday 15 February 2019 in The Drawing Centre Project Space at Drawing Projects UK.

Saranjit Birdi's arts practice is a synthesis of Drawing, Dance, Music, and Architecture. These inform and underpin his drawing practice, sculpture work and film-poems. He is interested in the human figure, portraiture and the abstract, and using the whole body as a tool for drawing. Trained as an Architect and Dancer, his drawing practice utilises the instrumentation of the whole body as a tool, its 'totipotentiality', and associated social and physical limitations. Exploring human evolution and cognition through the act of drawing, his collaborations with University of Birmingham and arts-in-health organisations bridge art-science thresholds and the ability-disability spectrum.

The nokyorsoxoff Drawing Session will be led by Saranjit Birdi and will involve drawing with your feet and elbows. Drawings will be created on sheets and rolls of paper placed on the floor, and mark-making will be explored using graphite pencils and coloured chalks, and music will give another dimension to the workshop.

This Drawing Session will be fun and light-hearted, and will encourage lateral thinking and raise awareness of using the whole body to explore drawing. Nokyorsoxoff is suitable for adults and older children and is inclusive of all abilities. Please contact us if you have any questions about whether this drawing session is suitable for you.

Please book for this Drawing Session by clicking on the link here. Materials are provided and there is a charge of £10 (excl. Eventbrite booking fees) for this Drawing Session. 

Images courtesy of Saranjit Birdi: School Workshop, Delhi [2016]; Draw to Perform International Symposium [2016].

Our popular Life Drawing Sessions with artist-tutor Alex Roberts start again on 5 February 2019.

This will be a 4-week block of life drawing sessions on Tuesday evenings from 6-8pm until 26 February. 

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We are pleased to present a full day life drawing session with multiple models, led by Alex Roberts, on Thursday 6 December from 10am-4pm.

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We are pleased to present this very special workshop within our Drawing Sessions programme on Sunday 18 November from 2pm to 4pm.

This practical workshop, Josef Albers' Interaction of Colour, will be led by Fritz Horstman, Artist Residency and Education Coordinator at the Josef and Anni Albers Foundation in Bethany, Connecticut, USA.

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We are pleased to present a full day life drawing session, with multiple models, led by Alex Roberts on Tuesday 23 October from 10am-4pm. 

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Our popular Life Drawing Sessions with artist-tutor Alex Roberts start again on 16 October 2018. 

This autumn we are offering a 9-week term of Tuesday evening life drawing sessions (6-8pm) until 11 December. 

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A free family-friendly artist-led Drawing Session at Drawing Projects UK on Saturday 14 July from 2-4pm.

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We are pleased to present a day life drawing session on Wednesday 2 May from 10am-4pm.

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We are pleased to present a special life drawing session, which has been kindly sponsored.

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A 5-week block of Life Drawing Sessions, led by artist-tutor Alex Roberts, from 6-8pm each Tuesday evening from 10 April to 8 May 2018.

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We offer a range of life drawing sessions at Drawing Projects UK.

These include the unguided (model only) sessions on Monday evenings from 6-8pm until 26 June; and guided life drawing sessions led by artist-tutor Alex Roberts.

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A 7-week block of Life Drawing Sessions, led by artist-tutor Alex Roberts, from 6-8pm each Tuesday evening from 6 February to 20 March 2018.

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On Thursday 16 November there will be a special life drawing session led by Alex Roberts, with two male models which will use simple props and drapery to explore meaning and symbolism within figurative drawing.

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Our new season of life drawing sessions starts on 24 October. A four-week block of Life Drawing Sessions, led by artist-tutor Alex Roberts, will be held each Tuesday evening, 6-8pm, from 24 October to 14 November 2017.

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