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The Drawing Room is located in Hackney, London and is the only public gallery in the UK and Europe dedicated to the investigation and presentation of international contemporary drawing.The Drawing Room explores ideas around contemporary drawing and makes them visible in the public domain. The Drawing Room provides a unique resource for the promotion of drawing, its practice, theory and methodology. Since 2002 it has produced exhibitions, artist-led projects, in-conversations, symposia and publications. It provides opportunities for artists, across nationalities, generations and cultures to explore the significance of drawing in their practice and support the development of new work.

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  Installation shot. Foreground: Kerstin Kartscher, The Sabine, 2005; from left to right: Heiko Blankenstein, Helioland, 2005, World at large, 2007; Ernesto Caivano, Unions and Offerings, 2004. Photo: Andy Keate

About The Drawing Room

THE DRAWING ROOM is a non-profit making organization, initiated in 2000. It is programmed and managed by its co-founders and Directors, Mary Doyle, Kate Macfarlane and Katharine Stout, who have over twenty years experience of working in the arts. The gallery has no core funding and supports itself through earned income, sponsorship, individual giving and grants from public bodies.

THE DRAWING ROOM attracts a wide audience including art professionals, students and the general public interested in advances in contemporary art and drawing in particular.

Quotes about The Drawing Room

"The Drawing Room is the only UK venue dedicated exclusively to exhibitions about what drawing might mean today. Exhibitions are not based on a medium, but on an idea. The gallery’s focus is unique, as is its identity. As much as anything else, The Drawing Room is a space to think, as well as to look at the very different contributions artists showing here have made to the activity of drawing, which is as much a mental activity as a physical process”. Adrian Searle, Chief art critic, The Guardian

"The Drawing Room is fast becoming a vital resource for current drawing practice internationally. The debate around current drawing practice needs a forum, and The Drawing Room is it." Cornelia Parker (artist)

"The Drawing Room plugs a gap in arts provision in the capital and beyond." Rachel Whiteread (artist)

List of exhibitions

• SHUDDER, 21 January 2010 - 14 March 2010, Edwina Ashton, Barry Doupé, Ann Course, Avish Khebrehzadeh, Matt Mullican, Raymond Pettibon, Naoyuki Tsuji and Markus Vater

• CORNELIUS CARDEW: PLAY FOR TODAY, 5 November – 13 December 2009

• Alejandro Jodorowsky's ‘Dune’: An exhibition of a film of a book that never was, 17 September – 25 October 2009

• From Scratch, 02 - 17 July 2009

• Drawing 2009 - Biennial Fundraiser, 30 April - 20 May 2009

• Monika Grzymala, 19 February – 5 April 2009

• Tina, Conceived by Olivia Plender, 9 October – 30 November 2008, Petra Bauer, Pablo Bronstein, Melanie Gilligan, Goldin+Senneby, Anja Kirschner, Ciprian Muresan, Olivia Plender

• Nowhere is Here, 12 June – 20 July 2008

• Hayley Tompkins,24 April – 1 June 2008

• Every Eye sees differently as the Eye, 4 October - 2 December 2007

• Geoffrey Farmer, The Last Two Million Years, 24 May – 1 July 2007

• The Opposite of Vertigo, 8 February - 18 March 2007, Darren Banks, Catherine Bertola, Cath Campbell, Alex Charrington, Layla Curtis, Graham Dolphin, Peter Evans, Richard Forster.Kevin Mason, Karl Nattress

• The Secret Theory of Drawing, 5 October – 25 November 2006, David Austen,Trisha Donnelly, Olafur Eliasson, Ceal Floyer, Ellen Gallagher, Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster, Douglas Gordon, Patrick Ireland, Alan Johnston, John Latham, Mark Manders, Matt Mullican, Anri Sala, Bojan Šarcevic, Joëlle Tuerlinckx, Cathy Wilkes.

• FLIP, 8 July - 12 August 2006, A Drawing exhibition in association with CHUNG KING PROJECT, Los Angeles, USA,

• Katja Davar -Forking Ocean Path, 18 May - 25 June 2006

• Drawing Links, 23 March - 30 April 2006, Ruth Claxton, Rachel Goodyear, Ilana Halperin, Lady Lucy, Alex Pearl

• Sounds like Drawing, 13 October - 20 November 2005

• Lucia Nogueira: drawings, 27 May - 10 July 2005

• Drawing Two Hundred, Biennial Fundraiser, 6 - 14 May 2005

• Waste Material, Curated by David Musgrave, February - 13 March 2005, William Daniels, Hannah Greely, David Musgrave, Rupert Norfolk, Georg Scharf / Henry De la Beche, Clare Stephenson, Yves Tanguy

• Diana Cooper & Hew Locke, 14 October - 21 November 2004

• A Kind of Bliss, 19 February - 28 March 2004, Polly Apfelbaum, Katy Dove, Len Lye & Lily van der Stokker

• Haluk Akakçe - Perfect Coincidence, 16 October - 23 November 2003

• Adam Dant, The People Who Live On The Plank, 22nd May to 28th June 2003

• Drawing One Hundred, 9th to 11th May 2003

• Drawing on Space, Touring exhibition and Publication, June to September 2003

• The Beachcombers, Touring exhibition presenting the work of three artists from Vancouver, June 2002 to March 2003

• Alexander Roob CS Guardian Report, Residency at The Guardian newspaper, September to October 2002

External Links

www.drawingroom.org.uk