/ an artist collective from Royal Drawing School – Online Drawing Development Year 2023 /

About

The words "Drawing Beyond" in white bold text over top of a blue and multi-coloured abstract painting.

Detail of "Drawing Beyond" 2024 exhibition poster. Poster design: Becky Moriarty Poster image: Heidrun Baumann

Drawing Studio 23 is an artist’s collective from across the UK, Ireland, Germany, Switzerland, Netherlands, Czech Republic and United States, bridging different generations and backgrounds, who came together in 2023, in the 3rd year of Royal Drawing School’s Online Drawing Development Year.

Arriving to the course with a melting pot of different influences, ideas and styles the artists were united over the course of the year through the prism of drawing. After 12 months of intensive observation, rummaging through memory and imagination, disrupting and reevaluating the meaning and power of line, mark-making and form the artists have created a vast body of work. Through reappraising their own process of looking, each artist has developed individual works that were curated for end of year exhibition, Drawing Beyond in March 2024, by their Royal Drawing School tutors and fellow alumni.

The Online Drawing Development Year programme is now in its 5th year and growing from strength to strength, having welcomed students for the first time in 2021 and allows for a diverse array of artists to learn and collaborate with each other from all four corners of the globe.

The Royal Drawing School was founded in 2000 by HM King Charles III and artist Catherine Goodman, and is located in Shoreditch, London.


Click to Meet the artists of Drawing Studio 23