The Drawing Room is the only public gallery in the UK and Europe dedicated to the investigation and presentation of international contemporary drawing. The Drawing Room produces exhibitions, artist-led projects, talks and publications that provide opportunities for artists, across nationalities, generations and cultures, to develop their practice. The visionary programme is widely disseminated via the web, exhibition tours and the international distribution of publications.

Wednesday 14 April 2010

THERE IS NO ALTERNATIVE at Konsthall C, Hökarängen, Sweden,


March 11 to May 16,
Conceived by Olivia Plender and co-curated by Kim Einarsson

TINA originally exhibited at The Drawing Room in 2008 is currently touring at Konsthall C, Sweden.

Featuring works by: Petra Bauer, Ciprian Muresan, Anja Kirschner & David Panos, Melanie Gilligan, Olivia Plender, Unnar Orn, Katya Sander, Pablo Bronstein, Mona Vatamanu & Florin Tudor, Michael Stevenson.

Konsthall C, Hökarängen, Sweden.

Kate Davis & Roy Voss at The Russian Club Gallery


01.04.10 – 08.05.10

Kate Davis & Roy Voss present new works for this exhibition.Davis presents Riff, 2010, seven 5 metre long steel poles and Voss presents Carpet, 2010, ink on canvas.

The Russian Club Gallery

Thursday 8 April 2010

TINA touring to Storey Gallery, Lancaster



Conceived by Olivia Plender and co-curated by Kim Einarsson
Storey Gallery, Lancaster
29th May - 24th July 2010

TINA originally exhibited at The Drawing Room in 2008 has expanded and developed its curatorial concept and focuses on the theatricality in politics, public ritual in relation to democracy.

Featuring works by: Petra Bauer, Ciprian Muresan, Anja Kirschner & David Panos, Melanie Gilligan, Olivia Plender, Unnar Orn, Katya Sander, Pablo Bronstein, Mona Vatamanu & Florin Tudor, Michael Stevenson.

http://www.storeygallery.org.uk/

Emma McNally at Project Room, Mummery + Schnelle



15 April - 29 May

Private view:
Wednesday 14 April, 6-8 pm

www.mummeryschnelle.com

Melanie Jackson at Picture This Atelier, Bristol


International Fauna gallery launch
Date: 08 May 2010, Screening 12-5.30pm, Discussion 2pm
Location: Picture This Atelier, Bristol, UK

Melanie Jackson in conversation with writer, architect and artist Stephen Beasley and Gary Thomas, Animate Projects. Introduced by Zoe Shearman, Relational.

International Fauna is a blast, an anti-anthem, a parade of the animal symbols designated by nation states quick change through a background of digital colour fields. The representations are matched back with their animal call, for the duration of the image - a concrete composition of the absurd. The work delights in these extraordinary attempts to project national values onto an animal form, and in the forms they have taken.

This event is the first gallery screening of the work
Drinks and refreshments provided.

From 19 April 2010, International Fauna can be seen at
www.animateprojects.org
www.vimeo.com/animateprojects
www.antibodies.net/relational
and as a download at itunes

Drawing and animation workshop




We recently hosted a a series of drawing and drawn animation workshops for fifteen 18-24 year olds, in collaboration with Central Saint Martins College of Art & Design, University of the Arts London, Postgraduate Diploma Character Animation (Pg Dip CA.

Participants were given the opportunity to receive specialist tutoring, guidance and mentoring in the techniques, equipment and processes involved in creating drawn animations. SHUDDER, the drawing and animation exhibition at The Drawing Room, together with the work of the lead artist Phoebe Boswell and Central Saint Martin's course tutor Matt West were used to inspire ideas. The final animation was screened at The Drawing Room on Tuesday 9 March.

Funded by University of the Arts London.

Plymouth Arts Centre: Alejandro Jodorowsky’s “Dune”: An Exhibition of a Film of a Book That Never Was


Following on from its success at The Drawing Room in 2009, this exhibition is touring to Plymouth Arts Centre, 2 April – 16 May.

An Exhibition of a Film of a Book That Never Was takes as its departure from the cult Chilean film-maker Alejandro Jodorowsky’s attempted 1976 adaptation of Frank Herbert’s classic science fiction novel Dune. This exhibition includes production drawings made by Moebius, H R Giger and Chris Foss alongside commissioned work made in response by three international contemporary artists: Steven Claydon, Matthew Day Jackson and Vidya Gastaldon.

http://www.plymouthartscentre.org/art.html