This is a selling exhibition that showcases a selection of works of graduating students of The Drawing Year 2025. Displayed in the Duke Street Gallery at Christie's in London, it features highlights from the The Drawing Year 2025 End of Year Exhibition. The expanded show of over 500 drawings, will take place at the Royal Drawing School in Shoreditch from 2 December 2025.
The Drawing Year is the only full-scholarship postgraduate-level course dedicated to drawing from observation in the UK. The course comes with a free studio space and London living grants to ensure the course is open to everyone, regardless of background or circumstance.
Since its inception in 2000, more than 550 people have completed this dedicated and intensive year of skills-based drawing. Past students have won high-profile awards, including the John Moores Painting Prize, BP Portrait Award prizes, Jerwood Drawing Prize, The Ondaatje Prize for Portraiture and Sky Portrait Artists of the Year , amongst others, as well as being frequently exhibited in the Bloomberg New Contemporaries, Whitechapel Open, Royal Academy Summer Show, Threadneedle Prize, Frieze, the Liverpool Biennial, the Wellcome Collection, the Royal Collection, the National Portrait Gallery, and The British Council.
This is an opportunity to see and buy work at an early stage in the careers of these artists.
