The Drawing Year 2025 End of Year Exhibition

This is a selling exhibition that showcases the works of graduating students of The Drawing Year 2025. The end of year show includes over 500 artworks using drawing techniques rich in observation, imagination and storytelling, and incorporating a wide range of materials and influences. The artists come from a variety of backgrounds and creative disciplines.

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, with prices starting at £100. 

This exhibition is kindly supported by Linder Foundation.
Main image: Isla Jones