Best of The Drawing Year 2023 at Christie's

Christie's, London, Duke Street gallery

Nov. 15, 2023 – Nov. 19, 2023

A selection of drawings, prints, and works on paper from the Royal Drawing School’s postgraduate programme, The Drawing Year 2023 End of Year Exhibition shown at Christie’s, London.

Donkey with Basin
Ben Williams
Black chalk on paper | 23 x 36 cm
After Watteau's Clown in the Garden
Ned Elliott
Mixed media on paper | 25 x 33 cm
Johanna and the Birds
Olly Williamson
Charcoal on paper | 240 x 146 cm
Pond at The Regent's Park
Joshua Pell
Coloured pencil on Shoji paper | 15 x 22 cm
Head of the Madonna del Parto (After Piero della Francesca)
Olly Williamson
Drypoint etching on paper | 13 x 8 cm
Before we find the perfect fit
Alice Lockhart
Mixed media on paper | 46 x 54 cm
Why Do I Think This Much
Juan Martin
Colour pencil on paper | 42 x 59 cm
Bunhill Fields Burial Ground
Ellie Lonsdale
Pencil on paper | 50 x 50 cm
Ground plunger
Macsen Calvert
Compressed charcoal on paper | 70 x 31 cm
Nobody likes naughtiness
Caroline Cornelius
Mixed media on paper | 27 x 36 cm
Pressure Burst
Oliver-Bijan Daryoush (aka Bijan)
Oil pencil on paper | 30 x 42 cm
Light Sleeper
Lily Snowden-Fine
Oil pastel on paper | 140 x 43 cm
Self-portrait and the Portrait of a Pomelo Tree
Chengwei Xia
Pencil, colored pencil, watercolor, loquat leaf dye, and ferrous acetate on handmade paper | 30 x 21cm
Sleeping and Waking II
Chengwei Xia
Embroidered cotton on linen, block printed cotton | 25 x 20 cm
The Great Meteoroid of 2023
Ned Elliott
Soft pastel on paper | 77 x 112 cm
"This could be heaven"
Joshua Pell
Graphite and coloured pencil on paper | 42 x 48.5 cm
After the party
Caroline Cornelius
Mixed media on paper | 33 x 44 cm
I am convinced we never had issues
Caroline Cornelius
Mixed media on paper | 76 x 52 cm
Low Relief
Dani Trew
Coloured pencil on paper | 55 x 76 cm
Banana Leaf Book
Chengwei Xia
Walnut husk dye and ferrous acetate on handmade banana leaf paper, walnut husk dyed cotton thread | 22 x 16 cm
She's in her bower
Cate Hueston
Monoprint | 50 x 65 cm
Self Portrait
Chi Park
Pen on paper | 25 x 36 cm
Climber
Ellie Lonsdale
Monoprint on paper | 57 x 44 cm
Charting the Curve Garden
Eddie Howard
Mixed media on gessoed card and Japanese paper | 140 x 59 cm
Playing God (Leaving A Piece Of Me Behind)
Oliver-Bijan Daryoush (aka Bijan)
Oil pencil on paper | 84 x 60
Branches run between us
Alice Lockhart
Ink and watercolour on paper | 67 x 52 cm
Carousel
Kate Walton
Pencil on paper | 50 x 71 cm
Storm fibre
Honor Bathurst
Pastel and gouache on paper | 70 x 91cm
Untitled 1
Jesse Ajilore
Charcoal on paper | 40 x 51 cm
A Twitch on the Thread
Dani Trew
Coloured pencil and gouache on paper | 101 x 102 cm
The Grounds
Ben Williams
Pastel on paper | 54 x 49 cm
The Entrance
Juan Martin
Oil pastel on paper | 32 x 48 cm
Pissarro's Woodland
Ellie Lonsdale
Coloured pencil on paper | 26 x 19 cm
Three bears
Alice Lockhart
Mixed media on paper | 42 x 17 cm
When the fire went out
Alice Lockhart
Pencil on paper | 21 x 30 cm
Smoky House
Chi Park
Monoprint on paper | 18 x 23 cm
Two Seaweeds with Voids (They Came and They Went)
Ned Elliott
Charcoal and pencil on paper | 59 x 81cm
Fountain
Macsen Calvert
Acrylic ink on paper | 102 x 69 cm
Still Life
Ben Williams
Black chalk on paper | 53 x 47 cm
Now, I’m Here
Tess Tomassini
Latex and artist's hair on paper | 33 x 22 cm
The Arts Cancel
Louis Pohl Koseda
Fine-line pen, ink and Willam Blake cloth monoprint technique | 101 x 101 cm
The twins
Lucy Gogoliuk
Drypoint on Tetra Pak | 39 x 57
A Live Mugging
Oliver Hoffmeister
Charcoal on paper | 21 x 30 cm
The material conditions of financial packages: Debt and deficit because of Dagenham’s housing shortage.
Louis Pohl Koseda
Ink drawing on paper | 29 x 41 cm
A Body at Rest
kevin ATARI Abimiku
Charcoal on linen | 30 x 34 cm
Painters Humiliation
Oliver Hoffmeister
Distemper on paper | 60 x 42 cm
Lovers
Alina Dieth
Charcoal on paper | 45 x 84 cm
Smoky Teapot
Chi Park
Monoprint on paper | 18 x 23 cm
Snatch
Tomas Folan-Hasici
Gouache on paper | 20 x 29 cm
I'll love you on Tuesday
Louis Pohl Koseda
Coloured ink and crushed berry pigment on card | 21 x 28 cm
Old stone road through meadow
Lilith Piper
Chalk pastel, Gouache and ink | 53 x 78 cm
A Place in the Mind
Fabian Heckmatt
Colouring pencil on paper | 50 x 49 cm
Wish tree
Lilith Piper
Litho charcoal and chalk pastel on paper | 66 x 102 cm
Two Pattern Headed Figures
Chi Park
Monoprint on paper | 18 x 23 cm
Out of Her Hands
Lily Snowden-Fine
Oil pastel on canvas | 30 x 21cm
For mum and dad
Lucy Gogoliuk
Watercolour on paper | 84 x 90 cm
Pigeon on a Cardboard Cross
Fabian Heckmatt
Colouring pencil on paper | 85 x 70 cm
Super Green Man
Chi Park
Monoprint on paper | 18 x 23 cm
Justice
Jesse Ajilore
Acrylic and ink on cardboard | 10 x 15 cm
Lilith drawing
Lucy Gogoliuk
Watercolour on paper | 23 x 30 cm
An Attempt
Tomas Folan-Hasici
Oil pastel and oil paint on paper | 38 x 44 cm
No Knife and Fork (after R. Diebenkorn)
Oliver Hoffmeister
Pastels on paper | 15 x 18 cm
Thief knot, grief knot, garden
Honor Bathurst
Pastel and gouache on paper | 50 x 71cm
Pond at The Princess of Wales Conservatory
Joshua Pell
Coloured pencil on paper | 29 x 41 cm
Self Portrait with Pencils
Fabian Heckmatt
Colouring pencil on paper | 50 x 128 cm
For Lily
Lucy Gogoliuk
Watercolour on paper | 84 x 60 cm
The Two of Us
kevin ATARI Abimiku
Pencil on paper | 16 x 22 cm
Marble Bed
Tess Tomassini
Pastel on paper | 130 x 80 cm
Sleeping with Frida
Chengwei Xia
Watercolor and pencil on Lokta paper | 30 x 21 cm
Where does your Body Begin
kevin ATARI Abimiku
Charcoal on linen | 51 x 155 cm
Birth of Something or Destruction of Something?
Ned Elliott
Soft pastel on paper | 79 x 104 cm