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Best of The Drawing Year 2025

  • Event date 10–14 NOV
  • Event location LONDON
From 10 to 14 November, Christie’s will host a selling exhibition of contemporary drawings and works on paper by artists from the Royal Drawing School’s postgraduate-level programme The Drawing Year. 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 3 December 2025. Artwork can be viewed online at art.royaldrawingschool.org.

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. 

The artists exhibiting at Christie’s include Sasha Alfillé, Joe Allen, Soul Baraitser, Adebola Bolarinwa, Grace Bolton, Lucy Bruce-Gardner, Bruno Diaz, Arun Dodds, Teshome Douglas-Campbell, Bart Hajduk, Lily Hall, Thomas Houlihan, Niamh Hughes, Octavia Inns, Isla Jones, Camille Lewis, Barbara Majek, Ella McEwen Smith, Nell Mitchell, Joe Oswald, Noah Pryke, Edward Quamina, Alfie Sellers, CiCi Suen, Elisa Terranera, Alex Treskman, Niki Tse, Dylan Williams, Tanya Nonthando Wilson, Lena Yokoyama.

This exhibition is supported by The Linder Foundation.

Highlights

Exhibition

King Street


Join us at Christie’s London to view the artworks. For sale enquiries please contact drawingsales@royaldrawingschool.org

Location
Christie’s London
8 King Street
London, SW1Y 6QT

Viewing
10 November, 9am — 5pm
11 November, 9am — 5pm
12 November, 9am — 5pm
13 November, 9am — 5pm
14 November, 9am — 5pm

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About the Royal Drawing School


The Royal Drawing School is the independent, artist-led and not-for-profit home of observational drawing. We exist to ensure artists and creatives everywhere can access world-leading skills-based drawing tuition regardless of background, age or circumstances; to bring new audiences to drawing; to champion our practice for this generation and the next.

We teach everyone, from beginners to practising artists. Our programmes include our world renowned, full-scholarship, postgraduate-level Drawing Year; our ambitious public courses; and our programme for young artists. Our courses take place in our studios, outdoors, in galleries and online.

We are based in East London but work with and support artists everywhere. The Royal Drawing School was founded in 2000 by HM King Charles III and artist Catherine Goodman CBE LVO.

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