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RCA Drawing Presents

RCA Drawing is an independent collaborative project founded in 2019 by Lucy Gallwey and Sarah Mercer, working with artists and designers from across the Royal College of Art community. Classes are student-focused, providing various accessible and experimental approaches to drawing, and utilise our unique position outside of the curriculum to provide a non-critical space in which students can play and experiment.

The selected artists use drawing to develop their practice and express ideas: using drawing as a tool, a way of processing information, a wordless method of communication, or even a concept by which to consider the movement of a body in space. Some of these drawings are developed into objects, a pause in a process of metamorphosis and retranslation between different media and dimensional planes. Some are used as a vessel by which the artist can connect with memory and with their own body. The work selected for this Collection shows drawing and mark-making’s continued power across disciplines in contemporary art practice.

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Image of many slightly wonky, brown rectangular bricks, all with different images carved, drawn or painted on them, laid together like a wall or paving.
Natasha Fontenelle
Photograph of a sculpture consisting of several illuminated rings, with black rectangular objects placed around their circumference, in a softly lit room with stone arches and pillars.
Wei Wei (Kassandra Wei)
Animated drawing of a sketchy brown lines which gradually transform into a black and white drawing of a close-up on a woman’s ear, with a hand behind it.
Na Li
Image of a watery outline of what looks like a head, upper torso and arm, with two large eyes looking straight ahead.
Konstantinos Argyroglou
Image of several different line drawings of human figures sat at desks, studying and working.
Alice Kell
Abstract image of outlines in red on a cream background, possibly suggesting headless human figures in different poses.
Julia Santilli
Image of black lines, scribbles and smudges of varying thicknesses, on a dark ochre background.
Wenqing Yao
Image of two drawings, with two faces and a sketchy human figure surrounded by swirling dotted lines on the left, and a larger face and figure surrounded by blue-washed curved shapes on the right.
Xiaobo Hou
An image of tools lying on a shiny, dusty surface on the left, and on the right an image of a hand dabbing what looks like a rag, onto a surface making dark cloud-like marks.
Kinga Oktabska
Two images side by side. On the left an angled human back from the neck to waist and on the right a human chest, with swirls and shapes in glowing greens and blues over both.
Jingyi Qin
Drawing of a plastic supermarket shopping bag front on, featuring a design of blue rectangular blocks in a row above and below red lettering which says ‘You Need A Holiday’.
Eleanor Mclean
Featured in Theme: Bodies

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