Sophie Levi in two-person exhibition

New work by Alex Cree

Durdle Door: Bathers (2016) by Alex Cree

Frosty morning (2016) by Alex Cree

Douglas Farthing exhibits drawings and paintings from Iraq

British Soldiers on the streets of Basra, Iraq (2009) by Douglas Farthing

Douglas Farthing (DY 2015) will be showing work from 2009, made in Iraq during his last tour with the British Army and never exhibited before. The group exhibition, titled 'War & Peace', features four members of the Armed Forces Art Society.

• War & Peace at Menier Gallery,  7-11 March, Address: 51 Southward Street, London, SE1 1RU.

Doug retired from the British Army in 2013, after which he attended the Drawing Year. With no formal art training, he made many drawings on the back of  military maps. You can two examples of drawing from Basra here. 

Twelve alumni and faculty in Lynn Painter-Stainers Prize 2017

Twelve alumni and members of faculty have had paintings selected for the Lynn Painter-Stainers Prize exhibition in March. The Lynn Painter-Stainers Prize was created in 2005 to encourage the very best creative representational painting and promote the skill of draughtsmanship. Click on each title below to view the works:

Daniel Preece This Must be the Place
Carl Randall David Mitchell and the Whispering Gallery
Carl Randall Katie Leung and the Shed
Cherry Pickles A487

Christopher Green Lunchtime, Liverpool Street

Elvira Rose Oddy Landscape

Michael Chance Self-Portrait in the Peanut Factory

Judi Green Living Under Blue Skies, Roseland

Mary Millner Keep Out (Auchinleck Mine)
Max Naylor Inlet 
Tim Patrick Mary
Stephen Polatch Footballer
Stephen Polatch Boy in Wood II
Chris Wallbank Westminster from Festival Hall

Cherry Pickles: new paintings

Cherry Pickles (RDS Senior Faculty) has a solo exhibition opening in a fortnight:

Smoking with the Boys

An Exhibition of Paintings

Cherry Pickles

Saturday 25 February – Sunday 9 April

Vernissage 6.00 - 9.30 Saturday 25 February

Viewing by appointment: 0208 801 8577/07976 090 279

voleo40@hotmail.co.uk

The Room, 33 Holcombe Road, Tottenham Hale, N17 9AS

www.the-room.org.uk

Dan McCarthy and Charlie Masson in group exhibition

Dan McCarthy and Charlie Masson (both DY 2011) have work in a group exhibition titled 'Caput' at The Crypt Gallery in Euston in February. The exhibition will be open 6-12 February, with Private Views on Thu 9 February 6-9pm and Sat 11 February 5-9pm. Download the invite here. More info here. 

Lottie Stoddart: solo exhibition at Westminster Abbey

Lottie Stoddart (DY 2015) has a solo exhibition coming up at Westminster Abbey. Last year Lottie was granted special access to draw in the abbey and will be exhibiting the drawings and paintings she made there. Lottie first became interested in Westminster Abbey as a subject for investigation through visiting it on the William Blake course with Mark Cazalet.  She says: 'Being able to repeatedly revisit has enabled me to get to know this, initially, very overwhelming building and create work that reflects my experience of the juxtaposing periods and centuries of re-workings.' Alumni are warmly invited to the Private View on 9 February 6 - 7,30pm. Address: St Margaret St, Westminster, London SW1P 3JX. The exhibition will be open 10-16 February. More info here. A set of cards is also on sale in the Abbey Shop. 

Drawing at Westminster Abbey

Over the course of 2016 I was given the wonderful opportunity to spend an intensive period drawing inside Westminster Abbey. My first visit, following in the footsteps of William Blake, was with the Royal Drawing School, and formed the idea of returning and engaging with the Abbey's interior for a longer period. 

            My work investigates spaces that evoke the sacred. My previous works on this theme have included London graveyards, ancient woodlands and most recently tree veneration in India. Many evocations of Westminster abbey concentrate on the monumental, but I have sought out the personal and intimate where visual juxtapositions have occurred through time, architectural style and changing use. The Abbey's central shrine and surrounding chapels have made me consider how sacred spaces are glimpsed, hidden and revealed which was essential to creating the accompanying drawing to this articleTowards the Shrine.

            Colour is very important in my work and I have used specific combinations to act like musical chords playing over the Abbey. Alongside a carefully restricted colour palette, both drawings and paintings are simplified or slightly abstracted in a conversation between the subject and my own internal narratives. Visiting the Abbey over such a long period; several days per months over the year, has strengthened my connection and relationship to this sacred space, and I hope the viewer can share my experience.

            I am deeply indebted to Scott Craddock for coordinating my visits to the Abbey and I would like to thank all those at the Abbey and St. Margaret's who have enabled this project and my first solo exhibition. 

Lottie Stoddart

Neal Jones in two-person exhibition

CONDO 2017 is a collaborative exhibition and art event happening over the next few weeks. 21 contemporary art galleries from as far afield as New York, Berlin, São Paolo, Dusseldorf and Shanghai are taking up month-long residence at 15 of London’s young galleries. Exhibition dates: 14 Jan – 11 Feb 2017. Preview Sat 14 & Sun 15 January, 12–6pm. Click here to visit the website and download a map.

As part of the Condo exhibition programme, Southard Reid gallery will be exhibiting artwork by Neal Jones (DY 2003). Southard Reid is hosting Koppe Astner gallery from Glasgow. Kris Lemsalu + Neal Jones: 14 Jan - 11 Feb 2017 

'Happy Shopper' by Neal Jones (2014)

Clara Drummond and Kirsty Buchanan in conversation

The William Morris Society in West London has an upcoming event that features two alumnae, Clara Drummond (DY 2005) and Kirsty Buchanan (DY 2013). Their joint exhibition The Unsung Muse was shown there in the summer of 2016.

Clara Drummond and Kirsty Buchanan in conversation

Sat 28 January 2017 2,15 – 3,30 pm / In this talk Clara and Kirsty will discuss their influences and ways of working, and explain how research into the Society's collections inspires and informs their work. Tickets can be purchased here.

Tim Hyman: Lecture on Chagall

Liza Dimbleby and Tim Hyman (RDS Senior Faculty) are hosting a joint event at Pushkin House in London on 18 January, 7 - 8,30 pm:

Tim Hyman: Lecture on  Chagall’s etchings for Dead Souls with an introduction by Liza Dimbleby. Details here.