Join us on an artist-led tour exploring the 2024 edition of the Drawing Room Biennial, exhibiting a cross-section of the most interesting artists working in drawing today.
Alexis Soul Gray, Erin Lawlor and Gabriella Boyd will lead the tour offering their insights on this year’s exhibition.
Teas/ coffees will be provided on arrival. The tour will begin at 10am with time after for networking and to explore the library.
Please RSVP using the form below. Places are on a first come first served basis.
Photography will be taken at the event. Please note that by entering the event site, you agree to be filmed or photographed, which may be used for marketing or promotional purposes.
Drawing Room Biennial
A critically acclaimed bi-annual exhibition showcasing drawings from a cross-section of the most interesting artists working today, as well as a fundraiser that provides Drawing Room with vital income for two years of activity.
Selected artists are asked to donate an A4-size drawing on paper to the Biennial; these drawings are exhibited at the gallery for nine weeks before being auctioned online, which will take place this year on Wed 3 July 2024.
SPEAKER BIOS
Alexis Soul Gray lives and works in Devon. She earned an MA in Painting at The Royal College of Art, London (2023) and a BA in Drawing at Camberwell College of Arts, London (2003). She is an alumni of The Royal Drawing School, London having completed the Postgraduate Drawing Year in 2007.
Solo exhibitions include The Arts Club, London (2024), Bel Ami, los Angeles (2023), Liminal Gallery, Margate (2023) Wetterling Gallery, Stockholm (2022)); Exeter Phoenix Gallery, Exeter (2022); and Delphian Gallery, London (2021). Recent group exhibitions include The Guts and the Glory, Bolee and Workman, Bruton (2024) Paper, Tristan Hoare Gallery, London (2023); Conscious Unconscious, Pippy Houldsworth Gallery, London (2023); Women Celebrating Surrealism, Islington Arts Factory, London (2022); What Was lost, PAPER Gallery, Manchester (2022). She was the winner of the Delphian Open in 2021 and recipient of The Elizabeth Greenshields Foundation Grant in both 2021 and 2022. She is represented by Bel Ami, Los Angeles.
Her work is in the permanent collection of Moderna Museet, Stockholm.
Erin Lawlor lives and works in London, UK. She is represented by Miles McEnery Gallery in New York; Vigo Gallery, London; Fox/Jensen and Fox/Jensen/McCrory galleries, Sydney/Auckland; and Luca Tommasi, Milan. She’s had numerous solo and group exhibitions nationally and internationally. Recent solo exhibitions include “Ariadne’s thread”, at Fox/Jensen/McCrory, Auckland (2024); “Invincible summer” at Wellington Arch (in partnership with English Heritage), and “Earthly delights” at Vigo Gallery (2023). Recent group exhibitions include “Reclaiming a Space” at the Irish Arts Center, New York (current); “Nocturne” at Andrew Rafacz Gallery, Chicago; “The Cabin LA presents: a Curated Flashback” at The Green Family Foundation and Galerie Pauline Pavec, Paris, France; “Drei Künstlerinnen der Gegenwart,” at the French Institute Mayence/Mainz, Germany;
Her work is present in numerous private collections. Public collections include the Women’s Art Collection, Cambridge, UK; and the Rothko Museum,, Latvia, and corporate collections include Kolon Museum Art Collection, Seoul and the Nordstrom collection, U.S.A.
Gabriella Boyd lives and works in London (UK). She studied at Glasgow School of Art (2007-2011) and Royal Academy Schools, London (2014-2017). She was shortlisted for the John Moores Painting Prize in 2016, and was commissioned by the Folio Society to illustrate a new edition of Sigmund Freud’s The Interpretation of Dreams in 2015. Solo exhibitions include: Presser, Cample Line, Dumfries, 2024; Landing, Grimm, London, 2023; Mile, Grimm, NYC, 2022; Signal, Micki Meng, San Francisco, 2022; for days, Seventeen, London, 2020; Help Yourself, Blain Southern, London, 2017; Group exhibitions include: The Decendents, K11 Musea, HK; Present 23, Columbus Museum; Mixing it Up, Hayward Gallery, London, 2021; Dreamers Awake, White Cube, London, 2017.
Her work is held in the permanent collection of AkzoNobel Art Foundation (NL); Arts Council Collection (UK); Columbus Museum of Art (US); De Young Museum, Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco (US); He Art Museum (CN); Long Museum (CN); The Rachofsky Collection (US); The Roberts Institute of Art (UK); Royal Academy of Arts Collection (UK) and Walker Art Gallery Collection (UK).