Exhibitions, Events, Talks, Learning Projects and more – find out what’s happening at Drawing Room!
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Drawing Room/Tannery Arts Unit 1b, New Tannery Way Bermondsey London, SE1 5WS
Our Learning projects make drawing relevant and accessible to our community – for schools, teachers, families & local groups. Come and Draw!
Free and open to all, our Library is a unique collection of around 4,000 books dedicated to the exploration of contemporary drawing.
Our Members support all that we do and enjoy exclusive events, talks, tours and studio visits – find out how you can join!
Buy publications related to our exhibitions, as well as unique artworks and limited editions.
Find out more about Drawing Room, what we do, and our relationship with studio provider Tannery Arts.
Tannery Arts is a small, independent charity concerned with supporting the professional development of emerging and established artists through the provision of affordable studios, promoting their practice through opportunities to exhibit work, develop projects, generate partnerships with local authorities, private property owners and social housing organisations as well as engage in learning activities.
Tannery Arts is a small, independent charity concerned with supporting the professional development of emerging and established artists through the provision of affordable studios, promoting their practice through opportunities to exhibit work, develop projects and generate partnerships.
Tannery Arts supports the professional development of emerging and established artists through providing secure conditions for the production of excellent artworks; its core of our work consists of developing studios and negotiating the rental and management of buildings. It also exists to encourage both a wide public and those with a specialist interest to engage with, and participate in contemporary art, through partnering with local authorities, private property owners and social housing organisations, as well as engage in learning activities. It produces exhibitions and commissions as ‘Tannery Projects’ and is committed to mentoring new and emerging artists.
The organisation is led by Co-Directors Andrew Bick and Fiona Long, and has a Board of Directors who support their work and their partnership with Drawing Room’s exhibition programme and learning activities. The board serves to support the work we do in creating affordable studio spaces and securing properties as well as overseeing our financial reporting and annual audit. Planning and decision-making regarding the future of the organisation is based on teamwork, with the support and advice of past and current board members. All of our staff are also artists and therefore managing multi layered careers. We believe this approach to employment brings us closer as an organisation to the artists we provide studios for, and include in our projects. This remains a founding ethos of our work along with a collaborative and equality-based approach to employment and studio provision.
Tannery Arts has been registered as a Community Benefit Society since 2000 and is an ‘exempt charity’, and therefore exempt from registration with the Charities Commission.
We are a member of London’s Artists Affordable Studios Network. https://www.laasn.co.uk/members
Past studio artists include David Austen, Frank Ammerlaan, Michael Armitage, Franko B, Phyllida Barlow, Anna Barriball, David Batchelor, Simon Bill, David Blamey, Sonia Boyce, Simon Callery, Alice Channer, Enrico David, A K Dolven, Shaun Gladwell, Robert Montgommery, Joao Penalva, David Musgrave, Elizabeth Price, Sarah Staton, Mark Titchner, Rachel Whiteread, Richard Woods, Alison Wilding and many more who continue to be our friends nationally and internationally.