Please find details about some of our alumni below; for more alumni news you can download the first issue of Alumni Newsletter, Summer 2006 [PDF file, 5.5 Mb].
b. 1976, Devon. Hannah joined the Drawing Year following an MA at The Royal College of Art, where she now runs the RCA outreach programme. Primarily a draughtsman but moving into painting, Hannah is interested in documenting the world around her — the city, nightlife, gardens — and is working on several large-scale drawings of Canary Wharf, commissioned by the Bank of America.
b. 1979, Israel. Coming from a BA in Fine Art at Central Saint Martin’s, Atalya joined the Drawing Year in 2005. Interested in manipulation and cliché she has been drawing for eight months from objects in The British Museum. She is currently experimenting with these drawings to make larger-scale works that explore the processes of image-making.
b. 1971, Cornwall. After working independently as an artist, Matt came to The Drawing School to expand his drawing language, now focusing on paintings which explore the relationship between the figure and the landscape.
b. 1978, Lincoln. Following an MA in Art History at University College London and several years as a journalist at The Times, Eve came to the Drawing Year to engage with observational drawing. Though informed by drawing from life she principally works from memory and imagination and is currently working on a large suite of narrative works on the subject of The Storyteller.
b. 1982, Sussex. Grant studied his BA in Painting at the University of Brighton and was awarded the Burt & Brill Award for Outstanding Artistic Excellence in 2004. Having completed two years on the Drawing Year, Grant is interested in drawing as a means of extracting information from situations which then feeds into his paintings.
