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Year
Royal Drawing School
The Foundation Year
Studio 1, Main Stores Building
4 Trinity Buoy Wharf
London E14 0FG
Registered Charity 1101538
Enquiries
T 0207 536 9688
E foundationyear@royaldrawingschool.org
www.royaldrawingschool.org
Fine Art Foundation Course
in London’s Docklands
in november 2014
the prince’s drawing
school became
the royal drawing
school
The Foundation Year
The Foundation Year, run by the Royal Drawing School,
is a one year skills-based course with five days’ teaching a week and a limit of 45 places to ensure one-to-one
tuition, in an inspiring part of London’s Docklands
buzzing with creatives and artists’ studios. It is free to
18 and 19 year olds with some bursaries available for
over-19s. This course was previously known as the
New Fine Art Foundation Course.
One-to-one teaching
Taught five days a week
Skills-based teaching centred around drawing
Disciplines: Painting, Sculpture, Drawing,
Printmaking, Animation, Photography
and Design
Intimate and supportive environment
Weekly art history lectures and
gallery visits
New facilities including sculpture studio,
print room, photography darkroom and
Apple Mac computers
Guidance with UCAS applications
and portfolio preparation
All students from previous years applying to
BA courses placed at top-ranking universities
Unique London riverside location in
thriving creative community at Trinity Buoy
Wharf, Docklands
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Drawing: the core of the programme
Students explore a wide range of Fine Art media including painting, sculpture, animation, printmaking and
photography, with drawing emphasised as a means of
informing and expressing ideas. Throughout the year
drawing from observation in the studio, on the streets
of the city and from art in galleries and museums,
remains at the core of the programme.
Teaching
Places are limited to 45 students to ensure regular oneto-one tuition along with group crits, access to studio
space and individual mentoring. The programme is
led by Gethin Evans and Sharon Beavan, who each have
over 25 years experience in Foundation level teaching
at leading London art schools. The teaching faculty
also includes tutors and alumni from the Royal
Drawing School.
University progression
The course is structured to enable all students to
progress to BA degrees in creative subjects including
Fine Art, Illustration, Graphic Design, Photography,
Sculpture, Printmaking, Painting, Animation, Set
Design, Fashion, Film, Product Design and Textiles,
and full support is given with all applications and
portfolio preparation. Guidance is also offered to those
seeking to progress directly to apprenticeships and the
workplace. All students from previous years applying
to BA courses were placed at top-ranking universities
including Camberwell College of Arts (UAL), Central
St Martins (UAL), Falmouth University, Goldsmiths
University of London, Newcastle University, The
University of Edinburgh, University of Brighton,
University of Bristol, University of Glasgow, University
of Leeds, University of Oxford and Wimbledon College
of Art (UAL), among others.
ROYAL DRAWING
school
The Royal Drawing School is an independent, not-forprofit resource that aims to raise the standard and
profile of drawing through teaching and practice.
It is one of only a few institutions in the world offering
in-depth, quality tuition in drawing from observation.
Founded in 2000 by HRH The Prince of Wales and artist
Catherine Goodman as The Prince’s Drawing School,
it became the Royal Drawing School in 2014.
The School believes that drawing is fundamental to
all aspects of learning and thinking from childhood
onwards. It is a crucial route to innovation across the
creative disciplines and beyond, from fashion, fine
art and animation to filmmaking, product design and
engineering. For some people, drawing is the easiest
way of thinking.
By offering tuition and resources to art students, artists, children and the public, the School aims to address
the permanent need for high-quality drawing teaching
in the UK. Our courses are taught by a specialist faculty
of over 75 practising artists, and we are committed to
the continued training of future teachers of drawing.
Watercolour by Kathryn Maple, The Drawing Year postgraduate programme 2012–13
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The Royal Drawing School runs over 250 different full
and part-time drawing courses each year for adults and
children of all ages and abilities, with heavily subsidised fees and a comprehensive range of concessions
to make them available to the widest range of students. In 2012 the School established the New Fine Art
Foundation Course, now called The Foundation Year,
to meet the needs of students in the changing educational landscape. The School also runs The Drawing
Year (a one year MA-level course in drawing awarding a
full scholarship and free studio space to every student),
fully-funded international artists’ residencies and
a young artists programme providing sustained, free
tuition for 10–18 year-olds with an aptitude for drawing.
The Royal Drawing School operates five studios
across London in Shoreditch (Charlotte Road and Tea
Building), Oxford Street, South Kensington and Trinity
Buoy Wharf. The School also collaborates with a number of institutions, allowing our students opportunities
to draw at museums and galleries as well as in the city’s
outdoor spaces.
about the course
The course is made up of three terms, during which
students explore approaches to observation and experimentation in preparation for expression of personal
ideas in Fine Art and Design.
The structure of the year progresses from set assignments towards self-directed study. The course is full
time, with five days’ teaching a week. During Term 1
the weekly structure includes:
One day of observational drawing
One day of gallery drawing
Two days for set project work
One day of independent study
The emphasis during Terms 2 and 3 is more focused
on independent study, but students also attend all timetabled drawing classes and other activities and workshops. Students are expected to engage with timetabled
lectures, studio critiques and debates throughout the
programme.
Tutorial and teaching structure
The teaching structure operates in two ways. The first
is group teaching, whereby the tutor is assigned a group
of students to deliver a set project, seminar, lecture
or discussion. The second is one-to-one teaching. Each
student will be allocated a personal tutor at the outset
of the academic year and will be required to have one
formal tutorial each term.
Art History
Students have a dedicated lecture and gallery visit day,
combining drawing from art with talks by art historians
each Friday throughout terms 1, 2 and 3. This art history
component introduces the students to a broad survey
of working practices and changing attitudes that have
shaped the arts over past centuries. Museum visits and
slide lectures are tailored to provide a critical framework and complement the students’ practical work.
The art history programme is curated by art historian
Antje Southern.
Students also attend a weekly lecture on Wednesday
evenings in Shoreditch throughout the year, curated
by writer/artist Julian Bell and art critic/artist William
Feaver. Past talks have discussed Freud, Auerbach and
Beckmann, alongside in-conversations with Sir Peter
Blake, Cornelia Parker RA, David Shrigley, Tracey Emin
RA, Grayson Perry RA, Michael Landy RA, and Lynette
Yiadom-Boakye. Every spring term the Artists on Film
series runs alongside the lecture programme, the first
national collection of footage on artists at work and
in conversation. In many cases the director or the artist
featured will attend the screening. Subjects of films
shown in the past have included Paula Rego, Balthus
and Diego Rivera.
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I had a real
breakthrough when
I was working on my
first personal project,
based on creating
illustrations from
other people’s dreams ...
From that project
my joy in illustration,
which had purely
been an obsessive
hobby, transformed
into a career path.
Alumna 2013−14
Curriculum
The Foundation Year is made up of three parts, where the students work experimentally,
developmentally and independently.
Part 1
Weeks 1–8
During weeks 1–8 students will be introduced to a range
of Fine Art processes and materials. Feedback sessions
and reviews offer a platform for discussion and further
development as Part 1 progresses. All students are
required to keep a learning journal which documents
the thoughts and processes involved in the making
of the work, along with notes from gallery visits,
lectures and handouts.
This journal becomes an indispensable point of
reference as the course progresses. Concurrent with
the set projects, the students are expected to initiate
and manage a self-directed project, either in sketchbooks, working drawings or models.
In weeks 5 and 6 students will be introduced to
Personal Project 1 and will each receive an individual
tutorial to discuss their progress and receive advice
on UCAS application.
Week 9
Research week; students are expected to be involved
in further research for their Personal Project 1 as well
as UCAS applications.
Students are expected to visit and explore galleries and
museums. Four days will enable students to go to particular galleries/museums for further development of
their projects and form the basis of a final presentation.
Students are expected to fill a sketchbook along with
a minimum of six sheets of work.
Part 2
Weeks 10–14
The next six weeks focus on individual and tutor-led
projects. Contextualisation of traditional and current
Fine Art practice underpins the progression of the
work made. Students are questioned and challenged
through group presentations. The journal continues
to support and document learning, while demonstrating commitment and motivation towards the realisation of their ideas. Students are expected to write
an essay no longer than two sides of A4 which will be
handed in after the Christmas break.
During this part of the course students will be preparing portfolios for applications to study further
at BA level. Tutorial advice and guidance is given in
one-to-one tutorials and group portfolio preparation
workshops.
Part 1 assessment occurs during weeks 13 and 14.
All students must pass this assessment in order
to progress to Part 2 of the course. Students who
do not pass will be referred.
Weeks 15–16
The term begins with a week’s media electives which
offer students the opportunity to extend or develop
their work in either painting, animation or sculpture.
These electives will enable the students to gain skills
that will underpin their ideas for Personal Project 2.
During this period students are engaged in portfolio
reviews and advice from tutors on their application
to BA courses.
Week 21
Research Week. Students are expected to research
Personal Project 3 and compile a completed sketchbook, along with six additional sheets of work, in
reference to independent gallery and museum visits.
Part 3
Weeks 17–20
Students continue to develop and strengthen their
core skills through a generic project, life drawing on
Mondays and gallery visits. Students are expected to
demonstrate an increasing ability to initiate and evaluate their ideas independently. Timetabled workshops
enable students to investigate methods in materials
in greater depth.
Weeks 22–37
Part 3 of the course is dedicated to Personal Project
3 in which students design and execute an ambitious
self-managed project whose aim is to demonstrate
independent and creative thinking and evaluative
skills. It should also evidence an understanding of
the intellectual, critical, practical skills and methodologies they have gained. This project will equip them
to undertake further study at a higher level in Fine
Art or other Art & Design related subjects.
Student presentations and peer-led group discussion
help prepare students for study at degree level
and interview. Drawing continues to be timetabled
and full attendance is expected in order to fulfil the
course requirements.
Personal Project 3 concludes with the Final
Assessment and End of Year Exhibition which is evaluated by course leaders and an external examiner. The
exhibition is an opportunity for students to celebrate
their year’s achievements with family and friends.
During this period it is expected that students will
be attending interviews and portfolio submissions
for BA courses. Full support and advice on the selection
and presentation of work in preparation for interview
is provided.
Assessment of Part 2 work is divided into two parts.
The first part of the assessment consists of an assessment of Personal Project 2, curated display of works
produced during this project and a portfolio of progression, which should include a selected range of work
made during the first two parts of the course.
The second part of the assessment evaluates all core
skills and activities which occur on Mondays, Tuesdays
and Fridays.
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STUDENT STORY
Daniel Quirke Foundation Year 2013–14 BA Animation, Middlesex University
At the open day I really enjoyed visiting The Foundation
Year studios in Trinity Buoy Wharf and the feeling of
being part of the artistic community there. I was also
attracted to the course by the fact that it placed such
a high regard on drawing and working from observation, which I have since learned is essential to my work
and something I love to do.
My drawing skills improved dramatically over the year.
I had hardly ever worked from observation at school
(working mostly from photographs instead) but The
Foundation Year introduced me to the practice of life
drawing, which I had never done before. I now feel
much more confident in my own drawing ability.
I remember being in a life drawing class one day when
it struck me how confident I felt when drawing from
the model. After comparing my drawings from that
day to my drawings from right at the beginning of the
course, I saw how much my drawing and feel for line
and form had improved.
Aside from drawing, the course introduced me to many
other new methods and ways of learning. Before the
course I had only done monoprinting and lino-cut,
but on The Foundation Year I was introduced to new
printmaking techniques and sculpting techniques like
wax modelling and breeze block carving. Another really
memorable part of the course was the end of year trip
to Dumfries House. It’s something I’ll never forget.
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There are lots of different tutors on The Foundation
Year and each one sees your work slightly differently
and have something different to add. This helped keep
the advice and suggestions fresh, as you were always
hearing something new and getting new ideas. It was
really useful to have tutors in specialist practices like
animation as I was able to get a lot of help from them
when working on my final project.
Animation was something that had been at the back
of my mind for a while but I had never had any experience of it. By the time I started The Foundation Year
I had forgotten that it was an option and arrived
on the first day of the course thinking that I would
go on to do either a Fine Art or Painting degree.
But when I was introduced to it on some of the day
projects, I soon realised that animation was something
I really enjoyed and I’m now studying at Middlesex
University on the BA Animation course.
STUDENT STORY
Isabeau Gervais Foundation Year 2013–14 BA Illustration, Brighton University
Before enrolling on The Foundation Year, I was a student on The Prince’s Drawing School’s (now the Royal
Drawing School’s) free weekly after-school Drawing
Clubs. The tutors there really encouraged me to continue my studies on The Foundation Year and were
hugely supportive of my application.
Of everything we did on the course, I enjoyed the access
to the print room and the Friday visits to galleries the
most. We had weekly classes with the art history tutor
Antje Southern and visited both contemporary and traditional galleries. She guided us through the works and
exhibitions and provided lots of insight and knowledge.
The course is really like no other Foundation offered.
Being only one in 28 students (on my year) compared
to one in 100 or even one in 700 is such a luxury. We got
such great guidance and attention, and you do become
really close to everyone on the course. The tutors really
care about helping and teaching you – you’re a person
with a personality, not just a number.
I had a real breakthrough when I was working on my
first personal project, based on creating illustrations
from other people’s dreams. This was the most exciting
and personal project I had done to date, and made me
realise that I love work that involves community interaction and working to a brief. I saw that my love of illustration and working to a brief with a community went hand
in hand. From that project my joy in illustration, which
had purely been an obsessive hobby, transformed into
a career path. I’m currently studying towards a BA in
Illustration at Brighton and I know that The Foundation
Year prepared me with a wealth of work as well as skills
and techniques necessary for this next step.
Unlike school, where your art teacher not only teaches
you but hundreds of other pupils of various ages,
the tutors here are just focused on you. Having subjectspecialist tutors in sculpture, printing, and painting
provides the best insight into new ways of working.
Before this course I had never worked with sculpture
and had very little experience with printing and etching
techniques.
The variety of tutors is great, but having two main
programme leaders (Sharon Beavan and Gethin Evans)
allows for consistency and contact on a personal
level, while all the other tutors provide fresh eyes for
a tired personal project or help in their specific area
of expertise.
STUDENT STORY
Alyssa Hart Foundation Year 2013–14 BA Fine Art, Goldsmiths
I applied to The Foundation Year because I was keen
to gain as many skills as possible. No matter how great
your ideas, if you can’t put them into action you’re not
going to get far. Before the course, I had taken some life
drawing and painting classes, but had received little or
no guidance on it and ached to learn more about how
to improve.
Therefore, an important criteria for me was to have
a course that had a good student-tutor ratio and was
nowhere near as large as other foundation courses.
The small student numbers made the course feel like
a family. It’s easier to warm up to fellow students, know
who they are and feel more confident with every crit
when you don’t keep seeing new faces.
Lastly, but maybe most importantly, I wanted a course
that would be fun but challenging. On The Foundation
Year, hard work pays off. There is no such thing as
a tutor having a certain taste and forcing everyone to
follow it. Discussion and varying opinions were encouraged – knowing that you can have your own voice does
wonders for your work! Besides that, the course made
many connections between art history, theory and
practice and I was able to learn a lot more in each of
these areas than was possible at school.
I especially looked forward to the end of the day, when
it was great being able to join in discussions about everyone’s work and even appreciate the progress I had made
personally. It was often the smallest things, a brush
stroke or a colour, which would make someone enthusiastic about someone else’s work. It was often these
moments which made me think about going deeper
than just the surface and appreciate the search for the
unexpected and beautiful, or often even the ‘ugly’.
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Painting installation by Milly Stephen
Since doing the course I have wanted to visit as many
exhibitions as I possibly can, and feel less lost as to what
to draw when I am there because of the interesting ideas
for tasks that we were given on our Friday gallery days.
For me a vital aspect of the course was receiving guidance on my UCAS application. There are so many universities and courses that I felt lost as to where to start
and what to do. The tutors were a great help in advising
me what things I should take into account when deciding on a University and I am now studying Fine Art at
Goldsmiths University. Developing a portfolio and having practice interviews one-on-one with one of the head
tutors who actually knew me personally was amazing.
Alongside my studies at Goldsmiths I am volunteering
at the Royal Drawing School, helping 14–16 year olds
work towards their Arts Award, because I want to give
back some of what I have learned on The Foundation
Year. I also try to keep up the skills I gained by going to
the free evening classes for London art students at the
Royal Drawing School.
studios, locations
and facilities
Trinity Buoy Wharf
Building on the success of its first year the main campus at Trinity Buoy Wharf has recently been expanded,
with facilities split over three floors including:
Well-lit teaching studios
Sculpture studio
Fully-equipped intaglio print room
for etching, collograph and monoprint
Photography darkroom
Individual studio spaces (allocated to
students at an appropriate stage of the
course so they can develop and work on
their own projects)
Apple Mac computers with the latest
animation and design software
Reference art library
Common room and kitchen
Trinity Buoy Wharf’s unique riverside location and
many historical landmarks and artefacts make it
an ideal place to draw and paint. It is positioned
on the north bank of the Thames, directly opposite
the O2 Arena, in London’s inspiring Docklands area.
Trinity Buoy Wharf is a thriving creative community of
over 500 people in industries ranging from fine arts and
sculpture to design, photography and music. There is
a 1940s style American diner and a café serving healthy
soups and sandwiches on site.
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In September 2014 we expanded into an additional
studio at Clipper House, Trinity Buoy Wharf’s brand
new building recycled from the former 2012 Olympic
Broadcasting Studios at Stratford Olympic Park.
Our new space inside Clipper House is home to our
Apple Mac computer suite and photography darkroom,
as well as a multi-use open plan space for group discussions and lectures, with south-facing views over the
O2 Arena and river Thames.
Shoreditch Studios
Weekly lectures take place at Royal Drawing School
Shoreditch in East London’s artistic hub. The lectures
are attended by The Foundation Year and Drawing
Year postgraduate students. Royal Drawing School
Shoreditch is home to The Drawing Year postgraduate
programme and Public Courses for adults and children.
There are teaching studios, a large exhibitions gallery
and an intaglio print room.
New Studios on Oxford Street
The Royal Drawing School has recently expanded
into new drawing studios on Oxford Street. Foundation
Year students will benefit from this new addition to
our campus, which provides a base in the heart of central London close to the galleries and cultural institutions nearby.
Painting by Henry Tudor Pole
The tutors really
care about helping
and teaching you −
you’re a person
with a personality,
not just a number.
ALUMNA 2013−14
exhibitions
and expeditions
Painting Trip
Every summer students are invited to Dumfries House
in East Ayrshire, Scotland, to spend a week drawing and
painting alongside their tutors in an area of outstanding natural beauty. Dumfries House provides a rich
artist’s resource, with collections of 18th century furniture, textiles and paintings on loan from the National
Gallery of Scotland. The house is located in 2,000 acres
of Scottish landscape.
Students are asked to pay their own train fare to
Scotland but the trip is otherwise completely free
to ensure that all students are able to attend regardless
of their financial circumstances.
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End of Year Exhibition
An exhibition of students’ work is held at Trinity
Buoy Wharf at the end of the academic year in June.
This is an opportunity for students to gain experience
of curating and hanging a show, and promoting
their practice.
The exhibition is open for several days throughout
the week and there is a private view to which family,
friends and faculty are invited. This year’s exhibition
was attended by over 500 people.
Special Access
As part of the art historical component of the
course, students receive special access to private and
national collections and talks not usually accessible
to the public.
Drawing installation by Holly Arnold
Alumni destinations
and opportunities
Alumni Destinations
Following their graduation, previous years’ students
progressed to a wide variety of BA courses in subjects
ranging from Fine Art, Painting, Drawing, Sculpture
and Photography to Animation, Graphic Design,
Illustration and Technical Arts and Special Effects
at top-ranking universities including Camberwell
College of Arts (UAL), Central St Martins (UAL),
Falmouth University, Goldsmiths University of London,
Newcastle University, The University of Edinburgh,
University of Brighton, University of Bristol, University
of Glasgow, University of Leeds, University of Oxford
and Wimbledon College of Art (UAL), among others.
Alumni Opportunities
Free Drawing Courses
The Foundation Year alumni who go on to study on
a BA Fine Art course in London can return for free drawing sessions at the Royal Drawing School to complement their university studies. During term time we
offer Free Life Drawing or Free Etching at our Shoreditch
campus on Monday evenings, Free Life Drawing at the
Oxford Street studios on Tuesday evenings and Free
Drawing at The National Gallery on Friday evenings, as
part of our Free For London Art Students programme.
Alumni Discount
All Foundation Year alumni are entitled to a 50% discount on courses offered at the Royal Drawing School
on our public programme of daytime and evening
courses for adults in drawing, painting and sculpture.
Courses run from our studios in Shoreditch, Oxford
Street and South Kensington, usually over ten weeks.
The Drawing Year
Following graduation from degree courses, Foundation
Year alumni may apply to return to the Royal Drawing
School to continue their education at postgraduate
level. The Drawing Year is an MA-level course offering up to thirty students a full scholarship to focus on
drawing from observation for one academic year. A
studio space in the iconic Tea Building in Shoreditch
is provided for the duration of the year and additional
maintenance bursaries are available on application.
Students are assessed by an independent board headed
by Andrea Rose, previously Director of Visual Arts at the
British Council for over 20 years, and receive a postgraduate diploma certificate. The course is overseen
by an academic board chaired by Christopher Le Brun,
President of the Royal Academy.
For more information on all our programmes please
visit www.royaldrawingschool.org
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Sculpture by Oscar Lyons
Frequently asked
questions
Who teaches on The Foundation Year?
The course is led by Gethin Evans and Sharon Beavan,
who ran the highly regarded foundation programme
at Byam Shaw School of Art for many years. Gethin
and Sharon teach alongside other members of
the Royal Drawing School's senior faculty. Half of
the teaching on The Foundation Year is delivered by
young contemporary artists who are graduates from
the Royal Drawing School’s prestigious MA-level
programme, The Drawing Year.
How much teaching will I receive on
The Foundation Year?
This in an intensive, taught, skills-based course.
Students receive five days’ tuition each week during
term time, as well as weekly art history lectures
and in-conversations with contemporary artists.
How many students are on The Foundation year?
Our intake is generally limited to 45 students each
year to ensure that we are able to provide high
quality one-to-one teaching throughout the course.
What qualification will I receive at the end of
The Foundation Year?
Students will receive a certificate of achievement issued
by the Royal Drawing School. The course is not accredited and therefore does not qualify for additional UCAS
points towards students University applications. It is
however directly relevant to students hoping to take
a degree in Fine Art or a related subject, as well as those
looking to progress directly into a wide range of careers
for which the skills learned on the course will be very
beneficial. Helpful and expert advice and guidance on
progression from The Foundation Year is one of the key
benefits that we offer students.
What do our students go on to do?
Following their graduation, last year’s students progressed to a wide variety of BA courses in subjects
ranging from Fine Art, Painting, Drawing, Sculpture
and Photography, to Animation, Graphic Design,
Illustration and Technical Arts and Special Effects,
at top-ranking universities including Camberwell
College of Arts (UAL) Central St Martins (UAL),
Goldsmiths University of London, Newcastle University,
The University of Edinburgh, University of Brighton,
University of Bristol, University of Falmouth, University
of Glasgow, University of Leeds, University of Oxford
and Wimbledon College of Art (UAL), among others.
What are the fees for The Foundation Year?
Through the generosity of the Royal Drawing School’s
donors, The Foundation Year is free to all students aged
18 and 19 on 1st September in the year that they start
the course. There are some 100% bursaries available to
students over 19 and these will be allocated on a meanstested basis. The full cost of the course for fee-paying
students is £3,500.
Who can apply to The Foundation Year?
The course is tailored to recent school-leavers.
To apply you must be 18 or above on 1st September
in the year that you start the course; i.e. if you are
applying for entry in September 2015, you must be
18 or over on 1st September 2015. We do however welcome applications from over-19s, who feel that the
course may help them to realise their ambition to
progress to higher education or into a relevant career.
We are only able to accept applications from students
who are UK or EU passport holders.
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How do I apply to The Foundation Year?
The first step is to complete our online application
form. For more information please see the ‘Applying’
section in this booklet.
What should I submit in my portfolio?
The portfolio should display a sense of personal investigation through a range of drawing and painting media.
The minimum requirements we would like
to see are:
12 observational drawings (A1)
6 colour studies on paper (range of scales)
A sketchbook demonstrating your personal
artistic studies and enquiry, exhibition/
gallery responses and inspiration from
other artists.
If possible we would like to see some work
produced beyond the curriculum that you
may have studied at GCSE/A-Level/IB.
Please include good quality images of any 3D work
that does not easily fit into your portfolio.
Faculty
Artistic Director
Catherine Goodman is the Artistic
Director of the Royal Drawing School,
which she founded with HRH The
Prince of Wales in 2000. Catherine
studied at Camberwell School of Art
and the Royal Academy Schools, where
she won the RA Gold Medal. In 2002
Goodman won the National Portrait
Gallery’s BP Portrait Award first prize.
Her latest solo exhibition, Catherine
Goodman: Portraits from Life, was at
the National Portrait Gallery from June
to November 2014. She is represented
by Marlborough Fine Art and currently
lives and paints in London.
Course Leaders
Senior Faculty
Gethin Evans was previously Course
Director at Byam Shaw School of Art
between 1991 and 2011. He has taught
on BA courses at UCA Farnham and
Falmouth School of Art and has been
a visiting lecturer to the New York
Studio School of Drawing, Painting and
Sculpture. Gethin is a painter and has
exhibited in the Discerning Eye, Sunday
Times Watercolour Competition,
Whitechapel Open and Royal Academy
Summer Exhibitions. He has also
exhibited at the Streetroad Gallery in
Pennsylvania and the Paradox Art Fair
in New York. He has a studio in East
London.
Joshua Bilton studied at the London
College of Communication, completing his BA in Photography in 2007. He
graduated with an MA in Photography
in 2010 from the Royal College of Art.
Joshua Bilton has exhibited widely
throughout the UK and internationally including at Bloomberg New
Contemporaries at the ICA 2011, Hello
World, L’Atelier-KSR, Berlin 2014, and
Who Thinks the Future? at Lewisham
Art House in 2014. His work has been
featured in ReGeneration2, Tomorrow’s
Photographers Today, published by
Thames and Hudson in 2010, The Catlin
Guide 2011, and the digital publication
100 London Artists, Volume 2 curated
by art critic and historian Edward
Lucie-Smith and gallerist and curator
Zavier Ellis.
Sharon Beavan trained at Falmouth and
the Royal College of Art. She won the
Cheltenham Open DrawingCompetition
(1994) and was highly commended
in the Eastern Open Art Competition
(1996). Sharon has exhibited widely,
most recently at the RA and in Visions
of London at Michael Richardson’s
Artspace. She taught for many years on
the Foundation course at Byam Shaw
School of Art, and on the Foundation
courses of Wimbledon School of Art,
the University of Hertfordshire, City &
Guilds of London Art School and North
Hertfordshire College. She has also
taught on the BA course at Kingston
University.
Art History Programme Curator
Antje Southern studied History of
Art at Bonn University and University
College London. She gained her MA at
the Warburg Institute in 1992 and has
previously taught both fine and decorative arts from the Renaissance to the
present day at Christie’s Education.
Her research and articles relate historic
art and design practices to contemporary approaches.
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Rachel Louise Brown graduated from
the Royal College of Art, London
in 2011 with an MA in Photography
(Distinction), following a BA (Hons)
in Photography at London College of
Communication (2008). She has exhibited widely, with shows in London, Sicily,
Liverpool, Copenhagen, Paris, Niort,
New York, Dallas and Toronto, and has
completed artist's residencies in Sicily,
Paris, Niort and New York. She was a
visiting faculty member at the New York
School of Visual Arts in 2011 and lectured
at ABADIR in Sicily during an artist residency on Mount Etna (2014). Alongside
her fine art practise, Brown has worked
as a freelance picture editor at British
Vogue, Harpers BAZAAR UK and for
several years was the studio manager of
revered British fashion photographer,
Tim Walker. In 2014 she was selected
for the National Open Art Competition
exhibition at Somerset House, London.
In 2010 she was a UK winner of
Magenta’s Flash Forward – Emerging
Photographers award and Pour l’Instant
Photography Prize. Her work was part
of the Boutographies photography festival in Montpellier (2013) and was also
shortlisted for Visions of 21st Century
Feminism and New Contemporaries
(2010).
Marcus Cornish gained a first class
honours degree in Sculpture from
Camberwell School of Art followed by
an MA from the Royal College of Art.
In 1993 Marcus was elected a member
of the Royal British Society of Sculptors.
Marcus won a scholarship to India to
study the work of Ayanar Potter Priests,
and Henry Moore scholarships to
pursue ceramic art. He was artist-inresidence at the Museum of London
in 2005–2006 and at an Ibstock brick
factory for a year. He was also invited
to be official tour artist on a diplomatic
tour to Eastern Europe with HRH The
Prince of Wales and as tour artist with
the British Army in Kosovo. Marcus’s
work has been recognised in a number
of awards both nationally and internationally and covered in The Times,
Independent and Sculpture Magazines.
Silke Dettmers trained at St. Martin’s
School of Art and the Royal College of
Art, London. Her artistic practice comprises of sculptures, drawing and photography. She exhibits regularly, and her
work was included in 2014 in the group
exhibition ‘Mark Wallinger Presents …’
(Bermondsey Project, London);
‘Compulsion’ (Shuffle Festival, London)
in 2013, and ‘Territories’ (Windkracht
Gallery, Den Helder, NL) in 2012. In 2008
her work was selected for ‘art projects’
(London Artfair) and ‘Concrete Dreams’
(APT Gallery, London). Dettmers
lectures at a number of British arts universities, and has taught in Poland and
Colombia. She also curates exhibitions
and writes on arts related subjects.
Robert Fawcett attended Cambridge
College of Art (1984 – 1985), Byam Shaw
School of Art (1985– 1988) and the Royal
College of Art (1990– 1992). Robert has
exhibited prints, paintings and drawings for shows at The Mall Galleries,
London; Temple Gallery, Paris; Duna,
Barcelona; Terrence Rogers Fine
Art, Santa Monica; and Malborough
Graphics and The Forum Gallery,
New York. He has been included in
a touring exhibition of the US: Modern
Portraiture and has had solo shows with
Jill George Gallery, London. He has also
received numerous awards, including
the Daler-Rowney Prize and Neville
Burston Award, and was twice winner
of the Elizabeth Greenshields
Foundation award. More recently he was
selected for the John Moores Painting
Prize 2014 and the ING Discerning Eye.
Faculty
Kate Scrivener attended the Royal
College of Art, where she studied painting. Her practice explores natural phenomena and the possibilities of nature
from the macro to the massive. Kate
has exhibited nationally and internationally including, In-and outsidewriting (Voorkamer, Lier, Belgium),
Floating (TinType, London), PrintMare
(against nature, Camberwell Space,
London), Cunning Chapters (British
Library, London), Great Piece of Turf
(Danielle Arnaud Contemporary Art,
London), East of Eden (Spacex Gallery,
Exeter) and Spin (Victoria & Albert
Museum, London). Awards include the
Royal Academy Original Print Award.
Collections include the British Library,
the National Art Library, Tate Britain,
(special collections) and the Royal
College of Art.
Sam Marshall
Printmaking, Painting, Drawing
Richard Burton
Animation, Drawing
Poppy Chancellor
Drawing, Gallery visits
Sophie Charalambous
Set Design, Drawing
Perienne Christian
Painting, Printmaking, Drawing
Christopher Green
Drawing
Sam Halstead
Sculpture, Drawing
Rowan James
Painting, Photography, Drawing
Leonie Lachlan
Printmaking, Drawing
Mary Milner
Painting, Drawing
Tom Sander
Painting, Sculpture, Drawing
Phoebe Stannard
Printmaking, Drawing
Luoise Wilde
Animation, Drawing
Applying, open days
and contact
Applying
Contact
Open days
Application is by portfolio submission
and interview.
Rebecca Court
Foundation Year Programme Manager
Open days are held for students, parents
and teachers who would like to visit the
School and studios, meet faculty and find
our more about The Foundation Year.
Please see our website www.royaldrawingschool.org for details of this year's
application deadline.
The first step is to complete our
online application form at www.royaldrawingschool.org. There is a £10.00
application fee.
Hannah Woolner
Foundation Year Administrator
T 020 7536 9688
E foundationyear@royaldrawingschool.org
Directors, Trustees
and Academic Board
For this year’s dates please visit
www.royaldrawingschool.org
For more information or to register
for an open day please contact
foundationyear@royaldrawingschool.org
or 020 7536 9688
All applicants must be 18 or over on
1st September in the year that they start
the course; i.e. if you are applying for
entry in September 2015, you must be
18 or over on 1st September 2015.
HRH The Prince of Wales
President
The Lady Sarah Chatto
Vice President
Catherine Goodman
Artistic Director
Mark Chester
Executive Director
Photographs by Angela Moore and
the Royal Drawing School
Photograph of HRH The Prince of Wales
by Alan Shawcross
Disclaimer
The information given in this publication is as far as possible accurate at the
date of publication. The programme is
subject to change without notice.
Map illustration by Emily Haworth-Booth
Produced and edited by Julia Balchin,
Emily Haworth-Booth and Beck Belsham
Designed by John Morgan studio
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Trustees
Howard Marks, Chairman
Dr Loyd Grossman obe fsa,
Deputy Chairman
Lady Bacon
Charles Booth-Clibborn
Linda Heathcoat-Amory
Katrin Henkel
Tamara Ingram obe
Christopher Le Brun pra
Nancy Marks
Julie Nicholls
Hon Lady Jane Roberts DCVO
Felix Robyns
Andrea Rose OBE CMG
Dr Charles Saumarez Smith cbe
Baroness Ullens de Schooten
Viscountess Younger of Leckie
Academic Board
Christopher Le Brun PRA, Chairman
Humphrey Ocean RA, Deputy Chairman
Susan Bacon
Liza Dimbleby
William Feaver
Catherine Goodman
Linda Heathcoat-Amory
Prof Eileen Hogan
Timothy Hyman RA
Andrzej Jackowski
John Lessore
Martin Shortis
How to find us
The Foundation Year
Studio 1, Main Stores Building
4 Trinity Buoy Wharf
London E14 0FG
0207 536 9688
foundationyear@royaldrawingschool.org
www.royaldrawingschool.org
Bus
Number 277 to the Town Hall on the north side of East
India (DLR) station.
DLR
East India DLR: 10-minute walk. Use the stairs to the
south exit (do not walk over the footbridge). Outside
the station follow the blue signs marked Trinity Buoy
Wharf/the Bird Sanctuary.
Tube
Canning Town tube (Jubilee Line/DLR): 15-minute walk.
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Foods, emerging onto Orchard Place. Bear right and
continue on until you reach Trinity Buoy Wharf.
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