The gallery is located in an attractive and spacious warehouse in Hackney, east London, which opened to the public as a gallery in May 2003. The gallery space is within Tannery Arts, an established studio complex, occupied by professional
artists who provide opportunities for dialogue and exchange.

Where?

The Drawing Room
Tannery Arts
Brunswick Wharf
55 Laburnum Street
London E2 8BD
Tel 020 7729 5333

When?

Wednesday to Sunday
12:00pm – 6:00pm

How Much?

Free

The Drawing Room – E2 8BD

THE DRAWING ROOM is a non-profit making organization, initiated in 2000. It is programmed and managed by its co-founders and Directors, Mary Doyle, Kate Macfarlane and Katharine Stout, who have over twenty years experience of working in the arts. The gallery has no core funding and supports itself through earned income, sponsorship, individual giving and grants from public bodies.

Attracting  a wide audience including art professionals, students and the general public interested in advances in contemporary art and drawing in particular. Our work is disseminated through an In-Conversation programme, Drawing Pad projects, publications and touring exhibitions to regional museums and galleries in the UK. The Drawing Room also collaborates with organisations abroad on exhibitions and projects.

It is the only London based non-academic partner of The International Centre for Fine Art Research, University of the Arts, a high profile network of museums, galleries and academic institutions in Europe and America.

What’s On Right Now?

Melanie Jackson:  The Ur-pflanze (Part 1)
29 April – 20 June 2010

The Urplanze (Part 1), installation detail, Collage, © Melanie Jackson, 2010.

For her solo exhibition at The Drawing Room, Jackson presents, The Ur-pflanze (Part 1),  the first stage of the ongoing investigation. An analogy is made between the gallery, greenhouse and laboratory. Using all the imaging technologies available to a non-scientist, Jackson articulates these curious transformations of form and scale, and shifts in time. Drawing is explored in 2, 3 and 4 dimensional forms – with sculptures fashioned from newspaper pulp and wooden armatures, reanimated plant manuals and collages, graphite drawings, sound recordings, animations – and a film composed of photographic stills recording every living plant the artist came into contact with during the 12 months leading up to the exhibition. There is a fascination with the innate processes and forms of botanical morphology, and in the ways in which this enters the economy and the imaginary through technological intervention. Here might be found particles blown up 1000-fold, giant gourds, acid pink begonia, mystical banyan, primordial plant matter and the industrial plantation.

Want more info?

Go to: http://www.drawingroom.org.uk/

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