Recording Britain Now:  drawings, paintings, prints & textiles The Electrician’s Shop Gallery, 64 Orchard Place, London E14 OJY  13–30 November 2014, Wednesdays-Sundays 12-5pm; Thursdays 4-8pm, FREE

 

EVENT: DRAW BRITAIN NOW! in collaboration with The Campaign for Drawing

Sunday 16 November, 12-5pm Trinity Buoy Wharf, FREE 

 

Draw all day at the eastern reaches of the Thames (how to get there), wandering among restored historic warehouses, vast art spaces, shipping container studios, excellent cafés and London’s last lighthouse.

 

In case of inclement weather, you are invited to work in the Electrician's Shop Gallery, open from 12-5, showing Recording Britain Now, the shortlisted and winning work from this years John Ruskin Drawing Prize.

 

John Ruskin was an artist, writer, critic and scholar who believed that drawing helps us to see and understand our environment more clearly. In Recording Britain Now, 23 selected artists have depicted their Britain: an occasionally bleak – concrete and crumbling – but nevertheless beautiful place.  

 

Do you agree? Add your drawings to the discussion...

 

Collect paper, pencils and drawing boards from The Electrician’s Shop Gallery

12 – 4pm draw any/everywhere

4 - 5 pm optional informal discussion of your drawings in the exhibition space

 

SEE YOU THERE!