Free
Art
#201
Centre for Recent Drawing
A non-commercial platform dedicated to drawing as an expanded, contemporary practice—exhibitions, residencies and an evolving study archive present everything from observational studies and comics to performance scores, diagrams and process notebooks.
Opening Hours
Thursday: 1:00 PM – 3:00 PM
Friday: 1:00 PM – 3:00 PM
Saturday: 10:30 AM – 3:00 PM
What's not to miss inside?
Drawing-as-Process
Shows often foreground the working sheet—erasures, overlays and corrections—treating the page as a site of thinking, not just results.Look for pin-holes, tape and registration marks: the archaeology of a drawing’s making.
📍 Main gallery
Residency Outcomes
Resident artists present experimental series that test the boundary between drawing and performance, sound, or notation.Trace how a studio wall of studies resolves (or refuses to) into a final sequence.
📍 Project room / archives
Study Archive & Publications
Zines, folios and catalogues map current discourse in drawing beyond the commercial market.Compare a finished plate to the sketchbook page it grew from—method made visible.
📍 Reading table
Inspire your Friends
- C4RD’s remit explicitly includes ‘expanded drawing’—scores, maps, data plots and instructional diagrams—opening the gallery to scientific and performative notation.
- As a non-selling space, it prioritises curatorial experiments, residencies and research displays that commercial galleries rarely host.
