Centre for Recent Drawing

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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.

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Opening Hours

Thursday: 13:00 – 15:00

Friday: 13:00 – 15:00

Saturday: 10:30 – 15:00

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

🤓 Fun Facts

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.