Centre for Recent Drawing
What Visitors Say
The Centre for Recent Drawing is a non-commercial curatorial space in London, for the exhibition of recent drawing and providing access and discussion for current drawing practice, and to foster the audience for drawing within the general public
C4RD was an amazing opportunity and gallery while I was at university. With great shows. Always a pleasure to visit
Fantastic gallery, so convieniently located next to Highbury and Islington! Great work & curation also, go visit if you get a chance!!
Highlights
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
Opening Hours
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.
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