Drawing Room, Unit 1b New Tannery Way, Bermondsey, London, SE1 5WS
16 April - 23 June 2026, Wednesday-Sunday 12-6pm
Friends and Family day 25 April, 2-5pm
Online auction opens 12pm, Tuesday 9 June 2026
Auction bidding ends 9pm, Tuesday 23 June 2026
Drawing Biennial 2026 returns with more than 300 newly commissioned drawings by leading international artists. The free exhibition at Drawing Room culminates in a two-week online auction fundraiser, with bidding starting at £400.
As Drawing Room prepares to mark its 25th anniversary in 2027, this twelfth edition of the Drawing Biennial brings together artists working at the forefront of contemporary practice, reaffirming drawing as a vital and enduring discipline.
Each artist is invited to produce a new drawing on A4 paper, using any medium. Selected by a committee of Drawing Room's Co-founders and Directors alongside invited curators and collectors, participating artists respond to themes spanning ecology, identity, spirituality, politics and imagined worlds.
Drawing Biennial 2026 includes artworks by Pio Abad, Emii Alrai, Caroline AreskogJones, David Austen, Charles Avery, David Batchelor, Rana Begum, Andrew Bick, Sutapa Biswas, Frank Bowling, Jyll Bradley, Alice Channer, Jione Choi, Lubna Chowdhary, Michael Craig-Martin, Dorothy Cross, Richard Deacon, Ryan Gander, Lothar Götz, Fiona Grady, Tom Hammick, Gary Hume, Callum Innes, Vanessa Jackson, Ann-Marie James, Chantal Joffe, Jasleen Kaur,William Kentridge, Ragnar Kjartansson, Tania Kovats, Michael Landy, France-Lise McGurn, Haroon Mirza, Francesca Mollett, Mali Morris, Ryan Mosley, Paul Noble, Isabel Nolan, Julian Opie, Sikelela Owen, Heather Phillipson, Candida Powell Williams, Paloma Proudfoot, Giles Round, Amba Sayal-Bennett, Tai Shani, George Shaw, Vanessa da Silva, Olivia Sterling, Troika, Luc Tuymans, Caroline Walker, Charmaine Watkiss, Rose Wylie and Rafal Zajko.
For the Auction, Fiona Grady has donated a fused glass artworks Reflected Light (Summer). One in a series of new drawing propositions created from a fused glass panel. It is an imagining of a frozen moment in time - capturing and encasing the imperceptible - a ray of light. The transparent object allows light to travel through it, throwing out its own pool of colour and shadows. It is a meditative drawing that lives and breathes.
