ROYAL DRAWING SCHOOL - Key Persons
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- Young Artist Programme Coordinator
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- Member of the External Assessment Board
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Bharti Kher was born in London in 1969. She studied painting, graduating in 1991 from Newcastle Polytechnic. At 23, she moved to New Delhi in India, where she now lives and works. She is represented by Hauser & Wirth, Perrotin and Nature Morte
Bharti Kher's art gives form to quotidian life and its daily rituals in a way that reassesses and transforms their meaning to yield an air of magical realism. Now living in New Delhi, her use of found objects is informed by her own position as an artist located between geographic and social milieus. Her way of working is exploratory: surveying, looking, collecting, and transforming, as she repositions the viewer's relationship with the object and initiates a dialogue between metaphysical and material pursuits.
Her work encompasses painting, sculpture and installation, often incorporating found materials, using them to transform objects and dissolve the distinction between two and three dimensions. Sculptures she has made since the mid-2000s combine animal with the human body to create hybrid female figures which confront the viewer with a compelling mixture of sexuality and potential. In parallel, her bindi ‘paintings' are abstract and aesthetic, turning mass-produced items into artworks of sumptuous beauty. These works are engaged with the body through abstraction and repetition, mythology of symbols and the narrative of sign.
Solo exhibitions include Arnolfini, 'Bharti Kher. The Body is a Place', Bristol, UK (2022); Nature Morte, 'Strange Attractors', New Delhi, India (2021); IMMA Irish Museum of Modern Art, 'Bharti Kher. A Consummate Joy', Dublin, Ireland (2020); Perrotin, 'Bharti Kher. The Unexpected Freedom of Chaos', New York NY (2020); and Hauser & Wirth, 'A Wonderful Anarchy', Somerset, UK (2019). She has taken part in numerous group exhibitions at various institutions including The Design Museum, London; Guggenheim Abu Dhabi; KNMA, New Delhi, India: Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, Germany; Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Tel Aviv; Centre Pompidou, Paris; Musée d'Art Contemporain, Lyon; Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo; Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art, Australia; National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Seoul, Korea; Devi Art Foundation, New Delhi; Mori Art Museum, Tokyo and Serpentine Gallery, London.
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- Drawing Year Senior Coordinator
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- Principal
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Catherine Goodman is an artist and the Founding Artistic Director of the Royal Drawing School, which she established with HRH The Prince of Wales in 2000. She studied at Camberwell School of Arts & Crafts and the Royal Academy Schools, where she won the RA Gold Medal. In 2002 she won the National Portrait Gallery's BP Portrait Award First Prize. Recent solo exhibitions include: Catherine Goodman: Portraits from Life, National Portrait Gallery (2014); the last house in the world, Marlborough Fine Art (2016); EVE, Hauser & Wirth Somerset (2019) and the light gets in, Marlborough Gallery, New York (2019). Goodman's paintings are held in numerous private and public collections including the National Portrait Gallery, the Fitzwilliam Museum Cambridge and the Royal Collection Trust. Goodman was appointed as a Trustee of The National Gallery in November 2019. She is represented by Marlborough Fine Art and currently lives and paints in London and Somerset.
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- Member of the Emeritus Board
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- Studio Supervisor and Technician
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- Chairman
- Member of the External Assessment Board
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Dr Xavier Bray is an art historian specialising in Spanish art and Director of The Wallace Collection, London, since 2016. He completed his PhD In 1999 at Trinity College, Dublin, on Goya as a painter of religious imagery. He was Chief Curator at Dulwich Picture Gallery, London and the Museum of Fine Arts, Bilbao, as well as Assistant Curator at the National Gallery. He has curated a wide range of exhibitions including El Greco, Velazquez, The Sacred Made Real: Spanish Painting and Sculpture 1600-1700, Murillo & Justino de Neve: The Art of Friendship, Goya: The Portraits and Ribera: The Art of Violence. Since joining the Wallace Collection he has overseen and co-curated several exhibitions including Richard Wallace: The Collector, Henry Moore: The Helmet Heads and most recently with the writer William Dalrymple, Forgotten Masters: Indian Painting for the East India Company.
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- Member of the Emeritus Board
Public Programme Manager, Elizabeth McCarten answers some of your frequently asked questions about Online courses.
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- Deputy Director
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- Member of the Emeritus Board
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- Studio Supervisor and Technician
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- Artist Residency and Alumni Manager
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- Head of Public Programme and Commercial Enterprise
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- Development Manager ( Operations & Planning )
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- Member of the Emeritus Board
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- Academic Board Member
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Liza Dimbleby began drawing and painting while studying in Russia in 1989, and completed a doctorate on Russian Thought at the University of London in 1996. She later studied on The Drawing Year at The Prince's Drawing School (now the Royal Drawing School) in 2004 and has taught there since 2005. Liza is now also a member of the School's Academic Board. Her book on walking and drawing in cities (I Live Here Now) was published in 2008. She gives regular talks on drawing at universities and art schools in Scotland and London and has recently spoken at conferences in Glasgow, Moscow (2012) and Paris (2013). She lives and works in Glasgow.
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- Public Programme Coordinator
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- Head Printroom Technician
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- Member of the Emeritus Board
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- Member of the Emeritus Board
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- Chairman of the Finance Committee
- Trustee
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- Studio Supervisor and Technician
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- Public Programme Senior Coordinator
Professor Eileen Hogan studied at Camberwell College of Arts, the Royal Academy Schools and the Royal College of Art. She is Professor in Fine Art and Theatre at CCW (Camberwell, Chelsea and Wimbledon colleges, University of the Arts London). She is a practising artist and has had one-person exhibitions regularly in London since 1989. Her recent series of paintings and related work, inspired by Ian Hamilton Finlay's garden Little Sparta, was exhibited in 2013 at the New Art Centre, Roche Court, Wiltshire and at the Fleming Collection, London. In 2014, a section of the show featured in Of Green Leaf, Bird, and Flower: Artists' Books and the Natural World at the Yale Center for British Art. Eileen is represented by Browse & Darby, London, where her next solo show will be in 2015. She is an advisor to and patron of Mindroom, a charity for children with learning disabilities.
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- Public Programme Coordinator
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- Member of the External Assessment Board
- Chief Art Critic
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Rachel Campbell-Johnston is The Times newspaper's chief art critic. Appointed to her post in 2002, she has also been her newspaper's poetry editor, leader writer, deputy comment editor, obituary writer and deputy books editor.
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- Young Artists Programme Manager
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- Member of the External Assessment Board
- Examination Board Member
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Rosa Loy was born in Zwickau, Germany (1958) and lives and works in Leipzig, Germany. She completed her BFA and MFA at the Academy of Visual Art in Leipzig. Loy is associated with the New Leipzig School of contemporary German painting, a loose collective of figurative artists that also included her husband, Neo Rauch.
Rosa Loy's work comes out of a worldview influenced by her upbringing in Leipzig, in the former East Germany, cut off from the rest of postwar Germany by Communism and the Berlin Wall. Using casein, an ancient water-based paint derived from milk protein, Loy fills large canvases with mysterious and compelling all-female dream worlds. Brittle and thick, the casein imparts intensity to her paintings, which are both dark and lovely, abounding with references to fairytales, German and art history, Freudian eroticism, authoritarian rule, and death.
Loy has exhibited widely including solo exhibitions at Lyles & King, New York, Gallery Baton, Seoul, Flaneurin, Frauen Museum, Wiesbaden, Space K, Seoul, Galerie Kleindienst, Leipzig, the Städtische Museum Zwickau, Germany; Kunstverein Elsterpark E.V., Leipzig, Germany; Kunstverein der Stadt, Backnang, Germany; Michael Kohn Gallery, Los Angeles; André Schlechriem, New York; and David Zwirner, New York. She is represented in major museum collections including the Museum of Modern Art New York, the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, and the Deutsche Bank Collection.
Rosa Loy is represented by the following galleries: Galerie Kleindienst, Leipzig; Kohn Gallery, Los Angeles ; McClain Gallery, Houston; and Gallery Baton, Seoul
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- Drawing Year Administrator
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- Dumfries House Print Studio Manager
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- Partnerships and Special Projects Lead
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As well as her previous experience of the charitable sector at The Prince's Foundation, Seline's background encompasses the commercial art world, having worked for Johnny Van Haeften, specialist in Dutch and Flemish Old Master Paintings; in a freelance capacity she has worked on art-related projects and as a writer. Since 2015, Seline has supported Catherine Goodman in her role as Artistic Director at the School and her studio as a practising artist; she also works closely with the Head of Development on the School's fundraising initiatives. Seline enjoys all forms of visual art, writing in her spare time about art as well as creatively.
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Sir Charles Saumarez Smith CBE was Secretary and Chief Executive of the Royal Academy of Arts from 2007 to 2018 as well as former Director of the National Portrait Gallery, and the National Gallery.
A British cultural historian specialising in the history of art, design and architecture, he is known for his contributions as a cultural commentator, an author of books and articles, a lecturer, and an academic, with regular appearances on television and radio. He has been a judge for the Stirling Prize for Architecture, the BP Portrait Award, the World Architecture Fair in Singapore and most recently as a member of the Frieze Selection Committee. Sir Charles is currently a trustee and board member of The Watercolour World and the Garden Museum and an Emeritus Trustee of ArtUK and Charleston.
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- Member of the Emeritus Board
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- Member of the Emeritus Board
- Member of the External Assessment Board
- Examination Board Member
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Sydney Picasso has been writing about modern and contemporary art, archaeology and style for many years. She is the co-author, notably, with Claude Francois Baudez, of Lost Cities of the Maya, Gallimard, 1986. She also wrote Picasso, as if I were a Signature, Hachette, 1996, and The Invention of Paradise: The Photographs of Paul-Emile Miot, Edition Daniel Blau, 2008. For many years she wrote for French Vogue on contemporary art, as well as for Contemporaine, Art Press, and has contributed many essays such as The Muse: Francesco Clemente, and Picasso, A Contemporary Dialogue, Andy Warhol, The Polo Paintings, Editions Thaddaeus Ropac, Ombres Portees, Porteurs d'Ombres: Three Mexican Artists, Centre Culturel du Mexique, Paris. She co-translated John Russell's Francis Bacon, and recently, Bite by Fabrice Hergott, in Cained and Abled: The Chapman Brothers. Recently a text on Oceanic Fish Hooks, A Small Philosophy of Ones in Fish Hooks of the South Pacific, Editions Hirmer, 2012, From Silverpoint to Silver Screen in Andy Warhol Drawings 1950's, Hirmer, 2013, and Body of Proof in Su Xiaobai, Hong Kong, 2014. She was Adjunct Director of the Musee d'Art and Histoire in Meudon, and a member of URA 5 CNRS, and RCP 394 Recherches sur les Societes Amerindiennes, et sur l'Art Rupestre. She was a Research assistant at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales (EHESS). She was President of la Societe du Jeu de Paume (1997-2004) and is presently a board member of the Amis du Festival d'Automne de Paris, the Prix de Dessin Daniel et Florence Guerlain, and was awarded Chevalier des Arts et Lettres in 1999. She is also a member of the International Councils of Tate Modern and the Museum of Modern Art in New York, and a Trustee of the China Art Foundation, UK.
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- Member of the External Assessment Board
- Examination Board Member
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Thomas Dane founded Thomas Dane Gallery in 2004 in St James's, London which represents leading international artists including Steve McQueen, Paul Pfeiffer, Glenn Ligon, Cecily Brown, among many others. In 2011, the gallery doubled in size and opened a second space, on the same street and in 2018 opened a new gallery space and residency in Naples, Italy.
Thomas Dane also co-founded the publishing company Ridinghouse with Karsten Schubert and Charles Asprey in 1995. He is a supporter of Nottingham Contemporary and was on the board of Trustees from 2012 to 2020. In 2015 Thomas Dane and international art dealer Ivor Braka gifted a major donation of works by leading British artists to the Whitworth in Manchester.
As well as nine London solo exhibitions, Timothy Hyman has exhibited widely, and his paintings and drawings are in many public collections, including Arts Council of England, Royal Academy, The British Museum, Deutsche Bank, British Council, etc. He was elected RA in 2011. Trained at the Slade School of Fine Art, he has taught there part-time since 1979, and in many other art schools (RCA, St Martins, Glasgow etc.) and in museums (including Tate, Whitechapel, MOMA New York, National Gallery). He has a long standing connection with India, especially Baroda, and wrote a book on Bhupen Khakhar. In 1979, he mounted the controversial touring exhibition Narrative Paintings (ICA etc); he was lead curator for the Tate's Stanley Spencer retrospective in 2001, and co-curator (in Ghent, 2007) of British Vision. Thames & Hudson have published his monographs on Bonnard (1998) and Sienese Painting (2003). He has published many articles on contemporary figurative painting in TLS, London Magazine, Burlington Magazine, Artscribe etc. In 2011-12, he was Artist-in-Residence for Maggie's Cancer Caring Centres.
William Feaver, for many years the art critic for The Observer, is also a painter and has been the curator of exhibitions ranging from George Cruikshank to the Tate retrospectives of Michael Andrews and Lucian Freud (subject of his most recent book), Constable (Grand Palais Paris 2003). His book 'Pitmen Painters' was recently adapted by Lee Hall for an award-laden play and he is at present organising a related exhibition in Vienna 'When We Were Young', a study of children's book illustration, did particularly well in Japan. His book, 'Frank Auerbach', was published in 2009.