DRAW 15
94th Annual Exhibition of the Society of Graphic Fine Art
5-17th October 2015 Mon-Sat 11.00am-6.00pm
The Menier Gallery, 51, Southwark St SE1 1RU
The Society of Graphic Fine Art – The Drawing Society
(www.sgfa.org.uk) is the only national art society dedicated
exclusively to drawing. Founded in 1919 in the etching class
of the Central School of Arts and Crafts and boasting such
alumni as Ronald Searle, Frank Brangwyn and Dame Laura
Knight, today the Society promotes fine drawing skills in
both traditional and contemporary media. Each year an open
exhibition is held at the Menier Gallery in Southwark, and
this year the 94th one, DRAW 15, with optional theme ‘Time
and Space’ will run from October 5-17, with a Private View
on Tuesday October 6.
98 professional artists working across all drawing and
printmaking media will show 251 works ranging from
figurative to non-figurative, colour to monochrome, and from
etching to collage. Dr Sumi Perera RE , whose work is in
Tate Britain, the Victoria and Albert Museum, the Ashmolean,
and the Yale Cente for British Art, is strongly featured, as is
Fred Cuming RA – the youngest-ever member to be elected
to the Royal Academy in 1974, and one of Britain’s best-
known contemporary landscape painters. Professor Ken
Howard, OBE RA, and Maz Jackson, the internationally-
renowned tempera artist, will also exhibit.
The exhibition will be opened and the prizes awarded by
John Huddy, owner and founder of illustrationcupboard –
a unique central London Art Gallery representing the most
distinguished contemporary book illustrators from around the
world. They will be selected by Martin Shortis, a tutor at the
Royal Drawing School.
Claire Sparkes Maz’ Shoes
Felicity Flutter Spray and Surf