Meaningful Traces:
A brief introduction to drawing from life with Roy Eastland
Meaningful Traces: A brief introduction to drawing from life with Roy Eastland
Entry
£15
Date
Sun 14 Dec 2025
Time
11.30am–1pm
Location
Clore Learning Studio
Turner Contemporary
Ages
Recommended for ages 16 and over
Explore ideas about the art of drawing through a (clothed) life drawing session.
Through a (clothed) life drawing session, and a mix of short exercises, demonstrations, discussions, and a long drawing, this workshop invites you to test new approaches to drawing.
Together, we'll explore different ways of seeing, of making our mark, and the mechanics of drawing, with the final, longer segment offering moments of one-to-one tuition.
Workshop overview
- Part 1: a series of quick drawing exercises as a means of warming up and as a way to start thinking about how drawings work.
- Part 2: a long (30-minutes plus) demonstration drawing which will be a kind of illustrated lecture on drawing. Various ideas will come into play as the drawing takes shape. A process of continual revision.
- Part 3: a long drawing which will provide moments for one-to-one tuition.
About Roy Eastland
Born and brought up in Thanet, Roy Eastland’s work is mostly drawing-based. Winner of the RBSA Portrait Prize and the SGFA Small Works prize, he has been shortlisted for various Drawing Prizes including the Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize (3 times), RBSA Drawing Prize (twice), RP Drawing Prize, Discerning Eye Drawing Bursary, Jerwood Drawing Prize (3 times), BP Portrait Award and others.
Roy has taught Life Drawing, and given talks on drawing, for about 18 years at various places including UCA, CCCU, Kent Adult Education, Turner Contemporary, Draw Brighton, Young Gallery (Salisbury), V&A, and other places. He has exhibited his work in mixed exhibitions, art fairs and solo exhibitions. The primary focus of his recent work has tended towards drawings about people and about memory and human presence. He finds the practice of Life Drawing endlessly fascinating and useful as a means of thinking about the nature of drawing.
Studio portrait by Ruth Geldard. Drawings by and courtesy Roy Eastland
