Exhibition & online auction of over 200 unique works on paper

EXHIBITION ONLINE AUCTION 2 March – 26 April 12 April – 26 April

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THE IMPORTANCE OF LATE NIGHT FRIDAY AT Friday 17 March, 6.30pm #DRAWINGB2017 Friday 31 March, 6–8pm Artists Sonia Boyce, Margarita Gluzberg and Bob and Roberta Smith present We are open until 8pm for Late Night Friday. Join that were pivotal to their us for a chance to see Drawing Biennial 2017 and development as artists, and discuss the browse resource highlights on Biennial artists in role that drawing plays in their practice. Outset Study. £10 / £8 Network members FREE, all welcome DIRECTORS’ TOUR Saturday 18 March, 3pm FINAL HOURS Wednesday 26 April, 6–9pm Artists in Drawing Biennial 2017 have been selected by Drawing Room Directors Mary We are open for the final hours of Drawing Biennial Doyle, Kate Macfarlane and Katharine 2017, providing a last chance to view work and Stout. Join Mary and Kate for an informal place bids before the close of the online auction at tour of the exhibition as they discuss key 9pm. Staff will be on hand to provide information trends and ideas within the selection. about the works and assistance with bidding. FREE, all welcome All welcome, RSVP requested to [email protected] ARTISTS’ TOUR Saturday 1 April, 3pm

Drawing Biennial 2017 participating artists Matt Calderwood, Vanessa Jackson More info and booking at and David Musgrave will introduce their www.drawingroom.org.uk/events work in the exhibition and select their favourites from the 248 works on view. FREE, all welcome Exhibition & online auction of over 200 unique works on paper

Drawing Biennial 2017 offers insights into EXHIBITION: how artists contend with a world in rapid and 2 March 2015 – 26 April disorienting flux. A snapshot of contemporary drawing practices, the exhibition includes 248 new and recent works on paper by leading ONLINE AUCTION: international artists of different generations. Each 12 April 10am – 26 April 9pm work represents that artists’ endorsement of the distinctive and significant role that Drawing Room www.drawingroom.org.uk plays in today’s layered cultural landscape. #drawingb2017 Culminating in an online auction in the exhibition’s two final weeks, individual works are available from £250. Proceeds from the auction support Drawing Room’s ongoing programme. Invited by Drawing Room Directors Mary Doyle, Kate Macfarlane and Katharine Stout, with nominations from leading international experts, all the drawings are A4, with each piece given equal prominence in the exhibition. An Alphabet of 15 Letters: The Drawing Biennial 2017 from A to Y by Tom Morton

is for A4, a paper size that was formulated in (2016), which features in the Biennial. Beneath A 1786 by the German scientist and philosopher an image of a night sky in negative, formed from Georg Christoph Lichtenberg. Following its black ink speckles on a white ground, the artist early adoption by the French Revolutionary tax writes of an unnamed man, who gazes up into authorities, A4 spread gradually across the globe, the heavens, and sees an alphabet of 15 letters and in 1975 became the subject of a ruling by forming between the far-flung celestial lights - a the International Organization for Standardization, connecting of the dots. If we wish to experience which oversees our planet’s common measures the Biennial as more than simply one work after and weights. According to this Geneva-based another, then we need a filter, however arbitrary. NGO, a true sheet of A4 must be 210 mm wide x Why not, then, let Nasseri’s stargazer (and his 297 mm long, and (as with all paper sizes in the oddly truncated alphabet) be our guide? elegantly matryoshka doll-like ‘A’ series) possess an aspect ratio of √2, allowing it to be folded into an A5 pamphlet with a single, horizontal crease. ,then, is for CATEGORY MISTAKES, of A4 is used for statements and gallery press C the kind performed by Juliette Blightman’s releases, missing cat posters and parliamentary Drawing (2016). To make this work, the artist bills. It is also the size of each of the 250-odd typed out its title 288 times, with no spaces or works in the Drawing Biennial 2017. Given that punctuation, and then effaced the resulting word the only restriction imposed on participating grid with a single brushstroke of fleshy gouache. artists is that their ‘drawings’ (a term understood Given its foregrounding of text and paint, we might here in the most expansive of senses) employ a ask if Drawing is really a drawing at all, or rather 210 x 297 mm support, it follows that while the an act of authorial fiat. exhibition will have a necessary dimensional unity, this might not be matched by unities of material, C) is also for COURIER, the typeface favoured motif, or theme. A), then, might also stand for by both Blightman and her fellow Biennial artist the happy ACCIDENTS that take place when the Pavel Büchler. In his ironically titled Equivalent show’s curators unwrap artists’ submissions, and (1997-2016) – a text work, like Blightman’s, that find that, against all the odds, one work speaks veers close to concrete poetry – he meditates to another. on the words ‘more’ and ‘less’, using the former ‘like gold dust’ (10 times) and the latter ‘like salt’ How to point to such conversations? One solution (18 times). We might think, here, of Büchler’s is suggested by Timo Nasseri’s drawing He who chosen title, and what other imbalances – social, counts the stars – Ibu Mugla’s missing letters economic, political – it suggests. is for DONALD. Yes, that Donald. Predictably, See also: DOGS JUXTAPOSED WITH ITEMS OF D President Trump is the public figure that casts STATIONERY, which appear – surprisingly enough the longest shadow over the works in the Biennial. – in three otherwise dissimilar works by Katarina He appears as a naked, woefully-endowed imp Burin, Pedro Cabrita-Reis, and Berry Patten. in Simon Periton’s Defence Against the Dark Art (2017), pursued by a trio of Art Nouveau vamps, who splash him with the contents of a chamber pot, and fart in his face, as if meting out is for FOOTWEAR, which at the Drawing Biennial nominative justice. While this scatological scene F ranges from the kitten heels in Margarita evokes recent reports of the ‘kompromat’ held on Gluzberg’s Moscow Dior Legs (small) (2016), to the aggressively misogynistic former Apprentice the ballet pumps in Donna Huddleston’s Untitled star by the Russian Federal Security Service, it (2017). A pair of what are labeled ‘bathing shoes’ also riffs on a plate from Aubrey Beardsley’s 1896 appear in Rose Wylie’s Film Notes: Swimwear of illustrations based on Aristophanes’ Lysistrata the Stars (30s sheet) (2016), a page of annotated (411 BC), a play in which the women of Athens go sketches that seems to have been made while on a sex strike to persuade the city’s menfolk to watching old Rita Hayworth and Ginger Rogers end their war with Sparta. films. (Brad Pitt also makes an anachronistic cameo in this work, sporting the slicked-back More grimly humorous is John Smith’s Funny Old pompadour he wore in the 1991 female buddy World (2016), in which Trump’s election victory movie Thelma and Louise). Rogers, of course, is the punch-line to a lame Christmas cracker was best known as Fred Astaire’s dance partner joke, and Ronald Cornelissen’s national harpoons in films such asSwing Time (1936), where as the animal (2016), a vision of priapic, seig actress famously commented, she ‘did everything heil-ing bald eagles roosting on a building that [Astaire] did’, only ‘backwards and in high heels’. appears to be part frat house, part corporate HQ. Perhaps it’s the sheer, unrelenting awfulness See also: FACIAL HAIR (Ryan Mosely; Julian Opie), of the President’s first weeks in office, but I’m FINGERS (Louise Hopkins; Emma Talbot), FOLDS beginning to see him everywhere. Is he the (Angela De La Cruz; Leo Fitzmaurice; Anne-Marie subject of Laurence Owen’s neo-cubist portrait James; Julie Verhoeven), and FROTTAGE (Mona of a scowling, Shredded Wheat-haired patriarch? Hatoum, Celia Hempton). Might Karl Holmqvist be channeling Trump’s divisive rhetoric in his placard-like text piece, which reads ‘JUST US NO THEM’, only to subvert it through the introduction of an alien diacritical mark, curling beside the letter ‘O’? is for GRIDS, REGULAR – forms that the beckoning crack in the woodwork of Marcel G proliferate in the 2017 Biennial. In some Duchamp’s installation Étant donnés (1946-66), cases, they are mere details - a passage of brick Chow’s penciled aperture belongs to the flatland of work peeping out from behind a ripped poster drawing, and as such cannot give us visual access in Mick Peter’s Torn Drawing for Drawing Room to anything but itself. Other I)’s suggested by Door (2016), or a pattern on a shirt in Adam Chodzko’s with Peephole might include the INTEGRITY OF portrait of the computer scientist Margaret INFORMATION, and IT IS WHAT IT IS. Hamilton. In others, they are the main event - both Rana Begum’s DS7 (2017) and Ana Rojas Vega’s The Edge of a Thing (2017) might have us reaching for Rosalind Krauss’ seminal essay Grids (1979), is for LINES, which are pretty much inescapable and debating whether the ‘mythic power’ that the L in a drawing show. Those in Bob & Roberta art historian detected in such forms still pertains, Smith’s 34 Lines of Nihilism (2016), however, are now that we’re a long way past Modernism’s high- of the kind given by a teacher to a naughty child. noon. Whatever our answer, here at the Biennial In this work, the sentence ‘There is still art there the grid structures everything from museum floor is still hope’ is copied out 33 times, one less than plans (Andrew Bick), to bookkeepers’ ledgers the titular 34. Smith, of course, is an adult, and (Alison Turnbull) to what appear to be insectoid not subject to the discipline of schoolmasters. Is satellites (Aleksandra Mir). In Susan Hefuna’s the artist punishing himself with these lines, and example, the boundaries created by all those if so, for what? crisscrossing lines are broken apart by language. At the ragged hole at the centre of her grid are the Much more carefree is Yelena Popova’s words ‘BE ONE’. submission to the Biennial. Here, she uses a wobbly pencil line to imitate guilloché engraving, See also: GRIDS, IRREGULAR (Frank Ammerlaan; a mechanical process famed for its intricacy and Alice Anderson; Antony Gormley et al). precision. Conceding defeat, she signs off with the words ‘I’m only human’. Like Smith’s work, Popova’s falls short of its stated intention. These are lines that do not reach their own ends. is for the IONIC COLUMN in Dexter Dalwood’s I pencil drawing. Toppled from its (weirdly provisional) podium, its marble snapped in two, it recalls similar motifs in the work of, among is for MAPS, beginning with Layla Curtis’ others, Giorgione, Albrecht Dürer, and Giorgio M World Political (Europe) (2017), which sees de Chirico, the last of whom seems, here, to her drag and drop new nations – among them have leant Dalwood his signature atmosphere Turkey, Pakistan and Cameroon – into the EU, of vaguely ominous calm. Since the Biblical era, while relocating Germany to North Africa, where it a broken column has signified the crumbling now neighbours Guyana and Uzbekistan. Notably, of the old political order, and it’s tempting to the United Kingdom remains unmoved. Sonia read Dalwood’s work as a nod towards the twin Boyce’s submission to the Biennial also performs eruptions of Britain’s knife-edge vote for Brexit a type of mapping. In the centre of the image are and (sorry, but I’m going to keep on mentioning the words ‘I’M WITH HER’, from which hundreds this) Donald Trump’s presidency. of arrows fly out in all directions. It might be an aerial shot of a protest (perhaps the Women’s More ionic columns appear in Milano Chow’s Door March on Washington of the 21st of January, with Peephole (2017), forming an elaborate frame 2017). It might also be the notation of joyful, for an act of voyeurism. However, unlike, say, communal dance. is for NOCTURNAL TERRORS, which are Does Ciprian Muresan’s drawing of Vladimir N described in Tim Etchells’ text work To Loose Lenin’s embalmed corpse count as an image of Sleep (2017). Here, the couplet ‘SOMETHING TO a sleeper? The figures that surround the Soviet LOSE SLEEP OVER / NOTHING TO LOSE SLEEP leader certainly suggest so. Tears streaking their OVER’ establishes a tick tock rhythm, which cartoon beards, they are, unmistakably, the seven is disrupted when the words ‘SOMETHING TO dwarves from Walt Disney’s Snow White (1937). LOSE SLEEP OVER’ are repeated twice in a row, Perhaps Muresan’s work isn’t a single sketch as though the artist’s brain has experienced a at all, but rather a cell from an animation. If so, sudden glitch, or he’s become caught in the grip we can only guess at what strange prince might of some terrible, fear-fuelled insomnia. awaken Lenin with a kiss.

If Etchells can’t drift off, then Heather Phillipson appears to be experiencing the opposite problem: a dream from which she cannot awake. is for ONLINE, like the boy in Markus Vater’s Her submission to the Biennial depicts a line O Untitled (2016), who prods at his smartphone, of identical male Cyclopses, seated on a long unaware (or perhaps simply unimpressed) that banquette. They are engaged in a listless bout a great bird is bearing him away on its back, like of mutual masturbation, apparently unperturbed Zeus abducting the handsome Ganymede. Clearly, that their genitals are not flesh-and-blood organs, he’s not got the message broadcast by Suzanne but rather fashioned from bulbous, unshelled Treister’s text piece, which proclaims the Death peanuts. Above and below these creatures, the Of The Internet (2016) in determinedly analogue work’s title, It would be weirder not to be having pencil strokes. Neither, for that matter, has the man nightmares right now (2017), is scrawled in thick, checking his social media stream in Sophie von frantic capitals. Phillipson’s image might be read Hellermann’s Facebook (2016), whose whole world as a nod towards the narrowing of the Western seems to have been dyed a deep, Zuckerberg blue. political imagination, not least as a result of social media - a space where prejudices are reinforced through ‘circle-jerks’ between like-minded users, and falsehoods are echoed so often that they is for PAPERS, of the kind we’re asked to might be mistaken for truths. To compare a man’s P produce when we approach a border. In penis to a peanut is, of course, to say that it is Amalia Pica’s Colour in Paperwork #1 (2016), tiny. We might remember that during the 2016 the artist creates a sprightly composition using Republican primaries, Donald Trump felt moved bureaucratic stamps, many of them bearing to reassure voters that he had ‘no problems’ on the word ‘PAID’. This piece has elements of this front. Listening to him utter those words, I personal biography (not so long ago, the artist pinched myself to check I wasn’t dreaming. Now, completed the arduous process of applying like much of the planet, I’m kept up at night by the for UK citizenship), but it also hints at broader new President’s tweets. issues of freedom and belonging, and we might think of the global millions whose fate turns on Two more works in the Biennial touch on sleep. a piece of paper, and a few square centimetres The ground for William Kentridge’s delicate, of ink. There’s something excessive, almost brushed-ink image of a dozing young woman is Kafka-esque, about the number of stamps that a spread from a 19th Century textbook, featuring crowd Pica’s modest sheet of A4. Frighteningly, diagrams of sailing ships and early telephones. even these might prove insufficient, in our new Looking at her closed lids, we might wonder age of travel bans and looming border walls. what distances she travels, and whom she might be talking to, in her private realm of dreams. See also: PALIMPSEST (Emma Douglas; Franziska See also: TREES, which aside from grids seem to be Furter; Peter Matthews; and for that matter Amalia the most prevalent motif in the show, appearing in the Pica, too) and PORSTMANN, the title of the work work of, among others: Hurvin Anderson; Catherine Anyango; Kate Atkin; Peter Liversidge; Rupert Norfolk; submitted to the Biennial by Knut Henrik Henriksen. Corin Sworn; and Charlotte Verity. The artist is nodding, here, towards the German engineer Walter Porstmann, the 20th Century’s foremost exponent of the A4 paper size. is for the UNIVERSE, something that has a U beginning (David Batchelor’s big bang) and an end (Sam Messenger’s black hole). U) also is for SELF-PORTRAITURE. In his submission stands for the UNIDENTIFIED FLYING OBJECT in S to the Biennial, Grayson Perry presents himself Emma Stibbon’s work Awakening (2017). Across in his studio, surrounded by the familiar props of an overcast sky, a circular form hurtles towards a his persona (among them high heels, a motorbike, lonely farmhouse. An old world is about to end, and a cheerful red teapot), while , and a new one is about to be born. Britain’s poet laureate of rubbish disposal, offers up an image of himself stuffed head-first into a bin. ’s Verso Recto (2017) is considerably more oblique. Here, two black acrylic is for YOUTHS, like those in Grace O’Connor’s handprints form what looks like a Rorschach Y Open Secret (2016). Wearing only sensible blot, of the kind used by psychologists to probe knickers, five teenaged girls link hands in an their subjects’ interior lives. Is a Rorschach blot unknown ritual, which appears to have summoned what this is? Wallinger’s image, after all, might up a number of glowing spheres. Standing just also be of use to a palmist, or a police forensics outside this circle is a sixth girl - the only one specialist, each of whom would find within it quite wearing a bra - who regards the others with different information. What we see, it seems, a blank, inscrutable gaze. She might be their depends upon what we’re looking for. An aside: leader, or their new, untested recruit, or perhaps I’ve categorized Verso Recto as self-portraiture, even their sacrifice. Whoever she is, and whatever but I’ve no idea if these handprints actually belong magic these girls are performing, politics is taking to Wallinger. All I’m sure of is that they’re too big place, here, with all its usual asymmetries. to be President Trump’s. I wanted to end this alphabet on a positive note, but positivity feels hard these days. Looking at George Shaw’s pencil portrait of an adolescent is for THAUMATURGY, which is a fancy name neo-Nazi, it would be comforting to think of him as T for magic. At the Biennial, we encounter both a figure from the past, belonging to a lost world stage TRICKERY (Jonathan Allen’s handkerchief of football firms, racist sitcoms, and National illusion, Paul Noble’s black and white wand) and Front marches. But then we read Shaw’s title, The divination (Lubaina Himid’s TAROT card). Magic, Making of the British Landscape (2017), and we or at least magical thinking, is also present in can’t help but glimpse something contemporary Steven Claydon’s Witch Doctor (2017), in which in this youth’s dull eyes, and his horribly sensuous he overlays his A4 ground with a green, semi- sneer. transparent prescription medicine pouch, bearing his own name. Peek through the plastic, though, and we might just make out the image of a masked shaman, or some ancient, woodland god. 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Edward Allington Guy Allott ruby onyinyechi amanze b. 1951 UK b. 1972 UK b. 1982 NG

Dove Allouche b. 1972 FR

Exhibition: 2 March – 26 April 2017 www.drawingroom.org.uk Auction online: 12 – 26 April 2017 Frank Ammerlaan Alice Anderson Hurvin Anderson b. 1979 NL b. 1972 UK b. 1965 UK

Catherine Anyango Grünewald Athanasios Argianas Michael Armitage b. 1982 KE b. 1976 GR b. 1984 KE

Art & Language Mohammed Qasim Ashfaq Kate Atkin Formed 1968 UK b. 1982 UK b. 1981 UK

Exhibition: 2 March – 26 April 2017 www.drawingroom.org.uk Auction online: 12 – 26 April 2017 IMAGE AVAILABLE ONLINE

Ed Atkins Tonico Lemos Auad David Austen b. 1982 UK b. 1968 BR b. 1960 UK

Sam Austen Silvia Bächli Anna Barham b. 1986 UK b. 1956 CH b. 1974 UK

Anna Barriball David Batchelor Marc Bauer b. 1972 UK b. 1955 UK b. 1975 CH

Exhibition: 2 March – 26 April 2017 www.drawingroom.org.uk Auction online: 12 – 26 April 2017 Rana Begum Kelly Best Andrew Bick b. 1977 BD b. 1984 UK b. 1963 UK

Juliette Blightman Kathrin Böhm Kasper Bosmans b. 1980 UK b. 1969 DE b. 1990 BE

Andrea Bowers Sonia Boyce Jyll Bradley b. 1965 US b. 1962 UK b. 1966 UK

Exhibition: 2 March – 26 April 2017 www.drawingroom.org.uk Auction online: 12 – 26 April 2017 Jessie Brennan Koen van den Broek James Brooks b. 1982 UK b. 1973 BE b. 1974 UK

Pavel Büchler Katarina Burin Jane Bustin b. 1952 CZ b. 1975 SK b. 1964 UK

Nicholas Byrne Oisin Byrne Pedro Cabrita Reis b. 1979 UK b. 1983 IE b. 1956 PT

Exhibition: 2 March – 26 April 2017 www.drawingroom.org.uk Auction online: 12 – 26 April 2017 Varda Caivano Matt Calderwood Bonnie Camplin b. 1971 AR b. 1979 UK b. 1970 UK

James Capper Lewis Chamberlain Tom Chamberlain b. 1987 UK b. 1966 UK b. 1973 UK

Nidhal Chamekh Alice Channer Rob Chavasse b. 1985 TN b. 1977 UK b. 1984 UK

Exhibition: 2 March – 26 April 2017 www.drawingroom.org.uk Auction online: 12 – 26 April 2017 Paul Chiappe Adam Chodzko Milano Chow b. 1984 UK b. 1965 UK b. 1987 US

Steven Claydon Marcus Cope Rhys Coren b. 1969 UK b. 1980 UK b. 1983 UK

Ronald Cornelissen Michael Craig-Martin Alice Creischer b. 1960 NL b. 1941 IE b. 1960 DE

Exhibition: 2 March – 26 April 2017 www.drawingroom.org.uk Auction online: 12 – 26 April 2017 Alice Creischer Angela de la Cruz Layla Curtis b. 1960 DE b. 1965 ES b. 1975 UK

Dexter Dalwood Adam Dant Matthew Darbyshire b. 1960 UK b. 1967 UK b. 1977 UK

Kate Davis & David Moore Shezad Dawood Richard Deacon Formed 2007 UK b. 1974 UK b. 1949 UK

Exhibition: 2 March – 26 April 2017 www.drawingroom.org.uk Auction online: 12 – 26 April 2017 Benjamin Deakin Nicholas Deshayes Mark Dion b. 1977 UK b. 1983 FR b. 1961 USA

Emma Douglas Charlie Duck Nicola Durvasula b. 1956 UK b. 1985 UK b. 1960 UK

Howard Dyke Marcel van Eeden Aleana Egan b. 1971 UK b. 1965 NL b. 1979 IE

Exhibition: 2 March – 26 April 2017 www.drawingroom.org.uk Auction online: 12 – 26 April 2017 Laura Eldret Tim Etchells Mark Fairnington b. 1982 UK b. 1962 UK b. 1957 UK

Leo Fitzmaurice Ed Fornieles Ed Fornieles b. 1963 UK b. 1983 UK b. 1983 UK

Ed Fornieles Richard Forster Franziska Furter b. 1983 UK b. 1970 UK b. 1972 CH

Exhibition: 2 March – 26 April 2017 www.drawingroom.org.uk Auction online: 12 – 26 April 2017 César Gabler Ryan Gander Jamie George b. 1970 CL b. 1976 UK b. 1980 UK

Joy Gerrard Margarita Gluzberg Dryden Goodwin b. 1971 IE b. 1968 RU b. 1971 UK

Rachel Goodyear Alexander Gorlizki Antony Gormley b. 1978 UK b. 1967 UK b. 1950 UK

Exhibition: 2 March – 26 April 2017 www.drawingroom.org.uk Auction online: 12 – 26 April 2017 Nick Goss Lothar Götz Richard Grayson b. 1981 UK b. 1963 DE b. 1958 UK

Oona Grimes Adrian Haak,Jr David Haines b. 1957 UK b. 1979 US b. 1969 UK

Anthea Hamilton Susie Hamilton Andy Harper b. 1978 UK b. 1950 UK b. 1971 UK

Exhibition: 2 March – 26 April 2017 www.drawingroom.org.uk Auction online: 12 – 26 April 2017 Mona Hatoum Eloise Hawser Susan Hefuna b. 1952 LB b. 1985 UK b. 1962 DE

Sophie Von Hellermann Stewart Helm Celia Hempton b. 1975 DE b. 1960 UK b. 1981 UK

Knut Henrik Henriksen Lubaina Himid Nicky Hirst b. 1970 NO b. 1954 UK b. 1963 UK

Exhibition: 2 March – 26 April 2017 www.drawingroom.org.uk Auction online: 12 – 26 April 2017 Karl Holmqvist Louise Hopkins Vlatka Horvat b. 1964 SE b. 1965 UK b. 1974 HR

Paul Hosking Rachel Howard Rachel Howard b. 1976 UK b. 1969 UK b. 1969 UK

Donna Huddleston Rowena Hughes Vanessa Jackson b. 1970 IE b. 1979 UK b. 1953 UK

Exhibition: 2 March – 26 April 2017 www.drawingroom.org.uk Auction online: 12 – 26 April 2017 Ann-Marie James Chantal Joffe Peter Jones b. 1981 UK b. 1969 US b. 1968 UK

Samson Kambalu Alan Kane Anish Kapoor b. 1975 MW b. 1961 UK b. 1954 IN

Laurence Kavanagh Ali Kazim William Kentridge b. 1976 UK b. 1979 PK b. 1955 ZA

Exhibition: 2 March – 26 April 2017 www.drawingroom.org.uk Auction online: 12 – 26 April 2017 Janice Kerbel Radhika Khimji Ian Kiaer b. 1969 CA b. 1979 OM b. 1971 UK

Tania Kovats Ansel Krut Michael Landy b. 1966 UK b. 1959 ZA b. 1963 UK

Des Lawrence Christopher Le Brun Dale Lewis b. 1970 UK b. 1951 UK b. 1980 UK

Exhibition: 2 March – 26 April 2017 www.drawingroom.org.uk Auction online: 12 – 26 April 2017 Erik van Lieshout Peter Liversidge Anna Lucas b. 1968 NL b. 1973 UK b. 1970 UK

Anna Lytridou Sarah Macdonald Melanie Manchot b. 1986 CY b. 1977 UK b. 1966 DE

Peter Matthews Anthony McCall Jeff McMillan b. 1978 UK b. 1940 UK b. 1968 US

Exhibition: 2 March – 26 April 2017 www.drawingroom.org.uk Auction online: 12 – 26 April 2017 Till Megerle Julie Mehretu Sam Messenger b. 1979 DE b. 1970 ET b. 1980 UK

Brit Meyer Lisa Milroy Aleksandra Mir b. 1984 DE b. 1959 CA b. 1967 PL

Helen Mirra Robert Montgomery Matt Moser-Clark b. 1970 US b. 1972 UK b. 1984 UK

Exhibition: 2 March – 26 April 2017 www.drawingroom.org.uk Auction online: 12 – 26 April 2017 Time of day (hours) 0 3 6 9 12 15 18 21 24 4000 activity/min 2000 0

Matt Moser-Clark Susan Morris b. 1984 UK b. 1962 UK

Ryan Mosley Michael Müller b. 1980 UK b. 1970 DE

Jean-Luc Moulène Ciprian Muresan David Musgrave b. 1955 FR b. 1977 RO b. 1973 UK

Exhibition: 2 March – 26 April 2017 www.drawingroom.org.uk Auction online: 12 – 26 April 2017 Timo Nasseri Paul Noble Isabel Nolan b. 1972 DE b. 1963 UK b. 1974 IE

Rupert Norfolk Humphrey Ocean Grace O’Connor b. 1974 UK b. 1951 UK b. 1977 US

Niamh O’Malley Julian Opie David Osbaldeston b. 1974 IE b. 1958 UK b. 1968 UK

Exhibition: 2 March – 26 April 2017 www.drawingroom.org.uk Auction online: 12 – 26 April 2017 Laurence Owen Hardeep Pandhal Athena Papadopoulos b. 1984 UK b. 1985 UK b. 1988 CA

Fani Parali Cornelia Parker Seb Patane b. 1983 GR b. 1956 UK b. 1970 IT

Anna Paterson Berry Patten Eddie Peake b. 1989 UK b. 1986 UK b. 1981 UK

Exhibition: 2 March – 26 April 2017 www.drawingroom.org.uk Auction online: 12 – 26 April 2017 João Penalva Simon Periton Grayson Perry b. 1949 PT b. 1964 UK b. 1960 UK

Mick Peter Ciara Phillips Heather Phillipson b. 1974 DE b. 1976 CA b. 1978 UK

Amalia Pica Diogo Pimentão Yelena Popova b. 1978 AR b. 1973 PT b. 1978 RU

Exhibition: 2 March – 26 April 2017 www.drawingroom.org.uk Auction online: 12 – 26 April 2017 Kathy Prendergast Laure Prouvost Frank Pudney b. 1958 IE b. 1978 FR b. 1981 UK

Jorge Queiroz Anahita Rezvani-Rad Danny Rolph b. 1966 PT b. 1978 IR b. 1967 UK

Eva Rothschild Anila Rubiku Karin Ruggaber b. 1972 IE b. 1970 AL b. 1969 DE

Exhibition: 2 March – 26 April 2017 www.drawingroom.org.uk Auction online: 12 – 26 April 2017 Karen Russo Prem Sahib Bojan Šarčević b. 1974 IL b. 1982 UK b. 1974 RS

Julião Sarmento Julião Sarmento Matt Saunders b. 1948 PT b. 1948 PT b. 1975 US

Hiraki Sawa Massinissa Selmani Solveig Settemsdal b. 1977 JP b. 1980 FR b. 1984 NO

Exhibition: 2 March – 26 April 2017 www.drawingroom.org.uk Auction online: 12 – 26 April 2017 George Shaw Raqib Shaw Bob & Roberta Smith b. 1966 UK b. 1974 IN b. 1963 UK

John Smith Sarah Staton Emma Stibbon b. 1952 UK b. 1961 UK b. 1962 DE

Allyson Strafella Corin Sworn Emma Talbot b. 1969 US b. 1977 UK b. 1969 UK

Exhibition: 2 March – 26 April 2017 www.drawingroom.org.uk Auction online: 12 – 26 April 2017 Caragh Thuring Viktor Timofeev Mark Titchner b. 1972 BE b. 1984 LV b. 1973 UK

Fred Tomaselli Hayley Tompkins Hayley Tompkins b. 1956 US b. 1971 UK b. 1971 UK

Hayley Tompkins Suzanne Treister Troika b. 1971 UK b. 1958 UK Formed 2003 UK

Exhibition: 2 March – 26 April 2017 www.drawingroom.org.uk Auction online: 12 – 26 April 2017 Gavin Turk Alison Turnbull Nicola Tyson b. 1967 UK b. 1956 CO b. 1960 UK

Francis Upritchard Markus Vater Ana Rojas Vega b. 1976 NZ b. 1970 DE b. 1985 CO

Julie Verhoeven Charlotrte Verity Jessica Voorsanger b. 1969 UK b. 1954 DE b. 1965 US

Exhibition: 2 March – 26 April 2017 www.drawingroom.org.uk Auction online: 12 – 26 April 2017 Mark Wallinger Roxy Walsh Yu-Chen Wang b. 1959 UK b. 1964 UK b. 1978 TW

Claudia Wieser Alison Wilding Rose Wylie b. 1973 DE b. 1948 UK b. 1939 UK

Maria Zahle Ralf Ziervogel Thomas Zummer b. 1979 DK b. 1975 DE b. 1954 US

Exhibition: 2 March – 26 April 2017 www.drawingroom.org.uk Auction online: 12 – 26 April 2017 THANK YOU

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