Eligibility

The Don Bachardy Fellowship at the Royal Drawing School invites a gifted and dedicated post-graduate artist from outside the United Kingdom to study at the Royal Drawing School during the Spring Term (20 January – 28 March 2020) and to experience the cultural life of London. The School’s Shoreditch campus is located in a converted Victorian warehouse in the heart of East London’s art scene. Artists applying for the fellowship should show evidence of observational drawing in their practice. The purpose of the fellowship is to help support an emerging artist and to nurture drawing as their foundation skill. The fellowship is named after the Californian portrait painter, Don Bachardy (b. 1934), who studied at the Slade in 1961, had his first show at the Redfern Gallery in Mayfair that year, and has gone on to draw and paint over 10,000 portraits from life. The Don Bachardy Fellowship is sponsored by The Christopher Isherwood Foundation, www.IsherwoodFoundation.org.

Number of Participants

One artist per year is selected for the Don Bachardy Fellowship.

Deadline

September 27, 2019 04:00 UTC

Selection Results (Announcement Dates)

October 10, 2019 23:00 UTC

Duration

January 20, 2020 - March 28, 2020

Funding

• $5,000.00 stipend (one-time)

Disciplines

Visual Arts

Languages

English

Program Description

The Don Bachardy Fellow will spend 3 full days per week for ten weeks, drawing alongside postgraduate students studying on the Royal Drawing School's MA level programme, The Drawing Year. The Fellow will be invited to curate their own programme of study choosing from over 38 different drawing courses, drawing out of house in London’s streets and green spaces, life drawing, drawing from art in major museums and galleries, as well as intaglio printmaking courses. The artist will also be provided with a shared studio space alongside Royal Drawing School Drawing Year Students. The Fellow will also have the opportunity to attend our Wednesday evening lecture series, which includes in-conversations with leading contemporary artists and art history lectures. To assist with travel and accommodation costs, the Don Bachardy Fellow will be awarded a $5,000 stipend, half of which will be granted on receipt of the Fellowship and the remainder on arrival in London.