Angela Rose Live Mix @ Room 2 MOKO

28th September 24

Angela Rose Live @ ROOM TWO (MOKO)

The subject of drawing is both huge and human-scaled. Men and women the world over have drawn for thousands of years on rock, papyrus, parchment and paper, and today the medium is more popular than ever. And yet we experience drawings intimately, one to one. When you look at a drawing you are taking a step closer to its maker because, for centuries, artists have thought with chalk, pen or pencil in their hands. If you think of painting or sculpture as the public performance, then drawing is where you can encounter the artist at his or her most unguarded: trying things out and wondering if this or that idea will work, experimenting, looking, dreaming, planning – catching ideas on the wing.

Drawing has always offered creative latitude. Artists have long turned to it to express thoughts, fantasies, traumas and emotions that would have been impossible in any other medium: whether Francisco Goya sketching his bitter insights into human nature, Henri Michaux recording his mescaline-inspired dreams or Yayoi Kusama drawing discomfiting ‘infinity nets’ in post-war US-occupied Japan. Taking Susan Owens’s recent book The Story of Drawings a starting point, in this in-conversation, Susan and Claudia will explore drawing’s role as an arena for experiment and candid expression.

The Story of Drawing: An Alternative History of Art - Susan Owens in Conversation with Claudia Tobin

Since 2004 Eileen Hogan has pioneered a unique approach to portrait painting by including an oral historian in her sittings. The triangular relationship - artist, sitter, questioner– sets her subject in animated conversation rather than frozen under the artist’s gaze. As Hogan concentrates on drawing, she is able to tune in and out of the dialogue yet is free from initiating or entering into it.

The life story methodology followed by the oral historian centres each subject’s professional life in an autobiographical context beginning with forebears and moving from childhood onwards while also encompassing important contemporary national and international events as they occur as well as those personal to the sitter. What Hogan absorbs seeps into her knowledge of and attitude to the sitter, affecting her depiction of them.

In 2019 Hogan was commissioned by Lady Margaret Hall (LMH), Oxford, to paint its then Principal, Alan Rusbridger, former editor of The Guardian newspaper. Her composite portrait of nine images reflects a period of exceptional volatility, including the 2019 General Election, the proroguing of parliament, Brexit negotiations, the explosion of the Me Too and Black Lives Matter movements, the 2020 America election and its aftermath. Early sessions took place in Rusbridger’s office before being derailed by the Covid-19 pandemic and moving online, with Rusbridger based in different home environments, his hair growing shaggier, and, once, wearing layers of clothing seated in a freezing gazebo he constructed at LMH in order to greet new students safely. Final sittings took place in 2022 in Hogan’s studio. The composite portrait of nine images now hangs at LMH. The oral history sessions continue and are accessioned into National Life Stories, an independent oral history charity housed in the British Library.

Life Story Portraits with Eileen Hogan | Creative conversations at the Royal Drawing School

Angela Rose - Made With Love 001 (24.01.25)

Made With Love |001

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Matthew Krishanu’s paintings are at once intimate and moving. The scenarios he presents, working typically in spare, thinned oils, have a unique cut-through - at once bristly and humane, quizzical and wonder-filled. Their imagery - drawing on a childhood spent in Bangladesh, where his parents worked for a Christian church - also cuts across boundaries in disorienting ways, addressing at once both European and Asian traditions. Krishanu, now 45 and exhibiting internationally, will discuss the decisions and discriminations that go into this strong model for 2020s figuration, in conversation with the painter and art writer Julian Bell.

Falling into Place: Matthew Krishanu in conversation with Julian Bell

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Angela Rose - 22.07.25

Tuesday, 22 July⋅
5:00 – 6:00pm

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Angela Rose - 22.07.25

Angela Rose - 21.08.25

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The Story of Drawing: An Alternative History of Art - Susan Owens in Conversation with Claudia Tobin

Royal Drawing School

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