London Drawing Group is an art and teaching collective founded in 2016 by Luisa-Maria MacCormack, Lucy Mcgeown and Frances Stanfield. We met whilst studying at the Royal Drawing School in 2014, and now run a program of diverse, unique classes all over London and online, collaborating with major institutions and attracting thousands of students as well as running regular exhibitions and maintaining our own studio practice. We are now joined by our very good friend and amazing tutor and life-model, Lily Holder!
The core ethos of LDG came from a wish to make art accessible to everyone, our classes aim to cut through the often alienating way that art is talked about and practiced, and to show that everyone is capable of engaging with and enjoying art through discussion and through drawing.
In the seven years since our conception, as well as being listed for the Deutsche Bank Creative Enterprise award in our first year of business, we have being regularly featured in Timeout, and collaborated with amazing institutions such as;
The British Museum, Tate Galleries, Hastings Contemporary, Dulwich Picture Gallery, Freud Museum, Harpers Bazaar, The Cheltenham Literature Festival, Topolski Studio, The Vagina Museum, the London Illustration Fair, Royal British Society of Sculptors, Brixton Village, the Hayward Gallery and most recently The National Gallery and the Barbican.
During lockdown, we took the decision to move online, and our online classes have gained interest from over 4 million people worldwide. Although most of our program is now online based, we also continue to provide well priced and original classes in our local area of South London.
We launched our Feminist Art History program in 2017 with our first event; Female Sexuality and the Male Gaze, which almost instantly attracted interest from over 50,000 people. Over the last five years this has grown to become our sister organisation led by Luisa Maria MacCormack, The Feminist Lecture Program
Alongside teaching and organising events, we also maintain our own extremely diverse art practice. Although we are brought together by our love of drawing, our practices take us in extremely different directions with Lucy working mainly in installation, Frances in printmaking, and Luisa in Painting.
More information about events and our work can be found at
https://www.luisamariamaccormack.co.uk/
https://feministlectureprogram.com/
@luisamariamfineart
@lucymcgeown