Press Office
The Big Draw HQ
Studio 36,
Riverside Building,
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London, E14 0JW
Tel: 0203 758 4118
press@thebigdraw.org
Press Releases
29 August 2024 - Announcing the theme for The Big Draw Festival 2024, 'Drawing in Motion' - read
14 December 2023 - The 6th John Ruskin Prize Announces Shortlisted Artists - read
17 August 2023 - The 6th John Ruskin Prize Announces Judges - read
21 March 2023 - The Big Draw Festival 2023 Theme Announced - read
18 January 2023 - The Big Draw Festival 2020 and 2021 Award Winners Announced - read
19 December 2022 - The Big Draw launches The Christmas Draw - read
31 August 2022 - The Big Draw announces Jane Barnes as new Executive Director - read
10 May 2022 - The Big Draw and Russell Walker take over Coningsby Gallery this June - read
27 April 2022 - Derwent joins The 2022 Big Draw Festival as Official Art Material Partner - read
8 March 2022 - Announcing the 2022 Big Draw Festival theme, 'Come Back To Colour' - read
9 October 2021 - The Big Draw announces the Concepts Drawing Challenge- read
26 August 2021 - The Big Draw announces New Chair of The Board of Trustees - read
3 July 2021 - Announcing a new partnership with Urban Hybrid Architecture & launch of 'The Big Draw Festival China' - read
8 June 2021 - The Big Draw announces four new Digital Residencies with UK artists - read
29 April 2021 - Announcing The Big Draw Digital Residencies Judging Panel - read
9 March 2021 - Announcing the 2021 Big Draw Festival theme, 'Make the Change' - read
1 December 2020 - The Big Draw Festival 2019 Award Winners Announced - read
5 November 2020 - Meet the Judges for the 2019 Big Draw Festival Awards - read
13 October 2020 - The Big Draw receives lifeline grant from Government’s £1.57bn Culture Recovery Fund - read
14 September 2020 - Care UK announced as Health and Social Care Sponsor of The Big ‘Green’ Draw Festival 2020 - read
1 July 2020 - The Big Draw removes individual artists subscription fee - read
25 February 2020 - Announcing the 2020 Big Draw Festival theme- 'The Big Green Draw: A Climate of Change' - read
18 December 2019 - Millie Marotta becomes newest Patron of The Big Draw - read
24 September 2019 - Every Apple Store in the world to celebrate The Big Draw Festival 2019 - read
12 September 2019 - The Big Draw Festival 2019 'Drawn To Life: Creativity & Wellbeing' launched in Manchester - read
15 July 2019 - Announcing the winners of The 5th John Ruskin Prize - read
17 June 2019 - Announcing the winners of The Big Draw Festival Awards 2018/19 - read
9 April 2019 - The Big Draw announce new chair of The Board of Trustees - read.
8 February 2019 - The 5th John Ruskin Prize calls for Agents of Change in bicentenary year - read.
28 September 2018 - People around the world uniting in the name of Play! - read.
26 September 2018 - The Big Draw Festival 2018 comes to Apple Stores - read.
18 September 2018 - Ivan Harbour to be announced as Patron of The Big Draw - read.
15 August 2018 - The Big Draw Festival 2018 Launch Partners Announced - read.
6 November 2017 - Narinder Sagoo becomes Patron of The Big Draw - read.
2 October 2017 - Apple Collaborates with The Big Draw for the world's biggest drawing festival - read.
1 October 2017 - Creatives, cities and countries unite for global drawing festival - read.
25 July 2017 - Announcing the Winners of The Big Draw Festival 2016 - read.
16 May 2017 - The John Ruskin Prize 2017 Shortlist Announced - read.
21 February 2017 - 2017 Big Draw Festival theme - Registration for Living Lines is now open - read.
8 December 2016 - The John Ruskin Prize 2017: Call for Entries - read.
21 October 2016 - Cass Art Supports The Big Draw - read.
11 October 2016 - The Big Draw Festival at Parliament, Drawn Together: Collaborating Creatively - read.
16 September 2016 - The Whitworth to host launch of World's Biggest Drawing Festival - read.
7 September 2016 - GBBO ‘Designer Baker’ Frances Quinn becomes Ambassador of The Big Draw - read.
24 August 2016 - A Visual Learning Adventure for Educators - read.
18 August 2016 - ‘Wonder cartoonist’ Zoom Rockman becomes youngest Ambassador of The Big Draw - read.
15 June 2016 [revised 19 July] - It's Time to Invest in the Future of Drawing - read.
26 May 2016 - Announcing the Winners of The Big Draw Awards 2016 - read.
16 May 2016 - New Director of The Big Draw Reveals STEAM Powered Agenda - read.
26 April 2016 - Exhibition ‘Recording Britain Now: Society’ opens in London’s Docklands - read.
7 April 2016 - The STEAM Powered Big Draw Festival 2016 - read.
9 February 2016 - The John Ruskin Prize 2015/16: Preview and Prize-giving - read.
28 January 2016 - Artists Unite for Environmental Art in Support of The Big Draw - read.
14 December 2015 - The John Ruskin Prize 2015 - Shortlist Announced - read.
10 November 2015 - UK Artists are Recording Britain Now for National Art Prize - read.
15 September 2015 - Top science, media and architecture institutions open doors for international drawing festival - read.
6 August 2015 - Oxford hosts launch of the world’s biggest drawing festival - read.
4 August 2015 - Drawing the World with The Big Draw - read.
30 June 2015 - The John Ruskin Prize 2015: Call for Artists - read.
18 May 2015 - Mike Leigh announces winners of International Big Draw Awards - read.
5 May 2015 - Art Education is an Election Issue: A message from Bob and Roberta Smith RA - read.
23 April 2015 - The Big Reveal by Andrew Marr opens registration for The Big Draw 2015 - read.
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