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Read Frances Sand’s text on Sir John Soane’s lecture drawings of Blenheim Palace. The drawings are currently on display in the exhibition John Vanbrugh: The Drama of Architecture. Drawing: Soane office hand, Royal Academy lecture drawings depicting Blenheim Palace in low light, c.1806–19, SM 75/4/10. © Sir John Soane’s Museum, London.

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Drawing Matter News and Events

Student applications are now open for the 2026 Drawing Matter Summer School!
For Bloomsday 2026, Freddie Phillipson will present and discuss drawings of Dublin as experienced in James Joyce’s Ulysses, taken from his twenty-year exploration of Joyce’s landmark text.

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Discover Bruton: Drawing Matter at Stockwell House. Join us for a weekend of free drawing workshops in Bruton, Somerset. Workshops: 6 & 7 June; exhibition 10–12 June.
Drawing Matter will be taking part in the Biblioteka Art Book Fair this year, held between the 12 and 13 June at The Warburg Institute in London. Come along to see our publications.

Jean Prouvé (1901–1984), Full-scale perspective, possible prototypical-typological-archival project for the “Standard” chair designed by Jean Prouvé in 1934, France, 1952. Graphite and coloured pencil on board, 640 × 875 mm. DMC 4006a+b.

Collection Guides

Futurism, Rationalism, and Stile Littorio
Álvaro Siza

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Shatwell Farm

Find an archive of the building projects and interventions at Shatwell Farm, Somerset, Drawing Matter’s home from 2014 – 2024, here.

The Shatwell Valley. Photos: Sue Barr.
The Drawing Matter Archive at Shatwell Farm and grain silos.