The Don Bachardy Fellowship at the Royal Drawing School enables a post-graduate artist from outside the United Kingdom to join the Royal Drawing School during the Summer Term each year. 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.
Residency dates are 26 April – 3 July 2027.
The Don Bachardy Fellow will spend 3 full days per week for ten weeks, drawing alongside students studying on the school’s postgraduate-level programme, The Drawing Year, as well as students on Public Programme courses.
The Don Bachardy Fellowship is open to international artists who have studied at MA level only, please note artists who are from the UK or have studied and lived in the UK are not eligible to apply. Artist who have studied at the Royal Drawing School before are not eligible to apply.
To assist with travel and accommodation costs, the Don Bachardy Fellow will be awarded a 7,500 USD stipend.
