The Don Bachardy Fellowship at the Royal Drawing School, London

The Don Bachardy Fellowship at the Royal Drawing School enables a gifted and dedicated post-graduate artist from outside the United Kingdom to attend the Royal Drawing School during the Summer Term each year.  

The successful Don Bachardy fellow will have the opportunity to absorb London’s vibrant art scene by attending the school’s Shoreditch campus and occupy one of the school’s studios reserved for postgraduate students. The Royal Drawing School and studios are located in the heart of East London’s art, design, and fashion scene.  

The fellowship is named after Californian portrait painter, Don Bachardy who studied at the Slade in 1961. Bachardy had his first show at the Redfern Gallery in Mayfair that year and has since gone on to draw and paint over 10,000 portraits from life.  

The purpose of the fellowship is to help support an emerging artist and to nurture drawing as their foundation skill. Artists applying for the fellowship should show evidence of observational drawing in their practice.  

Past recipients have come from the US, Syria, Chile and Brazil.