Drawing & Works on Paper

“A drawing is simply a line going for a walk.”, Paul Klee

Showing 41 drawing & works on paper exhibitions on now and coming soon in London & the UK.

Ends in 13 days

The Whitworth

Michaela Yearwood-Dan

Until Oct 18

CeramicsMixed MediaDrawing & Works on PaperSound ArtPainting

First UK institutional show — lush, queer, multi-sensory commission celebrating Blackness and healing

Royal Academy

Richard Dadd: Beyond Bedlam

Until Oct 25

Drawing & Works on PaperPainting

Dadd's intricate Victorian fairy paintings made during 42 years in Bethlem and Broadmoor

4.2/5 from 6 ratings · 7 reviews total

"Famously he was a painter of fairies, yet he was far from being away with the fairies"

The Arts Desk

Henry Moore Studios & Gardens

The Art and Life of Henry Moore

Until Oct 25

Drawing & Works on PaperSculptureContemporary ArtHenry Moore

Retrospective tracing Moore's evolution across 80+ sculptures and maquettes

Henry Moore Studios & Gardens

The Shelter Drawings

Until Oct 25

Drawing & Works on PaperHenry Moore

Thirty rarely seen drawings of Londoners sheltering from the Blitz.

Pallant House Gallery

Haroun Hayward: Path through Trees

Until Nov 1

Drawing & Works on PaperAbstract Expressionism

Haroun Hayward blends abstract expressionism with British landscape tradition

Ashmolean Museum

ASHMOLEAN NOW: SOMA SUROVI JANNAT

Until Nov 1

Drawing & Works on PaperInstallationPaintingContemporary Art

Soma Surovi Jannat maps climate crisis through new Ashmolean works.

Pallant House Gallery

Gathered in the Landscape

Until Nov 1

Drawing & Works on PaperPrintsPainting

Community members respond to the landscape, arranged by Haroun Hayward

The Hepworth Wakefield

Mrinalini Mukherjee

Until Nov 1

CeramicsDrawing & Works on PaperTextilesPrintsSculpture

First UK retrospective of Indian modernist sculptor Mukherjee — fibre, bronze, ceramic across 40 years

Goodwood Art Foundation

Nancy Holt: MoonSunStarEarthSkyWater

Until Nov 1

PhotographyDrawing & Works on PaperVideo & Moving ImageInstallationContemporary Art

First major UK presentation of pioneering land artist Nancy Holt, featuring site-responsive installations and work on light, space, and language.

3/5 from 1 rating

"It's outer space, distant stars, planet Earth, the birds and bees and trees all right here, in this exact moment. It's a portrait of you in the universe, a picture of its vastness and your own little place in it."

The Guardian

Coming Soon

Ikon Gallery

Locations: No11 Arts

Starting Oct 28

FreeMixed MediaDrawing & Works on PaperTextilesPaintingContemporary Art

Older Birmingham residents map memories of their neighbourhoods in art

Lisson Gallery London

Carmen Herrera: Pulse, Pause, Repeat

Until Nov 7

Drawing & Works on PaperPaintingSculpture

Late drawings, paintings and sculpture spanning Herrera's final decade

Frith Street Gallery

Colin Self: Unseen

Until Nov 7

CeramicsMixed MediaDrawing & Works on PaperPrintsInstallationPaintingSculpturePop Art

First London retrospective of Pop artist Colin Self since 1986

White Cube Bermondsey

Gabriel Orozco

Until Nov 8

PhotographyMixed MediaDrawing & Works on PaperPaintingSculptureConceptualismGabriel Orozco

Major solo show of 100+ works spanning sculpture, painting and photography

Bethlem Museum of the Mind

Manasa Chitra: the Art of Mental Health from Bengaluru to Bethlem

Until Nov 14

FreeDrawing & Works on PaperPainting

Indian art on mental health, from 1950s Bangalore to contemporary Bengaluru

Coming Soon

Royal Scottish Academy

200 Years

Starting Oct 17

FreeDrawing & Works on PaperPrintsPaintingSculpture

Two centuries of Scottish art by Royal Scottish Academicians

John Hansard Gallery

Becoming Doctors

Until Dec 5

FreePhotographyMixed MediaDrawing & Works on PaperSound ArtVideo & Moving Image

Stories of identity, inequality and the future of care.

Burgh House

Burgh House Young Curators’ Club

Until Dec 13

FreeDrawing & Works on Paper

Home Guard archive papers, selected and labelled by local school students

Burgh House

Women Artists of Hampstead

Until Dec 13

FreeDrawing & Works on Paper

Victorian illustrators who reached wide audiences as art opened up to women

Burgh House

Hampstead Vanished and Imagined

Until Dec 13

FreeDrawing & Works on Paper

Lost local landmarks and the Hampstead that was planned but never built

Sabine Moritz: Lie Down in Green Pastures

Coming Soon

Garden Museum

Sabine Moritz: Lie Down in Green Pastures

Starting Oct 8

Drawing & Works on PaperPaintingContemporary Art

Her first UK museum show, on memory and the natural world

Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art

Gwen John: Strange Beauties

Until Jan 4, 2027

Drawing & Works on PaperPaintingPost-ImpressionismGwen John

First major UK retrospective of Gwen John in over 40 years

5/5 from 1 rating

""Our work in life is to develop ourselves and so fulfil our destiny," John wrote to her friend Dorelia McNeill in 1904. This show is a beautiful testament to that."

The Times

Courtauld Gallery

Salman Toor: Someone Like You

Until Jan 10, 2027

Drawing & Works on PaperPainting

Toor's first European solo: 20 paintings on queer identity, belonging and community

BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art

Chitra Ganesh: Journey to the Great Below

Until Jan 17, 2027

FreeDrawing & Works on PaperVideo & Moving ImageSculptureContemporary Art

Chitra Ganesh's UK solo debut reimagines the ancient myth of Inanna's descent.

Coming Soon

Courtauld Gallery

Winifred Gill: A Bloomsbury Pioneer

Starting Oct 14

Drawing & Works on PaperPrintsPaintingPost-Impressionism

An overlooked innovator of the Bloomsbury group and Omega Workshops

Kew Gardens

Henry Moore: Monumental Nature

Until Jan 31, 2027

Drawing & Works on PaperSculptureAbstract ExpressionismHenry Moore

30 monumental sculptures by Moore spanning his 70-year career

5/5 from 2 ratings · 4 reviews total

"In parts of the show, Moore's love of natural forms seems to run counter to the Victorian splendour of Kew. One of his bone-like pieces, Three Piece Sculpture: Vertebrae (1968-69), sits in front of the Palm House. Moore's irregular, undulating tripartite form seems to echo – or mock – the pane-glass and wrought-iron symmetry of the older building."

The Telegraph

Spike Island

Beverly Buchanan

Until Jan 31, 2027

FreeDrawing & Works on PaperPaintingSculptureContemporary Art

First European survey of the artist's sculpture, shacks and earthworks

4/5 from 1 rating

"But the good stuff here – the shacks and Frustulas – is exceptional. It’s not just morose memorialising of brutal history: it’s a joyful celebration of ingenuity and survival in a world of inequality. As rickety as they look, these shacks tell a story that’s built to endure."

The Guardian