Announcing Our New UK Learning Partnerships
‘Moving Grounds: 15 Years of Duchamp & Sons,’ Whitechapel Gallery. Photo: Anne Tetzlaff
Announcing Our New UK Learning Partnerships
Hauser & Wirth is proud to be partnering with arts organizations Drawing Room (London, UK), Gray’s School of Art (Aberdeen, UK), Royal Drawing School (London, UK) and Whitechapel Gallery (London, UK) over the next three years.
The gallery’s commitment to supporting public programs across the UK follows recent and active partnerships with: Arts University Bournemouth; Bath Spa University; Bold Tendencies; Bristol Old Vic Youth Theatre; Dartington Arts School; Drawing Matter; Hospital Rooms; South London Gallery; and Spike Island.
Each partnership is focused on increasing access, support and expertise for professional development within the arts, as well as engaging broader communities with art and artists. These initiatives allow us to work in tandem with our partner organizations over a sustained period, adapting and developing programs together to create long-term meaningful change and a positive impact.
‘ROCK PAPER SCISSORS’, Drawing Room, London, UK. Courtesy Drawing Room
Drawing Room
London, UK
September 2025 – September 2028
Over the next three years, the gallery is partnering with Drawing Room, a not-for-profit arts organization based in Bermondsey, London. We will support ‘ROCK PAPER SCISSORS’, a stimulating weekly space for local young people aged 7 – 11 years to draw, make and experiment alongside practising artists, in connection with our London gallery.
Founded in 2002 by curators Mary Doyle, Kate Macfarlane and Katharine Stout, Drawing Room champions the unlimited potential of drawing to help us understand ourselves, each other and our world, through exhibitions, learning projects and a research library. Drawing Room presents free exhibitions of drawings by emerging and established international artists. They have a unique open access research library, holding one of the largest collections of titles on contemporary drawing in the world, as well as a shop stocking selected books, drawing materials and artists’ editions. Their dynamic learning program aims to make contemporary drawing relevant and accessible to all communities, encouraging self-expression through hands-on making in their dedicated Community Studio, alongside events, artist-led projects and special commissions.
Mobile Art School, Gray’s School of Art, Aberdeen, UK. Courtesy Robert Gordon University
Gray’s School of Art
Aberdeen, UK
July 2025 – July 2028
Our three-year partnership with Gray’s School of Art at Robert Gordon University in Aberdeen is the Mobile Art School—an outreach project aimed at engaging and connecting communities across Aberdeen and beyond, to improve the awareness and understanding of the creative industries. This new partnership will allow the team at Gray’s School of Art to deliver a far-reaching program that empowers audiences beyond the university to create and work together. Participants will be given the opportunity to experience and explore the personal and social enrichment that creative learning presents—a powerful, transformative and essential part of modern life and a vital element in Scotland’s future.
The custom-built Mobile Art School vehicle is equipped with state-of-the-art creative tools including cutting edge 3D digital design, visualization and production resources combined with traditional analogue art design ‘making’ materials. Taking expertise and resources beyond the walls of Gray’s School of Art, offering free, high impact workshops, to communities across Aberdeen City and Shire, whilst also providing essential professional experience and teaching opportunities for recent graduates.
Gray’s School of Art is a multidisciplinary art school that has been leading and defining creative culture and development for 140 years. It is ranked the leading higher education institution in Scotland for teaching quality in Art and Design (The Times and Sunday Times Good University Guide 2026), offering undergraduate, postgraduate, doctoral and short courses.
‘This partnership gives Gray’s School of Art an opportunity to continue to take our practices outside their traditional settings and into the communities on our doorstep. Gray’s is currently celebrating 140 years at the cutting edge of creative education in Scotland, and we aim to place our Mobile Art School at the core of our transformational activities.’—Daniel Sutherland, Associate Dean for Economic, Social and Cultural Development, Gray’s School of Art
Royal Drawing School. Photo: Rory Landon-Down
Royal Drawing School
London, UK
September 2025 – August 2028
Over the next three years, Hauser & Wirth is partnering with the Royal Drawing School, an arts organization based in Shoreditch, London. We will support the Royal Drawing School to establish an annual Drawing Festival and Teaching Fellowship, working across our global galleries.
The Royal Drawing School’s mission is to raise the standard and profile of observational drawing through teaching, research and exhibitions, championing its continued relevance as both a discipline in its own right and as the foundation of creative practice. They are committed to making high-quality drawing education accessible and affordable to all. It is a place to learn to draw, to discover leading and emerging artists, and to celebrate and advance the practice of drawing from life. They offer over 350 programs each year which are taught by a faculty of over 100 practising artists. Their five annual exhibitions and 11 residencies showcase both emerging and established artists, and the innovative ways drawing is used in artistic practice. Regular panel discussions feature some of the biggest names in art, architecture and design, highlighting the versatility of drawing across creative fields.
‘Contemporary Art Week with Liv Wynter,’ Whitechapel Gallery. Photo: Jazz Noble
Whitechapel Gallery
London, UK
December 2025 – December 2028
Over the next three years, the gallery is partnering with Whitechapel Gallery, a not-for-profit arts organization based in Whitechapel, London. We will support the gallery’s Youth Program, which is open to people aged 15 – 24 years, providing a welcoming, exploratory space to experiment with art and ideas, collaborate with others artists, and find out about future pathways in the creative sector.
Whitechapel Gallery is a groundbreaking arts institution that is locally embedded and globally connected. Founded in 1901 to enrich the cultural offer for the people of East London, they aim to make contemporary art accessible and exciting to the widest possible audiences through a bold, radical and distinctive program that puts artists and ideas at the heart of everything. They are committed to showing under-represented, under-served artists, especially women and people of color, and to present provocative artworks that expand thinking around the key socio-political concerns of our time. The gallery’s Participation Programs prioritize local communities, offering artist-led activities for all ages that encourage curiosity, learning and exchange.
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