{"title": "Half Term Activity: Giant Drawing Machine with Nick Sayers", "start": "2026-10-26T00:00:00Z", "end": "2026-10-30T00:00:00Z", "place": "MathsWorld", "address": "Burrell Street 6, SE1 0UN London", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "https://mathscity.digitickets.co.uk/event-tickets/80594?catID=44897&", "category": "workshops-courses", "tags": ["art/drawing", "science/mathematics"], "description": "A half term activity at MathsWorld where visitors can try out giant drawing machines. Artist Nick Sayers is behind it, and participants can stretch drawings through a tiny piece of paper and create spirograph art. 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Tutor Karly Allen leads participants through looking closely at Van de Velde's work and translating it into black-and-white mark-making with pen and paper. 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Artist Tom James leads participants in building a large-scale sculptural marble run in Camden Art Centre's Drawing Studio. The collective kinetic sculpture, loosely inspired by Liz Larner's exhibition 'A Hard Line to Bend', is made from reclaimed tubes, pipes, bottles and funnels, echoing the playful work of Yves Tinguely and Fischli/Weiss. Each marble run is designed, tested and built before being disassembled, with activities for children aged 4 and up working alongside adults.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/family-takeover-with-tom-james-50257/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/847c225a0193b6ad8261a8b28560c91f050b4a375fd1be48723e033e02b2df71-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Drop in and draw", "start": "2026-11-06T18:00:00Z", "end": null, "place": "Royal Academy of Arts", "address": "Piccadilly, W1J 0BD London", "price": "Free", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "", "category": "workshops-courses", "tags": ["art/drawing"], "description": "\"Drop in and draw\" is a free evening workshop where you can pick up a pencil and spend time drawing. It takes place on the first Friday night of the month and is inspired by the exhibition Painting the French Riviera. Professional artists lead the session and share tips and tricks for improving your drawing. 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Artist Tom James, whose practice explores the function and future of everyday objects and often re-uses things that may otherwise go to waste, leads participants in building a large-scale sculptural marble run in the Drawing Studio. Using reclaimed tubes, pipes, bottles and funnels, each collaborative marble run is designed, tested and built before being disassembled, echoing the playful work of Yves Tinguely and Fischli/Weiss. 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After an eight-year break, this new cycle uses human-guided AI as a painterly material, curated frame by frame like a digital brush. The works celebrate artists who investigated light and form through repetition, from Monet's London fog and Kandinsky's visual music to Anna Ancher's interiors.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/transforming-the-complete-works-200926-41944/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/2db7585c435cce36277c90e9f9398ed4c5ac57a2a8c7570639a7b4c00b0c57cb-1200.webp"}, {"title": "Hunterian Drawing Club", "start": "2026-11-03T11:00:00Z", "end": null, "place": "Hunterian Museum", "address": "Lincoln's Inn Fields 35-43, WC2A 3PE London", "price": "£15", "price_from": "15.00", "price_to": "15.00", "tickets_url": "https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/hunterian-drawing-club-tickets-1300978745449", "category": "workshops-courses", "tags": ["art/drawing"], "description": "Hunterian Drawing Club is a day of drawing at the Hunterian Museum. Artist and medical artist Joanna Cameron leads the session, which explores art and anatomy inspired by the Hunterian collection. A3 drawing boards, pencils and paper are available, or you may bring your own drawing materials, though no wet materials are allowed, and stools are provided. 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