Centre for Recent Drawing

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Founded by Andrew Hewish in 2004, the Centre for Recent Drawing (C4RD) provides a non-commercial curatorial space in London, UK, for the exhibition of recent drawing, providing access and discussion for current drawing practice and to foster the audience for drawing within the general public.

Since 2004 has provided a museum space for the exhibition of drawings by established and emerging artists, illustrators and designers, architects, art therapists and students in art, linked to various art institutions in London: Goldsmiths College, Camberwell College of Arts , London Metropolitan University, Wimbledon School of Art and the Prince's Drawing School. It is a non-profit volunteer-run organisation dependent on private donation.

The Centre was established to provide a site in London for the display of drawings free from the commercial concerns that pervade the London art scene and to provide a context for drawing that could also exist beyond the demands of the fine arts. A basic faith in the humanist value of drawing drives the activity of C4RD, hence it's emphasis on recent rather than the more commercially regulated 'contemporary'. As a centre it operates as a node of activity between the studio, and the art college, the school, the therapeutic or architectural practice and the public, to provide experience in exhibition, to add focus to a college programme and to share the experience of drawing.

For a discussion on the traditional boundaries and definition of the media see Drawing.