Rob Gutteridge has again been invited to exhibit 2 of his drawings at the Society of Graphic Fine Art Open Exhibition “Draw 17” at the Menier Gallery in London. These are the two drawings:

London and the Society of Graphic Fine Art (SGFA)

In May I travelled to London to present a folio of my drawings to the selection panel of the Society of Graphic Fine Art to apply for membership to the Society. Leaving my apartment in Trafalgar Square that morning, I took the drawings over to the SGFA and spent the rest of the day in the National Gallery while I waited for their phone call, which duly arrived, asking me to come back for interview and find out their decision.  They were very happy to accept me as an associate member and thanked me for coming from Australia for it. So I am now an Associate Member of the Society of Graphic Fine Art, and I will apply for full membership next year. As an Associate Member I am entitled to use the letters designate after my name: ASGFA. I hope my students at the Rob Gutteridge School of Classical Realism, through activities such as this, are motivated to connect with fellow artists and institutions who are part of the international resurgence in skill based realist art.

Latest good news for the Rob Gutteridge School of Classical Realism!

The Rob Gutteridge School of Classical Realism (RGCR) has been accepted as an ARC Approved school by the Art Renewal Centre. This is historic. It is the first, and currently the only art school in Australia, to achieve the status of an ARC Approved School. The Art Renewal Centre is the foremost international entity for researching and vetting art schools that teach skill-based training techniques in the visual arts.

To see the RGCR listing on the ARC website the link is: http://www.artrenewal.org/pages/atelier.php?atelierid=148

I would like to thank my students for their dedication and hard work in 2016, resulting in such beautiful and skilful drawings, which supported my application for ARC Approval. This news is their celebration as much as mine, and means they are doing work that is as good as can be found in any atelier anywhere in the world. It is just the beginning. The RGCR has only been in operation for 7 short months and a lot has been achieved. My heartfelt thanks to everyone involved in RGCR.

Go to the ARC website to see what the RGCR is now part of. Here is an excerpt from their information for those who are new to ARC:

The Art Renewal Center is the foremost entity for researching and vetting art schools that teach skill-based training techniques in the visual arts. For those interested in acquiring strong technical skills in the visual arts, ARC Approval™ holds more weight than college or university accreditation, where for the vast majority, technical drawing, painting, and sculpting skills are not the priority. ARC is known for keeping the highest standards in art education, only approving those schools who teach solid, skill-based training methods, which increase visual literacy. The schools ARC endorses have instructors who have heavily trained in these methods and are able to produce high quality works of their own, thereby having the qualifications necessary to instruct others on how to create works of art with fully rendered and accurately depicted realistic imagery. The type of concentrated technical training the Art Renewal Center promotes first developed in the late middle ages/ early renaissance and was used as the primary form of studio art education throughout Europe and later, America. It was used all the way through the 19th century into the early 20th century before it died out almost completely with the inception of purely conceptual art. This type of training originally started as apprenticeships, and developed into guilds, small schools known as ateliers, and eventually large national schools during the 18th and 19th centuries, and was the type of training that almost all of the most famous old master and 19th century artists would have had, which is what enabled them to create accurate realistic imagery, shadow, and form, including anatomy and the human figure. This was the method learned by artists such as Michelangelo, Botticelli, Leonardo Da Vinci, Rembrandt, all the way through to Sargent, Bouguereau, Gerome, Alma-Tadema, Lord Leighton, Il’ia Repin, Ivan Aivazovsky, and even by artists such as Monet, Degas and Van Gogh.

Announcing the 2017 RGCR Anatomy Sculpture Intensive (ecorche)

The human figure is the focus subject at RGCR and Anatomy Sculpture Intensive (ecorche) is a great way to start the year. You do not have to be a sculptor to do this course.

Applications are now open for 2017 Anatomy Sculpture Intensive (Ecorche).

Monday 16/1/17 – Saturday 28/1/17 inclusive (26/1/17 public holiday).
80 hours tuition, 8 hours per day over 10 days.
10 students maximum.

Rob Gutteridge was accepted into the jurored exhibition “Draw 16”, the Annual Open Exhibition of the Society of Graphic Fine Art (SGFA) at the Menier Gallery, London.

He was subsequently awarded the prize of “Highly Commended for a work in monochrome”.
The independent judge was Robin Light, Director of the prestigious Crane Kalman Gallery, Knightsbridge, London.
Rob has been asked to write an article about his drawing practise for the SGFA online magazine “The Journal” to be published in February 2017.

Go to the SGFA website for more information.

Announcing new Sunday Studio – 7 consecutive Sundays September 18th 2016 – 30th October 2016 inclusive.

Long pose – male model, the same pose, 6 hours per day for 7 consecutive weeks, 42 hours in total.

Drawing and/or painting demonstrations by Rob Gutteridge, followed by teaching students at the easel.

Students choose whether to paint and/or draw.

Minimum 4 students – maximum 10.

Fee: $840.00. 10% discount for students enrolled in the RGCR teaching program ($756.00).

Further information:

Enrolment and fee payment – Sunday Studio

Sunday Studio apllication to enrol

Sunday Studio general information