The Centre for Recent Drawing presents a new exhibition called Hand Joy. Curated by Paul Kindersley – 22 artists, one room, a frenzied exploration of eroticism, desire, possession, longing and the body. Ranging from the abstract to the pornographic, the sexy to sadistic, the sublime to the rubber, drawing as a way of ownership of our unattainable fantasies.

A new large-scale wall drawing by Greg Burgoyne is being unveiled on Friday 26th March 2010 at the Hastings Museum Art Gallery. This private view marks the start of a forthcoming exhibition that takes place from March to June. Entitled ‘Back to the Future, this wall drawing investigates the nature of the found, displaced and the significance of the archive.

SARAH LEDERMAN presents her Work-in-Progress at the Centre for Recent Drawing in London, as part of the Residents Artist Programme. Lederman’s paintings and drawings hone in upon the awkwardness and discomfort of adolescence and the conflicting states of innocence and sexual awareness. Delicately layered pencil and paint lends a delicate fragility to the subjects depicted.

The University of Edinburgh’s Talbot Rice Gallery’s opening exhibition for 2010 is a first for the UK; an exhibition of art to instruct, a project of rich, diverse imagery and unusual juxtaposition. In 2004 Talbot Rice presented the exhibition Object Lessons where the use of the object in teaching and research was explored. Drawing for Instruction can be viewed almost as a sister project with the thinking process of drawing as our subject.

The Burton Art Gallery and Museum in North Devon is hosting a Drawing Symposium called ‘Why is Drawing Important?’ Run in conjunction with Petroc School of Art, it explores why it is important to celebrate drawing. It coincides with the ‘Jerwood Drawing Prize 2009′ exhibition which is on display at the Burton Art Gallery from 4th March to the 9th April 2010.

An exhibition of the work of the Dutch artist Hans de Wit is currently being held at the Isis Gallery, Charlotte Road in London. This is Hans de Wit’s first UK exhibition which depict huge drawings of morphing and pulsating organic and inorganic forms, which draw us into the artist’s imagination. The exhibition runs through January and closes on Feb 6th 2010.

Inscription: Drawing, making, Thinking – is the fourth of Jerwood’s ‘Encounters’ exhibitions. The idea behind the series is to ‘explore … the borderlands between the main disciplinary fields of the Jerwood Visual Arts programme’, through a variety of different media, drawing, painting, photography, moving image, sculpture, and jewellery.

This major solo exhibition features a selection of the artist David Mackintosh most recent work. The exhibition reveals Mackintosh’s growing concern with narrative and formal innovation, exploring the relationship between drawing, sculpture and animation. Highlights include a newly commissioned large-scale wall painting, new stop-motion animation, a sculptural installation and a selection of his compelling signature-style drawings.

Drawn from the two foremost collections in the field, this major exhibition features 100 exquisite drawings by Italian Renaissance artists including Raphael, Leonardo, Michelangelo and Verrocchio. This exhibition is a unique opportunity to discover the evolution of drawing which laid the foundations of the High Renaissance style of Michelangelo and Raphael.

Discover how MA Drawing students from Norwich Univeristy College of Arts in the UK responded to the paintings of the Cotman family spearheaded by the Great British Art Debate. The collection of students drawings are currently being exhibited at the Norwich Castle Museum and Art Gallery.