Drawing The Stampede at the UCL Art Museum

Workshop 2 will finish promptly to ensure that attendees can go to the 4pm event in The Stampede programme if they so wish.

Location: UCL Art Museum, G17 South Wing, University College London, Gower Street WC1E 6BT

About the Workshops

Artist Lucy McGeown will lead two drawing-based workshops looking at artifacts and specimens from both UCL Art Museum and UCL Grant Museum of Zoology, inspired by THE HERDS and supported by UCL Faculty of Arts and Humanities. The workshops are open to the public and drawers of all skill levels. All equipment will be provided.

Participants will be working directly from a curated selection of prints, drawings, taxidermy and bones of animals, birds and mammals. These artifacts will allow us to explore the interesting connections between artworks across time and in different forms. Lucy will guide participants through a series of observation drawing exercises, with a final imaginative exercise in which we explore the future relationship between humans and animals.

The workshops form part of the UCL Stampede for the Arts on a Heating Planet, a collaborative initiative taking place across UCL from 26-27 June 2025 to mark the arrival of THE HERDS in London.

About THE HERDS

THE HERDS is a new project from The Walk Productions, creators of The Extraordinary Journeys of Little Amal. It is a groundbreaking public art and climate initiative designed to inspire action and renew our bond with the natural world. From April to August 2025, life-size puppet animals will sweep through city centres on a 20,000km journey from the Congo Basin to the Arctic Circle, fleeing climate disaster.

About the Artist

Lucy McGeown works with installation, drawing, painting and collage. She is a founding member of London Drawing Group and currently lives and works in Margate. Lucy believes everyone should have access to drawing and promotes creative play and ways that drawing can be used in all types of ways and contexts

Accessibility

If you have any accessibility requirements you would like to discuss, please email: l.carruthers@ucl.ac.uk

The UCL Art Museum is completely accessible to wheelchair users and those with limited mobility from street level.

Further information on museum access can be found here.

Finding us

UCL Art Museum, G17 South Wing, University College London, Gower Street WC1E 6BT

We are located in Bloomsbury, in the heart of central London. The nearest tube stations are Euston Square (Metropolitan, Circle, Hammersmith & City), Goodge Street (Northern Line), Warren Street (Victoria Line), and buses 18, 30, 73, 134 and 205 stop 3-5 minutes away on Euston Road.