Overview

• The King and Queen hosted a reception at St James’s Palace on June 24 to mark the school’s silver jubilee.
• ’The Power of Drawing’ exhibition will run from July 1 to 26 at the Shoreditch campus with a wider public programme of talks and masterclasses into 2026.
• Contributors include David Hockney, Tracey Emin, Tim Burton and Thomas Heatherwick alongside King Charles’s pencil sketch of his Highgrove gardens.
• Singer-songwriter Rufus Wainwright performed “Hallelujah” for the royal couple and unveiled his first exhibition piece at the event.
• The not-for-profit school offers over 350 courses annually and highlighted its alumni support by featuring former soldier Douglas Farthing’s humanitarian sketches from Ukraine.