The Elements of Drawing

Stephen Farthing

Stephen Farthing grew up in London and earned a bachelor's degree from Saint Martin's School of Art in 1973 and a Masters degree in painting from the Royal College of Art, London in 1976. Farthing was elected as a member of the Royal Academy of the Arts in 1998. Stephen Farthing's taught at Canterbury College of Art (1977–1979), at the Royal College of Art (1980–1985) and at West Surrey College of Art and Design (1985–1989). Farthing spent the next ten years at Oxford University at the Ruskin School of Drawing and Fine Art. In 2000 Farthing moved to New York to become the Executive Director of the New York Academy of Art and led the Academy until he became the Rootstein Hopkins Research Chair of Drawing at the University of the Arts London in 2004, a position he continues to hold today.