Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize 2024 International Call for Entries & Selection Panel Announced

Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize 2023 at Trinity Buoy Wharf, September 2023

The International Call for Entries for the Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize 2024 is now open for all drawing practitioners to submit their work for the exhibition and awards. Widely considered to be the most prestigious annual open exhibition for drawing in the UK, the Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize presents an exceptionally wide range of current drawing practices, demonstrating the depth and breadth of drawing internationally. 

The International Call for Entries is open to all drawing practitioners worldwide, whether they are emerging, mid-career or established. The exhibition is selected from artworks submitted to Collection Centres located across the UK. The appointed Selection Panel will choose in the region of 90 drawings for the Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize 2024 Exhibition, and Awards of a First Prize of £8,000, Second Prize of £5,000 and Student Award of £2,000.

All applicants for the Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize 2024 must register their entry via the ArtOpps portal by 5pm on 12 June 2024.  Drawings are then submitted via a Collection Centre in the UK on specified dates with all entries are seen by the Selection Panel 'in the real'. Information about how to submit work is set out on the entry portal. 

The Exhibition Launch & Awards Announcements will take place on Wednesday 2 October 2024 at Trinity Buoy Wharf in London. The exhibition will open to the public from Thursday 3 October to Wednesday 16 October 2024 and will then tour until July 2025. Accompanying the exhibition will be a fully illustrated Exhibition Publication and an Education Pack. A Drawing Symposium will be held on Thursday 3 October 2024.

The distinguished Selection Panel for the Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize 2024 will be: Mary Evans, Artist & Director of UCL Slade School of Fine Art, Gary Sangster, Curator & Co-Director of Drawing Projects UK, and Jennifer Scott, Director of Dulwich Picture Gallery. 


Mary Evans is an artist with a national and international reputation. Having studied at Goldsmiths and the Rijksakademie in Amsterdam, Evans’s practice is centred on the social, political, geographical and historical frameworks of Diaspora, migration, global mobility and exchange. This cross-cultural discourse is paralleled by a secondary discourse that links methods of image production, ’fine art’ and ‘craft’, decoration, and ornament. In her practice Evans uses brown kraft paper and other disposable materials to interrogate sites, stories, place and belonging often in the form of large-scale site and research responsive installations in an enquiry that explores the power relationships between Africa and Europe while moving across the real and imagined, mapping the ephemeral and un-mappable. The silhouette, a well-known European visual device is utilised to make the Black body visible as a site for historical and contemporary narratives of resilience, mobility, geography, and memory.Recently appointed as the Director of Fine Art at the Slade School of Fine Art, UCL, Evans was the BA Fine Art course leader at Chelsea College of Arts. As an educator, Evans is invested in challenging barriers to education and widening access to the arts. Evans has taken part in several exhibitions, commissions and residencies in the UK and Internationally including 3rd Guangzhou Triennial, Guangzhou China (2008); Meditations, Baltimore Museum of Art USA (2008); Smithsonian Artist Research Fellowship, National Museum of African Art, Washington DC, USA (2010); The Arts & Literary Arts Residency,Rockefeller Foundation, Bellagio Italy (2014); Still the Barbarians EVA International, Limerick Ireland (2016); Lagos Photo, Lagos Nigeria (2018); 11 Biennial Do Mercosul – Porto Alegre, Brazil (2018); Layers - La Banque Arts Centre, Bethune France (2019); Paper Routes:Women to Watch 2020, NMWA USA (2020); Breathe, META Open Arts, London (2022); Gilt, Zeitz MOCCA Cape Town SA (2023); Rites of Passage, Gagosian London (2023) and Windrush Portraits, John Hansard Gallery Southampton 2023. 

Gary Sangster is an Australian curator whose career includes roles as an art educator, curator, writer, academic, and museum director in Australia, New Zealand, the USA, and the UK. Prior to relocating to the UK in 2015, his appointments include Chief Curator, National Art Gallery, Wellington, New Zealand; Curator, The New Museum, New York, USA; Director, Contemporary Museum, Baltimore, USA; Director, Cleveland Center for Contemporary Art, USA; Director, Headlands, San Francisco, USA; Director, Artspace, Sydney, Australia; and Dean and Director, Art Institute of Boston, Lesley University, USA.  He was Curator for the USA pavilions at the 8th Cairo Biennale and the 3rd Istanbul Biennale; and for the biennale-scale 2nd and 3rd Australian Perspecta, and The Decade Show, NYC. He has curated international touring exhibition projects by Mary Kelly, Kerry James Marshall, and Genevieve Cadieux, and commissioned new multi-museum projects by Isaac Julien, Dennis Adams, Joseph Kosuth, Lorna Simpson, Felix Gonzales Torres, Andres Serrano, Tatsuo Myajima, and Judith Barry. Ground-breaking indigenous projects include: Koori Art 84–Urban Aboriginal Art; Two Worlds Collide–The Meeting Points of Aboriginal and Western Culture; and A Certain Place–Landscape and Vision from Black and White Perspectives. Most recently, he was Interim Director of Arts Catalyst Centre for Art, Science & Technology, London; and was a Trustee of Arnolfini in Bristol as well as Bath Regional Capital. He is currently Co-Director of Drawing Projects UK and Honorary Research Fellow, University of Dundee. Recent curatorial projects include: UK Curator, Lines of Site / Kazi Izleri /Marques de Jaciment / Marcas di Yacimiento in Istanbul / Dundee / Barcelona / Aksaray; UK Curator, Mairéad McClean – HERE, Belfast; UK Executive Producer, Long Life – Merilyn Fairskye, Sydney; Curator/Producer, Think Tank: Tactics, Thinking Allowed – Connections, Concordia University, Montreal, Canada.

Jennifer Scott has been Director of Dulwich Picture Gallery since April 2017, with responsibility for the artistic vision, management, and strategic leadership of the world’s first purpose-built public art gallery. As Director of the Holburne Museum, Bath (2014-2017), she led a successful fundraising campaign for the acquisition of Arthur Atherley by Sir Thomas Lawrence. She championed the Holburne’s collection, leading to the re-attribution of Wedding Dance in the Open Air to Pieter Brueghel the Younger and Boy Blowing Bubbles to David Teniers the Younger. From 2004-2014 Jennifer was Curator of Paintings at Royal Collection Trust. She previously worked at the National Gallery, London and National Museums Liverpool. She has curated numerous exhibitions and published widely on Dutch and Flemish painting. Recent projects include Rubens & Women (Dulwich Picture Gallery, 2023), Rembrandt’s Light (Dulwich Picture Gallery, 2019), Bruegel: Defining a Dynasty (The Holburne Museum, 2017); Impressionism: Capturing Life (The Holburne Museum, 2016); Dutch Landscapes (The Queen’s Gallery, Edinburgh and London, and The Bowes Museum, 2010-2012), and Bruegel to Rubens: Masters of Flemish Painting (The Queen’s Gallery Edinburgh, London, and The Royal Museum of Fine Arts, Brussels, 2007-2009). She wrote the first survey of state portraiture from within the British Royal Collection, The Royal Portrait: Image and Impact (2010). Jennifer received her BA and MA in History of Art from the Courtauld Institute of Art, London. She is Chair of the AFC Wimbledon Foundation, Governor of Alleyn’s School, Committee Member of The Treasure House Fair, Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries, and Fellow Commoner of Lucy Cavendish College, University of Cambridge.

Key Dates for the Call for Entries:
8 March 2024:                    Call for Entries Opens
12 June 2024:                    Last day for Registration of Entries
19 June-12 July 2024: Submission of Drawings to Collection Centres (details here)
19 July 2024:                      Announcement of Shortlisted Drawings for Entrants
21 July onwards:              Return of Unselected Works to Collection Centres

Key Dates for the Exhibition & Awards:
2 October 2024:         Exhibition & Publication Launch & Awards Announcement
3 October 2024:         Exhibition open to the public at Trinity Buoy Wharf, London
3 October 2024:         Drawing Symposium at Trinity Buoy Wharf
16 October 2024:      Exhibition closes at Trinity Buoy Wharf
October-July 2025:  Exhibition tours to multiple venues

Please note that the Trinity Buoy Wharf Working Drawing Award has a separate Call for Entries and Selection Process that will be launched later in March 2024.


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Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize 2023 - Exhibition Tour Information

After the presentation of the Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize 2023 at Trinity Buoy Wharf in London, the exhibition will embark on a nationwide tour until September 2024. Tour venues include:

- TheGallery at Arts University Bournemouth, 2 February to 16 April 2024;

- The Arts Institute, Plymouth University, 4 May to 29 June 2024;

- Turnpike, Wigan, 13 July to 14 September 2024.

A fully illustrated publication, education pack and engagement programmes accompany the exhibition and tour. A documentary film of the exhibition will be launched in January 2024 at Drawing Projects UK. 

Supported by the Trinity Buoy Wharf Trust, the Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize is regarded as the foremost open exhibition dedicated to drawing in the United Kingdom. 

The 102 drawings included in the Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize 2023 were selected by Laura Hoptman, Executive Director of The Drawing Center, New York; Dennis Scholl AM, Collector & Arts Patron; and Barbara Walker MBE RA, Artist. The 102 drawings shortlisted for Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize 2023 are by:
 
Samuel Owusu Achiaw / Margrét Adolfsdóttir / Elisa Alaluusua / Judith Alder / Thomas Allen / Iain Andrews / Judith Anketell / Brigitte Bailey / Andy Bannister / Matt Bannister / Amélie Barnathan / Jeanette Barnes / Adrian Baynes / Cai Arfon Bellis  / Akash Bhatt / Peter Blodau / Kirsty Bogle / Jesús Briceño Reyes / Ann Bridges / Caroline Burraway / Ian Chamberlain / Dongwei (Shirley) Chen / Jade Chorkularb / Gary Clough / Anthony Connolly / Hannah Davies / Matthew Draper / Nisha Duggal / Sarah Duyshart / Roy Eastland / Linda Fardoe / Katy Fiszman / Edo Fuijkschot / Stefan Gant / Joy Gerrard / Diane Goring / Nick Grellier / Elaine Griffin / Susie Hamilton / Georgia Kitty Harris / Harriet Mena Hill / Fiona Hingston / Ben Johnson / Sharon Kelly / Simon Klein / Sarah Knill-Jones / Jane Laborie / Gary Lawrence / Debbie Lee / Bridget Lesly / Melissa Ling / Saloni Lodha / Derek Lomas / Emily Lucas / Richard Maguire / Tanaka Mazivanhanga / Nicolette McGuire / Victoria Hunter McKenzie / Grace McMurray / Richard McVetis / June Nelson / Rufus Newell / Tony Noble / Simon Page / Alex Pascual / Raksha Patel / Anna Plavinskaya / Julia Polonski / Sandra Porter / James Pyman / Richard Mark Rawlins / Maaike Reimert / Giulia Ricci / Isabel Rock / Nicki Rolls / Sara Rossberg / Heike Scharrer / Gail Seres-Woolfson / Mark Shields / Katy Shepherd / Karen Smith / Lisa Solovieva / Nancy Spain / Robert Strange / Fiona Swapp / David Symonds / Gabriela Vargas Telaya / Richa Vora / Kate Walters / Emmy Wan / Aleksandra Warchol / Louise Ward / Teresa Whitfield / Hannah Winkelbauer / Caroline Wong / Avis Wu
 
The 22 drawings shortlisted for the Working Drawing Award 2023 were selected by Ben Heath, Principal, Grimshaw Architects; Debbie Hillyerd, Senior Director of Learning, Hauser & Wirth; and Michael Pavelka, Costume and Set Designer for Stage, Dance and Opera. The drawings are by:
 
Michael Becker / Daniele Catalli / Sara Choudhrey / Greg Creek / Agata di Masternak / Emma Douglas / Sarah Duyshart / Lisa-Marie Gibbs / Altea Grau Vidal / Nina Gross / Vladimir Guculak / Sandy Horsley / Ben Johnson / Joanna Leah / Emily Mc Gardle / Ade Olaosebiakn

 

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Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize 2023 Events at Trinity Buoy Wharf in London

During the Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize 2023 exhibition at Trinity Buoy Wharf in London there are a number of in-person events:

30th September 2023, 2pm to 4pm: Drawing Session with Elisa Alaluusua at Trinity Buoy Wharf
On Saturday 30 September award-winning artist, Elisa Alaluusua, will lead a practical drawing session at Trinity Buoy Wharf in London as part of the programme of events accompanying the Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize 2023. Elisa Alaluusua has two drawings included in the 2023 exhibition - Two Months Apart, 2023, Video Drawing and Great-Grandmother’s Little Dress with a Collar, 2021-2023, Graphite on handmade paper - and was the First Prize winner of Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize 2022.

Join Elisa to explore the drawings on show in the exhibition through drawing in the Buoy Store; the drawing materials for this session will be provided and are included in the ticket price. All levels of experience welcome to join this drawing session.

Elisa Alaluusua (b.1970 Rovaniemi, Finland) studied MA Art as Environment at Manchester Metropolitan University (1994-95); MA Art Education at University of Lapland (1991-99); and a PhD at Chelsea College of Arts, University of the Arts London (2009-16). Selected group exhibitions include: Aika ja Ajallisuus, Gallery Valo, Arktikum, Rovaniemi, Finland (2022); Jerwood Drawing Prize 2017 & 2015, Jerwood Space London and UK tour (2017-18 & 2015-16); Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize 2022, Trinity Buoy Wharf, London and UK tour (2022-23); Driven to Draw: 20th Century Drawings and Sketchbooks from the Royal Academy Collection, the Royal Academy of Arts, London (2011-12). Solo exhibitions include: Memory Nuclei, Gallery Duetto, Helsinki, Finland (2022); Sketchbooks – A Revelation, Art Space Gallery, London, UK (2018); Sketchbooks – An Obsession, Drawing Projects UK, Wiltshire (2017). Recent awards include: First Prize, Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize 2022; Second Prize, Jerwood Drawing Prize 2015. Elisa lives and works in London and Finnish Lapland.BOOK HERE


8th October 2023, 2pm to 4pm: Drawing Session with Jeanette Barnes at Trinity Buoy Wharf
Join artist Jeanette Barnes for this practical drawing session at Trinity Buoy Wharf alongside the Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize 2023.
On Sunday 8 October at 2pm, award-winning artist, Jeanette Barnes, will lead a practical Drawing Session at Trinity Buoy Wharf in London as part of the programme of events accompanying the Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize 2023.

Jeanette Barnes' large drawing, New Battersea Tube Station & Developments, 2023, made with compressed charcoal on paper, is included in the 2023 exhibition. Jeanette won the Working Drawing Award in 2019 and Second Prize in the Jerwood Drawing Prize 2003.

Jeanette says of her drawing: "This work is not about one moment in time, but more a history of the development. On location, I gather information from multiple viewpoints to make the resulting studio drawing slightly uncomfortable. The sketches that fed this image were made over many years, the sense of that evolution had to be accommodated within the final drawing, statements suggested and erased many times over. As much as the work documents the site itself, it also uses the movement of people and the energy of construction as a metaphor for urban experience and change. The development of the drawing isn’t preconceived, it’s much more of a journey of discoveries and losses than a straight line from beginning to end. Buildings jostle and compete for attention and space, as they always have done and always will do. "

Join Jeanette to explore drawing Trinity Buoy Wharf inspired by drawings in the exhibition; the drawing materials for this session will be provided and are included in the ticket price. All levels of experience welcome to join this drawing session.

Jeanette Barnes (b.1961) Great Harwood, Lancashire, UK) studied BA Hons Fine Art, Liverpool Polytechnic (1980-83); Postgraduate Painting, Royal Academy Schools (1984-87); MA Printmaking, Royal College of Art (1987-89). Group exhibitions include: Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, London (2023, 2013, 2011, 2009, 2007); Wren300, Guildhall, London (2023); Bainbridge Print Open (2023 ); Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize 2022, 2020, 2019, London & tours (2022-23, 2020-21, 2019-20); Woolwich Contemporary Print (2023, 2021, 2020); Creative Debuts, Adidas Flagship Store, London (2022); Moving Cities, Anise Gallery, London (2022); Drawn to Carbon, Graham Hunter Gallery, London (2020); ING Discerning Eye, online (2020); National Print Exhibition, Bankside, London (2019); Lynn Painter Stainers Exhibition, Mall Galleries, London (2019, 2016, 2015, 2014, 2013). Solo exhibitions: Urban Journeys, Felix & Spear London (2019); Docklands Diary, Clifford Chance, London (2018); Metropolis, Felix & Spear, London (2018); Urban Connections, Broadgate Tower London (2016); Sense of Place, Sewell Centre, Radley College (2016); Time & Tide, Anise Gallery, London (2015); Site Specific, Spitalfields Gallery, London (2015). Awards: Hugh Casson Drawing Award, Royal Academy Summer Exhibition (2013); Second Prize, Lynn Painter Stainers (2019); Working Drawing Award, Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize 2019; Second Prize, Jerwood Drawing Prize 2003. She lives and works in London in the UK. BOOK HERE

14th October 2023, 10.30am: Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize 2023-an introduction with Director, Anita Taylor
Join us for an introduction to the Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize 2023 exhibition with founding director, Professor Anita Taylor.
On Saturday 14 October at 10.30am, join Professor Anita Taylor, the founding Director of the Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize, for this special introduction to the Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize 2023 exhibition at Trinity Buoy Wharf in London.

Professor Anita Taylor studied at Mid-Cheshire College of Art, Gloucestershire College of Art & Technology, and the Royal College of Art. She was Artist-in-Residence at Durham Cathedral [1987-88]; Cheltenham Fellow in Painting [1988-89]; Artist-in-Residence with the NSW National Parks and Wildlife Service with the National Art School in Sydney [2004]. Recent solo exhibitions include: Witness, Young Gallery, Salisbury [2018]; DRAWN, The Customs House, South Shields [2017]; William Wright Artists Projects, Sydney [2014]; The Drawing Room, Sydney [2011]; Peter Pinson Gallery, Sydney [2009]; The Drawing Gallery [2009, 2004]. Recent group shows include Kazı İzleri / Lines of Site in Istanbul, touring to Dundee, Barcelona and Aksaray [2022], for which she made a series of large drawings in response to the Neolithic settlement of Aşıklı Höyük in Central Anatolia as part of an EU-funded project; inclusion in exhibitions of drawing at: The Global Centre for Drawing, Langford120, Melbourne [2018, 2013, 2011]; Jerwood Gallery, Hastings [2016, 2014]; Victoria & Albert Museum [2009]; Tate Britain (2006-07). Awards include the Malvern Award for Drawing [1993]; Drawing Award, Hunting Art Prize [1999]; First Prize, Hunting Art Prize [2000].

Currently Dean of Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art & Design at the University of Dundee, her previous academic roles include: Executive Dean of Bath School of Art and Design at Bath Spa University [2013-19]; Director & Chief Executive Officer of the National Art School, Sydney, Australia [2009-13]; Dean, Wimbledon College of Art & Director, The Centre for Drawing, University of the Arts London [2006-09]; Vice Principal of Wimbledon School of Art [2004-06]. She was first awarded a Personal Chair/Professorial title in 2002 at the University of Gloucestershire, where she was initially appointed as Head of Painting in 1991. She is founding Director of the annual Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize exhibition since 1994 (known as Jerwood Drawing Prize from 2001-17); and established Drawing Projects UK in 2009 to develop and promote research initiatives in drawing, including the Jerwood Drawing Prize, and developed Drawing Projects UK as a physical Centre for Drawing and Contemporary Art in Wiltshire in 2015; a second Drawing Projects UK planned to open in Dundee, Scotland in 2024. BOOK HERE

 

Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize 2023 Exhibition - London & Tour

Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize 2023 at Trinity Buoy Wharf, September 2023

The Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize 2023 is currently on show in the Buoy Store at Trinity Buoy Wharf in London from 29 September 2023 to 15 October 2023. The exhibition is free to visit and open daily from 11am to 6pm until Saturday 14 October and 11am to 2pm on Sunday 15 October 2023.

Supported by the Trinity Buoy Wharf Trust, is regarded as the foremost open exhibition dedicated to drawing in the United Kingdom, visitors can discover the 123 shortlisted and award-winning works included in the Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize 2023 exhibition. 

The 102 drawings included in the Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize 2023 were selected by Laura Hoptman, Executive Director of The Drawing Center, New York; Dennis Scholl AM, Collector & Arts Patron; and Barbara Walker MBE RA, Artist. The 102 drawings shortlisted for Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize 2023 are by:
 
Samuel Owusu Achiaw / Margrét Adolfsdóttir / Elisa Alaluusua / Judith Alder / Thomas Allen / Iain Andrews / Judith Anketell / Brigitte Bailey / Andy Bannister / Matt Bannister / Amélie Barnathan / Jeanette Barnes / Adrian Baynes / Cai Arfon Bellis  / Akash Bhatt / Peter Blodau / Kirsty Bogle / Jesús Briceño Reyes / Ann Bridges / Caroline Burraway / Ian Chamberlain / Dongwei (Shirley) Chen / Jade Chorkularb / Gary Clough / Anthony Connolly / Hannah Davies / Matthew Draper / Nisha Duggal / Sarah Duyshart / Roy Eastland / Linda Fardoe / Katy Fiszman / Edo Fuijkschot / Stefan Gant / Joy Gerrard / Diane Goring / Nick Grellier / Elaine Griffin / Susie Hamilton / Georgia Kitty Harris / Harriet Mena Hill / Fiona Hingston / Ben Johnson / Sharon Kelly / Simon Klein / Sarah Knill-Jones / Jane Laborie / Gary Lawrence / Debbie Lee / Bridget Lesly / Melissa Ling / Saloni Lodha / Derek Lomas / Emily Lucas / Richard Maguire / Tanaka Mazivanhanga / Nicolette McGuire / Victoria Hunter McKenzie / Grace McMurray / Richard McVetis / June Nelson / Rufus Newell / Tony Noble / Simon Page / Alex Pascual / Raksha Patel / Anna Plavinskaya / Julia Polonski / Sandra Porter / James Pyman / Richard Mark Rawlins / Maaike Reimert / Giulia Ricci / Isabel Rock / Nicki Rolls / Sara Rossberg / Heike Scharrer / Gail Seres-Woolfson / Mark Shields / Katy Shepherd / Karen Smith / Lisa Solovieva / Nancy Spain / Robert Strange / Fiona Swapp / David Symonds / Gabriela Vargas Telaya / Richa Vora / Kate Walters / Emmy Wan / Aleksandra Warchol / Louise Ward / Teresa Whitfield / Hannah Winkelbauer / Caroline Wong / Avis Wu
 
The 22 drawings shortlisted for the Working Drawing Award 2023 were selected by Ben Heath, Principal, Grimshaw Architects; Debbie Hillyerd, Senior Director of Learning, Hauser & Wirth; and Michael Pavelka, Costume and Set Designer for Stage, Dance and Opera. The drawings are by:
 
Michael Becker / Daniele Catalli / Sara Choudhrey / Greg Creek / Agata di Masternak / Emma Douglas / Sarah Duyshart / Lisa-Marie Gibbs / Altea Grau Vidal / Nina Gross / Vladimir Guculak / Sandy Horsley / Ben Johnson / Joanna Leah / Emily Mc Gardle / Ade Olaosebiakn
 

Following the show at Trinity Buoy Wharf in London, the exhibition will embark on a nationwide tour until September 2024. Tour venues include:

- TheGallery at Arts University Bournemouth, 2 February to 16 April 2024;

- The Arts Institute, Plymouth University, 4 May to 29 June 2024;

- Turnpike, Wigan, 13 July to 14 September 2024.

A fully illustrated publication, education pack and engagement programmes accompany the exhibition and tour. 

 


 
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Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize 2023 - Awards Announced

The Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize, supported by the Trinity Buoy Wharf Trust, is widely regarded as the foremost annual open exhibition dedicated to drawing in the United Kingdom. The 2023 edition marks the 30th year of the exhibition project and the 6th year of generous support from Trinity Buoy Wharf Trust for the annual open exhibition. In 2023, the biennial Evelyn Williams Drawing Award is also awarded and brings the total value of the awards announced on Thursday 28 September 2023 at Trinity Buoy Wharf in London to £27,000.
 
The open call for the Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize 2023 received over 3,000 submissions from 1,450 candidates from 40 countries. From this remarkable submission of contemporary drawings, 123 drawings by 111 practitioners were selected for the Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize 2023 exhibition and the Trinity Buoy Wharf Working Drawing Award. 

At the Exhibition Launch & Awards Announcement at Trinity Buoy Wharf in London on Thursday 28 September 2023, the following awards were announced:

- First Prize of £8,000: Jeanette Barnes, New Battersea Tube Station & Developments, 2023
- Second Prize of £5,000: Victoria Hunter McKenzie, Tasha brought us Guinneps, 2022
- Student Award of £2,000: Peter Blodau, El Kobri Maadi, 2023
- Working Drawing Award of £2,000: Ade Olaosebikan, Reconstituted Planes - The Barcelona Pavilion Reimagined, 2023
- Evelyn Williams Drawing Award of £10,000 and solo exhibition at Hastings Contemporary: Isabel Rock, Our Cell, 2022

A panel of esteemed expert selectors comprising Laura Hoptman, Executive Director of The Drawing Center, New York; Dennis Scholl AM, Collector & Arts Patron; and Barbara Walker MBE RA, Artist, meticulously reviewed all if the submissions to select the shortlisted drawings and the First Prize, Second Prize and Student Award.
 
First Prize: Jeanette Barnes for her work New Battersea Tube Station & Developments, 2023, compressed charcoal on paper, 150 x 213cm (above). Born in Lancashire in 1961, Jeanette Barnes is an accomplished artist and educator who has devoted the past 25 years of her career to large-scale drawings capturing the essence of the urban landscape. Jeanette Barnes' award-winning work is a dynamic portrayal of Battersea's development in London, anchored by the new underground station. Battersea power station’s iconic chimneys only just edge into the picture, which focuses on the rise of newer buildings, and the ebb and flow of people.“Drawing is the entirety of my practice” Jeanette Barnes explains. “Through these pieces I want to generate that sense of energy and excitement which is representative of being part of the city. My work engages with the constant development within the urban environment. I am fascinated by the way vast architectural projects are changing the nature and demography of given areas."
 
Much of Jeanette Barnes' work has centred around the developments within the city of London, exploring the relationship between these built environments and those who inhabit them. As much as the work documents the site itself, it also uses the movement of people and the energy of construction as a metaphor for urban experience and change.


 
Second Prize: Victoria Hunter McKenzie, Tasha brought us Guinneps, 2022, charcoal, graphite on paper, 41 x 30.5cm (above left). Born in 1959 in New Haven, USA, and based in New York, Victoria Hunter McKenzie received the Second Prize of £5,000, for her work Tasha brought us Guinneps, 2022, charcoal and graphite on paper, 41 x 30.5cm. A charcoal drawing of a young girl, seen from above, her outstretched palm offering a handful of fruits (Guinneps), the award-winning drawing is a deeply personal and poignant portrait. “Tasha is my niece. She is growing up in an impoverished yard in rural Jamaica” the New York-based artist explains. “Despite the many who greet those “fram farin” [foreigners, coming from abroad] with their hands out, there are many more who will greet you with a gift.” Victoria Hunter McKenzie has been travelling to Jamaica for over thirty years due to family connections and her award-winning drawing serves as a personal and nuanced reflection of her experiences upon arriving in Jamaica. 
 
Student Award: Peter Blodau, El Kobri Maadi, 2023, charcoal on paper, 60 x 40cm (above right). Peter Blodau is currently studying MA in Illustration at Plymouth University of Art. His award-winning charcoal drawings, El Kobri Maadi, 2023, is of the dusty and multi-layered Cairo cityscape, dynamically captured from its rooftops. The black-and-white drawing presents a landscape of flat, barren, roofs with their own worlds of satellite dishes, left overs, and long forgotten items. "Using the medium of drawing, I work directly in front of the subject to express an immediate direct response”, Peter Blodau explains, “the play of light on these hard geometric forms endlessly varying yet always the same becomes another aspect I sought to capture in this series of works on paper."

Born in Berlin, Germany, in 1967, to parents who were both artists, Peter Blodau moved to Ireland as a child and studied Fine Art Printmaking in Limerick. He started his professional life as an artist in Paris, where he made drawings and paintings on the streets of the city. He went on to travel back to Berlin, then Greece, Cuba, the United States, Italy, England, and Egypt. In 2014, he moved to Cairo to lecture Drawing and Illustration at the German University in Cairo. Today, he lives, studies and works in Falmouth, Cornwall, UK.
 


Working Drawing Award: Ade Olaosebikan, Reconstituted planes - The Barcelona Pavilion Reimagined 1, 2023, digital drawing using SketchUp, AutoCAD, Adobe Illustrator, Adobe InDesign, Adobe Photoshop, 59 x 42cm and Reconstituted planes - The Barcelona Pavilion Reimagined 2, 2023, 0.4 technical pencil on tracing paper, 84 x 59cm (above). The Working Drawing Award is a special category within the Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize that celebrates the role of drawing within architecture, design and making processes, chosen by a selection panel comprising Ben Heath, Principal, Grimshaw Architects; Debbie Hillyerd, Senior Director of Learning, Hauser & Wirth; and Michael Pavelka, costume and set designer for stage, dance and opera.
 
The Working Drawing Award of £2,000 was awarded to Ade Olaosebikan (born in Lagos, Nigeria in 1991), for Reconstituted planes - The Barcelona Pavilion reimagined 1 and 2, 2023, a digital drawing, 59 x 42cm, and a drawing made with a technical pencil on tracing paper, 84 x 59cm.
 
“I wanted to use the drawings to question the metaphysical nature of a window and see the relationship found between an observer and an object” explains the Bristol-based Architectural Assistant. “Sometimes the fourth dimension is considered as time. I wanted to ask if time can be translated in a single image”. Both drawings explore how three-dimensionality can be expressed in two-dimensions by depicting an extruded version of the floor plan of the Barcelona Pavilion, one of the most influential modernist buildings of the 20th Century, designed by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe and Lilly Reich in 1929. “In the end the central question is whether, after a series of abstractions, the original artefact is still able to be read by the viewer.”

Evelyn Williams Drawing Award: Isabel Rock, Our Cell, 2022, biro on paper, 43 x 53cm and her exhibition proposal for Hatings Contemporary. Selected by Nicholas Usherwood, Chair of Trustees of the Evelyn Williams Trust, Leah Cross, Director of Programmes and Liz Gilmore, Director of Hastings Contemporary, and Anita Taylor, Director of the Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize, the Evelyn Williams Drawing Award of £10,000 supports an artist selected for the exhibition who has an existing track record and on the basis of their proposal for a solo exhibition or presentation at Hastings Contemporary.
 

Isabel Rock was born in London in 1981 and received this prestigious biennial award on the basis of her proposal to develop a body of work that depicts an imaginative, surreal vision of the world after climate breakdown has wreaked its havoc. Her recent drawings have a strong narrative looking at systems of commerce, power structures, the complexities of desire, objects of value, the fallibility of human nature and the enterprising charm of human endeavour. Her drawing selected for the exhibition, Our Cell, is a biro drawing on paper offering a glimpse into her month-long stay in HMP Bronzefields in November 2022, when her participation in the Just Stop Oil protests to raise awareness of climate emergency led to her being arrested and incarcerated for a month in prison.  

Isabel Rock explains, “As I have become more involved in civil disobedience the more I question our society, its rules and how we inhabit the environment. My month in Bronzefields prison showed me that I don't need all of the things I thought I needed. The experience highlighted the resilience of the human spirit, the ingenuity of necessity and the importance of human connection.” A key part of the artist’s usual practice, drawing became a way to document prison life, to make custody bearable, and to create meaningful connections. “Drawing in prison became my saviour against the monotony” shares Isabel Rock. “We received a notebook in our ‘welcome’ pack and when that was full, I drew on anything I could - envelopes, backs of crossword puzzles, scraps of paper.”
 
Special Commendations were also awarded in the Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize 2023, to Sarah Knill-Jones, for Skull I, 2022, charcoal & acrylic on newsprint, and Samuel Owusu Achiaw, Looking, 2022, charcoal, graphite and carbon on paper; and in the Working Drawing Award category to Lisa Marie Gibbs for Nang’s garden, 2022, pencil and pressed rose on found graph paper.

Visiting the exhibition at Trinity Buoy Wharf in London:
Visitors can discover all of the shortlisted and award-winning works in the Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize 2023 exhibition, now open at Trinity Buoy Wharf, from 29 September 2023 to 15 October 2023. The exhibition is free to visit from 11am to 6pm until Saturday 14 October and from 11am to 2pm on Sunday 15 October 2023.
 
Following its presentation at Trinity Buoy Wharf in London, the exhibition will embark on a nationwide tour to Drawing Projects UK, details TBC; TheGallery, Arts University Bournemouth, 16 February to 12 April 2024; The Arts Institute, Plymouth University, 4 May to 29 June 2024; Turnpike, Wigan, 13 July to 14 September 2024. A fully illustrated publication, education pack and public engagement programmes accompany the exhibition and tour. 
 
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