The Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize 2025 Call for Entries will close at 5pm (UK) on 17 June 2025. 
 
Artists and drawing practitioners worldwide are invited to submit up to three drawings for consideration for the UK’s leading open exhibition dedicated to drawing with awards of a total prize fund of £25,000. Selection by a distinguished panel of experts, the annual open exhibition has a longstanding reputation for celebrating excellence in contemporary drawing practice. The Selection Panel for the Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize 2025 is:
 
      Fiona Bradley OBE, Director of Fruitmarket
      Kieran Long, Director of Amos Rex
      Soheila Sokhanvari, Artist
 
All selected works will be included in a high-profile exhibition that will launch at Trinity Buoy Wharf in London on 9 October 2025 and then tours widely in the UK until July 2026. The exhibition will be accompanied by a fully illustrated publication and a programme of educational and engagement activities, including a symposium at Trinity Buoy Wharf.
 
Drawings shortlisted for the Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize 2025 eligible for the following awards:

     First Prize: £8,000
     Second Prize: £5,000
     Student Award: £2,000
     Evelyn Williams Drawing Award: £10,000 

plus a solo exhibition at Hastings Contemporary.

The deadline to register for entry for the Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize is 17 June 2025 at 5pm (BST). Following online registration, all entrants submit their artworks to one of the Collection Centres located across the UK on specified dates. This facilitates all works being seen in person by the Selection Panel. If you would like to watch a recording of a live information session on the Call for Entries please watch it here.

We have attached the schedule for delivery and collection of works to aid your advance planning below, noting that FAQs can be found on the entry portal and all enquiries should be referred to Parker Harris (see below).



The Entry Portal for the Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize 2025 is here.
 
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L-R: Fiona Bradley OBE, Kieran Long, Soheila Sokhanvari 

The Trinity Buoy Wharf Working Drawing Award aims to explore and enhance our understanding of working drawings today. A worldwide Call for Entries for the Trinity Buoy Wharf Working Drawing Award 2025 is now open until Thursday 17 July 2025.
 
Architects, designers, engineers, makers, planners, scientists, amongst others who make drawings from which something can be made, fabricated, constructed or explained are invited to enter the Trinity Buoy Wharf Working Drawing Award 2025.



Professional and student applicants may submit up to 3 drawings on paper, of A0 maximum size, by completing the online entry form and uploading high quality digital images of their drawings via the entry portal.

The expert Selection Panel who will choose the drawings to be shortlisted for the Trinity Buoy Wharf Working Drawing Award 2025 and exhibition is announced as:

-      Pablo Garcia, Associate Professor, School of Art Institute of Chicago
-      Kieran Long, curator, writer, and Director of Amos Rex, Helsinki
-      Sunand Prasad OBE PPRIBA, Principal, Perkins & Will, London

The Working Drawing Award Selection Panel will be convened by Professor Anita Taylor, founding Director of the Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize Project (1994-present) and Drawing Projects UK (2009-), and Dean of Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art & Design, University of Dundee. 

Drawings selected for the Working Drawing Award 2025 will then be presented in a special display alongside the Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize 2025 exhibition and featured in a fully illustrated publication that will accompany the touring exhibition.

The Working Drawing Award of £2,000 will be announced at the Awards Ceremony and Exhibition Launch for the Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize 2025 on Wednesday 8 October 2025 at Trinity Buoy Wharf in London.

Summary of Key Dates:
-       Entries submitted: by 17 July 2025 at 5pm
-       Notification of outcomes: by 25 July 2025 at 5pm
-       Selected drawings to be delivered to London: 26 July - 15 August 2025
-       Award Announcement & Exhibition Launch: 8 October 2025
-       Exhibition at Trinity Buoy Wharf in London: 9 October to 19 October 2025
-       Exhibition Tour: October 2025 to July 2026
 
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L-R: Pablo Garcia, Kieran Long, Sunand Prasad OBE PPRIBA

ABOUT THE TRINITY BUOY WHARF WORKING DRAWING AWARD
 
The Trinity Buoy Wharf Working Drawing Award is a special category within the overall Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize exhibition and awards supported by the Trinity Buoy Wharf Trust. The Working Drawing Award of £2,000 focuses on drawings for architecture, design and making, and other professions where working drawings, from which something can be made, fabricated or constructed, are made. There is a dedicated online submission process for the Working Drawing Award and the selected works on paper, with a maximum paper size of A0 (841 × 1189mm). The Call for Submissions is open from 8 April to 17 July 2025.  From the online entry process, shortlisted drawings will form an exhibition of working drawings and all are eligible for the Award. The Working Drawing Award exhibition will then tour alongside, and separately to, the Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize 2025 into 2026.
 
ABOUT THE WORKING DRAWING AWARD SELECTION PANEL
 
Pablo Garcia holds architecture degrees from Cornell University and Princeton University. He is an Associate Professor at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, where his research-based creative practice explores and reframes historical artistic processes for a 21st-century audience. His work examines the intersection of forgotten analogue methods and cutting-edge digital technologies, paying homage to centuries of human-machine collaboration in art and design. Through a multidisciplinary approach, he investigates art and technology relationships across site-specific installations, machine-assisted drawings, kinetic sculptures, optical illusions, speculative architectures, and original scholarship. Since 2013, he has commercially produced the NeoLucida, a modern reinterpretation of the camera lucida, and his extensive research on 600 years of drawing machines is documented at drawingmachines.org.
 
Kieran Long is an award-winning writer in the fields of art, architecture and design, and his career includes roles as a curator, museum director, broadcaster, and teacher. Since February 2024, Kieran Long has been the Director of Amos Rex, a contemporary art museum established in Helsinki that opened in 2018. Kieran was previously Director of ArkDes, the National Centre for Architecture and Design in Stockholm, Sweden (2017-2024), and the Keeper of the department of Design, Architecture and Digital at the Victoria & Albert Museum in London. He is a non-executive director of V&A Dundee.
 
Sunand Prasad MA (Cantab), AA Dip, PhD (RCA), PPRIBA, FRSA Hon RTPI, Hon AIA, Hon FRAIC, OBE is Principal, Perkins & Will, London. At the core of Sunand’s architectural practice is a passionate belief in collaboration, and the need for expert knowledge to be catalysed by the everyday experience of users, in order to create truly successful environments and long-term value. Sunand was President of the RIBA from 2007 to 2009, championing the value of design, reform of architectural education and action on climate change. He has served in several key advisory and policy positions, regularly chairs Design Review Panels, is a London Mayor’s Design Advocate, Chair of the UKGBC Board of Trustees and of Article 25, the humanitarian architecture charity. He is committed to engaging with the wider design and construction industry, providing thought leadership on current issues such as the circular economy, co-creation and valuing design. He has authored many books, articles and broadcasts on architecture, sustainability, retrofit, hospital design and urbanism.
 
The Working Drawing Award Selection Panel will be convened by Professor Anita Taylor, founding Director of the Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize Project (1994-present) and Drawing Projects UK (2009-). Since 2019, she has been Dean of Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art and Design at the University of Dundee. Previous academic roles include Executive Dean of Bath School of Art & Design at Bath Spa University, Director & CEO of the National Art School in Australia, Dean of Wimbledon College of Art and Director of The Centre for Drawing at University of the Arts London, Vice Principal Wimbledon School of Art.

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TRINITY BUOY WHARF DRAWING PRIZE 2024 - EXHIBITION & TOUR DATES

3 October to 16 October 2024
Buoy Store, Trinity Buoy Wharf,
64 Orchard Place, 
London E14 0JY

trinitybuoywharf.com

26 October 2024 to 26 January 2025
The Salisbury Museum
The Kings House, 65 The Close,
Salisbury SP1 2EN

salisburymuseum.org.uk

1 February to 10 May 2025
Falmouth Art Gallery
Municipal Buildings, The Moor,
Falmouth TR11 2RT

falmouthartgallery.com

19 June to 25 July 2025
Cooper Gallery 
Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art & Design
Dundee DD1 4HT

dundee.ac.uk/cooper-gallery/exhibitions 

18 August to 11 October 2025
Waterside Gallery
1 Waterside Plaza, Sale,
Trafford M33 7ZF

watersidearts.org

The Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize is supported by the Trinity Buoy Wharf Trust, and widely regarded as the foremost open exhibition dedicated to drawing in the United Kingdom. The 2024 edition marks the 7th year of generous support from .the Trinity Buoy Wharf Trust and is the 30th edition of the annual open drawing exhibition. A fully illustrated exhibition publication, downloadable Education Pack by Drawing is Free, and a programme of educational events, accompany the exhibition. 

The Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize 2024 exhibition was selected from a worldwide submission of contemporary drawings, 94 drawings by 88 artists were shortlisted for the Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize 2024 exhibition by Mary Evans, Artist & Director of UCL Slade School of Fine Art, Gary Sangster, Curator & Writer, Co-Director of Drawing Projects UK, and Jennifer Scott, Director of Dulwich Picture Gallery in London. The Working Drawing Award celebrates the role of drawing within architecture, design and making processes and 21 drawings by 20 practitioners were shortlisted for the Working Drawing Award by Benjamin Derbyshire, Chair of HTA Design LLP, a leading multidisciplinary design practice, Andrew Grant, Landscape Architect, Founder & Director of Grant Associates, and Caroline Grewar, Director of Programme at V&A Dundee.

The 94 drawings shortlisted for Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize 2024 are by:

Max L Adams / Elisa Alaluusua / Lucy Algar / Thomas Allen / Tim Allen / Allou / Jeanette Barnes / Geoff Bartholomew / Sophie Bartlett / Akash Bhatt / Chris Blackburn / Jane Bottery / Eric Butcher / Ruth Chambers / Sarah Chapman / Sara Choudhrey / Hyeyeon Chung / Sara Clark / Gary Clough / David Conway / Aleksandra Czuja / Gerry Davies / Gary Dennis / Emma Douglas / Sarah Duyshart / Jamie Eade / Roy Eastland / Mark John Evans / Kristian Evju / Jonathan Farr / Nicolas K Feldmeyer / Celu Ferreira / Charlie Ford / Todd Fuller / Stefan Gant / Ann Gillies / Adam Gray / Christopher Green / Catherine Greenwood / Richard Gregory / Susie Hamilton / Simon Head / Jessica Heywood / Roland Hicks / Fiona Hingston / Ciaran Hughes / Melinda Hunt / Julia Hutton / Owen Johnson / Janette Kerr / Wei Kuo / Tomasz Laczny / Gary Lawrence / Bridget Lesly / Cheryl Lewis / Jo Lewis / Shihui Li / Edward Liddle / Yutong Liu / Juliette Losq / Peter Matthews / Janet Melrose / Jamie Mills / Jilly Morris / Justine Moss / David Mumby / Hannah Naify / Simon Page / Camilo Parra / Esteban Peña Parga / Ben Platts-Mills / Keira Rathbone / Jane Reid / Abbie Schug / Charlene Scott / Brian Shields / Ilona Skladzien / Jake Spicer / David Symonds / Emma C Tabor / Sian Ellis Tillott / Sally Dee Trewartha / Marika Tyler-Clark / Felicity Warbrick / Lynda Whitehouse / Phill Wilson-Perkin / Hamish Young / Martha Zmpounou

The 21 drawings shortlisted for the Working Drawing Award 2024 are by:

Daniele Catalli / Lizzie Mary Cullen / Emma Douglas / Maxine Dodd / Alice Sheppard Fidler / Jane Giblin / Ben Johnson / Olga Kataeva-Rochford / Rosie Leventon / Katy Lucas / Emily Mc Gardle / Philip Mckeith / Julia Milns / Carole Romaya  /  Richard Smolinski / Lottie Stoddart / Cornelia Mary Tuglui / Dominic Walker / Emma Woffenden / Kenneth SY Yiu 

The Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize 2024 is on show at Trinity Buoy Wharf, London E14 0JY from Thursday 3 October to Wednesday 16 October 2024, and tours to Salisbury, Falmouth, Dundee, and Manchester - until October 2025.

From a worldwide submission of contemporary drawings, 94 drawings by 88 artists were shortlisted for the Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize 2024 exhibition, and 21 drawings by 20 practitioners were shortlisted for the Working Drawing Award.
 
At the Exhibition Launch & Awards Announcement on Wednesday 2 October 2024 at Trinity Buoy Wharf in London, the four award winning drawings, collectively receiving £17,000, were revealed:
 
First Prize of £8,000: Out of Round: An Abbreviated Outline of British Studio Pottery, 2024, steel wire, 170 x 100 x 8cm by Max L Adams (above).
 

 

Second Prize of £5,000: The 5th Arch, 2023, graffiti markers, drafting pencil on Bristol paper, 145 x 106cm by Owen Johnson (above)

Student Award of £2,000: Window, 2024, ink on linen (diptych), 120 x 15cm by  Hyeyeon Chung (above).

Working Drawing Award of £2,000: Plan for Cato Mural, Year 8, Spa Fields, 2023, watercolour on watercolour paper, 76 x 58cm by Emma Douglas (above).

A number of special commendations were also made in all categories of the Awards.
 
The Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize is supported by the Trinity Buoy Wharf Trust, and widely regarded as the foremost open exhibition dedicated to drawing in the United Kingdom. The 2024 edition marks the 7th year of generous support from the Trinity Buoy Wharf Trust and is the 30th edition of the annual open drawing exhibition.
 
A panel of esteemed selectors - Mary Evans, Artist & Director of UCL Slade School of Fine Art, Gary Sangster, Curator & Writer, Co-Director of Drawing Projects UK, and Jennifer Scott, Director of Dulwich Picture Gallery in London - reviewed all works submitted and selected the shortlisted drawings and award-winners.

The Working Drawing Award celebrates the role of drawing within architecture, design and making processes and was chosen by Benjamin Derbyshire, Chair of HTA Design LLP, a leading multidisciplinary design practice, Andrew Grant, Landscape Architect, Founder & Director of Grant Associates, and Caroline Grewar, Director of Programme at V&A Dundee.
 
Visitors can discover all shortlisted and award-winning drawings in the Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize 2024 exhibition at Trinity Buoy Wharf from Thursday 3 October to Wednesday 16 October 2024. The exhibition is free to visit from 11am to 6pm. Accompanying the exhibition is a fully illustrated exhibition publication, a downloadable Education Pack devised by Drawing is Free, and a programme of educational events including a Drawing Symposium at Trinity Buoy Wharf in association with The Big Draw Festival on Thursday 3 October 2024. The Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize 2024 exhibition will then tour to The Salisbury Museum, Falmouth Art Gallery, Drawing Projects UK (Dundee), and Waterside, Manchester until October 2025.
 
For more information about the exhibition and events in London, please visit trinitybuoywharf.com
 
 
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