Established in 1994, the Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize is regarded as the foremost annual open exhibition dedicated to drawing in the UK. On Wednesday 8th October, the 2025 Awards of £27,000 were announced. See images of the evening and the announcements at Trinity Buoy Wharf here.

From a diverse and impressive worldwide submission of works, 82 drawings by 76 artists were shortlisted for the Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize 2025 exhibition by Fiona Bradley OBE, Director of Edinburgh’s Fruitmarket Gallery, Kieran Long, Broadcaster and Director of Amos Rex in Helsinki, and Soheila Sokhanvari, British-Iranian Artist. A further 21 working drawings by 20 candidates were shortlisted for the Working Drawing Award were selected by Pablo Garcia, Professor at the School of the Institute of Chicago, Kieran Long, Director of Amos Rex in Helsinki, and Sunand Prasad OBE PPRIBA, Principal at Perkins & Will in London. The biennial Evelyn Williams Drawing Award was selected by Leah Cross, Director of Programmes at Hastings Contemporary, Rhian Kempadoo-Millar of the Evelyn Williams Trust and Anita Taylor, as Director of Drawing Projects UK, and is awarded to an artist with a drawing including in the Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize on the basis of their drawing, experience and proposal. 

At the Exhibition Launch at Trinity Buoy Wharf in London on Wednesday 8 October 2025, five awards were announced:


- First Prize of £8,000: Olivia Rowland, I am Destroy, 2024
- Second Prize of £5,000: Eleanor Wood, Dust Cover 3, 2024
- Student Award of £2,000: Wei Wang, The Presentation of the Altar, 2024
- Working Drawing Award of £2,000: Kanto Ohara Maeda, The Bathhouse, 2024
- Evelyn Williams Drawing Award of £10,000 & exhibition at Hastings Contemporary: Eric Butcher, T/R.1058, 2025

Commendations were also made for drawings by:
- Bulent Abosoglu, Expedition in the Malatya Mountains, 2025
- Euan Gray for Smile Please or Woman with Red Cane, 2021-202
- Layla Jabbari for The Last Supper, 2025

The 2025 exhibition marks the 8th year of generous support from the Trinity Buoy Wharf Trust for Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize. The 2025 edition also marks the fifth biennial Evelyn Williams Drawing Award made by the Evelyn Williams Trust to support development of a solo exhibition for Hastings Contemporary. 

Visitors can discover all of the shortlisted and award-winning works in the Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize 2025 exhibition at Trinity Buoy Wharf in London from Thursday 9 October to Sunday 19 October 2025. 
 

The exhibition is free to visit and open daily from 11am to 6pm. Accompanying the exhibition is a fully illustrated exhibition publication, a downloadable education pack, and daily programme of events including a Drawing Symposium on Thursday 9 October 2025.

Following the show at Trinity Buoy Wharf, the exhibition will then tour within the UK into 2026. For more information about the exhibition in London, please visit trinitybuoywharf.com 

For more information about the Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize, please visit the dedicated website and follow the @tbwdrawingprize on Instagram.

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Images: 

1&2: Olivia Rowland, I am Destroy, 2024, handmade artist’s book, 23x16x3cm
3: Eleanor Wood, Dust Cover 3, 2024, oil & wax on acrylic mending tissue with acetate, digital print, 30x42x3.5cm
4: Wei Wang, The Presentation of the Altar, 2024, watercolour, gold foil, fineliner on paper, 81x61cm 
5: Kanto Ohara Maeda, The Bathhouse, 2024, ink, charcoal, pencils, watercolour on paper, mounted on cardboard, 37x150cm
6:Eric Butcher, T/R.1058, 2025, graphite + acrylic gel on glass, 109x86cm

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The Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize 2025 exhibition is accompanied by a range of educational materials including a fully illustrated publication, an education pack, and an almost daily programme of events to join in during the exhibition from Thursday 9 to Sunday 19 October 2025.

The educational programme and materials aim to engage a wide audience with the annual open exhibition from children to adults, artists and experts, to those encountering an exhibition of contemporary drawings for the first time. We aim to encourage the exploration of drawing as a means of ideation, communication and expression informed by the themes, content and subjects of drawings selected for the exhibition.

The free Education Pack devised by Drawing Projects UK & Drawing is Free will accompany the exhibition and tour. This is available as a free download or to purchase as a printed copy in the exhibition once the exhibition has opened on 9 October.

The Daily Drawing Events Programme will take place at Trinity Buoy Wharf during the exhibition, and online. Some events are online and ready to book and information and booking for other events will be available very soon! Please pencil the dates in your calendar, we lo to join in and book where this is available.  

Thursday 9 October, 11am to 5pm: A one-day symposium - Drawing Our Worlds - at Trinity Buoy Wharf (Chain Store) convened by Anita Taylor with Tania Kovats, Chloe Briggs, Isabel Rock, Miranda Whall, Jake Spicer, Leena Nammari and Juliette Losq and comprising presentations and practical drawing sessions led by presenters. More information and how to book here.

Thursday 9 October at 5.30pm: A free introduction to the exhibition and education pack for Educators with Anita Taylor and Chloe Briggs at Trinity Buoy Wharf. More information and booking here.

Friday 10 October, 5pm to 6.30pm: Drawing Session with artist Curtis Holder and model Jazz at Trinity Buoy Wharf held in the gallery. More information and booking here.

Saturday 11 October, 12noon: Drop in and draw in the exhibition at Trinity Buoy Wharf. More information and booking here.

Sunday 12 October, 12noon: Drop in and draw in the exhibition at Trinity Buoy Wharf. More information and booking here.

Monday 13 October, 6pm: Online Drawing Session with Alex Roberts. More information and booking here.

Tuesday 14 October at 6pm: Drawing Discussion online with Anita Taylor and exhibiting artists, Eric Butcher & Eleanor Wood. More information and booking here.

Wednesday 15 October at 6pm: Drawing Discussion online with Anita Taylor and exhibiting artists: moved to Sunday 19 October.

Thursday 16 October at 1pm: Online introduction to the Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize 2025 exhibition with anita Taylor, book a free place here.

Friday 17 October at 8am: Girl Friday Breakfast Club Special with Anita Taylor and guest. More information and booking available soon.

Saturday 18 October, 10am to 12noon: Drawing Session at Trinity Buoy Wharf with artist Curtis Holder and DMAC, the model for Curtis's drawing included in the exhibition. More information and booking here.

Saturday 18 October at 1pm: Tour of the exhibition with Director, Anita Taylor. More information and booking here.

Sunday 19 October at 4pm: Online Drawing Discussion with Anita Taylor & exhibiting artists. More information soon.

The Education & Events Programme is kindly supported by a grant from the Trinity Buoy Wharf Trust enabling us to subsidise the costs of tickets for the Daily Drawing Programme of events and the Education Pack.

The Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize 2025 will announce £27,000 of awards for contemporary drawing on Wednesday 8 October at Trinity Buoy Wharf in London. The Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize 2025 exhibition and shortlist includes 82 drawings by 76 artists eligible for awards with a total prize fund of £25,000. A further 21 drawings by 20 practitioners shortlisted for the Working Drawing Award of £2,000. The free exhibition will be open daily from Thursday 9 October to Sunday 19 October 2025 at Trinity Buoy Wharf, London E14 0JY before touring into 2026.

Known as the UK’s most prestigious annual open exhibition for drawing, the international call for the Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize 2025 received well over 2,000 submissions from more than 1,300  candidates located across the world for its 2025 edition and eligible for four awards totalling £25,000.

A total of 103 works by 95 drawing practitioners, chosen by two distinguished Selection Panels will be shown in the exhibition: 82 drawings by 76 artists were selected for the Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize 2025 exhibition and awards by Fiona Bradley OBE, Director of Edinburgh’s Fruitmarket Gallery, Kieran Long, Broadcaster and Director of Amos Rex in Helsinki, and Soheila Sokhanvari, British-Iranian artist. 

“ It's going to be a fantastic opportunity for audiences to see a range of work that they might not see otherwise,” stated Fiona Bradley OBE, “The prize is really quite an extraordinary thing, and the range of submissions this year was incredibly broad and varied.”

“It has been a privilege to be on this side of the table” said Soheila Sokhanvari, artist, shortlisted for the Drawing Prize in 2016 and now a selector of the 2025 exhibition. “Being selected gave me a massive platform, enabling me to be seen by galleries and curators. I took selecting this year very seriously, as I know how important this prize is for artists worldwide.”

The Working Drawing Award, a special category celebrating the role of drawing within architecture, design and making processes, was selected by Pablo Garcia, Associate Professor at the School of the Institute of Chicago, Kieran Long, Director of Amos Rex in Helsinki, and Sunand Prasad OBE PPRIBA, Principal at Perkins & Will in London. 21 works by 20 drawing practitioners will be shown within this specific display dedicated to working drawings, and eligible for an award of £2,000.

The drawings selected for the Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize 2025 exhibition showcase the wide-ranging nature of contemporary drawing today: from works on paper and textiles to alternative surfaces and moving images. The selected drawings are by practitioners at all career stages and come from across the globe.                                   

“We have had an incredible range to choose from, from all around the country and beyond” explained Kieran Long, selector for both the Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize 2025 and the Working Drawing Award: “drawing itself is a wonderfully varied practice, and this is evident by the phenomenal range of submissions this year”.

The Exhibition Launch & Awards Announcement at Trinity Buoy Wharf in London takes place on Wednesday 8 October 2025 at 7pm (attendance by invitation). Five awards with a total cash value of £27,000, will be announced:
- First Prize of £8,000
- Second Prize of £5,000
- Student Award of £2,00
- Working Drawing Award of £2,000 
- Evelyn Williams Drawing Award of £10,000 and a solo exhibition at Hastings Contemporary

The Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize 2025 exhibition is open to the public from Thursday 9 October to Sunday 19 October 2025 and will then tour into 2026. Accompanying the exhibition will be a fully illustrated Exhibition Publication and an Education Pack. A one-day Drawing Symposium as well as an Educator’s Evening will be held on Thursday 9 October 2025. 

The 83 drawings shortlisted for Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize 2025 are by:
Bulent Abosoglu / Mark Anstee / Haffendi Anuar / Andy Bannister / Andrew Barrowman / John Bellwood / Vivien Blackett / Julia Brooker / Caroline Burraway / Eric Butcher / Duncan Cameron / Tony Carey / Sarah Casey / Sara Clark / Niamh Clarke / Eileen Cooper / Liz Coxford / Jan Crombie / Lucy Crouch / Katarzyna Depta-Garapich / Gabrielle Distin / John Forster / Fiona Fouhy / Todd Fuller / Enza Galantini / Steph Goodger / Euan Gray / Richard Gregory / Sean Griffin / Carla Groppi / Russell Herron / Curtis Holder / Dean Hughes / Jo Israel / Layla Jabbari / Lisa Jones / Eden & Andrew Kotting / Clara Lacy / Debbie Lee / Juliette Losq / Christine Mackey / Barry Marsden / Fernando Martin Godoy / Robert McNally / Elizabeth Nast / Tahira Noreen / Patricia Paolozzi Cain / Simon Parish / Rachel Pearcey / Julia Peintner / Keira Rathbone / Fiona Robinson / Carole Romaya / Edwin Rostron / Olivia Rowland / Diana Savostaite / Mark Shields / Stephanie Shrager / Ilona Skladzien / Arlo Smith / Kate Steenhauer / Laura Kate Sutton / Zachary Talbot-Mason / Sally Taylor / Alison Turnbull / Marika Tyler-Clark / Kirsten van Schreven / James Vassallo / Darshana Vora / Kate Walters / Boyuan Wang / Wei Wang / Henry Ward / Miranda Whall / Eleanor Wood / Amy Zhao

The 21 drawings shortlisted for the Working Drawing Award 2025 are by:
Fiona Chaney / Pete Codling / Richard Crooks / Emma Douglas / Sarah Duyshart / Patsy Hans / Alexandra Harley / Benxing Liang / Kanto Ohara Maeda / Nick Malone / Adriette Myburgh / Mandy Prowse / Aruna Radha / Mark Richards / Arthur Roberts / Amba Sayal-Bennett / Seamus Staunton / Fiona Swapp / Nathan Walsh / Wei Wang

The Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize has an established reputation as the UK’s foremost open exhibition for drawing. Established in 1994 by artist and Professor Anita Taylor, currently Dean of Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art and Design at the University of Dundee, and Director of Drawing Projects UK, the annual Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize celebrates talent and excellence in current drawing practice.

The exhibition provides an important platform for artists, designers, makers, architects and other drawing practitioners as a catalyst within their careers, and champions the role, breadth, and value of drawing in creative practices today.

The Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize is supported by the Trinity Buoy Wharf Trust - and 2025 marks the 8th year of their generous support for the annual open drawing exhibition. 

The biennial Evelyn Williams Drawing Award of £10,000 is funded by the Evelyn Williams Trust and awarded in association with the Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize exhibition. The award is made to support the recipient to develop and realise a body of new drawings for a solo exhibition or an exhibition or installation otherwise based on their drawing practice to be presented at Hastings Contemporary in their forthcoming exhibition programme. 2025 will be the fifth award, and the recipient will be selected by Leah Cross, Director of Programmes at Hastings Contemporary; Rhian Kempadoo-Millar, Evelyn Williams Trust; Anita Taylor of Drawing Projects UK. 

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Images and statements about each selected drawing and biographical information on those with works selected are available on request.  

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Images (above):

1. Alison Turnbull, Beijing, Ink on printed paper, 2025
Shortlisted for the Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize 2025

2 & 3. Left: Curtis Holder, Echoes of Eshu II, 2024, Coloured pencil on paper
Right: Eileen Cooper, In the Studio, 2025, Conte, pastel, charcoal on paper 
Both shortlisted for the Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize 2025.

4 & 5. Left: Mark Shields, Jeanne II, 2025, Charcoal on paper
Right: Fiona Robinson, War Anthem (from Mrs Dalloway Woolf Works by Max Richter), 2025, Graphite ink and water based paint 
Both shortlisted for the Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize 2025.

6. Kanto Ohara Maeda, Designing A Bathhouse for Film, 2024, pencil on sketchbook paper 
Shortlisted for the Trinity Buoy Wharf Working Drawing Award 2025. 

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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