A Celebration of Drawing at Trinity Buoy Wharf on 27 & 28 September

Join us for a series of special events at Trinity Buoy Wharf in London as we celebrate the launch of the Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize 2023 exhibition and mark the thirtieth year of this open drawing exhibition on 27 & 28 September 2023.

The Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize 2023 exhibition will open daily to the public at Trinity Buoy Wharf in London from 29 September to 15 October 2023. A programme of events will run throughout the exhibition and these will soon be available to book. 

On Wednesday 27 September at 4.30pm there will be a special preview for art and design educators in the Buoy Store at Trinity Buoy Wharf in London. This Art & Design Educators' Event led by Chloe Briggs, Drawing is Free, will include an introduction to the exhibition and to the Education Pack devised by Drawing is Free to accompany the exhibition. Free to attend, but you must register with a school, college or university email address and be able to show proof of your role on entry to the event. Book here.

On Thursday 28 September there will be a number of events in the Chainstore at Trinity Buoy Wharf as follows:

11.30am: Drawing Impacts: The Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize, 1994-2023. This Drawing Discussion will be convened by Artist & Professor, Tania Kovats with speakers including Anita Taylor, David Alston, Elisa Alaluusua, Irene Barberis. More information & how to book can be found here.

1.30pm: Drawing Session with Chloe Briggs. More information & how to book can be found here.

4.30pm: Collecting Contemporary Drawings: A Drawing Discussion with Katie Dyer, Senior Curator Contemporary at Powerhouse Museum, Sydney, Australia and Gary Sangster of Drawing Projects UK, and Honorary Fellow at the University of Dundee. The discussion will be followed by a brief introduction to the Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize 2023 exhibition. Booking available here

6pm: Exhibition Launch and Awards Announcements in the Buoy Store and Chainstore - by invitation only.

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Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize 2023 - exhibition and shortlist announced

Joy Gerard, Abortion Rights Protest After Roe Versus Wade Falls (Washington Square Park, New York, May 24, 2022), 2022

The Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize 2023 received 3,000 submissions from 1,450 candidates located across the world. A total of 123 works by 110 drawing practitioners have been chosen by the two distinguished Selection Panels for the exhibition and are shortlisted for the awards.

The drawings selected for the Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize 2023 exhibition are seen 'in the real' and chosen on the basis of the drawings alone. The selected drawings reflect a broad scope of contemporary drawing practice - including works in a wide range of media on paper and other supports, such as textiles, found books or concrete, as well as moving image works; and are made by drawing practitioners at all stages of their careers, living and working across the UK and internationally.The Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize 2023 was selected by Laura Hoptman, Executive Director of The Drawing Center, New York; Dennis Scholl AM, Collector, Arts Patron, President & CEO of Oolite Arts; Barbara Walker MBE RA, British Artist.

The 102 drawings by 96 artists and makers shortlisted for the 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 W 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 Trinity Buoy Wharf Working Drawing Award is a special category that celebrates the role of drawing within architecture, design and making processes, has been selected by Ben Heath, Principal, Grimshaw Architects; Debbie Hillyerd, Senior Director of Learning, Hauser & Wirth; and Michael Pavelka, Costume & Set Designer for Stage, Dance, and Opera.

The 22 works by 16 practitioners shortlisted for the Working Drawing Award 2023 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 Olaosebikan 

At the Exhibition Launch & Awards Announcement on Thursday 28 September 2023 the following awards, to a total value of £27,000, will be announced:

First Prize of £8,000
Second Prize of £5,000
Student Award of £2,000
Working Drawing Award of £2,000
Evelyn Williams Drawing Award of £10,000, a biennial award to support a selected artist with an established track record to develop a solo exhibition for Hastings Contemporary.

The Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize 2023 exhibition will open to the public at Trinity Buoy Wharf, London E14 0JY daily from Friday 29 September to Sunday 15 October 2023 before touring to venues across the UK. A fully illustrated publication, education pack and public engagement programme will accompany the exhibition and tour. Opening hours at Trinity Buoy Wharf will be from 11am to 5pm 29 September to 14 October and 11am to 2pm on Sunday 15 October. 

The Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize has an established reputation as the UK’s most important annual open exhibition for drawing. Founded in 1994 by artist and Professor, Anita Taylor, Dean of Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art and Design, University of Dundee, 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 and other drawing practitioners as a catalyst within their careers, and champions the role, breadth, and value of drawing in creative practice today. The Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize is supported by the Trinity Buoy Wharf Trust, and 2023 marks the 6th year of their generous support for the annual open exhibition.


 
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Images, from the top (additional image details to be uploaded soon): 
1) Abortion Rights Protest After Roe Versus Wade Falls (Washington Square Park, New York, May 24, 2022), Joy Gerrard
2) A Happening of Things, Richard McVetis, 
3) Order / Disruption No.77, Giullia Ricci
4) Working Drawing, Michael Becker
5) Replanting Miss Jeckyll's Garden, Fiona Hingston
6) Shift Sleep, Raksha Patel
7) Great-Grandmother's Little Dress With a Collar, Elisa Alaluusua
8) Night Visitor, Mark Shields
 

 

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Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize 2023 - Call for Entries & Selection Panels Announced

The Call for Entries for the Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize 2023 is now open to all drawing practitioners from the UK - and worldwide - to submit their drawings for consideration by a distinguished panel of selectors: Laura Hoptman, Executive Director of The Drawing Center, New York; Dennis Scholl AM, Collector, Arts Patron and President & CEO of Oolite Arts, Miami; Barbara Walker MBE RA, British artist.

L-R: Laura Hoptman, Dennis Scholl AM, Barbara Walker MBE RA (Photo: Chris Keenan, 2022)

The Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize 2023 Exhibition:
The Selection Panel will choose drawings from those submitted for an exhibition to be held at Trinity Buoy Wharf in London from 28 September to 15 October 2023 which will then tour to venues in the UK until June 2024. There will be a fully illustrated exhibition publication.
 
The Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize 2023 exhibition will launch on 27 September at Trinity Buoy Wharf when the following Awards, with total value of £27,000, will be announced: First Prize of £8,000, Second Prize of £5,000, Student Award of £2,000 and the biennial Evelyn Williams Drawing Award of £10,000.
 
There is a separate submission and selection process for the Working Drawing Award of £2,000. This award is open for drawings by architects, designers and makers. It will be selected by Ben Heath, Principal, Grimshaw Architects; Debbie Hillyerd, Senior Director of Learning, Hauser & Wirth; Michael Pavelka, Costume & Set Designer for Stage, Dance, and Opera.

Founding Director, Professor Anita Taylor, Artist and Dean of Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art & Design at the University of Dundee says:
 
“We are thrilled to announce such a distinguished panel of selectors for the Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize 2023 and for the Working Drawing Award. As we enter the thirtieth year of this open drawing exhibition project, we continue to attract eminent selectors and look forward to seeing drawings submitted from across the world to form an exhibition that will demonstrate the vital role and value of drawing within creative practice today.

L-R: Ben Heath, Debbie Hillyerd Photo by Sim Canetty-Clarke, courtesy Hauser & Wirth), Michael Pavelka

The International Call for Entries is open to all drawing practitioners worldwide, whether they are emerging, mid-career or established. For practical reasons, there are two separate submission and selection processes for the Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize 2023: for those based in the UK and for those based outside of the UK who will submit as International Entries; as well as a separate submission process for the Working Drawing Award.

To enter the Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize 2023 please access the entry portals here.

Key dates for the Call for Entries:

5 June 2023:              International & Working Drawing Award Entries Close
30 June 2023:            UK Entries Close
20 July 2023:             Announcement of Shortlisted Drawings for Entrants
27 Sept 2023:            Educator's Event & Launch of the Education Pack
28 Sept 2023:            Exhibition & Publication Launch & Awards Announcement
29 Sept 2023:            Exhibition open to the public at Trinity Buoy Wharf, London 
15 Oct 2023:              Exhibition closes at Trinity Buoy Wharf, then touring to venues within UK
 
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ABOUT THE TRINITY BUOY WHARF DRAWING PRIZE 2023 SELECTION PANEL:
Laura Hoptman is the Executive Director of The Drawing Center in New York, a post she has held since 2018. She has been a curator of contemporary art and a leading participant in the international art conversation for three decades. She came to The Drawing Center after eight years as a curator in the Department of Painting and Sculpture at the Museum of Modern Art, an institution where she also began her career in the 1990s as a curator with a specialty in drawing. Among the dozens of exhibitions that Laura has curated include Drawing Now: Eight Propositions, a landmark exhibition of contemporary figurative drawing at MoMA; retrospectives of the work of Yayoi Kusama, Isa Genzken, Henry Taylor, Bruce Conner, Kai Althoff, George Condo and Elizabeth Peyton; as well as the 54th Carnegie International at the Carnegie Museum in Pittsburgh. More recently at The Drawing Center, Hoptman has organized an historical exhibition of drawings by incarcerated artists, a survey of body prints by David Hammons, and a survey of a recent series of drawings by the Sudanese artist Ibrahim El-Salahi.

Dennis Scholl AM is the President & CEO of Oolite Arts, a 38-year-old organization dedicated to supporting visual artists in Miami. He has been an art collector for over 45 years, acquiring close to 2000 works of contemporary art during that time period. In the last decade they built one of the largest private collections of Aboriginal Australian contemporary art in the US. Recently, they donated 200 works from this collection as a joint gift to The Met, the Nevada Museum of Art, and the Frost Art Museum in Miami. That was preceded by a gift of 300 works of contemporary art to the Perez Art Museum Miami. Over the last three decades, Scholl created a series of initiatives dedicated to building the contemporary art collections of major museums, which resulted in hundreds of patron-funded art acquisitions for Tate Modern, the Guggenheim and Perez Art Museum Miami. He has served on the boards and executive committees of the Aspen Art Museum and the Museum of Contemporary Art, North Miami, among others. He is an Honorary Trustee of the Detroit Institute of Art and a Trustee Emeritus of the Perez Art Museum. He has been named to the annual WESTAF list of the Most Powerful and Influential Leaders in the Nonprofit Arts three times, and along with his wife, Debra, received the National Service in the Arts Award from the Anderson Ranch Art Center. Additionally, he is a practicing artist and a twenty-two times regional Emmy winner for directing documentaries about art and artists, including films about Tracey Emin, Theaster Gates, Clyfford Still and Frank Gehry. In 2022, he and his wife, Debra, received the Order of Australia Medal for their efforts to bring awareness to and exhibit Aboriginal Australian contemporary art in museums across the United States.

Barbara Walker MBE RA was born in Birmingham, England, in 1964. She studied at the University of Central England and completed post-graduate studies at Wolverhampton University. She lives and works in Birmingham. Her work is informed by the social, political and cultural realities that affect her life and the lives of those around her. Growing up in Birmingham, her experiences have directly shaped a practice concerned with issues of class and power, gender, race, representation and belonging. Her figurative drawings and paintings tell contemporary stories hinged on historical circumstances, making them universally understood and reflecting a human perspective on the state of affairs in her native Britain and elsewhere. Walker was elected to the Royal Academy of Arts in December 2022. She was the 2020 Bridget Riley Fellow at the British School at Rome. In 2019 she was awarded an MBE in the New Year Honours for services to British Art and in 2017 she exhibited at the 57th Venice Biennale as part of the Diaspora Pavilion. In 2017 she received the Drawing Room Bursary Award, and the inaugural Evelyn Williams Drawing Award in association with the Jerwood Drawing Prize 2019 and Jerwood Gallery. She has previously been an artist in residence at Facebook’s headquarters in London. Walker’s recent solo exhibitions include Vanishing Point, Cristea Roberts Gallery (2022); Place Space Who (2019) at Turner Contemporary; Vanishing Point at Jerwood Gallery (2018); Shock and Awe at Midlands Arts Centre (2016). Her works have been included in significant group exhibitions in the UK and internationally, including: Sharjah Biennial 15: Thinking Historically in the Present (2023); Life Between Islands, Caribbean - British Art, 50s to Now, Tate Britain (2021); Lahore Biennale: Between the Sun and the Moon (2020); Summer Exhibition, Royal Academy of Arts (2019); Protest and Remembrance, Alan Cristea Gallery (2019); Zeichen, MEWO Kunsthalle, Memmingen (2018); A Slice Through the World: Contemporary Artists’ Drawings, Modern Art Oxford (2018); and The Gallery of Small Things, Dakar Biennale, Senegal (2018).

ABOUT THE WORKING DRAWING AWARD SELECTION PANEL:
Ben Heath is a Principal at Grimshaw Architects and has been responsible for the design and delivery of a series of multi-award-winning UK and international projects: Bath Schools of Art & Design, the redevelopment of Wimbledon No 1 Court on behalf of the All England Club (AELTC), and Bijlmer Station in Amsterdam. Heading up Grimshaw’s Design Technology Department, Ben has a deep interest in the use of digital tools and how they can enhance the visual and graphic communication of design across all project stages.

Debbie Hillyerd joined Hauser & Wirth Somerset in 2014. As Senior Director of Learning, she oversees the development of Learning and Philanthropy projects across the global Hauser & Wirth organisation. In 2022, Hauser & Wirth Learning partnered with 38 organisations and supported 22 charities internationally, launched 8 new initiatives, and engaged with 150,000 learners worldwide. Prior to her current role, Debbie held an associate lecturing post, teaching Critical Studies, Fine Art and Curatorial Practice at Bath Spa University, previously at University of the West of England, Northbrook College and Loughborough University. Her career in education spans over 20 years, during this time she has taught and written on artists’ practice, whilst providing consultancy to many other UK institutions in the education sector.

Michael Pavelka lives in France and is an international set and costume designer for stage, dance and opera. He has designed close to 200 West End, repertory and new writing productions along with classical work for the National Theatre and Royal Shakespeare Company. His work represented the UK at the 2011 Prague Quadrennial and at World Stage Design 2015. He led the Theatre Design course at Wimbledon School of Art for many years and subsequently created the MA Theatre Design course there. Michael co-wrote and then led the MA Drawing [for Purpose] at University of the Arts London in 2013. He is currently director of the design program for Rutgers University, NJ, USA at Shakespeare’s Globe and is author of So You Want to be a Theatre Designer?

 

Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize 2022 at ArtHouse Jersey until 26 March 2023

The Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize 2022 is on show at ArtHouse Jersey at Capital House from Friday 10 February 2023 to Sunday 26 March 2023.

The exhibition reflects a broad scope of outstanding contemporary drawing practice from across the world. Showcasing over 120 shortlisted artworks from the 2022 competition, the breadth of work on offer promises to create a spectacularly diverse display.

Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize is widely regarded as the British Isles’ largest, most prestigious drawing prize and annual touring exhibition. It brings together the work of diverse artists across Britain and internationally, providing fascinating insights into drawing and creative practice in all its forms, from architecture to performance and sculpture to painting
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The Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize, formerly known as the Jerwood Drawing Prize, was founded in 1994 by artist and Professor Anita Taylor, Dean of Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art & Design at the University of Dundee and Director of Drawing Projects UK who was the guest of honour on the opening night. Other visiting artists include 2022 prize winners - Elisa Alaluusua (First Prize) and Gemma Thompson (Working Drawing Award). During the exhibition, Polly Bennet will be artist-in-residence at ArtHouse Jersey from 16 to 24 March, exploring the pigments that can be made from natural resources in Jersey.

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 creative processes and is showcased at architecture firm Axis Mason at Sommerville House on Phillips Street in St Helier and will be open 10 February until 24 March 24.  Viewing hours Monday to Friday, 10am to 4pm.

Alongside the Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize exhibition, there is a lively programme of talks, workshops and events, with something for everyone, with all booking and tickets available at ArtHouse Jersey’s Eventbrite page here. The events include:

Artist Q&A with Elisa Alaluusua and Johanna Vakkari
Friday 10 February at ArtHouse Jersey at Capital House, 5.30pm to 6.30pm. Elisa Alaluusua, winner of the 2022 Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize with her video piece the Inconceivable Line, will be in conversation with Johanna Vakkari, Vice Dean of the Academy of Fine Arts, Uniarts Helsinki, Finland to discuss the artists practice and the cultural value of drawing in contemporary society.

Sketchbook Session
Saturday 11 Feb at ArtHouse Jersey at Capital House, 11am to 1pm.
Elisa Alaluusua will lead a dynamic workshop exploring the use of sketchbooks as a critical component to the creative process. Expect a fast paced and fun session where participants will fill a sketchbook in two hours. All materials provided.

Traces: Me You We Make Marks
Sunday 12 February at Greve de Lecq Barracks, 11am to 4pm.
Elisa Alaluusua will lead an explorative drawing workshop with emphasis on therapeutic aspects of mark making and traces left by the body. All materials provided.

Threaded Landscapes: Drawing with Stitch
Monday 13 February at ArtHouse Jersey at Capital House, 10am - 5pm.
Bianca Padidar will lead a stitch drawing workshop to create expressive landscapes through stitching. Participants will work with layers of papers and fabrics, collaged, appliqued and bonded as a substrate to draw upon. All materials provided.

Ekphrastic Poetry
Wednesday 22 February at ArtHouse Jersey at Capital House, 6pm to 8pm.
Poet Traci O’Dea will lead a workshop in which attendees will read ekphrastic poetry - poetry inspired by another artform - and then create their own poems inspired by drawings in the exhibition during this relaxed and supportive evening.

Poetry performance evening led by Traci O’Dea
Friday 24 February at ArtHouse Jersey at Capital House, 6pm to 8pm.
Participants from the Ekphrastic Poetry workshop led by Traci O’Dea are invited to read poems completed during the week in an informal evening event with refreshments. All are welcome.

Sketch Club Drink & Draw
Wednesday 1 March at ArtHouse Jersey at Capital House, 6pm to 8pm.
Architect Tom McAviney will host a sketch club, an informal drawing gathering open to all, at the Capital House exhibition space. Make yourselves at home amongst the many drawings in the exhibition and create your own doodles, sketches and masterpieces in an informal setting with refreshments on hand. All materials provided or bring your own.

Polly Bennett Artist Talk
Friday 17 March at ArtHouse Jersey at Capital House, 5.30 to 6.30pm.
Polly is an environmental artist who uses traditional craftsmanship and locally sourced materials in a process likened to alchemy. In 2020 she founded POLBEN’s Pigments, selling sustainable artist’s pigments and inks created from the natural materials she sources.

Pigment Making Workshop
Sunday 19 March at Greve de Lecq Barracks, 11am to 4pm.
Join artist Polly Bennett for a pigment making masterclass using natural materials found in Jersey’s landscape to create artist pigments.

Drawing with Natural Pigments
Wednesday 22 March Greve de Lecq Barracks, 6pm to 9pm.
Join artist Polly Bennett for an experimental drawing and mark-making workshop using handmade tools and natural pigments to explore the frictions between matter and surface.

Drawing into Music (performance)
Friday 24 March at ArtHouse Jersey at Capital House, 6pm to 7.30pm.
Winner of the 2022 working drawing award, Gemma Thompson will be joined by musicians Sam Sherry, Adam Sherry, and Monika Khot to perform her drawing Graphic Score for Quartet as part of our closing event with refreshments.

Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize 2022 - Awards Announced

The Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize 2022 exhibition of shortlisted drawings was launched at Trinity Buoy Wharf on Wednesday 28 September at Trinity Buoy Wharf in London. From over 3,200 submissions by 1,673 artists located in 45 countries,134 works by 112 drawing practitioners were shortlisted for the Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize 2022. 

The recipients of the four awards, worth £17,000 in total, were announced at the Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize Exhibition Launch on 28 September 2022:

First Prize, £8,000
Elisa Alaluusua, Unconceivable Line, single-channel video drawing, 2022 (still, image above)

Second Prize, £5,000
Aleksandra Czuja, Of The Series “Le Temps”, diptych, fineliner on paper, 2022 (first image below)

Student Prize, £2,000
Kasia Depta-Garapich, Family Album, paint markers on giclée prints, 2021 (second image below)

Working Drawing Award, £2,000
Gemma Thompson, Untitled (Graphic Score for Quartet), graphite on paper, 2022 (see Working Drawing Award information below)

The exhibition of shortlisted works is open to the public, and free to see, at Trinity Buoy Wharf from 29 September to 16 October 2022. The show will then tour to venues across the UK. A fully illustrated publication and public engagement programme will accompany the exhibition and tour.


 

The Selection Panel, Lucy Byatt, Director of Hospitalfield; Danie Mellor, Artist; and Isabel Seligman, Curator of Modern and Contemporary Drawing at the British Museum shortlisted 113 drawings by 94 artists architects, designers, and makers, including 11 students.

“Selecting the work for this show is something quite different to anything I have done before” says Lucy Byatt, Director of Hospitalfield. “We are presented with so many entries and with no information about the artists. This open approach to the selection is unique in this world where selection is so often tethered to curatorial intention. We are invited to respond to the single drawing and the way in which it is produced.”

“The works entered by artists for this year’s Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize made for exhilarating viewing” says Danie Mellor, Artist. “The range of drawings exploring both familiar and innovative approaches to image-making presented a welcome challenge in the process of judging. It is abundantly evident that drawing continues to be an exciting and vital medium in contemporary artistic practice.”

“It was a real privilege and pleasure to see the incredible diversity and quality of drawings submitted – from the painstaking and minutely-observed to the throwaway, exuberant and extravagant and I never expected the process to be laced with so much joy and surprise” notes Isabel Seligman, Monument Trust Curator of Modern and Contemporary Drawing in the Department of Prints and Drawings, the British Museum.



The Working Drawing Award is a special category within the exhibition which celebrates the role of drawing within architecture, design and making processes. From almost 400 entries by 135 candidates, 21 working drawings by 19 practitioners were selected for the Working Drawing Award by: Peter Clegg, Architect, Senior Partner, Fielden Clegg Bradley Studios; Niall Hobhouse, Collector, Writer & Trustee, Drawing Matter; Tania Kovats, Professor of Drawing & Making, University of Dundee; and Daniel McAuliffe, Education Director (Hubs), The Prince’s Foundation.

The Working Drawing Award, worth £2,000, was award to Gemma Thompson for her graphite drawing, Untitled (Graphic Score for Quartet), 2022 (below left).

         

The Working Drawing Selection Panel also awarded two Special Commendations to:

Lothar Götz, Xanadu, 2022, pencil and coloured pencil on paper, 25 x 52cm (below)
George Gibbs, Shed for Carolyn - Offset Section & North Elevation (1:10 and 1:20), 2022, pencil, ink and Conté Paris on architectural tracing paper, 42 x 42cm (above right)