Known as the UK’s most prestigious annual open exhibition for drawing, the Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize 2024 received over 2,280 submissions from 1,270 candidates located across the world for its 30th edition. A total of 115 works by 108 drawing practitioners were chosen by the two distinguished Selection Panels for the exhibition and shortlisted for the annual awards of £17,000.
 
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 selected 94 drawings by 88 artists were selected for the Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize 2024 exhibition and awards.
                                   
The Working Drawing Award celebrates the role of drawing within architecture, design, making, and planning, processes within a special display. These drawings were selected by Ben 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. 21 works by 20 drawing practitioners are shortlisted for the Working Drawing Award of £2,000.

The drawings selected for the Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize 2024 exhibition reflect a broad scope of contemporary drawing practice made by drawing practitioners at all stages of their careers, living and working across the UK and internationally.

The following awards will be announced at the Exhibition Launch & Awards Announcement on Wednesday 2 October 2024:
- First Prize of £8,000
- Second Prize of £5,000
- Student Award of £2,000
- Working Drawing Award of £2,000

The Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize 2024 exhibition is open to the public from Thursday 3 October to Wednesday 16 October 2024 and will then tour to museums and galleries in Salisbury, Falmouth, Dundee, and Manchester, until October 2025. Accompanying the exhibition will be a fully illustrated Exhibition Publication, a downloadable Education Pack, and a programme of educational events including a Drawing Symposium on Thursday 3 October 2024.

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

Max 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 / Kristian Evju / Jonathan Farr / Nicolas K Feldmeyer / Maria Celeste 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 / Mark John Evans / Owen Johnson / Janette Kerr / 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 / Wei Kuo / 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 / Maxine Dodd / Emma Douglas / 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 / Cornelia Mary Tuglui / Lottie Stoddart / Dominic Walker / Emma Woffenden / Kenneth SY Yiu 

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, Artist & Dean of Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art and Design at the 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 generously supported by the Trinity Buoy Wharf Trust, with 2024 the 7th year of their generous support for the annual open exhibition, and the 30th exhibition since the project was founded in 1994.

For press enquiries and images of the selected drawings please contact Marine Costello, Parker Harris: 
E: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. T: 020 3653 0891

Website: trinitybuoywharfdrawingprize.drawingprojects.uk
Instagram: @TBWDrawingPrize @DrawingProjectsUK

For all other enquiries, please contact: E: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. 
T: 020 3653 0896

Image credits (top to bottom):

1. Gerry Davies, Flood Story: Drowned Forest, 2024, Graphite & Varnish on Mylar, shortlisted for the Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize 2024
2. Emma Douglas, Plan for Cato Mural, Year 8, Spa Fields, 2024, shortlisted for the Working Drawing Award
3. Janet Melrose, The Weight of Words, 2024, ink on folded paper (L); Jake Spicer, Esmé, charcoal on paper (R), both shortlisted Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize 2024
4. Dominic Walker, The Orkney Island Reforestry Commission, 2024, pencil, ink, collage on watercolour paper, shortlisted for the Working Drawing Award (L); Martha Zmpounou, Mother and Child, watercolour on paper, shortlisted for the Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize 2024 (R)
5. Hyeyon Chung, Window, 2024, ink on linen, 120 x 15cm, shortlisted for the Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize 2024

NOTES TO EDITORS

The Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize annual open exhibition is supported by the Trinity Buoy Wharf Trust and led by its founding Director, Professor Anita Taylor, an artist, curator and educator. She is Dean of Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art and Design at the University of Dundee, and founding Director of Drawing Projects UK. The Annual Call for Entries is open to all drawing practitioners worldwide, whether they are emerging, mid-career or established.

The Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize project was founded in 1994 by Anita Taylor and Paul Thomas as the Rexel Derwent Open Drawing Exhibition and was known from 1996-2000 as the Cheltenham Open Drawing Exhibition. During this period, it was supported by a private benefactor, Westland Nurseries, The Summerfield Trust, CHK Charities and Rootstein Hopkins Foundation. The exhibition was then known as Jerwood Drawing Prize, receiving 17 years of significant support from Jerwood Charitable Foundation from 2001-2017. Trinity Buoy Wharf Trust became the principal benefactor in 2018.

The 10th anniversary special exhibition Drawing Breath was supported by Esmée Fairbairn Foundation, Henry Moore Foundation and HongKong Land. The project celebrated its 20th anniversary in 2014 with the exhibition Drawn Together at Jerwood Gallery in Hastings. The Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize 2024 will be the 30th edition of the exhibition.

Please see the dedicated website for further information:
trinitybuoywharfdrawingprize.drawingprojects.uk

TRINITY BUOY WHARF DRAWING PRIZE 2024 SELECTORS

Mary Evans: Mary Evans is an artist with a national and international reputation. Having studied at Goldsmiths and the Rijksakademie in Amsterdam, Evans’ 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 unmappable. 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, University of the Arts London. 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 international 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 of 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, Istanbul / Dundee / Barcelona / Aksaray; UK Curator, Mairead 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

WORKING DRAWING AWARD SELECTORS

Ben Derbyshire is non-executive Chair of HTA Design LLP, a leading multidisciplinary design practice specialising in housing and placemaking. He has a long association with the practice, having first joined as a student in 1973, becoming a partner in 1986. He led a management buyout in 2013 since when the practice has grown five-fold, now employing 250 people in four studios across the UK. He is a Commissioner of Historic England. He serves on the London Advisory Committee, High Streets Heritage Action Zone Board and is chair of the Historic Places Panel. Ben is President of the London Forum of Amenity and Civic Societies and is a current member of the NHBC Council. He was President of RIBA from 2017 – 2019 where he oversaw fundamental change in the financing and governance of the institute and the instigation of policies in relation to climate action, professional competence and codes of conduct. Ben has published widely in research on housing, for example relating to the performance rating of homes and strategies for suburban intensification through collective action of neighbours, known as Supurbia. He has summarised his long career as a housing designer in a book, Home Truths, published by Hatch Editions and available from RIBA Books in January 2023, effectively a primer for anyone with an interest in the planning and design of sustainable places.

Andrew Grant RDI, Hon D.Litt, CMLI, Hon FRIBA, FRSA is Founder and Director, Grant Associates. Andrew is a Landscape Architect whose work explores the connection between people and nature. He started his company, Grant Associates, in 1997 which has grown into an international design studio with offices in Bath and Singapore. He uses creative ecological design thinking to find solutions to the major challenges of climate change, biodiversity loss and improving human quality of life, health and well being. Each of his projects responds to the place, its inherent ecology and its people and promotes quality and innovation in landscape design. In 2012 he was awarded the title of RSA Royal Designer for Industry in recognition of his pioneering global work in landscape architecture such as the multi award winning Gardens by the Bay in Singapore. The 54 hectare park explores the technical boundaries of landscape and horticulture in an Asian city and won the Building Project of the Year Award at the 2012 World Architecture Festival. He is a Visiting Professor at the University of Sheffield, an Honorary Fellow of the RIBA and a member of the National Infrastructure Commission Design Group. Based in the city of Bath he is Chair of the Bathscape Landscape Partnership and a member of the Bath World Heritage Site Advisory Board. He is also co-founder of the pop up festival Forest of Imagination which engages the wider community of Bath in the reimagining of city spaces and our relationship with nature in the city. In 2023 he was awarded an Honorary Doctorate of Letters by Bath Spa University in recognition of his outstanding work as a landscape architect and his passion and approach to nature, creativity and imagination.

Caroline Grewar is Director of Programme at V&A Dundee. In this role Caroline is responsible for the strategic leadership of the public programme, which builds upon the vision for V&A Dundee and fulfils the museum’s mission and objectives. Caroline has worked in the culture sector for almost twenty years, beginning her career at the British Institute of Florence in Italy. In 2006, Caroline joined V&A South Kensington where she worked across capital projects, major exhibition delivery, and international touring exhibitions. Before joining V&A Dundee, Caroline was Head of Exhibitions at the Design Museum where she worked with Zaha Hadid Architects, Barber Osgerby and Sir Paul Smith.

THE TRINITY BUOY WHARF DRAWING PRIZE PROJECT PARTNERS

Trinity Buoy Wharf Trust: In 1998 the then owners, London Docklands Development Corporation (LDDC), set up the Trinity Buoy Wharf Trust with a 125-year lease to hold the land and their vision in trust for the people of London, while the freehold was passed to the LB Tower Hamlets. The TBW Trust holds a 125-year lease from LB Tower Hamlets and Urban Space Management in turn has a 124-year lease from the Trust. The terms provide for 25% of the Wharf’s income to be paid to the Trust to use for promoting arts activity in the area. To date the Trust has supported and funded a wide range of arts projects and organisations. Trinity Buoy Wharf is a thriving centre for the arts and creative industries with a rare community of over 500 like-minded people enjoying the unique riverside location. Free from overdevelopment, the site’s fascinating history can still be seen in the buildings, installations, and residents including the Kings Foundation Diploma in Art & Design and The Big Draw.
trinitybuoywharf.com

Professor Anita Taylor is an awardwinning artist, curator, educator, and founding Director of the Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize Project and Drawing Projects UK. She is currently Dean of Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art and Design at the University of Dundee. Previous leadership 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.

Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art and Design, University of Dundee (DJCAD) is one of eight Schools of the University of Dundee. It has an outstanding reputation for its teaching, research and innovation, and a portfolio of Undergraduate and Postgraduate programmes within its discipline groupings of Architecture & Urban Planning, Contemporary Art Practice, Communication Design, Design & Making, with a growing cohort of PhD students in Art & Design. DJCAD is ranked in the top 10 for Art & Design in the UK by the Complete University Guide 2024.
www.dundee.ac.uk/djcad/

Drawing Projects UK was founded to deliver the then Jerwood Drawing Prize in 2009, and established a Centre for Drawing & Contemporary Art in Wiltshire in 2015, with a second site under development in the City of Dundee, Scotland. Drawing Projects UK houses exhibition and project spaces, studios and workspaces, meeting rooms and a café. Drawing Projects UK aims to promote, develop and build a community through drawing in local, regional, national and international contexts through research and public engagement activities with and through drawing and contemporary art and delivers curated programmes on- and off-site. Drawing Projects UK publishes the annual Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize exhibition catalogues and devises and delivers public engagement activities for the annual exhibitions.
drawingprojects.uk

Parker Harris is the Project Manager for the Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize. Parker Harris is one of the leading visual arts consultancies in the UK, creating and managing a range of contemporary visual arts projects, nationally and internationally. Clients include trusts and foundations, SMEs, multinationals, charities, arts organisations and individual artists.
parkerharris.co.uk

Partner Social Media Channels:

Trinity Buoy Wharf:
Facebook: @TrinityBuoyWharf
Instagram: @trinitybuoywharf
X: @ArtsTBW

Drawing Projects UK
Facebook: @DrawingProjectsUK
Instagram: @drawingprojectsuk

Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art & Design:
Facebook:@duncanofjordanstone
Instagram: @djcad_uod
X: @DJCAD

Parker Harris:
Facebook: @parkerharrisco
Instagram: @parkerharrisco
X: @parkerharris