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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