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.

For press enquiries, please contact Marine Costello at Parker Harris:
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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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