Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize 2023 Events at Trinity Buoy Wharf in London

During the Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize 2023 exhibition at Trinity Buoy Wharf in London there are a number of in-person events:

30th September 2023, 2pm to 4pm: Drawing Session with Elisa Alaluusua at Trinity Buoy Wharf
On Saturday 30 September award-winning artist, Elisa Alaluusua, will lead a practical drawing session at Trinity Buoy Wharf in London as part of the programme of events accompanying the Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize 2023. Elisa Alaluusua has two drawings included in the 2023 exhibition - Two Months Apart, 2023, Video Drawing and Great-Grandmother’s Little Dress with a Collar, 2021-2023, Graphite on handmade paper - and was the First Prize winner of Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize 2022.

Join Elisa to explore the drawings on show in the exhibition through drawing in the Buoy Store; the drawing materials for this session will be provided and are included in the ticket price. All levels of experience welcome to join this drawing session.

Elisa Alaluusua (b.1970 Rovaniemi, Finland) studied MA Art as Environment at Manchester Metropolitan University (1994-95); MA Art Education at University of Lapland (1991-99); and a PhD at Chelsea College of Arts, University of the Arts London (2009-16). Selected group exhibitions include: Aika ja Ajallisuus, Gallery Valo, Arktikum, Rovaniemi, Finland (2022); Jerwood Drawing Prize 2017 & 2015, Jerwood Space London and UK tour (2017-18 & 2015-16); Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize 2022, Trinity Buoy Wharf, London and UK tour (2022-23); Driven to Draw: 20th Century Drawings and Sketchbooks from the Royal Academy Collection, the Royal Academy of Arts, London (2011-12). Solo exhibitions include: Memory Nuclei, Gallery Duetto, Helsinki, Finland (2022); Sketchbooks – A Revelation, Art Space Gallery, London, UK (2018); Sketchbooks – An Obsession, Drawing Projects UK, Wiltshire (2017). Recent awards include: First Prize, Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize 2022; Second Prize, Jerwood Drawing Prize 2015. Elisa lives and works in London and Finnish Lapland.BOOK HERE


8th October 2023, 2pm to 4pm: Drawing Session with Jeanette Barnes at Trinity Buoy Wharf
Join artist Jeanette Barnes for this practical drawing session at Trinity Buoy Wharf alongside the Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize 2023.
On Sunday 8 October at 2pm, award-winning artist, Jeanette Barnes, will lead a practical Drawing Session at Trinity Buoy Wharf in London as part of the programme of events accompanying the Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize 2023.

Jeanette Barnes' large drawing, New Battersea Tube Station & Developments, 2023, made with compressed charcoal on paper, is included in the 2023 exhibition. Jeanette won the Working Drawing Award in 2019 and Second Prize in the Jerwood Drawing Prize 2003.

Jeanette says of her drawing: "This work is not about one moment in time, but more a history of the development. On location, I gather information from multiple viewpoints to make the resulting studio drawing slightly uncomfortable. The sketches that fed this image were made over many years, the sense of that evolution had to be accommodated within the final drawing, statements suggested and erased many times over. As much as the work documents the site itself, it also uses the movement of people and the energy of construction as a metaphor for urban experience and change. The development of the drawing isn’t preconceived, it’s much more of a journey of discoveries and losses than a straight line from beginning to end. Buildings jostle and compete for attention and space, as they always have done and always will do. "

Join Jeanette to explore drawing Trinity Buoy Wharf inspired by drawings in the exhibition; the drawing materials for this session will be provided and are included in the ticket price. All levels of experience welcome to join this drawing session.

Jeanette Barnes (b.1961) Great Harwood, Lancashire, UK) studied BA Hons Fine Art, Liverpool Polytechnic (1980-83); Postgraduate Painting, Royal Academy Schools (1984-87); MA Printmaking, Royal College of Art (1987-89). Group exhibitions include: Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, London (2023, 2013, 2011, 2009, 2007); Wren300, Guildhall, London (2023); Bainbridge Print Open (2023 ); Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize 2022, 2020, 2019, London & tours (2022-23, 2020-21, 2019-20); Woolwich Contemporary Print (2023, 2021, 2020); Creative Debuts, Adidas Flagship Store, London (2022); Moving Cities, Anise Gallery, London (2022); Drawn to Carbon, Graham Hunter Gallery, London (2020); ING Discerning Eye, online (2020); National Print Exhibition, Bankside, London (2019); Lynn Painter Stainers Exhibition, Mall Galleries, London (2019, 2016, 2015, 2014, 2013). Solo exhibitions: Urban Journeys, Felix & Spear London (2019); Docklands Diary, Clifford Chance, London (2018); Metropolis, Felix & Spear, London (2018); Urban Connections, Broadgate Tower London (2016); Sense of Place, Sewell Centre, Radley College (2016); Time & Tide, Anise Gallery, London (2015); Site Specific, Spitalfields Gallery, London (2015). Awards: Hugh Casson Drawing Award, Royal Academy Summer Exhibition (2013); Second Prize, Lynn Painter Stainers (2019); Working Drawing Award, Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize 2019; Second Prize, Jerwood Drawing Prize 2003. She lives and works in London in the UK. BOOK HERE

14th October 2023, 10.30am: Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize 2023-an introduction with Director, Anita Taylor
Join us for an introduction to the Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize 2023 exhibition with founding director, Professor Anita Taylor.
On Saturday 14 October at 10.30am, join Professor Anita Taylor, the founding Director of the Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize, for this special introduction to the Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize 2023 exhibition at Trinity Buoy Wharf in London.

Professor Anita Taylor studied at Mid-Cheshire College of Art, Gloucestershire College of Art & Technology, and the Royal College of Art. She was Artist-in-Residence at Durham Cathedral [1987-88]; Cheltenham Fellow in Painting [1988-89]; Artist-in-Residence with the NSW National Parks and Wildlife Service with the National Art School in Sydney [2004]. Recent solo exhibitions include: Witness, Young Gallery, Salisbury [2018]; DRAWN, The Customs House, South Shields [2017]; William Wright Artists Projects, Sydney [2014]; The Drawing Room, Sydney [2011]; Peter Pinson Gallery, Sydney [2009]; The Drawing Gallery [2009, 2004]. Recent group shows include Kazı İzleri / Lines of Site in Istanbul, touring to Dundee, Barcelona and Aksaray [2022], for which she made a series of large drawings in response to the Neolithic settlement of Aşıklı Höyük in Central Anatolia as part of an EU-funded project; inclusion in exhibitions of drawing at: The Global Centre for Drawing, Langford120, Melbourne [2018, 2013, 2011]; Jerwood Gallery, Hastings [2016, 2014]; Victoria & Albert Museum [2009]; Tate Britain (2006-07). Awards include the Malvern Award for Drawing [1993]; Drawing Award, Hunting Art Prize [1999]; First Prize, Hunting Art Prize [2000].

Currently Dean of Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art & Design at the University of Dundee, her previous academic roles include: Executive Dean of Bath School of Art and Design at Bath Spa University [2013-19]; Director & Chief Executive Officer of the National Art School, Sydney, Australia [2009-13]; Dean, Wimbledon College of Art & Director, The Centre for Drawing, University of the Arts London [2006-09]; Vice Principal of Wimbledon School of Art [2004-06]. She was first awarded a Personal Chair/Professorial title in 2002 at the University of Gloucestershire, where she was initially appointed as Head of Painting in 1991. She is founding Director of the annual Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize exhibition since 1994 (known as Jerwood Drawing Prize from 2001-17); and established Drawing Projects UK in 2009 to develop and promote research initiatives in drawing, including the Jerwood Drawing Prize, and developed Drawing Projects UK as a physical Centre for Drawing and Contemporary Art in Wiltshire in 2015; a second Drawing Projects UK planned to open in Dundee, Scotland in 2024. BOOK HERE

 

Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize 2023 Exhibition - London & Tour

Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize 2023 at Trinity Buoy Wharf, September 2023

The Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize 2023 is currently on show in the Buoy Store at Trinity Buoy Wharf in London from 29 September 2023 to 15 October 2023. The exhibition is free to visit and open daily from 11am to 6pm until Saturday 14 October and 11am to 2pm on Sunday 15 October 2023.

Supported by the Trinity Buoy Wharf Trust, is regarded as the foremost open exhibition dedicated to drawing in the United Kingdom, visitors can discover the 123 shortlisted and award-winning works included in the Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize 2023 exhibition. 

The 102 drawings included in the Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize 2023 were selected by Laura Hoptman, Executive Director of The Drawing Center, New York; Dennis Scholl AM, Collector & Arts Patron; and Barbara Walker MBE RA, Artist. The 102 drawings shortlisted for 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 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 22 drawings shortlisted for the Working Drawing Award 2023 were selected by Ben Heath, Principal, Grimshaw Architects; Debbie Hillyerd, Senior Director of Learning, Hauser & Wirth; and Michael Pavelka, Costume and Set Designer for Stage, Dance and Opera. The drawings 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 Olaosebiakn
 

Following the show at Trinity Buoy Wharf in London, the exhibition will embark on a nationwide tour until September 2024. Tour venues include:

- TheGallery at Arts University Bournemouth, 2 February to 16 April 2024;

- The Arts Institute, Plymouth University, 4 May to 29 June 2024;

- Turnpike, Wigan, 13 July to 14 September 2024.

A fully illustrated publication, education pack and engagement programmes accompany the exhibition and tour. 

 


 
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Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize 2023 - Awards Announced

The Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize, supported by the Trinity Buoy Wharf Trust, is widely regarded as the foremost annual open exhibition dedicated to drawing in the United Kingdom. The 2023 edition marks the 30th year of the exhibition project and the 6th year of generous support from Trinity Buoy Wharf Trust for the annual open exhibition. In 2023, the biennial Evelyn Williams Drawing Award is also awarded and brings the total value of the awards announced on Thursday 28 September 2023 at Trinity Buoy Wharf in London to £27,000.
 
The open call for the Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize 2023 received over 3,000 submissions from 1,450 candidates from 40 countries. From this remarkable submission of contemporary drawings, 123 drawings by 111 practitioners were selected for the Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize 2023 exhibition and the Trinity Buoy Wharf Working Drawing Award. 

At the Exhibition Launch & Awards Announcement at Trinity Buoy Wharf in London on Thursday 28 September 2023, the following awards were announced:

- First Prize of £8,000: Jeanette Barnes, New Battersea Tube Station & Developments, 2023
- Second Prize of £5,000: Victoria Hunter McKenzie, Tasha brought us Guinneps, 2022
- Student Award of £2,000: Peter Blodau, El Kobri Maadi, 2023
- Working Drawing Award of £2,000: Ade Olaosebikan, Reconstituted Planes - The Barcelona Pavilion Reimagined, 2023
- Evelyn Williams Drawing Award of £10,000 and solo exhibition at Hastings Contemporary: Isabel Rock, Our Cell, 2022

A panel of esteemed expert selectors comprising Laura Hoptman, Executive Director of The Drawing Center, New York; Dennis Scholl AM, Collector & Arts Patron; and Barbara Walker MBE RA, Artist, meticulously reviewed all if the submissions to select the shortlisted drawings and the First Prize, Second Prize and Student Award.
 
First Prize: Jeanette Barnes for her work New Battersea Tube Station & Developments, 2023, compressed charcoal on paper, 150 x 213cm (above). Born in Lancashire in 1961, Jeanette Barnes is an accomplished artist and educator who has devoted the past 25 years of her career to large-scale drawings capturing the essence of the urban landscape. Jeanette Barnes' award-winning work is a dynamic portrayal of Battersea's development in London, anchored by the new underground station. Battersea power station’s iconic chimneys only just edge into the picture, which focuses on the rise of newer buildings, and the ebb and flow of people.“Drawing is the entirety of my practice” Jeanette Barnes explains. “Through these pieces I want to generate that sense of energy and excitement which is representative of being part of the city. My work engages with the constant development within the urban environment. I am fascinated by the way vast architectural projects are changing the nature and demography of given areas."
 
Much of Jeanette Barnes' work has centred around the developments within the city of London, exploring the relationship between these built environments and those who inhabit them. As much as the work documents the site itself, it also uses the movement of people and the energy of construction as a metaphor for urban experience and change.


 
Second Prize: Victoria Hunter McKenzie, Tasha brought us Guinneps, 2022, charcoal, graphite on paper, 41 x 30.5cm (above left). Born in 1959 in New Haven, USA, and based in New York, Victoria Hunter McKenzie received the Second Prize of £5,000, for her work Tasha brought us Guinneps, 2022, charcoal and graphite on paper, 41 x 30.5cm. A charcoal drawing of a young girl, seen from above, her outstretched palm offering a handful of fruits (Guinneps), the award-winning drawing is a deeply personal and poignant portrait. “Tasha is my niece. She is growing up in an impoverished yard in rural Jamaica” the New York-based artist explains. “Despite the many who greet those “fram farin” [foreigners, coming from abroad] with their hands out, there are many more who will greet you with a gift.” Victoria Hunter McKenzie has been travelling to Jamaica for over thirty years due to family connections and her award-winning drawing serves as a personal and nuanced reflection of her experiences upon arriving in Jamaica. 
 
Student Award: Peter Blodau, El Kobri Maadi, 2023, charcoal on paper, 60 x 40cm (above right). Peter Blodau is currently studying MA in Illustration at Plymouth University of Art. His award-winning charcoal drawings, El Kobri Maadi, 2023, is of the dusty and multi-layered Cairo cityscape, dynamically captured from its rooftops. The black-and-white drawing presents a landscape of flat, barren, roofs with their own worlds of satellite dishes, left overs, and long forgotten items. "Using the medium of drawing, I work directly in front of the subject to express an immediate direct response”, Peter Blodau explains, “the play of light on these hard geometric forms endlessly varying yet always the same becomes another aspect I sought to capture in this series of works on paper."

Born in Berlin, Germany, in 1967, to parents who were both artists, Peter Blodau moved to Ireland as a child and studied Fine Art Printmaking in Limerick. He started his professional life as an artist in Paris, where he made drawings and paintings on the streets of the city. He went on to travel back to Berlin, then Greece, Cuba, the United States, Italy, England, and Egypt. In 2014, he moved to Cairo to lecture Drawing and Illustration at the German University in Cairo. Today, he lives, studies and works in Falmouth, Cornwall, UK.
 


Working Drawing Award: Ade Olaosebikan, Reconstituted planes - The Barcelona Pavilion Reimagined 1, 2023, digital drawing using SketchUp, AutoCAD, Adobe Illustrator, Adobe InDesign, Adobe Photoshop, 59 x 42cm and Reconstituted planes - The Barcelona Pavilion Reimagined 2, 2023, 0.4 technical pencil on tracing paper, 84 x 59cm (above). 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 making processes, chosen by a selection panel comprising Ben Heath, Principal, Grimshaw Architects; Debbie Hillyerd, Senior Director of Learning, Hauser & Wirth; and Michael Pavelka, costume and set designer for stage, dance and opera.
 
The Working Drawing Award of £2,000 was awarded to Ade Olaosebikan (born in Lagos, Nigeria in 1991), for Reconstituted planes - The Barcelona Pavilion reimagined 1 and 2, 2023, a digital drawing, 59 x 42cm, and a drawing made with a technical pencil on tracing paper, 84 x 59cm.
 
“I wanted to use the drawings to question the metaphysical nature of a window and see the relationship found between an observer and an object” explains the Bristol-based Architectural Assistant. “Sometimes the fourth dimension is considered as time. I wanted to ask if time can be translated in a single image”. Both drawings explore how three-dimensionality can be expressed in two-dimensions by depicting an extruded version of the floor plan of the Barcelona Pavilion, one of the most influential modernist buildings of the 20th Century, designed by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe and Lilly Reich in 1929. “In the end the central question is whether, after a series of abstractions, the original artefact is still able to be read by the viewer.”

Evelyn Williams Drawing Award: Isabel Rock, Our Cell, 2022, biro on paper, 43 x 53cm and her exhibition proposal for Hatings Contemporary. Selected by Nicholas Usherwood, Chair of Trustees of the Evelyn Williams Trust, Leah Cross, Director of Programmes and Liz Gilmore, Director of Hastings Contemporary, and Anita Taylor, Director of the Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize, the Evelyn Williams Drawing Award of £10,000 supports an artist selected for the exhibition who has an existing track record and on the basis of their proposal for a solo exhibition or presentation at Hastings Contemporary.
 

Isabel Rock was born in London in 1981 and received this prestigious biennial award on the basis of her proposal to develop a body of work that depicts an imaginative, surreal vision of the world after climate breakdown has wreaked its havoc. Her recent drawings have a strong narrative looking at systems of commerce, power structures, the complexities of desire, objects of value, the fallibility of human nature and the enterprising charm of human endeavour. Her drawing selected for the exhibition, Our Cell, is a biro drawing on paper offering a glimpse into her month-long stay in HMP Bronzefields in November 2022, when her participation in the Just Stop Oil protests to raise awareness of climate emergency led to her being arrested and incarcerated for a month in prison.  

Isabel Rock explains, “As I have become more involved in civil disobedience the more I question our society, its rules and how we inhabit the environment. My month in Bronzefields prison showed me that I don't need all of the things I thought I needed. The experience highlighted the resilience of the human spirit, the ingenuity of necessity and the importance of human connection.” A key part of the artist’s usual practice, drawing became a way to document prison life, to make custody bearable, and to create meaningful connections. “Drawing in prison became my saviour against the monotony” shares Isabel Rock. “We received a notebook in our ‘welcome’ pack and when that was full, I drew on anything I could - envelopes, backs of crossword puzzles, scraps of paper.”
 
Special Commendations were also awarded in the Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize 2023, to Sarah Knill-Jones, for Skull I, 2022, charcoal & acrylic on newsprint, and Samuel Owusu Achiaw, Looking, 2022, charcoal, graphite and carbon on paper; and in the Working Drawing Award category to Lisa Marie Gibbs for Nang’s garden, 2022, pencil and pressed rose on found graph paper.

Visiting the exhibition at Trinity Buoy Wharf in London:
Visitors can discover all of the shortlisted and award-winning works in the Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize 2023 exhibition, now open at Trinity Buoy Wharf, from 29 September 2023 to 15 October 2023. The exhibition is free to visit from 11am to 6pm until Saturday 14 October and from 11am to 2pm on Sunday 15 October 2023.
 
Following its presentation at Trinity Buoy Wharf in London, the exhibition will embark on a nationwide tour to Drawing Projects UK, details TBC; TheGallery, Arts University Bournemouth, 16 February to 12 April 2024; The Arts Institute, Plymouth University, 4 May to 29 June 2024; Turnpike, Wigan, 13 July to 14 September 2024. A fully illustrated publication, education pack and public engagement programmes accompany the exhibition and tour. 
 
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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 open 11am to 6pm from 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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