Trinity Buoy Wharf Working Drawing Award 2025 - Worldwide Call for Entries & Selection Panel Announced
The Trinity Buoy Wharf Working Drawing Award aims to explore and enhance our understanding of working drawings today. A worldwide Call for Entries for the Trinity Buoy Wharf Working Drawing Award 2025 is now open until Thursday 17 July 2025.
Architects, designers, engineers, makers, planners, scientists, amongst others who make drawings from which something can be made, fabricated, constructed or explained are invited to enter the Trinity Buoy Wharf Working Drawing Award 2025.
Professional and student applicants may submit up to 3 drawings on paper, of A0 maximum size, by completing the online entry form and uploading high quality digital images of their drawings via the entry portal.
The expert Selection Panel who will choose the drawings to be shortlisted for the Trinity Buoy Wharf Working Drawing Award 2025 and exhibition is announced as:
- Pablo Garcia, Associate Professor, School of Art Institute of Chicago
- Kieran Long, curator, writer, and Director of Amos Rex, Helsinki
- Sunand Prasad OBE PPRIBA, Principal, Perkins & Will, London
The Working Drawing Award Selection Panel will be convened by Professor Anita Taylor, founding Director of the Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize Project (1994-present) and Drawing Projects UK (2009-), and Dean of Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art & Design, University of Dundee.
Drawings selected for the Working Drawing Award 2025 will then be presented in a special display alongside the Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize 2025 exhibition and featured in a fully illustrated publication that will accompany the touring exhibition.
The Working Drawing Award of £2,000 will be announced at the Awards Ceremony and Exhibition Launch for the Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize 2025 on Wednesday 8 October 2025 at Trinity Buoy Wharf in London.
Summary of Key Dates:
- Entries submitted: by 17 July 2025 at 5pm
- Notification of outcomes: by 25 July 2025 at 5pm
- Selected drawings to be delivered to London: 26 July - 15 August 2025
- Award Announcement & Exhibition Launch: 8 October 2025
- Exhibition at Trinity Buoy Wharf in London: 9 October to 19 October 2025
- Exhibition Tour: October 2025 to July 2026
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L-R: Pablo Garcia, Kieran Long, Sunand Prasad OBE PPRIBA
ABOUT THE TRINITY BUOY WHARF WORKING DRAWING AWARD
The Trinity Buoy Wharf Working Drawing Award is a special category within the overall Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize exhibition and awards supported by the Trinity Buoy Wharf Trust. The Working Drawing Award of £2,000 focuses on drawings for architecture, design and making, and other professions where working drawings, from which something can be made, fabricated or constructed, are made. There is a dedicated online submission process for the Working Drawing Award and the selected works on paper, with a maximum paper size of A0 (841 × 1189mm). The Call for Submissions is open from 8 April to 17 July 2025. From the online entry process, shortlisted drawings will form an exhibition of working drawings and all are eligible for the Award. The Working Drawing Award exhibition will then tour alongside, and separately to, the Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize 2025 into 2026.
ABOUT THE WORKING DRAWING AWARD SELECTION PANEL
Pablo Garcia holds architecture degrees from Cornell University and Princeton University. He is an Associate Professor at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, where his research-based creative practice explores and reframes historical artistic processes for a 21st-century audience. His work examines the intersection of forgotten analogue methods and cutting-edge digital technologies, paying homage to centuries of human-machine collaboration in art and design. Through a multidisciplinary approach, he investigates art and technology relationships across site-specific installations, machine-assisted drawings, kinetic sculptures, optical illusions, speculative architectures, and original scholarship. Since 2013, he has commercially produced the NeoLucida, a modern reinterpretation of the camera lucida, and his extensive research on 600 years of drawing machines is documented at drawingmachines.org.
Kieran Long is an award-winning writer in the fields of art, architecture and design, and his career includes roles as a curator, museum director, broadcaster, and teacher. Since February 2024, Kieran Long has been the Director of Amos Rex, a contemporary art museum established in Helsinki that opened in 2018. Kieran was previously Director of ArkDes, the National Centre for Architecture and Design in Stockholm, Sweden (2017-2024), and the Keeper of the department of Design, Architecture and Digital at the Victoria & Albert Museum in London. He is a non-executive director of V&A Dundee.
Sunand Prasad MA (Cantab), AA Dip, PhD (RCA), PPRIBA, FRSA Hon RTPI, Hon AIA, Hon FRAIC, OBE is Principal, Perkins & Will, London. At the core of Sunand’s architectural practice is a passionate belief in collaboration, and the need for expert knowledge to be catalysed by the everyday experience of users, in order to create truly successful environments and long-term value. Sunand was President of the RIBA from 2007 to 2009, championing the value of design, reform of architectural education and action on climate change. He has served in several key advisory and policy positions, regularly chairs Design Review Panels, is a London Mayor’s Design Advocate, Chair of the UKGBC Board of Trustees and of Article 25, the humanitarian architecture charity. He is committed to engaging with the wider design and construction industry, providing thought leadership on current issues such as the circular economy, co-creation and valuing design. He has authored many books, articles and broadcasts on architecture, sustainability, retrofit, hospital design and urbanism.
The Working Drawing Award Selection Panel will be convened by Professor Anita Taylor, founding Director of the Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize Project (1994-present) and Drawing Projects UK (2009-). Since 2019, she has been Dean of Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art and Design at the University of Dundee. Previous academic 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.
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