Join us for a Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize 2024 Information Session and hear from Professor Anita Taylor, founding Director of the Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize, about the exhibition and the current Calls for Entries for this prestigious exhibition and awards. There will be a Q&A session with the audience, so please do book and come along to an information session find out more about the annual open exhibition, selection and submission processes in 2024. There are currently two sessions in April, and the booking links are here: Tuesday 9 April at 6pm (BST), Tuesday 23 April at 8am (BST), Tuesday 21 May at 6pm and a further session on Tuesday 11 June at 1pm.

The International Call for Entries for the Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize 2024 is now open for all drawing practitioners to submit their work for the exhibition and awards. Widely considered to be the most prestigious annual open exhibition for drawing in the UK, the Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize presents an exceptionally wide range of current drawing practices, demonstrating the depth and breadth of drawing internationally.

There are two separate Calls for Entries and submission and selection processes in 2024 - one call for the Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize 2024 exhibition and awards, and another call for the Trinity Buoy Wharf Working Drawing Award 2024.

The Call for Entries for the Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize 2024 is open to all drawing practitioners worldwide, whether they are emerging, mid-career or established. The exhibition is selected from artworks submitted to Collection Centres located across the UK with a dedicated centre for the receipt of international submissions. All applicants for the Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize 2024 must register their entry by 5pm on 12 June 2024. The appointed Selection Panel will choose the drawings for the Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize 2024 exhibition, and awards of a First Prize of £8,000, Second Prize of £5,000 and Student Award of £2,000. The distinguished Selection Panel for the Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize 2024 will be: Mary Evans, Artist & Director of UCL Slade School of Fine Art; Gary Sangster, International Curator & Writer, co-Director of Drawing Projects UK; and Jennifer Scott, Director of Dulwich Picture Gallery in London. Find out more, and access the entry portal, here.

There is a separate Call for Entries for the Working Drawing Award, which is open to drawing practitioners worldwide, and aims to explore and promote the role of drawing within architecture, design, and making processes. As a special category of the overall Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize exhibition the Working Drawing Award has a separate online Entry Process and Selection Panel. All applicants for the Working Drawing Award 2024 must register their entry online and upload digital images of their drawings by 20 June 2024. The Selection Panel will be: Ben Derbyshire, non-executive Chair of HTA Design LLP, a leading multidisciplinary design practice specialising in housing and placemaking; Andrew Grant, Landscape Architect, Founder and Director of Grant Associates; and Caroline Grewar, Director of Programme at V&A Dundee. Find out more, and access the entry portal, here.

The Exhibition Launch & Awards Announcements of the Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize 2024 and the Trinity Buoy Wharf Working Drawing Award 2024 will both take place on Wednesday 2 October 2024 at Trinity Buoy Wharf in London. The exhibition will open to the public from Thursday 3 October to Wednesday 16 October 2024 and will then tour until the summer of 2025. Accompanying the exhibition will be a fully illustrated Exhibition Publication, an Education Pack, and there will be a Drawing Symposium on Thursday 3 October 2024 at Trinity Buoy Wharf, amongst other public programmes in London and accompanying the tour.

We look forward to welcoming you to this live online information session.

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The Trinity Buoy Wharf Working Drawing Award 2024 is open to drawing practitioners worldwide, and aims to explore and promote the role of drawing within architecture, design, and making processes. As a special category of the overall Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize exhibition, it has a separate online Entry Process and Selection Panel, more information on how to enter can be found here. The deadline for registration of entries is Thursday 20 June at 5pm. 

The Working Drawing Award aims to explore, expand and enhance our knowledge and understanding of working drawings today. It is anticipated that architects, designers, engineers, makers, planners, and scientists, amongst others, who use drawings to ideate, to plan and propose concepts, to communicate ideas and designs, and who make drawings from which something can or will be made, fabricated or constructed, will submit their drawings. For this Working Drawing Award, a working drawing is broadly understood to be a drawing from which something else can or will be made; a drawing that illustrates and explains an idea as part of a process towards making, production or construction; a drawing that facilitates or documents the development of an idea; a drawing that demonstrates notation or ideation; or that forms a drawn instruction to a maker.

It is anticipated that drawings for architecture, design, engineering, and other disciplines that involve construction and making as well as within some art practices, will be submitted for this award and exhibition, and that we will receive submissions of notational and planning drawings, drawings that relate to ideation, sketches, detail drawings, assembly drawings, and other kinds of working drawings that represent design, planning, and the communication of designs and ideas to others. The Working Drawing Award will be presented alongside the Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize 2024 exhibition in October 2024. We want to explore what a working drawing is today - please join us in exploring this!

Applications for the Working Drawing Award are by online submission only. Up to three drawings may be registered by each applicant for consideration by the Working Drawing Award Selection Panel. All eligible drawing practitioners are invited to submit their entries. Drawing will be selected via an online selection process only, and are then to sent to a Collection Centre in July so that we can prepare the exhibition, the publication and education materials, and select the award-winner, prior to the exhibition opening and the awards announcement on Wednesday 3 October. The exhibition will be held at Trinity Buoy Wharf in London from 4-18 October 2024 prior to touring until August 2025.

The distinguished Selection Panel for the Trinity Buoy Wharf Working Drawing Award 2024 will be: Ben Derbyshire, Andrew Grant, and Caroline Grewar. 

     TBW Working Drawing Award 2024 Selectors (L-R): Ben Derbyshire, Andrew Grant, Caroline Grewar

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.

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The International Call for Entries for the Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize 2024 is now open for all drawing practitioners to submit their work for the exhibition and awards. Widely considered to be the most prestigious annual open exhibition for drawing in the UK, the Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize presents an exceptionally wide range of current drawing practices, demonstrating the depth and breadth of drawing internationally. 

The International Call for Entries is open to all drawing practitioners worldwide, whether they are emerging, mid-career or established. The exhibition is selected from artworks submitted to Collection Centres located across the UK. The appointed Selection Panel will choose in the region of 90 drawings for the Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize 2024 Exhibition, and Awards of a First Prize of £8,000, Second Prize of £5,000 and Student Award of £2,000.

All applicants for the Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize 2024 must register their entry via the ArtOpps portal by 5pm on Monday 17 June 2024.  Drawings are then submitted via a Collection Centre in the UK on specified dates with all entries are seen by the Selection Panel 'in the real'. Information about how to submit work is set out on the entry portal. 

The Exhibition Launch & Awards Announcements will take place on Wednesday 2 October 2024 at Trinity Buoy Wharf in London. The exhibition will open to the public from Thursday 3 October to Wednesday 16 October 2024 and will then tour until July 2025. Accompanying the exhibition will be a fully illustrated Exhibition Publication and an Education Pack. A Drawing Symposium will be held on Thursday 3 October 2024.

The distinguished Selection Panel for the Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize 2024 will be: Mary Evans, Artist & Director of UCL Slade School of Fine Art, Gary Sangster, Curator & Co-Director of Drawing Projects UK, and Jennifer Scott, Director of Dulwich Picture Gallery. 

Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize 2024 Selectors (L-R): Mary Evans, Gary Sangster, Jennifer Scott

Mary Evans is an artist with a national and international reputation. Having studied at Goldsmiths and the Rijksakademie in Amsterdam, Evans’s 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 un-mappable. 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. 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 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 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 in Istanbul / Dundee / Barcelona / Aksaray; UK Curator, Mairéad 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.

Key Dates for the Call for Entries:
8 March 2024:                    Call for Entries Opens
12 June 2024:                    Last day for Registration of Entries
19 June-12 July 2024: Submission of Drawings to Collection Centres (details here)
19 July 2024:                      Announcement of Shortlisted Drawings for Entrants
21 July onwards:              Return of Unselected Works to Collection Centres

Key Dates for the Exhibition & Awards:
2 October 2024:         Exhibition & Publication Launch & Awards Announcement
3 October 2024:         Exhibition open to the public at Trinity Buoy Wharf, London
3 October 2024:         Drawing Symposium at Trinity Buoy Wharf
16 October 2024:      Exhibition closes at Trinity Buoy Wharf
October-July 2025:  Exhibition tours to multiple venues

Please note that the Trinity Buoy Wharf Working Drawing Award has a separate Call for Entries and Selection Process that will be launched later in March 2024.

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After the presentation of the Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize 2023 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. A documentary film of the exhibition will be launched in January 2024 at Drawing Projects UK. 

Supported by the Trinity Buoy Wharf Trust, the Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize is regarded as the foremost open exhibition dedicated to drawing in the United Kingdom. 

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

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