Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize 2022 - Awards Announced

The Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize 2022 exhibition of shortlisted drawings was launched at Trinity Buoy Wharf on Wednesday 28 September at Trinity Buoy Wharf in London. From over 3,200 submissions by 1,673 artists located in 45 countries,134 works by 112 drawing practitioners were shortlisted for the Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize 2022. 

The recipients of the four awards, worth £17,000 in total, were announced at the Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize Exhibition Launch on 28 September 2022:

First Prize, £8,000
Elisa Alaluusua, Unconceivable Line, single-channel video drawing, 2022 (still, image above)

Second Prize, £5,000
Aleksandra Czuja, Of The Series “Le Temps”, diptych, fineliner on paper, 2022 (first image below)

Student Prize, £2,000
Kasia Depta-Garapich, Family Album, paint markers on giclée prints, 2021 (second image below)

Working Drawing Award, £2,000
Gemma Thompson, Untitled (Graphic Score for Quartet), graphite on paper, 2022 (see Working Drawing Award information below)

The exhibition of shortlisted works is open to the public, and free to see, at Trinity Buoy Wharf from 29 September to 16 October 2022. The show will then tour to venues across the UK. A fully illustrated publication and public engagement programme will accompany the exhibition and tour.


 

The Selection Panel, Lucy Byatt, Director of Hospitalfield; Danie Mellor, Artist; and Isabel Seligman, Curator of Modern and Contemporary Drawing at the British Museum shortlisted 113 drawings by 94 artists architects, designers, and makers, including 11 students.

“Selecting the work for this show is something quite different to anything I have done before” says Lucy Byatt, Director of Hospitalfield. “We are presented with so many entries and with no information about the artists. This open approach to the selection is unique in this world where selection is so often tethered to curatorial intention. We are invited to respond to the single drawing and the way in which it is produced.”

“The works entered by artists for this year’s Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize made for exhilarating viewing” says Danie Mellor, Artist. “The range of drawings exploring both familiar and innovative approaches to image-making presented a welcome challenge in the process of judging. It is abundantly evident that drawing continues to be an exciting and vital medium in contemporary artistic practice.”

“It was a real privilege and pleasure to see the incredible diversity and quality of drawings submitted – from the painstaking and minutely-observed to the throwaway, exuberant and extravagant and I never expected the process to be laced with so much joy and surprise” notes Isabel Seligman, Monument Trust Curator of Modern and Contemporary Drawing in the Department of Prints and Drawings, the British Museum.



The Working Drawing Award is a special category within the exhibition which celebrates the role of drawing within architecture, design and making processes. From almost 400 entries by 135 candidates, 21 working drawings by 19 practitioners were selected for the Working Drawing Award by: Peter Clegg, Architect, Senior Partner, Fielden Clegg Bradley Studios; Niall Hobhouse, Collector, Writer & Trustee, Drawing Matter; Tania Kovats, Professor of Drawing & Making, University of Dundee; and Daniel McAuliffe, Education Director (Hubs), The Prince’s Foundation.

The Working Drawing Award, worth £2,000, was award to Gemma Thompson for her graphite drawing, Untitled (Graphic Score for Quartet), 2022 (below left).

         

The Working Drawing Selection Panel also awarded two Special Commendations to:

Lothar Götz, Xanadu, 2022, pencil and coloured pencil on paper, 25 x 52cm (below)
George Gibbs, Shed for Carolyn - Offset Section & North Elevation (1:10 and 1:20), 2022, pencil, ink and Conté Paris on architectural tracing paper, 42 x 42cm (above right)

Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize 2022 Education & Events Programme

The Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize 2022 will open to the public at Trinity Buoy Wharf in London from 29 September to 16 October 2022.

Alongside the exhibition, we have commissioned Chloe Briggs of Drawing is Free to devise an Education Pack inspired by the exhibition. This booklet is free to download here - and available in the exhibition in print (free for schools and educational providers).

There will also be a programme of Drawing Sessions, Drawing Discussions delivered by drawing practitioners and experts online and in person at Trinity Buoy Wharf in London. The events are as follows, booking links for all events will be available soon. 

Saturday 1 October:
4pm to 5pm
: Online Drawing Discussion: Anita Taylor + TBWDP22 Guest: Elisa Alaluusua - book here
6pm to 7pm: Online Drawing Session with Chloe Briggs: Drawing a Portrait at Dusk - book here

Monday 3 October: 
5pm to 6pm: Online Drawing Discussion: Penny McCarthy, Anita Taylor, Tania Kovats - book here
6pm to 7pm: Online Drawing Correspondence Event: Wintering Well with Chloe Briggs, Tania Kovats, Anita Taylor - book here

Thursday 6 October:
6pm to 7pm
: Online Drawing Discussion: Anita Taylor + TBWDP22 Guests - this event is to be rescheduled.

Saturday 8 October: 
9am to 10.30am: Online Drawing Session with Chloe Briggs: Making a Drawing Book the Size of a Smart Phone - book here
11am to 12.30pm: Director’s Introduction & Walkthrough at Trinity Buoy Wharf - book here
2pm to 4pm: Drawing Session at Trinity Buoy Wharf with Elisa Alaluusua & Anita Taylor: Sketchbook Treasures - book here

Sunday 9 October:
1pm to 3pm
: Drawing Session with Jeanette Barnes at Trinity Buoy Wharf - book here

Tuesday 11 October
6pm to 7pm: Online Drawing Discussion: Anita Taylor + TBWDP22 Guest: M. Lohrum - book here

Friday 14 October:
12noon to 1pm
: TBWDP Director’s Introduction & Walkthrough at Trinity Buoy Wharf - book here
1.30pm to 2.30pm: TBWDP Director’s Introduction & Walkthrough at Trinity Buoy Wharf - book here

Saturday 15 October:
9am to 10.30am
: Online Drawing Session with Chloe Briggs: Drawing a Subjective Architectural Plan - book here

Sunday 16 October:
1pm to 3pm
: Drawing Session at Trinity Buoy Wharf with Jeanette Barnes - book here

For all Drawing Sessions & Drawing Discussions – online and in person - booking is essential. There will be some drop in capacity for the Director's Introduction & Walkthrough in the gallery with Anita Taylor, Director of the Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize.

Please keep an eye on the Drawing Projects UK website, social media and Eventbrite page for more information, updates and additional events.

 

Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize 2022 Exhibition & Shortlist Announced

L: Sally Taylor, Shape Head 4, 2022; R: Kristian Evyu, The Other, 2022

The Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize 2022 exhibition will include 113 drawings by 94 artists - selected by Lucy Byatt, Director of Hospitalfield; Danie Mellor, Artist; Isabel Seligman, Monument Trust Curator of Modern and Contemporary Drawing in the Department of Prints and Drawings at The British Museum - and 21 drawings by 19 drawing practitioners selected for the Working Drawing Category by 
Niall Hobhouse, Collector, Writer & Trustee, Drawing Matter; Tania Kovats, Professor of Drawing & Making, University of Dundee; Daniel McAuliffe, Education Director (Hubs), The Prince’s Foundation.

The Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize 2022 received over 3,200 entries from 1,617 drawing practitioners from 45 different countries for the exhibition and awards that total £17,000. This large and diverse exhibition, of 134 drawings overall, reflects a broad range of current drawing practice. It includes works on paper and other supports, moving image and performance, made by artists, architects, designers and makers at all stages of their careers living and working across the UK as well as in Australia, Chile, France, Germany, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Spain, and the USA. 

The Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize 2022 exhibition will launch with the Awards Announcement at Trinity Buoy Wharf in London on Wednesday 28 September 2021 where the following awards will be announced:

 - First Prize of £8,000
 - Second Prize of £5,000
 - Student Award of £2,000
 - Working Drawing Award of £2,000

The Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize 2022 exhibition will open to the public at Trinity Buoy Wharf in London from 29 September 2022 until 16 October 2022 before touring to venues across the UK. A fully illustrated publication and public engagement programme will accompany the exhibition and tour.

The 113 drawings shortlisted for the Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize 2022 are by:
Elisa Alaluusua / Sasha Alfille / Kerry Andrews / Pauline Antram / Andy Bannister / Amélie Barnathan / Julie Barnes / Myra Barraza / David Barron / Fae Basford / Jolanta Basova / Rae Birch Carter / Mark Bissell / Kate Black / Ann-Margreth Bohl / Jane Bottery / Susie Breen / Francisca Brunet / Ian Chamberlain / Ron Chen / Harry Chrystall / Mike Clapton / Niamh Clarke / Gary Clough / David Connearn / Frances Copeman / Lucy Crouch / Aleksandra Czuja / Catharine Davison / David Dessert / Robert Dingle / Susannah Douglas / Stephen Doyle / Miriam Escofet / Kristian Evju / Nathaniel Fowles / Jane Frederick / Freya Gabie / Kasia Garapich / Andy Gomez / Susie Hamilton / Nancy Haslam-Chance / Monica Heaney / Russell Herron / Olivia Hicks / Lesley Hicks / Curtis Holder / Anna Hutton / Neville Jermyn / Adam Kinrade / Clare Kinross / Ilona Kiss / Randy Klinger / Uli Knoerzer / Katya Kvasova / Gary Lawrence / Jolene Liam / Karen Loader / M.Lohrum / Fiona Long / Johanna Love / Vittorio Marella / Christiane Matz / Harriet Mena Hill / Tom Mole / Elizabeth Nast / Chantal New / Simon Parish / Ian Parker / Mantas Poderys / Julia Polonski / Saba Qizilbash / Alberto Repetti / Carole Romaya / William Rounce / Maria Luisa Ruocco / Laura Ryan / Miriam Shenitzer / Stephanie Shrager / Magi Sinclair / Carrie Stanley Smith / Natalka Stephenson / Alan Stones / Rebecca Swindell / Sally Taylor / Adrian Thompson-Boyce / Lake Twins / Henry Ward / Witte Wartena / Louise Wilde / Jessica Wolfson / Hannah Wooll / William Wright / Xinhui Xu

 The 21 drawings shortlisted for the Working Drawing Award 2022 are by:
Jeanette Barnes / Adrian Baynes / Eleanor Bedlow / Jackie Berridge / Jessica Briggs / Clare Burnett / Fiona Chaney / Yvonne Crossley / Stig Evans / George Gibbs / Lothar Götz / Sophie Horton / Ben Johnson / Ioanna Lamprou / Rosie Leventon / Vittorio Marella / Veljko Mladenovic / Roma Tearne / Gemma Thompson

The Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize is supported by the Trinity Buoy Wharf Trust, and 2022 marks the fifth year of their generous support for the annual open exhibition, which was founded in 1994 by artist and Professor, Anita Taylor, Dean of Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art and Design at the University of Dundee and founder of Drawing Projects UK. The annual open exhibition is known for its celebration and promotion of excellence in contemporary drawing practice.

Key dates:
• 28 September 2022: Exhibition Launch & Awards Announcement (by invitation only)
• 29 September 2022: Exhibition opens to the public at Trinity Buoy Wharf
• 16 October 2022: Exhibition closes at Trinity Buoy Wharf - and then tours to venues within the UK

 


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Images above are by:
L: Sally Taylor, Shape Head 4, 2022, Graphite, colour pencil, oil pastel on found cardboard, 33 x 28cm
R: Kristian Evyu, The Other, 2022, pencil on paper,  27 2x 20cm

L: David Dessert, Walnut Tree, 2021, Biro on paper, 102 x 117cm
R: Curtis Holder, One Man and His Dog, 2022, coloured pencil and acrylic gouache on paper, 120 x 120 cm

L: Rosie Leventon, Drawings With Bricks, 2021, graphite and crayon on paper, 74 x 106cm [Working Drawing]
R: Ben Johnson, Mexico Airport Working Drawing, ink on paper, 102 x 140cm, 2022 [Working Drawing]

L: Fiona Long, In the Pines, 2022, pressure on artist's fungus, 17 x 23 x 5cm
R: Harriet Mena Hill, Where shall we meet when here is gone?, The Aylesbury Fragments, 2022, graphite on Fabriano paper and salvaged concrete, 22x 21 x 4cm

L: Neville Jermyn, Sperm Whale, 2021,graphite on paper, 151 x 180cm
R: Nancy Haslam-Chance, You've Got a Negative Outlook on Life, 2021, pencil on paper, 30 x 21cm

Images below:
L: Sophie Horton, Sun Cycle, 2021, watercolour on paper, 26 x 21cm [Working Drawing]
R: Vittorio Marella, Study of Swimmers, 2022, pencil, 36 x 60cm [Working Drawing]

 

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Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize 2022 - Call for Entries is Open

We are delighted that the Call for Entries for the Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize 2022 exhibition and awards is now open. The Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize project has been led by its founding Director, Professor Anita Taylor, since 1994 and supported by the Trinity Buoy Wharf Trust since 2018. 

The exhibition is open to emerging, mid-career and established drawing practitioners located across the UK and internationally, and around 65 drawings will be selected for the touring exhibition by distinguished selection panels.

The Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize 2022 exhibition and awards will be selected by:

- Lucy Byatt, Director of Hospitalfield
- Danie Mellor, Artist
- Isabel Seligman, Monument Trust Curator of Modern and Contemporary Drawing, British Museum

The Working Drawing Award has a separate submission process, selection criteria and selection panel, with a specific remit to celebrate and promote the role of drawing within architecture, design and making processes. The working Drawing Award will be selected by:

- Peter Clegg, Architect, Senior Partner, Fielden Clegg Bradley Studios
- Niall Hobhouse, Collector, Writer & Trustee, Drawing Matter
- Tania Kovats, Professor of Drawing & Making, University of Dundee
- Daniel McAuliffe, Education Director (Hubs), The Prince’s Foundation

The Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize 2022 Awards include:
- First Prize (£8,000)
- Second Prize (£5,000)
- Student Award (£2,000)
- Working Drawing Award (£2,000)

Online registrations for the Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize 2022 are open until 5pm on 13 June 2022. There will be a two-stage selection process for main exhibition and awards, with a first stage selection taking place after 13 June 2022 from the online submissions, and the long-listed drawings delivered to a Collection Centre in the UK during July for the final selection process. The Working Drawing Award display is selected from online images with selected drawings to be delivered to the Collection Centres in July.

A fully illustrated publication is produced and launched at the Exhibition and Awards Announcements on Wednesday 28 September 2022 at Trinity Buoy Wharf in London.

More information is available on the Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize 2022 Entry Portal about the submission and selection process for the main exhibition and awards.

For the Working Drawing Award, please see the Trinity Buoy Wharf Working Drawing Award Entry Portal.

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Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize 2021 at Cooper Gallery in Dundee from 19 March to 16 April 2022.

The Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize 2021 exhibition is now on tour and on show at Cooper Gallery in Dundee from 21 March to 16 April 2022. The exhibition of 114 drawings by 99 drawing practitioners is free to visit - from Monday to Saturday, 11am to 4pm - and information on how to book is available here. There is a programme of events alongside the exhibition - Drawn to Dundee - convened by Tania Kovats, Professor of Drawing & Making, and Alex Roberts, Lecturer in Drawing at Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art & Design at the University of Dundee. Information on the exhibition and events programme can be found here.

The Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize has an established reputation as the UK’s most important annual open exhibition of drawing. Led by its founding Director, Professor Anita Taylor, the exhibition is known for its promotion and celebration of excellence in contemporary drawing practice. The Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize is supported by the Trinity Buoy Wharf Trust, and 2021 marks the fourth year of their generous support for this annual open exhibition that was founded in 1994. The Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize provides an important platform for drawing, and for artists, designers, and makers as a catalyst within their careers. The annual exhibitions are selected from drawings submitted from across the world by a roster of passionate and distinguished drawing experts – artists, architects, curators, designers, writers, and collectors. 

The Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize 2021 exhibition includes 101 drawings by 89 artists selected by Sheela Gowda, Artist, Simon Groom, Director of Modern and Contemporary Art at National Galleries Scotland, and Zoé Whitley, Director of Chisenhale Gallery in London, and 13 drawings by 12 drawing practitioners selected for the Working Drawing Award and display by Leonie Bell, Director of V&A Dundee, Charles O. Job, Designer and Architect, and Paul Finch, Programme Director of the World Architecture Festival.

 This diverse exhibition of 114 drawings overall reflects a broad scope of current drawing practice by artists, architects, designers, and makers at all stages of their careers – living and working across the four nations of the UK as well as Australia, Belgium, Brazil, Cyprus, Denmark, Germany, Greece, India, Ireland, Italy, Norway, Spain, The Netherlands, and the USA. The Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize 2021 received 3,300 entries from 1,673 drawing practitioners from 46 different countries for the exhibition and awards of £27,000.

The 101 drawings shortlisted for Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize 2021 are by: 

Valérie Abadie / Gabriela Adach /  Marcelo Albagli / Claire Anscomb / Emily Ball / Federica Beretta / Victoria Clare Bernie / Jackie Berridge / Jules Bishop / Kate Black / Frances Aviva Blane / Caroline Blythe / Su Bonfanti / Georgia Boukla / Gavin Bowyer / Mark Boylan / Ann Bridges / Nell Brookfield / Chris Bruce / Ian Chamberlain / Kristina Chan / Yoonhee Choi / Philippa Clarke / Amy Collins / Karen Conway / Jacquetta Cook / Yvonne Crossley / Andrea Cryer / David Cutts / Hannah Davies / Robert Davies / Bob Deakin / Emma Douglas / Jo Dumpleton / Amy Dury / Jill Eastland / Laura Elkins / Paul Fenner / Fierce Fine Art / Craig Fisher / David Gardner / Zoe Gibson / James Gosling / Euan Gray / James Gregory / Bea Haines / David Haines / Habib Hajallie / Susie Hamilton / Ben Hancocks / Georgia Kitty Harris / Justin Harris / Lia Anna Hennig / Russell Herron / Denise Hickey / Roland Hicks / Harriet Mena Hill / Sandy Horsley / Yvonne Kay / Hannah Kokoschka / Jenny Laskowsky / Gary Lawrence / Cheryl Lewis / Esther Martínez Rey / Fiona Michie / Arianna Tinulla Milesi / Elizabeth Nast / Simon Nicholas / Sofia Nifora / Catherine O'Donnell / Patrick O'Rourke / Steve Payne / Freya Pocklington / Caroline Pool / Selina Pope / Alberto Repetti / Elwina Robinson / Xavier Robles de Medina / Gabriela Schutz / Mark Seely / Katy Shepherd / Mark Shields / Aleksandra Stepien / Natalia Stoyanova / Sam van Strien / Roma Tearne / Freya Thompson / Iva Troj / Rebecca West-Beale 

The 13 drawings shortlisted for the Working Drawing Award 2021 are by

Zahra Akbari Baseri / Joshua Bristow / Marc Brousse / Ian Chamberlain / Sheila Gaffney / Christopher Green / Georgia Kitty Harris / Jessica Heywood / Julie Menelaou / Esha Mittal / Quy Phu Nguyen / Alejandro Pascual   

Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize 2021 Educational Resources: A free and downloadable education pack devised by Drawing is Free is available here and an introductory film of the exhibition is available on the Drawing Projects UK YouTube channel here. The fully illustrated exhibition catalogue is published by Drawing Projects UK is available to purchase and many of the drawings included in the exhibition are for sale. Further resources include the recordings of online events online with the exhibiting artists, selectors and guests convened by Drawing Projects UK in London and in Wiltshire (where the public engagement programme and exhibition was supported by Arts Council England). All online Drawing Discussions were convened by Professor Anita Taylor, Director of the Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize project and Dean of Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art & Design at the University of Dundee, and recordings of these Drawing Discussions and the Drawing Symposium: Drawing Lockdown I & II are, or will be, available on the Drawing Projects UK YouTube channel.