Drawing Projects UK is a non-profit centre for research, development, production and promotion of exhibitions, events and workshops in drawing and contemporary art.

Drawing Projects UK provides a space for drawing – where you can see, make and discuss drawing - and aims to promote, develop and build a community through drawing in a local, regional, national and international context.

Formed in 2009 by Professor Anita Taylor to develop and promote research initiatives in drawing, including the Jerwood Drawing Prize, the new centre opened at Bridge House in Trowbridge in 2015.

Built in 1929, Bridge House is a landmark building adjacent to Trowbridge railway station. It houses the Drawing Projects UK office, The Drawing Centre project space and training room, meeting rooms, workspaces for artists, designers, makers and creative, cultural and educational enterprises and Studio Café.

Programmes include exhibitions, drawing sessions, projects, workshops, talks and events and we can provide professional development services for artists, curators and arts organisations.

What's happening at Drawing Projects

Emma Douglas, Plan for Cato Mural, Year 8, Spa Fields, 2024, Working Drawing Award

Trinity Buoy Wharf Working Drawing Award 2024 Exhibition - 2…

From 24 April 2025, the Trinity Buoy Wharf Working Drawing Award 2024 will be on show at Drawing Projects UK. The show will continue into May. The Working Drawing Award celebrates the role of drawing within architecture, design and making processes and is a special and discrete element of the overall Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize exhibition project. In 2024, 21 drawings...

15-02-2025

Anita Taylor, A mon seul desir: Sound, oil on canvas, 258 x243cm

In focus: A mon seul désir: Sound by Anita Taylor

From 29 January 2025, we will have A mon seul désir: Sound by Anita Taylor on show in The Entrance Hall at Drawing Projects UK. We are thrilled to have the opportunity to showcase this painting here, courtesy of Vision Art Platform (Istanbul). The Entrance Hall is open daily, Monday to Friday 8am to 4pm and Saturdays and Sundays 10am...

15-02-2025

Telling Stories: Heroine Mythology Recast - Drawings by Wend…

Telling Stories: Heroine Mythology Recast - Drawings by Wendy Sharpe & Anita Taylor will launch at Drawing Projects UK on International Women’s Day - Saturday 8 March from 4-6pm, and is open by appointment and during events until Saturday 19 April 2025.  Telling Stories, is a collaboration between Anita Taylor (UK), and Wendy Sharpe (Australia), figurative artists with a strong interest...

15-02-2025

From the Blog

Gerry Davies, Flood Story: Drowned Forest, 2024,

Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize 2024 Exhibition & Short…

Known as the UK’s most prestigious annual open exhibition for drawing, the Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize 2024 received over 2,280 submissions from 1,270 candidates located across the world for its 30th edition. A total of 115 works by 108 drawing practitioners were chosen by the two distinguished Selection Panels for the exhibition and shortlisted for the annual awards of £17,000. Mary Evans, Artist...

15-08-2024

Working Drawing Award 2023 at Trinity Buoy Wharf

Trinity Buoy Wharf Working Drawing Award 2024 - Call for Ent…

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...

06-04-2024

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

Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize 2024 Call for Entries &…

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...

10-03-2024

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