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

Girl Friday Breakfast Club with Alex Roberts on 30 August 20…

Join us for the Girl Friday Breakfast Club with artist, Alex Roberts, on Friday 30 August at 8am online. Alex Roberts is a painter who focuses upon how we perceive identity, change, and encounters. Testing the sliding scales of figuration and abstraction, her visual language travels between observation and material play. She engages with paint and translucence, addressing paintings’ surface, layers...

01-09-2024

Gestural, Reflective & Inquiring Tales: a painting exhib…

Join us at our new venue in Dundee for Gestural, Reflective and Inquiring Tales: a painting exhibition bridging Europe, which will be on show from 13 September to 12 October 2024, Wednesday to Sunday, 12noon to 4pm - ticketed entry only. Book your free ticket to see the exhibition here.  Drawing Projects UK in Scotland can be found on the corner of West...

01-09-2024

Poetry Workshop with Nina Parmenter on 7 September at 2pm

Sparking the Flame:using novelty and surprise to set your poems alight is an informal Poetry Writing Workshop with prize-winning poet, Nina Parmenter. Booking is essential, more information and tickets here. You are invited to join members of the Trowbridge Stanza for an informal, enjoyable poetry two-hour workshop led by Nina Parmenter on Saturday 7 September at 2pm. Nina is a widely...

17-08-2024

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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