Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize 2022 - Call for Entries by 13 June

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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