Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize 2024 Exhibition & Shortlist Announced

Gerry Davies, Flood Story: Drowned Forest, 2024,

Gerry Davies, Flood Story: Drowned Forest, 2024, shortlisted for the Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize 2024

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 & Director of UCL Slade School of Fine Art, Gary Sangster, Curator & Writer, Co-Director of Drawing Projects UK, and Jennifer Scott, Director of Dulwich Picture Gallery in London selected 94 drawings by 88 artists were selected for the Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize 2024 exhibition and awards. 
                                    
The Working Drawing Award celebrates the role of drawing within architecture, design, making, and planning, processes within a special display. These drawings were selected by Ben Derbyshire, Chair of HTA Design LLP, a leading multidisciplinary design practice, Andrew Grant, landscape architect, Founder & Director of Grant Associates, and Caroline Grewar, Director of Programme at V&A Dundee. 21 works by 20 drawing practitioners are shortlisted for the Working Drawing Award of £2,000.

The drawings selected for the Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize 2024 exhibition reflect a broad scope of contemporary drawing practice made by drawing practitioners at all stages of their careers, living and working across the UK and internationally.

The following awards will be announced at the Exhibition Launch & Awards Announcement on Wednesday 2 October 2024
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 2024 exhibition is open to the public from Thursday 3 October to Wednesday 16 October 2024 and will then tour to museums and galleries in Salisbury, Falmouth, Dundee, and Manchester, until October 2025. Accompanying the exhibition will be a fully illustrated Exhibition Publication, a downloadable Education Pack, and a programme of educational events including a Drawing Symposium on Thursday 3 October 2024.


The 94 drawings shortlisted for Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize 2024 are by:

Max Adams / Elisa Alaluusua / Lucy Algar / Thomas Allen / Tim Allen / Allou / Jeanette Barnes / Geoff Bartholomew / Sophie Bartlett / Akash Bhatt / Chris Blackburn / Jane Bottery / Eric Butcher / Ruth Chambers / Sarah Chapman / Sara Choudhrey / Hyeyeon Chung / Sara Clark / Gary Clough / David Conway / Aleksandra Czuja / Gerry Davies / Gary Dennis / Emma Douglas / Sarah Duyshart / Jamie Eade / Roy Eastland / Kristian Evju / Jonathan Farr / Nicolas K Feldmeyer / Maria Celeste Ferreira / Charlie Ford / Todd Fuller / Stefan Gant / Ann Gillies / Adam Gray / Christopher Green / Catherine Greenwood / Richard Gregory / Susie Hamilton / Simon Head / Jessica Heywood / Roland Hicks / Fiona Hingston / Ciaran Hughes / Melinda Hunt / Julia Hutton / Mark John Evans / Owen Johnson / Janette Kerr / Tomasz Laczny / Gary Lawrence / Bridget Lesly / Cheryl Lewis / Jo Lewis / Shihui Li / Edward Liddle / Yutong Liu / Juliette Losq / Peter Matthews / Janet Melrose / Jamie Mills / Jilly Morris / Justine Moss / David Mumby / Hannah Naify / Simon Page / Camilo Parra / Esteban Peña Parga / Ben Platts-Mills / Keira Rathbone / Jane Reid / Abbie Schug / Charlene Scott / Brian Shields / Ilona Skladzien / Jake Spicer / David Symonds / Emma C Tabor / Sian Ellis Tillott / Sally Dee Trewartha / Marika Tyler-Clark / Felicity Warbrick / Wei Kuo / Lynda Whitehouse / Phill Wilson-Perkin / Hamish Young / Martha Zmpounou

The 21 drawings shortlisted for the Working Drawing Award 2024 are by:

Daniele Catalli / Lizzie Mary Cullen / Emma Douglas / Maxine Dodd / Alice Sheppard Fidler / Jane Giblin / Ben Johnson / Olga Kataeva-Rochford / Rosie Leventon / Katy Lucas / Emily Mc Gardle / Philip Mckeith / Julia Milns / Carole Romaya  /  Richard Smolinski / Lottie Stoddart / Cornelia Mary Tuglui Dominic Walker / Emma Woffenden Kenneth SY Yiu 

The Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize has an established reputation as the UK’s most important annual open exhibition for drawing. Founded in 1994 by artist and Professor, Anita Taylor, Artist & Dean of Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art and Design at the University of Dundee, the annual Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize celebrates talent and excellence in current drawing practice. The exhibition provides an important platform for artists, designers, makers and other drawing practitioners as a catalyst within their careers, and champions the role, breadth, and value of drawing in creative practice today. The Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize is generously supported by the Trinity Buoy Wharf Trust, with 2024 the 7th year of their generous support for the annual open exhibition, and the 30th exhibition since the project was founded in 1994.

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Images (top to bottom): 

1. Gerry Davies, Flood Story: Drowned Forest, 2024, Graphite & Varnish on Mylar, shortlisted for the Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize 2024
2. Emma Douglas, Plan for Cato Mural, Year 8, Spa Fields, 2024, shortlisted for the Working Drawing Award
3. Janet Melrose, The Weight of Words, 2024, ink on folded paper (L); Jake Spicer, Esmé, charcoal on paper (R), both shortlisted Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize 2024
4. (L) Dominic Walker, The Orkney Island Reforestry Commission, 2024, pencil, ink, collage on watercolour paper, shortlisted for the Working Drawing Award; (R) Martha Zmpounou, Mother and Child, watercolour on paper, shortlisted for the Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize 2024
5. Hyeyon Chung, Window, 2024, ink on linen, 120 x 15cm, shortlisted for the Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize 2024

 

 

 

 

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