Join us for a Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize 2024 Information Session online and hear from Professor Anita Taylor, founding Director of the Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize, about the exhibition and the current Calls for Entries for this prestigious exhibition and awards. There will be a Q&A session with the audience, so please do book and come along to an information session find out more about the annual open exhibition, selection and submission processes in 2024. There are currently two sessions in April, and the booking links are here: Tuesday 9 April at 6pm (BST), Tuesday 23 April at 8am (BST) and Tuesday 21 May at 6pm and there will be a further session in June, date and times tbc.

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 internationally.

There are two separate Calls for Entries and submission and selection processes in 2024 - one call for the Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize 2024 exhibition and awards, and another call for the Trinity Buoy Wharf Working Drawing Award 2024.

The Call for Entries for the Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize 2024 is open to all drawing practitioners worldwide, whether they are emerging, mid-career or established. The exhibition is selected from artworks submitted to Collection Centres located across the UK with a dedicated centre for the receipt of international submissions. All applicants for the Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize 2024 must register their entry by 5pm on 12 June 2024. The appointed Selection Panel will choose the drawings for the Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize 2024 exhibition, and awards of a First Prize of £8,000, Second Prize of £5,000 and Student Award of £2,000. The distinguished Selection Panel for the Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize 2024 will be: Mary Evans, Artist & Director of UCL Slade School of Fine Art; Gary Sangster, International Curator & Writer, co-Director of Drawing Projects UK; and Jennifer Scott, Director of Dulwich Picture Gallery in London. Find out more, and access the entry portal, here.

There is a separate Call for Entries for the Working Drawing Award, which 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 the Working Drawing Award has a separate online Entry Process and Selection Panel. All applicants for the Working Drawing Award 2024 must register their entry online and upload digital images of their drawings by 20 June 2024. The Selection Panel will be: Ben Derbyshire, non-executive Chair of HTA Design LLP, a leading multidisciplinary design practice specialising in housing and placemaking; Andrew Grant, Landscape Architect, Founder and Director of Grant Associates; and Caroline Grewar, Director of Programme at V&A Dundee. Find out more, and access the entry portal, here.

The Exhibition Launch & Awards Announcements of the Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize 2024 and the Trinity Buoy Wharf Working Drawing Award 2024 will both take place on Wednesday 2 October 2024 at Trinity Buoy Wharf in London. The exhibition will open to the public from Thursday 3 October to Wednesday 16 October 2024 and will then tour until the summer of 2025. Accompanying the exhibition will be a fully illustrated Exhibition Publication, an Education Pack, and there will be a Drawing Symposium on Thursday 3 October 2024 at Trinity Buoy Wharf, amongst other public programmes in London and accompanying the tour.

We look forward to welcoming you to this live online information session.

More information on the Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize can be found here on the dedicated website.

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