The Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize 2022 now calling for entries

Drawing practitioners from around the world are invited to submit their drawings for consideration for the Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize 2022 exhibition - with awards a total of £17,000. This prestigious annual exhibition dedicated to drawing provides opportunity for artists, designers and makers to be included in the touring exhibition. The exhibition and awards are launched at Trinity Buoy Wharf in London prior to touring to venues within the UK.

The Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize 2022 will be selected by:

• Lucy Byatt, Director of Hospitalfield
• Danie Mellor, Artist
• Isabel Seligman, Monument Trust Curator of Modern and Contemporary Drawing in the Department of Prints and Drawings at The British Museum

The Working Drawing Award Selection Panel comprises:

• 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 following prizes will be awarded:

• First Prize of £8,000
• Second Prize of £5,000
• Student Award of £2,000
• Working Drawing Award of £2,000

Please follow the link here to apply before Monday 13 June 2022, 5pm BST.

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 Professor Anita Taylor, artist and Dean of Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art and Design at the University of Dundee, the annual open exhibition is known for celebrating excellence in contemporary drawing practice, and for championing the role, breadth and value of drawing in creative practice today.

The exhibition and awards are open to applications by emerging, mid-career and established drawing practitioners located anywhere in the UK and internationally. There are two submission and selection processes: one for the main exhibition and awards and a separate criteria and process for the Working Drawing Award with a specific remit to celebrate and promote the role of drawing within architecture, design and making processes. Up to three drawings may be entered by each applicant for consideration by the different selection panels. The closing date for entries for all awards is Monday 13 June 2022, 5pm BST.

Stage 1: Entry Process

Three drawings may be entered via the online entry portal: https://tbwdrawingprize.artopps.co.uk/

• Drawings must be registered online by 13 June 2022, 5pm.
• The Selection Panel will choose a longlist from the online entries for Stage 2 of the process. All works are viewed anonymously and selected solely on images alone (i.e. without reference to their maker or other information).
• Entrants will be notified by 27 June 2022 of the outcome of Stage 1.

Stage 2: Submission of Long-Listed Drawings

• All entrants with longlisted drawings will be required to deliver them to Collection Centres located across the UK or directly to Trinity Buoy Wharf in London by 18 July 2022 for the final selection process.

Stage 3: The Exhibition

• The Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize 2022 exhibition will include around 65 drawings and all included works will tour nationally in 2022 to 2023.
• The shortlist and award winners will be revealed at the Exhibition Launch and Awards Announcement at Trinity Buoy Wharf in London, on the evening of 28 September 2022. The First Prize of £8,000, Second Prize of £5,00, and Student Award of £2,000 will be announced.

Stage 1: Entry Process

Three drawings may be entered via the online Working Drawing Award entry portal: https://tbwdpworkingdrawings.artopps.co.uk

• Drawings must be registered online by 13 June 2022, 5pm.
• The Selection Panel will select the display of working drawings from the online entries. All works are viewed anonymously and selected on the basis of their merit in the view of the selection panel. Entrants will be notified by 27 June 2022 of the outcome.

Stage 2: Selected Drawings & Exhibition:

• All drawing practitioners will be required to deliver their selected works to Collection Centres located across the UK or directly to Trinity Buoy Wharf in July 2022.
• This special display that promotes the role of drawing within design and making processes and will tour nationally from 2022 to 2023 as part of the overall Trinity Bu0y Wharf Drawing Prize 2022 exhibition.
• The Working Drawing Award of £2,000 will be announced at the Exhibition Launch and Awards Announcement at Trinity Buoy Wharf in London on the evening of 28 September 2022

The Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize 2022 exhibition will be presented at Trinity Buoy Wharf in London from 29 September to 16 October 2022. A fully illustrated publication and public engagement programme accompany the exhibition and tour.

For over 25 years, the Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize has provided a platform for artists and a catalyst for their careers.