The Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize 2024 Exhibition

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.

At the Exhibition Launch & Awards Announcement on Wednesday 2 October 2024 at Trinity Buoy Wharf in London, the four award winning drawings, collectively receiving £17,000, were revealed:

• First Prize of £8,000: Out of Round: An Abbreviated Outline of British Studio Pottery, 2024, steel wire, 170 x 100 x 8cm by Max L Adams,
• Second Prize of £5,000: The 5th Arch, 2023, graffiti markers, drafting pencil on Bristol paper, 145 x 106cm by Owen Johnson.
• Student Award of £2,000: Window, 2024, ink on linen (diptych), 120 x 15cm by Hyeyeon Chung.
• Working Drawing Award of £2,000: Plan for Cato Mural, Year 8, Spa Fields, 2023, watercolour on watercolour paper, 76 x 58cm by Emma Douglas

The Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize 2024 exhibition is open to the public from Thursday 3 October to Wednesday 16 October 2024 at Trinity Buoy Wharf 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:

Romaya Carole / 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 / Richard Smolinski / Cornelia Mary Tuglui / Kenneth SY Yiu / Lottie Stoddart / Dominic Walker / Emma Woffenden

The Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize is 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.