THIS SUBMISSION PORTAL IS FOR UK ENTRIES ONLY TO THE TRINITY BUOY WHARF DRAWING PRIZE   

FOR INTERNATIONAL ENTRIES ENTER HERE (https://tbwdpinternational.artopps.co.uk/)

FOR WORKING DRAWING ENTRIES ENTER HERE (https://tbwdpworkingdrawings.artopps.co.uk)

The Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize is supported by the Trinity Buoy Wharf Trust and led by its founding Director Professor Anita Taylor, Dean of Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art and Design at the University of Dundee and Director of Drawing Projects UK.

Selected from original artworks, the Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize and exhibition has an established reputation for its commitment to promoting excellence in, and celebrating the breadth of, contemporary drawing practice. This open exhibition is a platform for drawing practitioners to showcase their work alongside other leading contemporary artists and makers in the field with the exhibition launched in London and touring widely in the UK. In offering emerging, mid-career and established artists and makers an influential platform to exhibit their drawings, this longstanding exhibition project has developed new insights into the role and value of drawing in creative practice today.

The project was founded in 1994 as the Rexel Derwent Open Drawing Exhibition and was known from 1996 until 2000 as the Cheltenham Open Drawing Exhibition, supported by a private benefactor, Westland Nurseries, The Summerfield Trust, CHK Charities and the Rootstein Hopkins Foundation. From 2001 to 2017, the exhibition was supported by Jerwood Charitable Foundation and known as Jerwood Drawing Prize. Trinity Buoy Wharf Trust became the principal benefactor in 2018 and the annual open exhibition was renamed the Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize. With Trinity Buoy Wharf Trust as the new funding partner, the exhibition returned to its founding principle of being open to entries from drawing practitioners located across the world, and also established a separate category for a Working Drawing Award and display. For practical reasons, the non-UK/International entries and Working Drawing Award entries have a separate entry process/portal.

Shortlisted drawings will be announced on 20 July 2023.

The Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize 2023 award–winning drawings will be announced on 28 September 2023.

For further information and links please visit the Downloads/Links.

The Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize 2023 exhibition will be launched at Trinity Buoy Wharf in London on 27 September 2023 and will then tour to a number of venues across the UK.  Everyone with drawings selected for the exhibition will be invited to the private Awards Ceremony at Trinity Buoy Wharf in London on 28 September 2023. A fully illustrated publication will be produced to accompany the exhibition.

Launch of the Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize 2023

Thursday 28 September 2023

6pm – 8.30pm

Trinity Buoy Wharf

64 Orchard Place

London E14 0JY

trinitybuoywharf.com

Exhibition open to the public

Friday 29 September – Sunday 15 October 2023

The Buoy Store, Trinity Buoy Wharf, London E14 0JY

Followed by an exhibition tour, venues to be announced shortly.

• First Prize – £8,000
• Second Prize – £5,000
• Student Award – £2,000
• Evelyn Williams Drawing Award – £10,000, a biennial award to support a mid-career artist selected for the exhibition to hold a solo exhibition at a major gallery in the UK.

The annual exhibition of around 75 drawings will be selected by a panel of distinguished selectors:

• Laura Hoptman, Executive Director, The Drawing Center New York
• Dennis Scholl AM, Collector & Arts Patron
• Barbara Walker MBE RA, Artist

The Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize 2023 is open to all drawing practitioners worldwide.

Please note initial entry is by online registration only. No images are required for the registration stage by UK entrants (if you are entering from outside of the UK please register here).

Online registration for UK entries closes on Friday 30 June 2023, 5pm.

Following the online registration, those registered must hand their drawings in to their selected Collection Centre along with the completed Work Submission Form and Work Labels.

Up to three drawings may be registered by each applicant for consideration by the Selection Panel.

Entrants are asked to carefully read the Rules & Guidelines, and will be asked to confirm acceptance of these rules and guidelines during the online registration process. Only entrants who have registered online by the deadline of Friday 30 June 2023, 5pm will be eligible to submit their drawings to a Collection Centre.

The Work Submission Form and Work Labels are available on the Download/Links page of this website. Work labels should be completed and attached securely to the back top right hand corner of each work. Completed Work Submission Forms should be handed in with the drawings at the Collection Centre.

The Project Manager for the Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize, Parker Harris, may be contacted by email:tbwdp@parkerharris.co.uk.

• Applicants may submit up to three drawings. Entry fees are listed below. Please note that there is no additional charge for submission (and return) to a regional Collection Centre.

Submission Fees

Standard Entry: 1 work = £25; 2 works = £35; 3 works = £45

Student Entry: 1 work = £15; 2 works = £20; 3 works = £25

Collection Centres

At the time of online registration, applicants are required to select a Collection Centre for the submission of their work. Please note that work(s) will be returned to the same Collection Centre. Please note that applicants are unable to change the Collection Centre for the submission of their artworks after the deadline of Friday 30 June 2023, 5pm.

Submission of Drawings

The completed Work Submission Form and labelled works should be handed in to the selected Collection Centre on the specified days only. For further details about hand in venues and dates, check the Submission & Collection Timetable in the Downloads/Links section of this website.

Applicants wishing to submit moving images will receive an email inviting them to send a video link.

PLEASE NOTE: You can only enter three works in total. 

There will be submission and collection points at the following locations for full details please see Links and Downloads.

All applicants will be informed by email of the decision by the Selection Panel by Thursday 20 July 2023, 5pm. The email will be from tbwdp@parkerharris.co.uk. In addition, their name and the titles of the drawing(s) selected for exhibition will appear in the General Info section of this website at this time.

If no email notification has been received by Thursday 20 July 2023, 5pm, or your name and work title(s) do not appear on the list of selected works, your work has not been selected and will need to be collected from the location it was delivered. If you do not receive an email or you are unable to view the accepted list online, please contact the Project Manager, Parker Harris, by email: tbwdp@parkerharris.co.uk.

The Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize 2023 exhibition will consist of works that in the opinion of the Selection Panel qualify as drawings. The decision of the Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize 2023 Selection Panel is final and binding and no correspondence will be entered into.

Unselected works will be available for collection from Trinity Buoy Wharf in London on either Friday 21 July or Saturday 22 July 2023, or from the Regional Collection Centres at dates and times as advised.

For further details regarding all dates and times, please check the Submissions & Collections Timetable PDF in the Downloads/Links section of this website.

Please note that it is not possible to change your Collection Centre after Monday 30 June 2023, 5pm.

Please note, works will not be wrapped after the selection process unless specific re-usable packing cases are provided for the work at the time of submission.

LONDON COLLECTION CENTRE

Works not collected on the collection days for the London Collection Centre will go into storage with Art Moves of Chelsea at Chelsea Self Storage, Blantyre Street, London, SW10 0EQ, incurring charges of £50 per work. Works will then be available to collect by appointment only. Work not collected by 31 August 2023 will be disposed of by Art Moves of Chelsea. To contact Art Moves of Chelsea please call 020 7352 7492 or email: artmoveschelsea@aol.com.

Please note that Art Moves of Chelsea will not be able to accommodate any works over 1.8m or any 3-dimensional works.

REGIONAL COLLECTION CENTRES

Works not collected on the set dates will be disposed of as our Regional Collection Centres have no storage facilities.

All works selected for the Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize 2023 will be retained from the point of selection and throughout the duration of the exhibition and tour from July 2023 to July 2024.

Please note that the registration/online submission for non-UK based entrants & Working Drawing Award Entrants is by 5 June 2023, 5pm