Please note: We do not require images or details of work – online is for registration and payment only. Please take your work to the submission centre you have nominated. 

The Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize is led by founding Director Professor Anita Taylor at Bath Spa University and supported by the Trinity Buoy Wharf Trust. Selected from original art works, the Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize and exhibition has an established reputation for its commitment to championing excellence and promoting and celebrating the breadth of contemporary drawing practice within the UK. 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 touring widely in the UK. In offering emerging, mid-career and established artists and makers a national platform to exhibit their work, the 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. It was known from 1996 until 2000 as the Cheltenham Open Drawing exhibition and was supported by a private benefactor, Westland Nurseries, The Summerfield Trust, CHK Charities and 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 exhibition was renamed the Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize.

Shortlisted exhibitors will be announced in July 2019. The Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize winners will be announced in September 2019.

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

The Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize 2019 exhibition will be launched at Trinity Buoy Wharf, London in September 2019, before touring to venues across the UK. Shortlisted artists will be invited to the awards announcement at Trinity Buoy Wharf in London on 25th September 2019. A fully illustrated publication will be produced to accompany the exhibition.

Launch of Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize 2019

Wednesday 25^th September 2019

6pm – 9pm

Trinity Buoy Wharf

64 Orchard Place

London E14 0JY

trinitybuoywharf.com

Tour venues to be announced shortly.

• First Prize  – £8000
• Second Prize  – £5000
• Student Award – £2000
• Working Drawing Prize – £2000, for a preparatory drawing for a project or work to be realised in any form.
• 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 65 drawings is selected by a panel of distinguished selectors.

The Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize is open to all drawing practitioners resident in the UK.

PLEASE NOTE SELECTION IS NOT MADE FROM DIGITAL IMAGES.  At first stage you are required to complete online registration for the works you wish to submit.  Online registration closes at 5pm on Wednesday 26 June 2019. Following the online registration you must then bring the drawings with the completed Work Submission Form and Work Labels and hand these in at your selected Collection Centre.

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

Before registration artists are asked to carefully read the Rules & Guidelines, as all entrants will be asked to confirm acceptance of these during the online entry process.

After payment has been made and online registration completed, each registered artist will be provided with a unique reference number in their confirmation email that will need to be included on the Work Submission Form and Work Labels. Only artists who have registered online by the deadline will be eligible to submit their drawings to the 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 on: T: 020 3653 0896 or 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 via a regional Collection Centre.

Submission Fees

Standard Entry: 1 work = £20; 2 works = £30; 3 works = £40

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

Collection Centres

At the time of online registration, applicants are required to select their Collection Centre for the submission of their work and the return of their work should it not be selected. Please note that applicants are unable to change the Collection Centre for the submission and return of their work after the deadline, 5pm on 26 June 2019. We regret that if you are submitting your work to London cannot have your work returned to a regional collection centre.


Submission of works

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 must submit their work in MP4 or AVI format on a non-returnable USB memory stick. The duration of each work submitted must be clearly indicated on the work submission form.  Please send your USB memory stick(s) to Parker Harris at 15 Church Street, Esher KT10 8QS by Thursday 4 July 2019.

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

All applicants will be informed by email of the decision by the Selection Panel by 6pm on Thursday 18 July 2019. The email will be from tbwdp@parkerharris.co.uk. In addition, the Work Numbers of selected works for exhibition will appear in the General Info section of this website at this time.

Work Numbers can be found on the Submission Receipt, which artists will receive when handing in their work at the Collection Centre.

If email notification has not been received by Friday 19 July 2019, or your Work Number does not appear on the list of selected works, your work has not been selected and will therefore need to be collected. 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 telephone on 020 3653 0896 or by email at tbwdp@parkerharris.co.uk

The selected 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 2019 Selection Panel is final and binding and no correspondence will be entered into.

Unselected works will be available for collection from Trinity Buoy Wharf, London on either Saturday 20 or Sunday 21 July 2019, or from the Regional Collection Centres as advertised. 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 5pm on Wednesday 26 June 2019. Please note, works will not be wrapped after the selection process unless specific packing cases are provided for the work at the time of submission.

LONDON COLLECTION – Works not collected on the collection days for the London Collection will go into storage with Art Moves of Chelsea at Chelsea Self Storage, Blantyre Street, London, SW10 0EQ incurring charges of £12.00 per work. Works will be available to collect on Tuesday 23 July (11am – 4pm) and Saturday 27 July (12 noon – 3.30pm). After these dates charges will increase by £12.00 per work, per week, with collection by appointment only. Work not collected by 30 September will be disposed of. 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 1.80m.

REGIONAL COLLECTION – Works not collected on the set dates will be disposed of.

All works selected for the Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize 2019 will be retained from selection and for the duration of the exhibition and tour in 2019-20.