About The Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize Project with Anita Taylor
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About this event
A introduction to the Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize project by founding director Anita Taylor on Saturday 9 January 2021 at 12 noon.
Supported by the Trinity Buoy Wharf Trust, the Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize is selected from original drawings and has been led by its founding Director, Professor Anita Taylor, since 1994. The annual open exhibition has an established reputation as the foremost national exhibition of drawing practice and is known for both its promotion of artists and makers who draw, and its championing of the role and value of drawing more widely.
2020 marks the third year of support for the Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize by Trinity Buoy Wharf Trust and the 25th consecutive annual open drawing exhibition since the project was founded in 1994. Join us for the free online Drawing Discussion to hear about the aims, history, and development of the project since 1994.
Professor Anita Taylor is an artist, curator and educator, and founding Director of the Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize project [1994-] and Drawing Projects UK [2009-]. She is also Dean of Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art & Design at the University of Dundee.
**This is a free online event - please register and we will send the joining instructions via an email from the Drawing Projects UK Eventbrite account prior to the event.**
The Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize 2020 exhibition includes 71 drawings by 56 practitioners selected from 4,254 works submitted from across the UK and internationally. The independent Selection Panel comprised Sophia Yadong Hao, Principal Curator of Cooper Gallery at University of Dundee; Ian McKeever RA, artist; and Frances Morris, Director of Tate Modern. The working drawings were selected by Sir Ian Blatchford, Director of the Science Museum; Piers Gough RA, Architect; and Sophie McKinaly, Diretcor of Programme, V&A Dundee.
The exhibtion is presented at Trinity Buoy Wharf in London from 9-22 January 2021, subject to public health restrictions, advance booking essential.
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Organiser Drawing Projects UK
Organiser of About The Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize Project with Anita Taylor
Drawing Projects UK was created in 2009 to develop and promote research initiatives in drawing, including the Jerwood Drawing Prize project, now known as the Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize. In 2015, a centre for drawing and contemporary art at Bridge House in Trowbridge, Wiltshire was established and the remit of Drawing Projects UK expanded to form a drawing network and community through a range of complementary activities. With a project space, exhibition space, workspaces for artists, designers, creative and cultural enterprises, bookable meeting rooms and cafe, Drawing Projects UK is a unique creative and cultural hub, and is conveniently located adjacent to Trowbridge railway station.
