Drawing Projects UK is delighted to present this online Drawing Discussion - with - Chris Bruce and Isabel Rock - alongside the Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize 2020 exhibition on Wednesday 20 January at 6pm.

Selected artists, Chris Bruce and Isabel Rock, will introdcuce their drawings selected for the Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize 2020 exhibition and will then discuss their drawings and approaches to drawing narratives, reveries and stories, with Anita Taylor followed by a Q&A with the audience.

Chris Bruce's drawing, Island People, 2020, graphite on cartridge paper, 51 x 69cm, came into being from the intense scrutiny of a ground; marks and imperfections slowly suggesting shapes, objects, figures, a setting, and so on. At no point is there a deliberate plan to describe or depict; rather the procedure induces a state of mind — let’s call it reverie — and it is this which determines the course of the work. The making of these works takes place as a counterpoint to a contemporaneous activity: the daily practice of producing and posting satirical cartoons to Instagram. These undoubtedly play a part in guiding the apparent ‘matter’ of the drawings.

Isabel Rock has twodrawings in the exhbition. Grief 1 - Leap From The Island, 2019, acrylic ink on paper, 110 x 160cm, is the first of a five-part series. Leap From The Island depicts the first stage in the strange journey of grief. The girl must escape the tower to get back to life and begin the healing process. The surreal adventure takes hold of her as she travels through a forest, towns and broken industrial landscapes spewing out end of the world pollution; will she survive or is humanity doomed? Grief - The Dinner Party, 2019, acrylic ink on paper, 110 x 160cm, is part two, where the women navigate an industrial climate and the broken systems of humans’ apocalyptic destruction. At the dinner party they discuss grief, loneliness, longing and the future; what future is there in a world like this?

Chris Bruce (b.1951, Harrogate, UK) studied BA Fine Art at Cheltenham Art College (2002) and MA Contemporary Fine Art at Falmouth Art College (2008). Selected gallery shows: Osborne Gallery, London; Minster Fine Art, York; Astley House, Gloucestershire. Selected exhibitions include Cornwall Film 2006, 2007; Painting the Land, Cambridge, 2015. He lives and works in Cornwall.

Isabel Rock (b.1981 London, UK) studied BA Fine Art Printmaking at University of Brighton (2002-04); MA Fine Art Printmaking at Royal College of Art, London (2006-08). Selected group exhibitions include: Royal Academy Summer Show, Royal Academy of Arts, London (2019); Nasty Women, The Black and White Building, London (2018); Work in Progress, Tapir Gallery, Berlin (2017); Surface Cutting, Royal Academy of Arts, London (2017). Awards include: Winner, Arts Foundation Fellowship in Printmaking (2013); and she was shortlisted for the Derwent Art Prize (2016). She currently lives and works in Berkshire.

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.

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 McKinlay, Director of Programme, V&A 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 exhibition is planned to be presented at Trinity Buoy Wharf in London from 9-22 January 2021, subject to public health restrictions. Advance booking to visit the free exhibition is essential.

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