Drawing Projects UK is delighted to present this online Drawing Discussion - with Mark Clay and Peter Sutton - alongside the Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize 2020 exhibition on Thursday 21 January at 6pm.

Selected artists, Mark Clay and Peter Sutton, will introdcuce their drawings selected for the Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize 2020 exhibition and the nature of making drawings in response to place with Anita Taylor followed by a Q&A with the audience.

Mark Clay's drawing, Timelines, 2019, graphite and stylus on tracing paper, 59 x 84cm traces the route of the disused Amlwch railway line across the island of Anglesey, one line for each of the 157 years of its history in harder pencil grades, left to right. On reaching 1992, when trains stopped running, he switched to a stylus, registering a mark without graphite.

Peter Sutton has two drawings included in the Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize 2020, Middle Drove, 2020 and Witcham Toll, 2020, both made with charcoal and graphite on paper, 62 x 78cm. Peter moved to rural Cambridgeshire at beginning of 2020, and these drawings are part of an ongoing series of works in response to the modern Fenland landscape.

Mark Clay (b.1970 Chatham, UK). Studied BA (Hons) English at University of Leeds (1988-91); Access to HE Diploma in Art & Design at City of Oxford College (2016-17); MFA Fine Art at Oxford Brookes University (2018-present). Group exhibitions include: Flow, Modern Art, Oxford (September 2020).

Peter Sutton (b.1962 Trefriw, UK) studied BA Illustration at University of Brighton (1981-84) and MA Fine Art at University of Birmingham (1984-86). Selected group exhibitions include: World Illustration Awards, Mall Galleries, London (1985); Gallery9, Art Language Location, Cambridge (2013). Solo exhibitions include: Cambridge Art Salon, Cambridge (2013); Cambridge Art Salon, Cambridge (2014). He lives and works in Cambridge, UK.

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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