Drawing Projects UK is delighted to present this online Drawing Discussion - with Nina Chua and Ruth Richmond - alongside the Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize 2020 exhibition on Tuesday 12 January at 6pm.

Selected artists, Nina Chua and Ruth Richmond, will introdcuce their drawings selected for the Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize 2020 exhibition and will then discuss their drawings and the nature of making drawings in three dimensions with Anita Taylor followed by a Q&A with the audience.

Nina Chua's drawing, Marker 170, 2019, marker pen on paper, 30 x 40 x 40cm is made in black marker pen applied in fine lines to saturate both sides of a large sheet of white paper. This was then scrunched and compressed to achieve its current form. The materiality of the paper, the physicality of the process and the drawing as an object comes to the fore. The work has an interiority, what she thinks of as the 'private life' of the drawing, that cannot be seen and that moves the viewer away from the contemplation of surface value alone.

Ruth Richmond's drawing, 5 Lockdown Soul Poles, 2020, chalk paint on coppiced hazel cordwood, 220 x variable x 5cm, is comprised of five poles as a representation of each immediate member of her family while they were tackling the Covid-19 lockdown. Ruth used coppiced hazel cordwood as her canvas, which stand in the landscape as a metaphor for human intervention. The variety of marks are informed by a meditative process while living alongside a habitually familiar character in unusual circumstances. She has drawn contour lines to represent the landscape and its effects on our mood changes, structured by uncontrolled events. Chalk paint allows the stem to breathe and to continue its cyclical journey through to decomposition.

Nina Chua (b.1980 Manchester, UK) studied BA (Hons) Embroidery at Manchester Metropolitan University (1999-2002); MA Fine Art at Manchester School of Art (2010– 2011). Selected group shows include: Everything Must Go, Workplace Gallery, Gateshead (2019); We Are Where We Are, Baltic 39, Newcastle upon Tyne (2018); Oh it is easy to be clever if one does not know all these questions, DOX Centre for Contemporary Art, Prague (2018); And a 123, Castlefield Gallery, Manchester (2017); Life and Opinions, Tanya Leighton, Berlin (2017). Solo exhibitions include: 11:17, CBS Gallery, Liverpool (2017). Recent awards include: Liverpool Biennial Associate Artists Programme (2016). She lives and works in Manchester.

Ruth Richmond (b.1956 Ipswich, UK) studied Fine Art at Norwich University of the Arts (1997-2000); MA Drawing at Wimbledon University of the Arts, London (2015-2017). Selected group exhibitions include: Snapshot, No Format Gallery, London (2019); Cabinet Collections, Espacio Gallery, London (2019); Fifty Bees 4, Black Swan Arts, Frome,Somerset (2019); Out of the Woods, Bleddfa, Radnorshire, Wales(2019). Mixed, Colorida Art Gallery, Lisbon, Portugal (2018). Prizes: Shortlisted for Signature Art Prize, Somerset House, London (2018); Maggie Clarke Sketchbook Prize, UAL Wimbledon (2017) SFSA London Painting Open. Curators Choice (2018). She lives on a small sheep farm in Suffolk.

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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