Introduction to the Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize 2025 with Anita Taylor

Introduction to the Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize 2025 with Anita Taylor

Join us online for this introduction to the Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize 2025 with Anita Taylor and havea virtual walk through of the 2025 Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize exhibition on show at Trinity Buoy Wharf in London from 9-19 October 2025.

The Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize has an established reputation as the UK’s foremost open exhibition for drawing. Established in 1994 by artist and Professor Anita Taylor, currently Dean of Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art and Design at the University of Dundee, and Director of Drawing Projects UK, the annual Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize celebrates talent and excellence in current drawing practice.

The 83 drawings shortlisted for Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize 2025 are by:
Bulent Abosoglu / Mark Anstee / Haffendi Anuar / Andy Bannister / Andrew Barrowman / John Bellwood / Vivien Blackett / Julia Brooker / Caroline Burraway / Eric Butcher / Duncan Cameron / Tony Carey / Sarah Casey / Sara Clark / Niamh Clarke / Eileen Cooper / Liz Coxford / Jan Crombie / Lucy Crouch / Katarzyna Depta-Garapich / Gabrielle Distin / John Forster / Fiona Fouhy / Todd Fuller / Enza Galantini / Steph Goodger / Euan Gray / Richard Gregory / Sean Griffin / Carla Groppi / Russell Herron / Curtis Holder / Dean Hughes / Jo Israel / Layla Jabbari /Lisa Jones / Eden & Andrew Kotting / Clara Lacy / Debbie Lee / Juliette Losq / Christine Mackey / Barry Marsden / Fernando Martin Godoy / Robert McNally / Elizabeth Nast / Tahira Noreen / Patricia Paolozzi Cain / Simon Parish / Rachel Pearcey / Julia Peintner / Keira Rathbone / Fiona Robinson / Carole Romaya / Edwin Rostron / Olivia Rowland / Diana Savostaite / Mark Shields / Stephanie Shrager / Ilona Skladzien / Arlo Smith / Kate Steenhauer /Laura Kate Sutton / Zachary Talbot-Mason / Sally Taylor / Alison Turnbull / Marika Tyler-Clark /Kirsten van Schreven / James Vassallo / Darshana Vora / Kate Walters / Boyuan Wang / Wei Wang / Henry Ward / Miranda Whall / Eleanor Wood / Amy Zhao

The 21 drawings shortlisted for the Working Drawing Award 2025 are by:
Fiona Chaney / Pete Codling / Richard Crooks / Emma Douglas / Sarah Duyshart / Patsy Hans /Alexandra Harley / Benxing Liang / Kanto Ohara Maeda / Nick Malone / Adriette Myburgh /Mandy Prowse / Aruna Radha / Mark Richards / Arthur Roberts / Amba Sayal-Bennett /Seamus Staunton / Fiona Swapp / Nathan Walsh / Wei Wang

The exhibition provides an important platform for artists, designers, makers, architects and other drawing practitioners as a catalyst within their careers, and champions the role, breadth, and value of drawing in creative practices today.

The Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize is supported by the Trinity Buoy Wharf Trust - and 2025 marks the 8th year of their generous support for the annual open drawing exhibition; this is the 32nd edition of the open drawing exhibition.

Professor Anita Taylor is an artist, curator, and educator. She is currently Dean of Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art & Design at the University of Dundee. She is the founding Director of the Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize project [1994-present] and Drawing Projects UK [2009-present].