Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize 2025 - exhibition talk with Anita Taylor

Join us for this introduction and walk through of the Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize 2025 exhibition with Anita Taylor on Saturday 18 October at 1pm.

Known as the UK’s most prestigious annual open exhibition for drawing, the international call for the Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize 2025 received well over 2,000 submissions from more than 1,300 candidates located across the world for its 2025 edition and eligible for four awards totalling £25,000.

A total of 103 works by 95 drawing practitioners, chosen by two distinguished Selection Panels will be shown in the exhibition: 82 drawings by 76 artists were selected for the Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize 2025 exhibition and awards by Fiona Bradley OBE, Director of Edinburgh’s Fruitmarket Gallery, Kieran Long, Broadcaster and Director of Amos Rex in Helsinki, and Soheila Sokhanvari, British-Iranian artist. The Working Drawing Award, a special category celebrating the role of drawing within architecture, design and making processes, was selected by Pablo Garcia, Associate Professor at the School of the Institute of Chicago, Kieran Long, Director of Amos Rex in Helsinki, and Sunand Prasad OBE PPRIBA, Principal at Perkins & Will in London. 21 works by 20 drawing practitioners will be shown within this specific display dedicated to working drawings, and eligible for an award of £2,000.

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

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 was formerly Executive Dean of Bath School of Art & Design at Bath Spa University [2013-19]; Director & Chief Executive Officer of the National Art School in Sydney, Australia [2009-2013]; Dean of Wimbledon College of Art and Director of The Centre for Drawing, University of the Arts London [2006-2009]; Vice Principal of Wimbledon School of Art [2004-2006]; and Head of Painting, then Deputy Head of Art, Media and Design, at the University of Gloucestershire [1991-2003]. She is the founding Director of the Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize project [1994-present] and Drawing Projects UK [2009-present].

The Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize 2025 exhibition is open to the public from Thursday 9 October to Sunday 19 October 2025 and will then tour into 2026. Accompanying the exhibition will be a fully illustrated Exhibition Publication and an Education Pack. A one-day Drawing Symposium as well as an Educator’s Evening will be held on Thursday 9 October 2025 as part of a programe of daily drawing events. See our webistes for details.

The event will start promnptly at 1pm, please arrive in the Buoy Store at Trinity Buoy Wharf in good time.

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