The Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize is the United Kingdom's leading award in contemporary drawing. Initially awarded in 1991 as the Malvern Open Drawing Prize, it became the Cheltenham Open Drawing Competition in 1994, and then the Jerwood Drawing Prize from 2001 until 2017. It is claimed to be the largest and longest running annual open exhibition for drawing in the UK.Joes Villarreal (Ed.
''Gary Lawrence is awarded the Jerwood Drawing Prize 2011''
artdaily.org, 15 September 2011. Retrieved 2011-11-08

Background

It was established by Malvern Drawing Associates in 1991 to promote excellence in contemporary drawing practice and moved to Cheltenham in 1994.''Jerwood drawing winners revealed''
BBC Entertainment News, 17 September 2008. Retrieved 2011-11-08. From 2001 until 2017 it was funded by the

Jerwood Charitable Foundation The Jerwood Foundation is an independent grant-making foundation in the United Kingdom. In 1999 the Jerwood Foundation established the Jerwood Charitable Foundation, a registered charity under English law. History The Jerwood Foundation was establ ...

and organised by

Wimbledon College of Art Wimbledon College of Arts, formerly Wimbledon School of Art, is a constituent college of the University of the Arts London specialising in theatre, screen and performance art. It is located in Wimbledon and Merton Park, South West London. ...

. The exhibition is open to entry by all artists resident or domiciled in the United Kingdom. It takes place annually, and includes an exhibition of all the shortlisted drawings which then forms a touring exhibition. The Trinity Buoy Wharf Trust, which since 1998 has used income from properties at

Trinity Buoy Wharf Trinity Buoy Wharf is the site of a lighthouse, by the confluence of the River Thames and Bow Creek on the Leamouth Peninsula, Poplar. It lies within the London Borough of Tower Hamlets. The lighthouse no longer functions, but is the home of ...

in east London to fund arts projects, took over sponsorship of the Prize in 2018. In 2004 approximately 2,000 entries were received.''Jerwood drawing winners announced''
BBC Entertainment News, 22 September 2004. Retrieved 2011-11-08. In 2011 the competition accepted approximately 3,500 entries. A first prize of £6,000 and a second prize of £3,000 were awarded. In addition there were two student awards, each with a £1,000 prize. In 2016 the first prize was £8,000 with a second prize of £5,000 and two runners up prizes of £2,000 each. In 2019, the first prize was £8,000; the runner-up received £5,000.

Winners

Previous first prize winners include:Wimbledon School of Art

2001 archive. Retrieved 2011-11-08.

Malvern Open Drawing Prize

* 1991 – Clare Jarrett

Cheltenham Open Drawing Competition

* 1994 – Sharon Beavan * 1995 – * 1996 – Kenny Lowe * 1997 –

Rebecca Salter Rebecca Salter (born 1955) is a British abstract artist who lives and works in London. Previously elected Keeper in 2017, she was elected as the first female President of the Royal Academy of Arts in London on 10 December 2019. Formerly a ceramic ...

* 1998 – Wynn Jones * 1999 –

Anna Mazzotta Anna Mazzotta is a British visual artist of Italian descent. She is best known for her paintings and charcoal drawings, based on observations of life, revivalist glamour underpinned by humour which is often bittersweet. Career Mazzotta was born ...

* 2000 – David Connearn

Jerwood Drawing Prize

* 2001 – Kate Davis * 2002 –

Adam Dant Adam Dant (born 1967) is a Jerwood Drawing Prize-winning British artist (2002). He has won praise from ''The Guardian'' and ''Financial Times'' for his Hogarthian graphic style. Among the artists that have inspired him, Dant lists Albrecht D� ...

* 2003 – Paul Brandford for ''Snatch'' * 2004 – Sarah Woodfine * 2005 –

Juliette Losq Juliette Losq (born 1978, London, UK) is a London-based contemporary artist known for photorealistic pieces. She is the recipient of several awards for her art. Her work is part of the permanent collection at the Saatchi Gallery, the All Visual ...

for ''We are the fiction of the vanished lives and buildings'' * 2006 –

Charlotte Hodes Charlotte Hodes (born 1959 in London), is a British artist. She is a Fine Artist living and working in London. Hodes completed a Foundation course at Brighton College of Art (1977–1978), studied Fine Art as an undergraduate student (1978–19 ...

* 2007 – Sophie Horton * 2008 – Warren Baldwin * 2009 – Mit Senoj (AKA Tim Jones)Anita Taylo
''Artist Anita Taylor reveals the winners of this years' Jerwood drawing prize''
The Guardian, 19 September 2009. Retrieved 2011-11-08. * 2010 – Virginia Verran for her drawing ''Bolus-Space (signal)'' * 2011 – Gary Lawrence for his drawing ''Homage to Anonymous'' * 2012 – Karolina Glusiec for her film ''Velocity'' * 2013 – Svetlana Fialova for her drawing ''Apocalypse (My Boyfriend Doesn’t Care)'' * 2014 – Alison Carlier for her audio work ''Adjectives, lines and marks'' * 2015 – Thomas Harrison * 2016 – Solveig Settemsdal for her video, ''Singularity''. A "temporal and sculptural process of drawing", it was the first video to win the prize. * 2017 – Gary Lawrence. Second Prize Ana Mendes, Evelyn Williams Drawing Award Barbara Walker, Student prize

Jade Montserrat Jade Montserrat is a research-led artist and writer based in Scarborough, North Yorkshire. She makes visual and live artworks that explore race and the vulnerabilities of bodies, the tactile and sensory qualities of language and challenge the str ...

Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize

* 2018 – Caroline Burraway, for her charcoal drawing, ''Eden, The Jungle Calais 2016'' (2017). * 2019 – Alice Motte-Muñoz for her drawing, ''Reverie''. * 2020 – M.Lohrum for her performance drawing ''You are It''. Second prize Nancy Haslam-Chance, Student award Ayeshah Zolghadr, Working Drawing award Ben Johnson, three Special Commendations to Frank Leuwer, James Robert Morrison, Isabel Rock. * 2021 – Gary Lawrence for ''Ye Olde Keyhole Surgery'' (2020). Second Prize David Haines, Student Award Gabriela Adach, Working Drawing Award Zahra Akbari Baseri, Evelyn Williams Drawing Award Roland Hicks

External Links

Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize
official site at Drawing Projects UK.

References

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