Event
Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize 2024
Cooper Gallery hosts the 2024 edition of prestigious annual open call drawing exhibition
Saturday 21 June 2025 - Friday 25 July 2025
Cooper Gallery
Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art & Design,
13 Perth Road,
Dundee,
DD1 4HT
Exhibition Open
21 June – 25 July 2025
Thursday – Saturday 12–4pm
Preview: Saturday 21 June, 12–4pm
Cooper Gallery hosts the 2024 edition of the prestigious annual open call exhibition the Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize.
The Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize is an annual exhibition of contemporary drawings supported by the Trinity Buoy Wharf Trust. Established in 1994 by Professor Anita Taylor, this open exhibition celebrates the role and value of drawing within creative practice and provides a forum to test, evaluate and share current drawing practice. The annual exhibition is open to all drawing practitioners, in the UK and internationally, who wish to submit drawings for consideration by the annually appointed independent selection panel.
From a worldwide submission of contemporary drawings, 94 drawings by 88 artists were shortlisted for the Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize 2024 exhibition, and 21 drawings by 20 practitioners were shortlisted for the Working Drawing Award.
The Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize 2024 is on tour from London to Salisbury, Falmouth, Dundee, and Manchester until October 2025.
Featured in the Exhibition
The 94 drawings shortlisted for Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize 2024 are by:
Max L Adams / Elisa Alaluusua / Lucy Algar / Thomas Allen / Tim Allen / Allou / Jeanette Barnes / Geoff Bartholomew / Sophie Bartlett / Akash Bhatt / Chris Blackburn / Jane Bottery / Eric Butcher / Ruth Chambers / Sarah Chapman / Sara Choudhrey / Hyeyeon Chung / Sara Clark / Gary Clough / David Conway / Aleksandra Czuja / Gerry Davies / Gary Dennis / Emma Douglas / Sarah Duyshart / Jamie Eade / Roy Eastland / Mark John Evans / Kristian Evju / Jonathan Farr / Nicolas K Feldmeyer / Celu Ferreira / Charlie Ford / Todd Fuller / Stefan Gant / Ann Gillies / Adam Gray / Christopher Green / Catherine Greenwood / Richard Gregory / Susie Hamilton / Simon Head / Jessica Heywood / Roland Hicks / Fiona Hingston / Ciaran Hughes / Melinda Hunt / Julia Hutton / Owen Johnson / Janette Kerr / Wei Kuo / Tomasz Laczny / Gary Lawrence / Bridget Lesly / Cheryl Lewis / Jo Lewis / Shihui Li / Edward Liddle / Yutong Liu / Juliette Losq / Peter Matthews / Janet Melrose / Jamie Mills / Jilly Morris / Justine Moss / David Mumby / Hannah Naify / Simon Page / Camilo Parra / Esteban Peña Parga / Ben Platts-Mills / Keira Rathbone / Jane Reid / Abbie Schug / Charlene Scott / Brian Shields / Ilona Skladzien / Jake Spicer / David Symonds / Emma C Tabor / Sian Ellis Tillott / Sally Dee Trewartha / Marika Tyler-Clark / Felicity Warbrick / Lynda Whitehouse / Phill Wilson-Perkin / Hamish Young / Martha Zmpounou
The 21 drawings shortlisted for the Working Drawing Award 2024 are by:
Daniele Catalli / Lizzie Mary Cullen / Emma Douglas / Maxine Dodd / Alice Sheppard Fidler / Jane Giblin / Ben Johnson / Olga Kataeva-Rochford / Rosie Leventon / Katy Lucas / Emily Mc Gardle / Philip Mckeith / Julia Milns / Carole Romaya / Richard Smolinski / Lottie Stoddart / Cornelia MaryTuglui / Dominic Walker / Emma Woffenden / Kenneth SY Yiu
About the Exhibition
The Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize is supported by the Trinity Buoy Wharf Trust and is widely regarded as the foremost open exhibition dedicated to drawing in the United Kingdom. The 2024 edition marks the 7th year of generous support from the Trinity Buoy Wharf Trust and is the 30th edition of the annual open drawing exhibition.
A panel of esteemed selectors – Mary Evans, Artist & Director of UCL Slade School of Fine Art, Gary Sangster, Curator & Writer, Co-Director of Drawing Projects UK and Jennifer Scott, Director of Dulwich Picture Gallery in London – reviewed all works submitted in person to select the shortlisted drawings and award-winners.
The Working Drawing Award celebrates the role of drawing within architecture, design and making processes and was chosen by Benjamin Derbyshire, Chair of HTA Design LLP, a leading multidisciplinary design practice, Andrew Grant, Landscape Architect, Founder & Director of Grant Associates, and Caroline Grewar, Director of Programme at V&A Dundee.
A fully illustrated exhibition publication, downloadable Education Pack, and events accompany the exhibition.
Access
Cooper Gallery is located to the right side of the DJCAD buildings on Perth Road. The entrance is via double doors which face onto a car park.
The gallery is on two floors. Ground floor has ramped access. First floor is accessible by an internal lift and six steps with a handrail. Wheelchair access is via a stairclimber. Please email in advance if you require lift or stairclimber access.
First floor is also accessible via 24 steps. Two flights of 12 steps with handrails are separated by a landing.
For all enquiries please email: [email protected]
Toilets
The ground floor has a wheelchair accessible toilet. The toilet is gender neutral.
Image credit
Emma Douglas, Cato Mural Year 8, Spa Fields, 2023
Watercolour and pencil on watercolour paper, 26 x 58cm. TBW Working Drawing Award 2024.
Funders and partners
The Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize project is led by its founding Director, Professor Anita Taylor, Dean of Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art & Design at the University of Dundee, and is supported by the Trinity Buoy Wharf Trust.
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