University of Dundee announces partnership with Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize 2023

University of Dundee announces partnership with Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize 2023

(IN BRIEF) The Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize, one of the most prestigious drawing exhibitions in the world, has opened for entries. The University of Dundee is the academic partner of the competition, and the exhibition will be shown in Dundee after its national exhibition in London later this year. Artists, designers, and makers have until June to submit their drawings for the 2023 competition, with £27,000 in awards available. Founded in 1994 by Professor Anita Taylor, the Prize is known for celebrating excellence in contemporary drawing and the role and value of drawing in creative practice today. The drawings will be selected by a distinguished panel, and the winners will be announced at the exhibition’s launch in September.

(PRESS RELEASE) SCOTLAND, 10-Mar-2023 — /EuropaWire/ — One of the world’s most prestigious exhibitions of drawing has opened for entries and is set for Dundee, giving Scottish visitors the opportunity to view beautiful and thought-provoking work by practitioners from across the globe.

The University of Dundee is the academic partner of the Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize 2023, which will be shown in the city after its national exhibition in London later this year.

Artists and designers have until June to submit their drawings for consideration for the 2023 competition, with awards totalling £27,000 available. The Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize provides an opportunity for artists, designers and makers to be included in the UK’s most important annual open exhibition for drawing.

Founded in 1994 by Professor Anita Taylor, artist and Dean of the University’s Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art & Design, the Prize is known for celebrating excellence in contemporary drawing, and for championing the role, breadth and value of drawing in creative practice today.

Speaking as entries opened for this year’s Prize and the selection panels were announced, Professor Taylor said, “We are thrilled to announce such a distinguished panel of selectors for the Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize 2023 and for the Working Drawing Award.

“As we enter the thirtieth year of this open drawing exhibition project, we continue to attract eminent selectors and look forward to seeing drawings submitted from across the world to form an exhibition that will demonstrate the vital role and value of drawing within creative practice today.”

Drawings will be selected by a distinguished panel comprising Laura Hoptman, Executive Director of The Drawing Center in New York, Dennis Scholl OAM, collector and President & CEO of Oolite Arts, and British artist Barbara Walker MBE RA.

There is a separate submission and selection process for the Working Drawing Award, which is open for drawings by architects, designers and makers and will be selected by Ben Heath, Principal, Grimshaw Architects, Debbie Hillyerd, Senior Director Learning, Hauser & Wirth and Michael Pavelka, Designer for Stage, Dance and Opera.

The Selection Panel will choose drawings from those submitted for an exhibition to be held at Trinity Buoy Wharf in London from 28 September to 15 October which will then tour to venues in the UK until June 2024.

The exhibition will launch on 27 September at Trinity Buoy Wharf when the winners of the First Prize (£8,000), Second Prize (£5,000), Student Award (£2,000), Working Drawing Award (£2,000) and the biennial Evelyn Williams Drawing Award (£10,000) will be announced.

The exhibition and awards are open to applications by emerging, mid-career and established drawing practitioners. For practical reasons, there are two separate submission and selection processes for the Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize 2023 – one for those based in the UK and another for international entries.

More information about how to enter the Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize 2023 is available online.

Notes to editors

Image is by Elizabeth Nast, one of the shortlisted artists from the 2022 Prize

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SOURCE: University of Dundee