About Trinity Buoy Wharf Trust: In 1998 the then owners, London Docklands Development Corporation (LDDC), set up the Trinity Buoy Wharf Trust with a 125-year lease to hold the land and their vision in trust for the people of London, while the freehold was passed to the LB Tower Hamlets. The Trinity Buoy Wharf Trust holds a 125-year lease from LB Tower Hamlets and Urban Space Management in turn has a 124-year lease from the Trust. The terms provide for 25% of the Wharf’s income to be paid to the Trust to use for promoting arts activity in the area. To date the Trust has supported and funded a wide range of arts projects and organisations. Trinity Buoy Wharf is a thriving centre for the arts and creative industries with a rare community of over 500 like-minded people enjoying the unique riverside location. Free from overdevelopment, the site’s fascinating history can still be seen in the buildings, installations, and residents, including the Kings Foundation Diploma in Art & Design, and The Big Draw.
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Professor Anita Taylor is an artist, curator, educator, and founding Director of the Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize Project (1994) and Drawing Projects UK (2009). As an artist, curator, ad researcher she fosters new approaches to, and understanding of, the role of drawing as a fundamental means of ideation, communication and expression in specialist and inter-disciplinary contexts evidenced through exhibitions (as curator and practitioner), publications and public engagement activities. A Professor of Fine Art since 2002, she was Vice Principal, Wimbledon School of Art; Dean, Wimbledon College of Art & Director of The Centre for Drawing, University of the Arts London; Director & CEO, National Art School, Australia; Executive Dean, Bath School of Art & Design, Bath Spa University; Dean, Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art and Design, University of Dundee. Recent exhibitions of her work include: Anita Taylor: Moonrakers, Vision Art Platform, Istanbul, Türkiyë [2024-25]; Anita Taylor, Berna Dolmaci, Lara Salgiyan, Vision Art Platform, AsiaNOW, Paris [2025]; WHAT is NOW?, Vision Art Platform, London [2025]; Painter’s Painters, Mosman Art Gallery, Sydney [2025]; Telling Stories: Heroine Mythology Recast, Wendy Sharpe & Anita Taylor, Drawing Projects UK [2025]; Kazi lzleri / Lines of Site, Istanbul & international tour [2022]. 

Drawing Projects UK was established by Anita Taylor to deliver the open drawing exhibition which was then known as Jerwood Drawing Prize in 2009. On her return from Australia, where she was the Director & CEO of the National Art School (2009-2013), Drawing Projects UK became an independent Centre for Drawing & Contemporary Art in Wiltshire in 2015, with a second centre under development in the City of Dundee in Scotland. Drawing Projects UK is dedicated to research and public engagement in and through drawing with exhibition and project spaces, studios and creative workspaces, meeting rooms, and a café. Drawing Projects UK originates and produces curated exhibitions, research, and public engagement activities with and through drawing and contemporary art at its centres in Wiltshire and Dundee, as well as delivering off-site projects nationally and internationally. Drawing Projects UK publishes the annual Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize fully illustrated publications, devises and delivers the public engagement activities for the annual exhibitions, and manages the Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize website and social media channels. 
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The Big Draw: The Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize is now delivered in partnership with The Big Draw. Founded in 2000 by the Guild of St George, The Big Draw, originally known as the Campaign for Drawing, is an arts education charity dedicated to raising the profile of drawing as a tool for wellbeing, thought, creativity, and social and cultural engagement. The charity leads a diverse programme of advocacy, empowerment and engagement, and is the founder and driving force behind The Big Draw Festival – the world’s biggest celebration of drawing! 
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The Evelyn Williams Trust: The Evelyn Williams Trust supports the biennial Evelyn Williams Drawing Prize of £10,000 and solo exhibition. Evelyn Williams (1929-2012) was a figurative artist whose intense and quietly authoritative paintings, sculptures, reliefs and drawings were produced over a period of seven decades. In 1993, she and her husband created a modestly endowed trust dedicated to promoting the cause of drawing, particularly in art schools. The Trust now has responsibility for the artist’s estate of extant works and desired legacy of support to artists. To this end the Trust is collaborating with Drawing Projects UK and Hastings Contemporary to offer a biennial award to an artist selected for the Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize, creating the opportunity for them to make new work and show a resultant exhibition within the programme at Hastings Contemporary. The first  Evelyn Williams Drawing Award was awarded to Barbara Walker MBE in 2017 in association with the then Jerwood Drawing Prize, with the solo exhibition Vanishing Point being shown at Jerwood Gallery in Hastings, with loans from The National Gallery supported by the Weston Loan Programme with Art Fund. The 2019 Evelyn Williams Drawing Award winner was Penny McCarthy whose exhibition, Cloud falls in love with mortal, took place at Hastings Contemporary in 2022/23. The 2021 Evelyn Williams Drawing Award winner was Roland Hicks, whose exhibition, The Fourth Wall, took place at Hastings Contemporary in 2023/24. The 2023 recipient, Isabel Rock's exhibition Things Fall Apart, The Centre Cannot Hold at Hastings Contemporary is on show until 15 March 2026. The Evelyn Williams Drawing Award is selected, as it has been since inception, by a Trustee of the Evelyn Williams Trust, the Director of Hastings Contemporary, and the Director of Drawing Projects UK. 
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Parker Harris is one of the leading visual arts consultancies in the UK, creating and managing a range of contemporary visual arts projects, nationally and internationally. Clients include trusts and foundations, SMEs, multinationals, charities, arts organisations and individual artists. Parker Harris is the Project Manager for the Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize and the primary point of contact for all enquiries about the Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize. www.parkerharris.co.uk