The Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize 2026 is now open for entries, offering artists and drawing practitioners around the world the opportunity to showcase their work in the UK’s leading open exhibition dedicated to drawing. Artists and drawing practitioners worldwide are invited to submit up to three drawings for consideration by the distinguished Selection Panel.

Join this online information session on Thursday 26 March at 6pm (UK-time) by booking here and find out more about the Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize 2026 and the Call for Entries. At the session you will hear from founding Director, Professor Anita Taylor, about the annual open exhibition and the Call for Entries for 2026, new awards structure and Selection Panel, followed by a Q&A.

The deadline to register for entry for the Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize is 9 June 2026 at 5pm (BST). Following online registration and upload of images on the entry portal, a number of artists wil be invited to submit works via Collection Centres across the UK for review by the Selection Panel. The Entry Portal for the Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize 2026 is here.

All selected works will be included in a high-profile exhibition that will launch at Trinity Buoy Wharf in London on 16 September 2026 and then tours in the UK until 2027. The exhibition will be accompanied by a fully illustrated publication and a programme of educational and engagement activities, including a symposium at Trinity Buoy Wharf.

This is the first of four information sessions - with the next three planned for 23 April, 20 May, and 2 June (May and June dates subject to final confirmation). 

We look forward to welcoming you to the information sessions. 

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The annual Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize is now open for the 2026 edition - and offers artists, and all who draw, from around the world the opportunity to showcase their drawings in the UK’s leading open exhibition dedicated to contemporary drawing. 

About the Call for Entries:
Artists and drawing practitioners from the UK and worldwide are invited to submit up to three drawings for consideration by the annually appointed distinguished Selection Panel. 

There will be a Stage 1 online digital submission, followed by review of works invited to the Stage 2 selection process from drawings 'in the real' at Trinity Buoy Wharf.

All selected drawings will be included in a high-profile exhibition held at Trinity Buoy Wharf in London from 17 September - 4 October 2026, with the exhibition then touring to venues across the UK into 2027. 

The exhibition will be accompanied by a fully illustrated publication and a programme of educational and engagement activities, including a symposium at Trinity Buoy Wharf.

The deadline for the Stage 1 digital submission online is Tuesday 9 June 2026 at 5pm. 

The Entry Portal for the Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize 2026 can be found here.

About the Awards:
For Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize 2026, we have launched a new prize structure with awards of a total value of £18,000:

Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize of £15,000
- all drawings selected for the exhibition are eligible for this award.

Trinity Buoy Wharf Student Award of £2,000
- drawings made by those registered on a degree programme in Academic Year 2025/26 are eligible.

Trinity Buoy Wharf Three Boroughs Award
- drawings made by those living and/or working in the London Boroughs of Tower Hamlets, Newham and Greenwich are eligible. 

About the Selection Panel:

The Selection Panel for the Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize 2026 exhibition and awards has been announced as:

Matthew Burrows MBE, Artist and Founder of Artist Support Pledge;
Sook-Kyung Lee, Director of The Whitworth and Professor of Curatorial Practices at The University of Manchester;
Anita Taylor, Artist, Professor of Drawing & Fine Art at the University of Dundee, and Founder of the Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize.

This distinguished Selection Panel will choose the drawings for the Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize 2026 exhibition and awards from those submitted through the international Call for Entries.

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The Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize 2025 is now on tour to The Williamson Art Gallery & Museum, Slatey Road, Birkenhead, Wirral CH43 4UE, and on show until 21 February 2026. The exhibition is free to see and open 10am to 5pm Monday to Thursday, 10am to 9pm on Fridays, and 10am to 5pm on Saturdays. The Williamson Art Gallery also has a wonderful permanent collection and is accessible by train (nearest station, Birkenhead Central), by bus from Liverpool, and has a free car park. More information about The Williamson can be found here.

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. The Working Drawing Award has a special category celebrating the role of drawing within architecture, design and making processes, was selected by 21 works by 20 drawing practitioners

The 83 drawings included in te Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize 2025 exhibition - selected by Fiona Bradley OBE, Director of Edinburgh’s Fruitmarket Gallery, Kieran Long, Broadcaster and Director of Amos Rex in Helsinki, and Soheila Sokhanvari, artist - 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 included in the Working Drawing Award 2025 display - selected by Professor Pablo Garcia, 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 - 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

The Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize has an established reputation as the UK’s most important annual open exhibition for drawing. Established in 1994 by artist and Professor, Anita Taylor, currently Dean of Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art and Design at the University of Dundee, and Director of Drawing Projects UK, the annual Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize celebrates talent and excellence in current drawing practice.

The exhibition provides an important platform for artists, designers, makers, architects and other drawing practitioners as a catalyst within their careers, and champions the role, breadth, and value of drawing in creative practices today. The Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize is supported by the Trinity Buoy Wharf Trust – and 2025 marks the 8th year of their generous support for the annual open drawing exhibition. The 2025 awards, including the biennial Evelyn Williams Drawing Award supported by the Evelyn Williams Trust - a total prize fund of £27,000 for artists working in contemporary drawing - were announced on 8th October 2025 at Trinity Buoy Wharf in London. More information about the awardwinning drawings can be found here.

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Established in 1994, the Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize is regarded as the foremost annual open exhibition dedicated to drawing in the UK. On Wednesday 8th October, the 2025 Awards of £27,000 were announced. See images of the evening and the announcements at Trinity Buoy Wharf here.

From a diverse and impressive worldwide submission of works, 82 drawings by 76 artists were shortlisted for the Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize 2025 exhibition 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. A further 21 working drawings by 20 candidates were shortlisted for the Working Drawing Award were selected by Pablo Garcia, 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. The biennial Evelyn Williams Drawing Award was selected by Leah Cross, Director of Programmes at Hastings Contemporary, Rhian Kempadoo-Millar of the Evelyn Williams Trust and Anita Taylor, as Director of Drawing Projects UK, and is awarded to an artist with a drawing including in the Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize on the basis of their drawing, experience and proposal. 

At the Exhibition Launch at Trinity Buoy Wharf in London on Wednesday 8 October 2025, five awards were announced:


- First Prize of £8,000: Olivia Rowland, I am Destroy, 2024
- Second Prize of £5,000: Eleanor Wood, Dust Cover 3, 2024
- Student Award of £2,000: Wei Wang, The Presentation of the Altar, 2024
- Working Drawing Award of £2,000: Kanto Ohara Maeda, The Bathhouse, 2024
- Evelyn Williams Drawing Award of £10,000 & exhibition at Hastings Contemporary: Eric Butcher, T/R.1058, 2025

Commendations were also made for drawings by:
- Bulent Abosoglu, Expedition in the Malatya Mountains, 2025
- Euan Gray for Smile Please or Woman with Red Cane, 2021-202
- Layla Jabbari for The Last Supper, 2025

The 2025 exhibition marks the 8th year of generous support from the Trinity Buoy Wharf Trust for Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize. The 2025 edition also marks the fifth biennial Evelyn Williams Drawing Award made by the Evelyn Williams Trust to support development of a solo exhibition for Hastings Contemporary. 

Visitors can discover all of the shortlisted and award-winning works in the Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize 2025 exhibition at Trinity Buoy Wharf in London from Thursday 9 October to Sunday 19 October 2025. 
 

The exhibition is free to visit and open daily from 11am to 6pm. Accompanying the exhibition is a fully illustrated exhibition publication, a downloadable education pack, and daily programme of events including a Drawing Symposium on Thursday 9 October 2025.

Following the show at Trinity Buoy Wharf, the exhibition will then tour within the UK into 2026. For more information about the exhibition in London, please visit trinitybuoywharf.com 

For more information about the Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize, please visit the dedicated website and follow the @tbwdrawingprize on Instagram.

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Images: 

1&2: Olivia Rowland, I am Destroy, 2024, handmade artist’s book, 23x16x3cm
3: Eleanor Wood, Dust Cover 3, 2024, oil & wax on acrylic mending tissue with acetate, digital print, 30x42x3.5cm
4: Wei Wang, The Presentation of the Altar, 2024, watercolour, gold foil, fineliner on paper, 81x61cm 
5: Kanto Ohara Maeda, The Bathhouse, 2024, ink, charcoal, pencils, watercolour on paper, mounted on cardboard, 37x150cm
6:Eric Butcher, T/R.1058, 2025, graphite + acrylic gel on glass, 109x86cm

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