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.

We are honoured to present a small selection of Pauline Scott-Garrett’s recent works on paper at Drawing Projects UK. The special display with be on show in the public spaces of Drawing Projects UK for the next few weeks, and can be seen daily when Arthaus Coffee is open - Monday to Friday, 8am-4pm and Saturday-Sunday, 10am-3pm.

Using large-scale print, moving image and text to examine loss, displacement and exile, and the fragility of the human body, her hybrid, hand-built, large-scale atmospheric installation pieces and more intimate works emerge through printmaking processes and non-standard transparent and semi-opaque materials rather than traditional print practices. Her practice sits at an intersection between print, drawing and collage, and sought to reframe printmaking as a site of interdisciplinarity, a testing ground for ‘The important work...done at the surfaces between adjacent disciplines’ (Carter, 1998).

Pauline Scott-Garrett initially studied Fine Art at Sheffield Polytechnic, followed by a scholarship at Akademie der Bildenden Künste in Vienna and MA Painting at Chelsea College of Art. A founder trustee of Sheffield’s creative industries project, Yorkshire Artspace, her work is included in Sheffield’s visual arts collection. A postgraduate degree in Cultural Management at City University London led to roles such as the development of the National Lottery-funded Milton Keynes Theatre & Gallery and Director of the Royal Pavilion, Brighton. Pauline returned to full-time creative practice a decade ago, and took on a studio at Drawing Projects UK in 2022, in part to house the beloved Rochat Press, shared with her good friend and fellow artist Aliceson Carter, which became so critical to the development of her most recent work.

A mainstay of the Drawing Projects UK community, Pauline Scott-Garrett sadly passed away in April, and we will all miss her enormously. We hope you will enjoy seeing her compelling work in which her creativity, passions, and commitment to social justice live on. RIP Pauline Scott-Garrett (1955-2025).

From 29 January 2025, we will have A mon seul désir: Sound by Anita Taylor on show in The Entrance Hall at Drawing Projects UK. We are thrilled to have the opportunity to showcase this painting here, courtesy of Vision Art Platform (Istanbul). The Entrance Hall is open daily, Monday to Friday 8am to 4pm and Saturdays and Sundays 10am to 3pm, when Arthaus Coffee is open. 

One of a series of six paintings, inspired by the in a major cycle of paintings that explore the Lady and the Unicorn tapestries held in the Cluny Museum in Paris. This series of six paintings developed through extensive research into the images, iconography and related tapestries, artefacts, literature, drawings, and frescoes. Initially attracted to these tapestries by their formal qualities - of the carpet or ‘island’ on which the figures occupy an enclosed and differentiated reality; the high key colour; the female subject matter and the animated relationships of animals, people and plants - the exploration of the iconography led Taylor to further explore notions of duality. The act of transcription in making the paintings enabled an exploration of the iconography and meaning of the tapestries, an understanding of the context as source material and related artefacts, and established a potential reading for the central subjects of these enigmatic images. The underlying themes around the question of nature and constructed realities led her to make further associations to medieval literature and art. 

Each tapestry represents one of the five senses: sight, taste, touch, sound and smell; the sixth may be seen to represent the medieval concept of the ‘sixth sense’, of the intellect or the soul, or the renunciation of the passion of the indulged senses. Perhaps it is, more effectively, a sense of intuition or contemplation, embodied in the act of looking upon, as the lion and the unicorn regard the central character withdrawing from the(ir) world that she inhabits. The resultant paintings deal with the senses, sensuality, the notion of a suspended reality, themes of duality, and the simultaneous representation of freedom and imprisonment, and are linked to the early English narrative of Tristan and Yseut (The Romance of Tristan, Beroul). 

Anita Taylor is an award-winning artist who studied at the Royal College of Art (1985-87); was Artist-in-Residence at Durham Cathedral 1987-88]; Cheltenham Fellow in Painting [1988-89]; Artist-in-Residence, NSW National Parks & Wildlife Service & National Art School in Sydney, Australia [2004]. Recent solo exhibitions include: Moonraker, Vision Art Platform, Istanbul, Türkiye (2024-25); Witness, Young Gallery, Salisbury [2018]; DRAWN, The Customs House, South Shields [2017]; Caesura, William Wright Artists Projects, Sydney [2014]; The Drawing Room, Sydney [2011]; Peter Pinson Gallery, Sydney [2009]; The Drawing Gallery [2009, 2004]. Recent group shows include Kazr Izleri / Lines of Site first presented in Istanbul and touring to Dundee, Barcelona and Aksaray [2022], for which she made a major series of large drawings in response to the Neolithic settlement of Asikl Höyuk in CentralAnatolia as part of an EU-funded project. Other group exhibitions have recently included: G.R.I.T. at Kunstpunkt Berlin and Drawing Projects Scotland (2024); The Global Centre for Drawing, Langford120, Melbourne [2018, 2013, 2011];Jerwood Gallery, Hastings [2019, 2016, 2014]. Her work is included in the collections of the Victoria & Albert Museum, Jerwood Collection, Chippenham Museum, Arkansas Museum of Fine Arts, Cheltenham Art Gallery & Museum, Royal West of England Academy. Awards include the Malvern Award for Drawing [1993]; Drawing Award, Hunting Art Prize [1999]; First Prize, Hunting Art Prize [2000]. She is the founding Director of the annual Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize exhibition since 1994, a Professor of Fine Art (since 2002), and the current Dean of Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art & Design at the University of Dundee (since 2019).