We are between exhibitions and we are delighted to showcase a single drawing, Divulge, 2006, by Anita Taylor, at Drawing Projects UK from 11 February to 4 April 2023. 

We are delighted to present this solo exhibition - Emergency! by Sarah Casey at Drawing Projects UK from 12 November to 4 February 2023. 

Emergency! is an exhibition of new work by Sarah Casey developed in response to glacial archaeology. In 2018, at Valais Museums, Switzerland, Sarah began drawing artefacts that have emerged from alpine glaciers as the ice in which they have been preserved for 50, 500 or 5000 years is now melting at unprecedented rates. This glacial archaeology embodies a position of extreme precarity: these rare and valuable finds preserve important knowledge about the human past, yet insight comes at the cost of environmental change and threatened futures. Moreover, the artefacts themselves, once released from their frozen slumber, will rapidly decay and disintegrate when exposed. The Emergency! exhibition aims to explore this precarity asking how might processes of drawing – with its use of marking and erasure, presence and absence – negotiate these tensions and find new ways of thinking through loss and change? The drawings in the exhibition are made by trapping dust in wax and so, like the archaeology they depict, are contingent on their environmental conditions to survive – if they get exposed to heat, they will melt away. This research was developed through a Henry Moore Institute Research Fellowship 2021 and undertaken in dialogue with Valais History Museum, Switzerland.  

Sarah Casey is a visual artist and researcher working at the cusp of drawing and sculpture. Her drawings exploring the limits of visibility and material existence arise from working alongside researchers from other fields, ranging from archaeology to astrophysics. Solo exhibitions of her work have been at Kensington Palace, The Bowes Museum and most recently at Ryerson University, Toronto. She also writes on drawing and is co-author of Drawing Investigations: graphic relationships with science, culture and environment (Bloomsbury 2020). She is Senior Lecturer in Drawing and Installation at Lancaster University, UK where she is Director for the School of Fine Art. Sarah was a Royal Drawing School Scottish artist-in-residence in 2020 and a Visiting Research Fellow at The Henry Moore Institute from 2020-21. Her current work explores the provocations of glacial archaeology. With Rebecca Birch and Jen Southern she is co-founder of the Rocky Climates network bringing together artists concerned with the mobilities and temporal, spatial, cultural instabilities of landscapes in uncertain times.

The exhibition is kindly supported by Lancaster University and Arts Council England and presented as part of the Being Human Festival 2022; it is accompanied by a dedicated programme of online Drawing Discussions and in-person and online Drawing Sessions (see Drawing Discussions and Drawing Sessions under the Community section of our website). Please join us for the preview of the exhibition on Saturday 12 November from 5pm to 7pm by booking here.

Visitor information: The exhibition is presented in The Entrance Hall and Chief Secretary's Office at Drawing Projects UK in Trowbridge, Wiltshire. Pre-booked entry is essential to see the full exhibition - to arrange to visit please email us on This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. - the drawings on display in The Entrance Hall can be seen whenever our building is open for Miranda's cafe (usually Tuesday to Saturday, 8am to 4pm).

We are adjacent to Trowbridge railway station, which has frequent local and regional train services, and there are several public car parks nearby. Drawing Projects UK is an accessible building and a blue badge parking space is available. There is an audio guide to the exhibition. 

Drawing Projects UK is delighted to present a solo exhibition of drawings by Gary Lawrence from 13 August to 29 October 2022.

Please note that the full exhibition is open by appointment only - to arrange to see the exhibition, email: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. - please note that there are no appointments available until 23 September 2022. 

The exhibition includes several large drawings and, as the first solo exhibition of Gary Lawrence’s work since 2013, provides a unique opportunity to see a series of his distinctive drawings together.

The drawings featured in the exhibition all focus on the experience of travel. Over recent years, images and holiday snapshots from Greece have provided Gary Lawrence’s main inspiration and form a starting point for his drawings that transpose these initial references to travel, experience, and memory. While the drawings clearly reference photographic sources, other references from medieval painting, news media, postcards, fridge magnets, popular culture, and personal experiences, are woven into these complex, multi-layered drawings. References to artists from all periods find their way into this work, with images from 1280 just as exciting and useful to the artist as something found on TV or YouTube in 2022.

As someone who likes the stationery section in Tesco and Poundland as much as art stores, Gary Lawrence has long used Biro to make these drawings. An admirer of Henry Moore’s Biro sheep drawings, the medium here transforms the surface of the paper through the pressure and obsession of the mark-making, rendering a tapestry-like surface, and experience. These drawings are made over a long period of time and have diaristic references to key dates and events that happened during their making that inform the subject and content.  Notes, commentary, and references appear across the surfaces of the dense Biro drawings, apparently as written prompts for the artist, and remaining for us as viewers as axis points to the artist’s thoughts and experiences while drawing. The earliest drawing shown in the exhibition is Alternative Bananas, completed in February 2017, and made during the period of the EU referendum. The later drawings are made in pencil on paper, and have a silvery light-filled quality, and a reflective nostalgia for the memory of Greece. The artist’s intention is always to have the work seen, as in his view “it is only then complete and doing what it is meant to do, when someone else sees it”. 

Drawing Projects UK produced a short film of Gary Lawrence in his studio earlier this year, supported by Arts Council England.  It is currently available on the Drawing Projects UK YouTube channel here. All drawings are for sale, and we hold others in stock. 

Gary Lawrence (b.1959 Essex) studied at Braintree College (1976-78), BA Fine Art at Portsmouth Polytechnic (1978-81), MA Fine Art at Eastern Illinois University USA (1981-82), MFA Fine Art at Southern Illinois University USA (1990-92). Solo Exhibitions include: Beecroft Gallery Southend, 2013; Christopher Stokes Gallery, Chicago, 1996; Artemisia Gallery, Chicago, 1991. Selected group shows include: Trinity Buoy Drawing Prize 2021, London & tour; Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize 2018, London & tour; John Moores Painting Prize, Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool 2017; BP Portrait Award, National Portrait Gallery, London 2016 & 1984; Royal Academy Summer Exhibition 2015;  Lynn Painter Stainers Prize, London 2010-14; Eastern Open, Kings Lynn 2011/13/15/17; Jerwood Drawing Prize London & tour, 2012;  Discerning Eye Mall Galleries London, 1999 & 2006; Kettles Yard Open, Cambridge, 2002; Hunting Art Prize, Royal College of Art, London, 1997; Pacesetters Peterborough Museum, 1984 & 1986; Camden Annual London, 1985; Cleveland Drawing Biennale, 1974/75. 

Recent awards include: Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize 2021, First Prize; Trinity Buoy Drawing Prize 2018, Second Prize; John Moores Visitor Choice Award 2011/17; Jerwood Drawing Prize 2017, First Prize; Jerwood Drawing Prize 2011, First Prize; Pollock-Krasner Foundation New York, Major Award, 2001. Gary lives and works in Essex. 

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Three of Gary Lawrence's drawings can be seen in our public spaces - The Entrance Hall and Long Gallery - whenever the building is open to the public. The full exhibition is open by appointment only - to arrange an appointment, please email us on: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. - please note that there are no appointments available until 23 September 2022. 

Drawing Projects UK is located in Trowbridge, the county town of Wiltshire. Our landmark building is adjacent to Trowbridge train station, which has mainline services to Bath, Bristol, Bruton, Cardiff, Gloucester, London, Salisbury, Southampton, Swindon, Westbury and Weymouth. There are several public car parks for visitors to use nearby; and a bicycle rack to the rear of the building. 

Drawing Projects UK is an accessible venue with a blue badge parking space. While assistance dogs are welcome, we operate a strict no pets policy.

Miranda's Coffee Shop at Drawing Projects UK serves delicious coffee and teas, home-made cakes, breakfasts, lunches, and cream teas, and is usually open from 8am to 4pm, Monday to Saturday.

Drawing Projects UK is proud to present the exhibition - Iain R. Webb - DRAWING FASHION: sketchbooks from the edge of the catwalk - from 4 June to 6 August 2022.

Throughout Iain R. Webb's longstanding and influential career in the fashion industry, he has drawn from the edge of the catwalk as a form of note-taking. These sketchbooks form a significant visual record of the vast number of influential fashion shows covered by Iain R. Webb, and feature his notational drawings of the collections of ground-breaking fashion designers such as Jean Paul Gaultier, Alexander McQueen, Miuccia Prada, Comme des Garcons, and many more, as they were first revealed on the season's catwalks. The exhibition provides an insight into the fashion industry and forms a record of the last four decades of fashion history. Celebrating drawing as a means of recording, remembering, and communicating, sits at the heart of this exhibition which, simultaneously, celebrates and reveals the workings of the fashion industry.

Iain R. Webb originally studied Fashion Design at St Martin’s School of Art (1977-80). He was appointed Professor of Fashion & Design at Kingston School of Art in 2016 and has previously held Visiting Professor roles at both Central Saint Martins and Royal College of Art. He is currently an associate lecturer at Central St Martins and Bath Spa University. 

During his career he has been fashion editor of BLITZ, The Evening Standard, Harpers & Queen, The Times, Elle and Vogue Russia; winning the Fashion Journalist of The Year Award in 1995 (the inaugural year) and 1996. Other journalistic contributions include the New York Times, New Musical Express, The Guardian, The Independent, The Huffington Post, Saturday Telegraph Magazine, V&A magazine, Selvedge, Gut, Rollacoaster, and Shortlist, among others. He is Fashion Features Editor-At-Large of Ponystep magazine. Iain has consulted and collaborated with leading brands including Helmut Lang, Raf Simons for Fred Perry, LVMH, Selfridges, Gucci, Burberry, Cutler & Gross, M&S, Kangol, Ghost, MaxMara, Jigsaw, River Island, and Day, Birger & Mikkelsen.

He is author of Bill Gibb - Fashion and Fantasy, Foale & Tuffin: A Decade in Fashion, Postcards From the Edge of the Catwalk, As Seen in BLITZ, Vogue Colouring Book, Marc Jacobs Unseen, John Galliano for Dior and Rebel Stylist, among others. His latest publication is The Fashion Show (published March 2022) - a curated collection of fashion show invitations. Other curatorial projects include exhibitions at the ICA, RCA, Somerset House, MoBA Biennale, Arnhem and Fashion Museum, Bath, where he acts as a creative consultant. 

This exhibition has a significant local connection as Iain R. Webb is an alumnus of a local school, John of Gaunt, in Trowbridge. John of Gaunt School will present the work of their A-Level students in the Project Space from 28 June to 2 July alongside the Iain R Webb exhibition (please book to see both exhibitions via the booking link below). 

Visitor Information: The exhibition is normally open on Fridays and Saturdays from 11am to 4pm - in order to visit the exhibition, please book a free ticket to see the exhibition by following this link. Please note that we cannot guarantee entry to the full exhibition without a pre-booked, but free, ticket. 

We use a booking system in order to manage visitation to the exhibition; please do let us know if you need to cancel your ticket or change the time of your booking by updating your Eventbrite booking or by email.

Drawing Projects UK is a centre for research and development of drawing and contemporary art in Trowbridge, the county town of Wiltshire, and has excellent public transport links. Drawing Projects UK (Bridge House, 10 Stallard Street, Trowbridge, BA14 9AE) is adjacent to Trowbridge train station which has mainline services to Bath, Bristol, Bruton, Cardiff, Gloucester, London, Salisbury, Southampton, Swindon, Westbury and Weymouth; and there are several public car parks nearby. 

Drawing Projects UK is an accessible venue and a blue badge parking space is available. We operate a no pets policy although assistance dogs are welcome. Miranda's Coffee Shop serves delicious coffee & teas, home-made cakes and light food, and is usually open from 8am to 3pm Monday to Saturday. Please note that Miranda's will be closed from 20 to 29 June. Excellent coffee can be found at Cesar's Coffee Bar over the road and we will happily make recommendations for places to eat for those travelling from afar. 

There will be a programme of events accompanying the exhibition and further information will be available soon. 

Iain R. Webb -  DRAWING FASHION: an exhibition of sketchbooks from the edge of the catwalk is supported by the British Fashion Council. 

The Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize 2021 exhibition is now on tour and on show at Cooper Gallery in Dundee from 21 March to 16 April 2022. The exhibition of 114 drawings by 99 drawing practitioners is free to visit - from Monday to Saturday, 11am to 4pm - and information on how to book is available here. There is a programme of events alongside the exhibition - Drawn to Dundee - convened by Tania Kovats, Professor of Drawing & Making, and Alex Roberts, Lecturer in Drawing at Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art & Design at the University of Dundee. Information on the exhibition and events programme can be found here.

The Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize has an established reputation as the UK’s most important annual open exhibition of drawing. Led by its founding Director, Professor Anita Taylor, the exhibition is known for its promotion and celebration of excellence in contemporary drawing practice. The Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize is supported by the Trinity Buoy Wharf Trust, and 2021 marks the fourth year of their generous support for this annual open exhibition that was founded in 1994. The Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize provides an important platform for drawing, and for artists, designers, and makers as a catalyst within their careers. The annual exhibitions are selected from drawings submitted from across the world by a roster of passionate and distinguished drawing experts – artists, architects, curators, designers, writers, and collectors. 

The Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize 2021 exhibition includes 101 drawings by 89 artists selected by Sheela Gowda, Artist, Simon Groom, Director of Modern and Contemporary Art at National Galleries Scotland, and Zoé Whitley, Director of Chisenhale Gallery in London, and 13 drawings by 12 drawing practitioners selected for the Working Drawing Award and display by Leonie Bell, Director of V&A Dundee, Charles O. Job, Designer and Architect, and Paul Finch, Programme Director of the World Architecture Festival.

 This diverse exhibition of 114 drawings overall reflects a broad scope of current drawing practice by artists, architects, designers, and makers at all stages of their careers – living and working across the four nations of the UK as well as Australia, Belgium, Brazil, Cyprus, Denmark, Germany, Greece, India, Ireland, Italy, Norway, Spain, The Netherlands, and the USA. The Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize 2021 received 3,300 entries from 1,673 drawing practitioners from 46 different countries for the exhibition and awards of £27,000.

The 101 drawings shortlisted for Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize 2021 are by: 

Valérie Abadie / Gabriela Adach /  Marcelo Albagli / Claire Anscomb / Emily Ball / Federica Beretta / Victoria Clare Bernie / Jackie Berridge / Jules Bishop / Kate Black / Frances Aviva Blane / Caroline Blythe / Su Bonfanti / Georgia Boukla / Gavin Bowyer / Mark Boylan / Ann Bridges / Nell Brookfield / Chris Bruce / Ian Chamberlain / Kristina Chan / Yoonhee Choi / Philippa Clarke / Amy Collins / Karen Conway / Jacquetta Cook / Yvonne Crossley / Andrea Cryer / David Cutts / Hannah Davies / Robert Davies / Bob Deakin / Emma Douglas / Jo Dumpleton / Amy Dury / Jill Eastland / Laura Elkins / Paul Fenner / Fierce Fine Art / Craig Fisher / David Gardner / Zoe Gibson / James Gosling / Euan Gray / James Gregory / Bea Haines / David Haines / Habib Hajallie / Susie Hamilton / Ben Hancocks / Georgia Kitty Harris / Justin Harris / Lia Anna Hennig / Russell Herron / Denise Hickey / Roland Hicks / Harriet Mena Hill / Sandy Horsley / Yvonne Kay / Hannah Kokoschka / Jenny Laskowsky / Gary Lawrence / Cheryl Lewis / Esther Martínez Rey / Fiona Michie / Arianna Tinulla Milesi / Elizabeth Nast / Simon Nicholas / Sofia Nifora / Catherine O'Donnell / Patrick O'Rourke / Steve Payne / Freya Pocklington / Caroline Pool / Selina Pope / Alberto Repetti / Elwina Robinson / Xavier Robles de Medina / Gabriela Schutz / Mark Seely / Katy Shepherd / Mark Shields / Aleksandra Stepien / Natalia Stoyanova / Sam van Strien / Roma Tearne / Freya Thompson / Iva Troj / Rebecca West-Beale 

The 13 drawings shortlisted for the Working Drawing Award 2021 are by: 

Zahra Akbari Baseri / Joshua Bristow / Marc Brousse / Ian Chamberlain / Sheila Gaffney / Christopher Green / Georgia Kitty Harris / Jessica Heywood / Julie Menelaou / Esha Mittal / Quy Phu Nguyen / Alejandro Pascual   

Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize 2021 Educational Resources: A free and downloadable education pack devised by Drawing is Free is available here and an introductory film of the exhibition is available on the Drawing Projects UK YouTube channel here. The fully illustrated exhibition catalogue is published by Drawing Projects UK is available to purchase and many of the drawings included in the exhibition are for sale. Further resources include the recordings of online events online with the exhibiting artists, selectors and guests convened by Drawing Projects UK in London and in Wiltshire (where the public engagement programme and exhibition was supported by Arts Council England). All online Drawing Discussions were convened by Professor Anita Taylor, Director of the Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize project and Dean of Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art & Design at the University of Dundee, and recordings of these Drawing Discussions and the Drawing Symposium: Drawing Lockdown I & II are, or will be, available on the Drawing Projects UK YouTube channel.

The Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize 2021 exhibition will be presented at Drawing Projects UK from 8 January to 5 March 2022. The exhibition of 114 drawings by 99 drawing practitioners is free to visit - from Tuesday to Saturday, 11am to 4pm. We are operating a booking system for our visitors throughout the exhibition - further visitor information and the visitor booking system can be found here by clicking on this link. The presentation of the exhibition and associated events programme at Drawing Projects UK is kindly supported using public funding by Arts Council England. 

The Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize has an established reputation as the UK’s most important annual open exhibition of drawing. Led by its founding Director, Professor Anita Taylor, the exhibition is known for its promotion and celebration of excellence in contemporary drawing practice. The Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize is supported by the Trinity Buoy Wharf Trust, and 2021 marks the fourth year of their generous support for this annual open exhibition that was founded in 1994. The Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize provides an important platform for drawing, and for artists, designers, and makers as a catalyst within their careers. The annual exhibitions are selected from drawings submitted from across the world by a roster of passionate and distinguished drawing experts – artists, architects, curators, designers, writers, and collectors. 

The Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize 2021 exhibition includes 101 drawings by 89 artists selected by Sheela Gowda, Artist, Simon Groom, Director of Modern and Contemporary Art at National Galleries Scotland, and Zoé Whitley, Director of Chisenhale Gallery in London, and 13 drawings by 12 drawing practitioners selected for the Working Drawing Award and display by Leonie Bell, Director of V&A Dundee, Charles O. Job, Designer and Architect, and Paul Finch, Programme Director of the World Architecture Festival.

 This diverse exhibition of 114 drawings overall reflects a broad scope of current drawing practice by artists, architects, designers, and makers at all stages of their careers – living and working across the four nations of the UK as well as Australia, Belgium, Brazil, Cyprus, Denmark, Germany, Greece, India, Ireland, Italy, Norway, Spain, The Netherlands, and the USA. The Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize 2021 received 3,300 entries from 1,673 drawing practitioners from 46 different countries for the exhibition and awards of £27,000.

The 101 drawings shortlisted for Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize 2021 are by: 

Valérie Abadie / Gabriela Adach /  Marcelo Albagli / Claire Anscomb / Emily Ball / Federica Beretta / Victoria Clare Bernie / Jackie Berridge / Jules Bishop / Kate Black / Frances Aviva Blane / Caroline Blythe / Su Bonfanti / Georgia Boukla / Gavin Bowyer / Mark Boylan / Ann Bridges / Nell Brookfield / Chris Bruce / Ian Chamberlain / Kristina Chan / Yoonhee Choi / Philippa Clarke / Amy Collins / Karen Conway / Jacquetta Cook / Yvonne Crossley / Andrea Cryer / David Cutts / Hannah Davies / Robert Davies / Bob Deakin / Emma Douglas / Jo Dumpleton / Amy Dury / Jill Eastland / Laura Elkins / Paul Fenner / Fierce Fine Art / Craig Fisher / David Gardner / Zoe Gibson / James Gosling / Euan Gray / James Gregory / Bea Haines / David Haines / Habib Hajallie / Susie Hamilton / Ben Hancocks / Georgia Kitty Harris / Justin Harris / Lia Anna Hennig / Russell Herron / Denise Hickey / Roland Hicks / Harriet Mena Hill / Sandy Horsley / Yvonne Kay / Hannah Kokoschka / Jenny Laskowsky / Gary Lawrence / Cheryl Lewis / Esther Martínez Rey / Fiona Michie / Arianna Tinulla Milesi / Elizabeth Nast / Simon Nicholas / Sofia Nifora / Catherine O'Donnell / Patrick O'Rourke / Steve Payne / Freya Pocklington / Caroline Pool / Selina Pope / Alberto Repetti / Elwina Robinson / Xavier Robles de Medina / Gabriela Schutz / Mark Seely / Katy Shepherd / Mark Shields / Aleksandra Stepien / Natalia Stoyanova / Sam van Strien / Roma Tearne / Freya Thompson / Iva Troj / Rebecca West-Beale 

The 13 drawings shortlisted for the Working Drawing Award 2021 are by: 

Zahra Akbari Baseri / Joshua Bristow / Marc Brousse / Ian Chamberlain / Sheila Gaffney / Christopher Green / Georgia Kitty Harris / Jessica Heywood / Julie Menelaou / Esha Mittal / Quy Phu Nguyen / Alejandro Pascual   

A free and downloadable education pack devised by Drawing is Free is available here and an introductory film of the exhibition is available on the Drawing Projects UK YouTube channel here. The fully illustrated exhibition catalogue is published by Drawing Projects UK is available to purchase and many of the drawings included in the exhibition are for sale. The exhibition is accompanied by a programme of events online and in situ with the exhibiting artists, selectors and guests. The online Drawing Discussions will take place on Tuesday evenings and Saturday afternoons throughout the exhibition, and more information and how to book is here. All online Drawing Discussions are convened by Professor Anita Taylor, Director of the Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize project and Dean of Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art & Design at the University of Dundee. 

Visitor Information: Drawing Projects UK is easy to find and is adjacent to Trowbridge train station, which has regular mainline services from Bath, Bristol, Cardiff, Gloucester, London, Salisbury, Southampton, Swindon, Westbury, and Weymouth. There is also plentiful public parking nearby. Drawing Projects UK is an accessible venue and there is a blue badge parking space in our car park. Miranda's Coffee Shop at Drawing Projects UK will be open and serving delicious coffee, cakes and light meals from 8am to 3pm.

COVID-19 precautions: Please note that the wearing of face coverings is required at Drawing Projects UK and that we are operating with social distancing in place. We encourage you to take a lateral flow test before visiting and request that you postpone your visit if you test positive for COVID-19 or are showing any of the symptoms.

We look forward to welcoming you to the Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize 2021 exhibition at Drawing Projects UK!

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Our exhibition - A Closer Look: Lewis Chamberlain, Esen Kaya, Hamish Young - is on show at Drawing Projects UK from 23 November to 24 December 2021. The is the latest In Focus exhibition held in The Entrance Hall at Drawing Projects UK while we complete the refurbishment of our gallery and education spaces. As the title implies, the drawings in the exhibition invite you to look closely and to explore the subjects, content and forms of these engaging and collectable works. 

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From 9 October to 20 November 2021, we will be presenting Fragments of Wealth, a solo exhibition of prints and collages by Pauline Scott-Garrett, in The Entrance Hall at Drawing Projects UK.

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On show in The Entrance Hall at Drawing Projects UK is a selection of drawings from the extensive A mon seul desir series by Anita Taylor. The exhibition is on from 14 September until 2 October 2021.

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The Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize 2020 Exhibition and Awards Announcement at Trinity Buoy Wharf in London from 9 to 22 January 2021.

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While our exhibition programme is once again on hold due to the new lockdown, we are thrilled that Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize 2020 is now on show at Cooper Gallery in Dundee from 13 November to 19 December 2020, Tuesday to Saturday from 11am to 4pm. Free tickets available at Eventbrite. 

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Drawing Projects UK is delighted to present the Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize 2020 exhibition from Friday 2 October to Saturday 31 October 2020. This is the first opportunity to see the 2020 exhibition of 71 drawings by 56 drawing practitioners selected by Sophia Yadong Hao, Ian McKeever RA and Frances Morris with a special display of working drawings selected by Sir Ian Blatchford, Piers Gough CBE RA and Sophie McKinlay. The exhibition will be open Tuesday to Saturday from 10am to 4pm by pre-booked ticket. 

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Drawing Projects UK is delighted to feature the Pandemic Pillows by Mikey Cuddihy during lockdown. We have been in discussions with Mikey about an Open to Draw project for some time, and look forward to presenting her work in the real in our future exhibition and residency programmes when we are able to re-open our doors to the public. In the meantime, please read on to find out more about the Pandemic Pillows from Mikey herself, and about the artist. We hope you will enjoy this, the first of our featured artist's lockdown projects!

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Drawing Matter - Eleanor Bartlett, Lucinda Burgess, Carole Pearson will be on show from 26 June to 31 July 2021 at Drawing Projects UK in Trowbridge, Wiltshire. A timed entry ticket must be booked in advance to attend the exhibition. This exhibition was originally planned for March & April 2020, but was postponed due to the global pandemic and public health restrictions, so we are delighted to finally be sharing the exhibition and much new work made by the artists during lockdown.

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We are delighted that the Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize 2019 at the Leicester Gallery at De Montfort University will re-open at midday on Saturday 29 August until Saturday 26 September 2020. Open Monday to Saturday from midday to 5pm, please check the Leicester Gallery website for new visitation guidance.

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The Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize 2019 is on show in The Chainstore at Trinity Buoy Wharf from 18 January to 1 February 2020, and is open daily from 11am to 4pm, and is accompanied by an events programme.  

Supported by the Trinity Buoy Wharf Trust, the Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize is selected from original drawings and led by its founding Director, Professor Anita Taylor, since 1994. The Prize has an established reputation as the foremost national exhibition of drawing practice and is known for both its promotion of artists and makers who draw, and its championing of the role and value of drawing more widely. 

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The Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize 2019 is currently on show at The Salisbury Museum from 12 October 2019 until 11 January 2020. Please check The Salisbury Museum website for opening hours and further information and events here. This is the only tour venue for the 2019 exhibition in the South West.

Supported by the Trinity Buoy Wharf Trust, the Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize is selected from original drawings and led by its founding Director, Professor Anita Taylor, since 1994. The Prize has an established reputation as the foremost national exhibition of drawing practice and is known for both its promotion of artists and makers who draw, and its championing of the role and value of drawing more widely. 

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Drawing Projects UK is delighted to present the exhibition Thinking Graphite by Sarah Duyshart, Janine Hall, Emma Louise Hollaway, Caroline Holt-Wilson, Jo Lane, Ellis Scheer and Charmaine Watkiss from 14 December 2019 to 1 February 2020. Please note that the gallery will be closed from 28 December 2019 to 17 January 2020 and see the opening hours information below. 

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Drawing Projects UK is pleased to present a solo exhibition by Ian Chamberlain, Monuments Remain, from 16 November to 7 December 2019.  

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Between the Sunny and the Opaque is a collaborative, site-specific drawing project made by Greig Burgoyne and Lucy O’Donnell as an Open to Draw project at Drawing Projects UK. 

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The West of England Festival of Textiles - WEFT 2019 - organised by Trowbridge Museum will be presented in the Project Space at Drawing Projects UK from 6 to 28 September 2019. 

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Drawing Projects UK is pleased to present In Focus: Paintings by Robin Heaton from 20 July to 25 August 2019.

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Drawing Projects UK is delighted to present Drawing Out The Canal by Simon Woolham from 12 to 26 October 2019.

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Drawing Projects UK is delighted to present Shaped Space, a solo exhibition by George Meyrick, from 31 August to 5 October 2019. 

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Drawing Projects UK is pleased to present In Focus: Drawings by Anita Taylor from 1 July to 26 August 2019. 

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Drawing Projects UK is pleased to present In Between Sea and Shore, the annual Bath Spa Porthleven Prize exhibition. The exhibition opens on the evening of Thursday 2 May 2019, from 6-8pm, and continues until 18 May 2019. 

In Between Sea and Shore includes work by Poppy Briggs, Lyon Hansen, Alex Mah, Mariana Marcelino, Katie Sims, James Thornton and Deborah Westmancoat. The exhibition presents the work of seven Bath Spa University students who each were awarded a fully-funded artist residency at the Old Lifeboat House art studio in Porthleven, Cornwall, which they undertook in May 2018 as part of the Bath Spa Porthleven Prize.

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From 15 to 22 February 2019, there will be a selection of drawings on show, by artists and makers involved in the Drawing Projects UK programmes, in the Gallery and the Entrance Hall.

In the Long Gallery we will be displaying drawings by Saranjit Birdi as part of his Mapping Bones drawing project and performance.

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We are delighted that the Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize 2018 will be at Drawing Projects UK from 2 March until 26 April 2019.

The Trinity Buoy Drawing Prize 2018 exhibition includes 69 drawings by 67 artists and makers, selected from an overall submission of 1,711 works from across the UK by Nigel Hall RA, artist; Megan Piper, contemporary art dealer; and Dr Chris Stephens, Director of The Holburne Museum in Bath. 

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Stockpile is our Christmas exhibition. Winter is here and we have a selection of art and artefacts for you to enjoy. Opening on Saturday 8 December from 10am to 5pm, with regular opening hours on Saturdays from 12-4pm and Sundays from 11am-1pm, by appointment, and during events.

Stockpile showcases work by a range of artists and makers, including our studio residents, will include ceramics, collage, drawings, objects, paintings, prints and sculpture. Artists and makers will include: Michael Angove, Eleanor Bartlett, Hannah Beickhorasani, Mike Collier, Alice Couttoupes, Yvonne Crossley, Gerry Davies, Neill Fuller, Kendra Gare, Jin Eui Kim, Mairead McClean, Carole Pearson, Sandra Porter, Alex Roberts, Andrew Roberts, Pauline Scott Garrett, Philippa Sutherland, Anita Taylor, Sally Taylor, Quilos and the Windmill.

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Drawing Projects UK is delighted to be presenting - A Dawn Chorus. Singing the World: Mimesis and Birdsong - an exhibition by Mike Collier from 26 October to 24 November 2018. Exhibition open Fridays and Saturdays 1pm to 4pm, and by prior arrangement at other times. A Drawing Discussion: A Dawn Chorus with Mike Collier will be held on Saturday 24 November at 4pm, please book here.

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From 14 July to 4 August 2018 the exhibition Around the World will be on show at Drawing Projects UK, in association with the Active Trowbridge Annual Festival and Explore Art Trowbridge events on Saturday 14 July.

Featuring a range of artists and makers from around the world making work in response to people, place and events across the world. Works by Alice Couttoupes, Gary Lawrence, Sandra Porter, Tim Vyner and others will enable visitors to reflect on a range of perspectives and artistic responses to place, experience and identity. As an act and activity, drawing intrinsically enables us all to visualise ideas, and to see the world anew. 

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Drawing Projects UK presents the exhibition Consequences from 17 March 2018 - 28 April 2018, a collection of drawings, photography, prints and paintings that reflect on the notion of consequence, whether this be chance, intentional, inadvertent, deliberate, playful or fortuitous. Featuring works by Laylah Ali, Yvonne Crossley, Richard Dunn, Peter de Francia, Ilya Kabakov, Margaret Kilgallen, Christopher James and Bedwyr Williams. These images represent, in different sometimes oblique, sometimes difficult, even harrowing ways, critical moments in narratives, relationships, single events, and identity.

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Runs to 3 February 2018

On show from 16 December 2017 to 3 February 2018, the exhibition, Line Up, features work by Jin Eui Kim, Gary Lawrence, Sandra Porter and Stephanie Syjuco. This collection of works use line as a principle element of the work, whether this is in ceramics, printmaking or drawing.

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16 August - 6 October 2018

The final showing of Jerwood Drawing Prize 2017 will be at Drawing Projects UK from 16 August to 6 October 2018. Selected by Dr David Dibosa, Helen Legg and Michael Simpson from over 2,800 original drawings, 69 drawings by 65 artists will be on display. The exhibition is open to the public from Thursday - Saturday, 12noon to 4pm. Free entry.

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5 May - 30 June 2018

From 5 May - 30 June 2018, Drawing Projects UK is pleased to present the exhibition, From the Ground - Mandy Bonnell & James Brooks, which includes an artist’s book by Mandy Bonnell, Eloise Butler's Wildflower Garden, and a number of works by James Brooks that explore the geography and geometry of civic spaces in towns and cities across Europe.

Opening times Saturdays 1-4pm, Sundays 11am to 1pm, and by appointment. 

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Our current exhibition, See View, features drawings, paintings, prints and artists’ books by Australian and British artists - Jelle van den Berg, Peter Burgess, Gerry Davies, Gary Lawrence, Mary Scott, Philippa Sutherland and Anita Taylor. Curated by Gary Sangster, the exhibition examines perceptions and observations of people, place and natural phenomena.  

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From the very beginning of his career drawing has been an integral part of Michael Pennie’s artistic output, enabling ideas to be recorded, interrogated and developed. The Drawings of Different Sizes exhibition brings together the best of Pennie’s recent drawings made during his tenure as Artist in Residence at Corsham Court. The exhibition at Drawing Projects UK has provided an opportunity at this stage of his career to showcase a developing preoccupation with drawing.

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Drawing Projects UK is delighted to present Greyscale an exhibition of works by five Australian artists - Peter Burgess, Julia Davis, Adrian Gebers, Pollyxenia Joannou and Lisa Jones - from 6 April until 6 May 2017.

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Drawing Projects UK is delighted to present Flood Story, an exhibition of drawings by Gerry Davies from Thursday 9 March until Saturday 1 April 2017.

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Drawing Projects UK is delighted to be hosting an exhibition by Elisa Alaluusua at Bridge House in Trowbridge from 9 February - 4 March 2017. 

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Drawing Projects UK is presenting an exhibition of drawings by Anita Taylor from 5 December 2016 to 27 January 2017. 

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Drawing Projects UK is delighted to be presenting an exhibition by Eleanor Bartlett from 5 November until 26 November 2016.

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Drawing Projects UK is delighted to present the drawings of Andrew Grant made for the Forest of Imagination, a four-day contemporary arts festival held in Bath in the successive years of 2014, 2015 and 2016.

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