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David Haines, Dark Balloons, 2021. Graphite and Nero pencil on paper, 53x50cm. Courtesy Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize.
Exhibition
Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize 2021
21 Mar 2022 – 16 Apr 2022
Regular hours
- Monday
- 11:00 – 16:00
- Tuesday
- 11:00 – 16:00
- Wednesday
- 11:00 – 16:00
- Thursday
- 11:00 – 16:00
- Friday
- 11:00 – 16:00
- Saturday
- 11:00 – 16:00
- Sunday
- Closed
Free admission
Address
- Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art & Design
- 13 Perth Road
- Dundee
- DD1 4HT
- United Kingdom
Cooper Gallery hosts the 2021 edition of prestigious annual open call exhibition, featuring 114 drawings by 99 drawing practioners selected out of 3300 entries from 46 countries.
About
The exhibition 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.
Drawing has long provided an essential means to bring ideas and issues into focus, and to document the personal, political and social. The prize features drawings made during the global pandemic and the resulting and overlapping crises. Marking time and presence, the act of drawing has formed connections for their makers through a tangible tactile experience that has enabled reflection, expression and communication, resulting in an array of lived, imagined and proposed human experiences.
Tickets
Free tickets available via Eventbrite:
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/trinity-buoy-wharf-drawing-prize-2021-tickets-275606455327
About the prize
The Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize has an established reputation as the UK’s most important annual exhibition of drawing. Led by Professor Anita Taylor, Dean of Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art and Design at the University of Dundee, and supported by the Trinity Buoy Wharf Trust, the Drawing Prize exhibition is known for its influential role in promoting and celebrating contemporary drawing practice and championing the role and value of drawing as a vital means of communication and expression.
Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize 2021 was selected by artist Sheela Gowda; Simon Groom, Director of Modern and Contemporary Art at National Galleries of Scotland; and Zoé Whitley, Director of Chisenhale Gallery.
The Working Drawing Award 2021 was selected by Leonie Bell, Director of V&A Dundee; Charles O. Job, Designer and Architect; and Paul Finch, Programme Director of the World Architecture Festival.
Image credit
David Haines, Dark Balloons, 2021.
Graphite and Nero pencil on paper, 53x50cm.
Image courtesy the Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize Project.
