The Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize, formerly known as the Jerwood Drawing Prize, is the longest-standing prize for drawing in the UK. I am delighted to have been selected for the 2019 exhibition with a cheeky little study of a baby in a hazmat suit in charcoal on canvas.

The Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize 2019 exhibition includes 67 drawings by 62 practitioners which were selected from 1,801 submissions received from across the UK by a panel comprising Chantal Joffe RA, artist; Andrew Nairne, Director of Kettle’s Yard, University of Cambridge; and Dorothy Price, Professor of History of Art at the University of Bristol.

Selected exhibitors are : Rachel Ara / Naomi Avsec / Jeanette Barnes / Philip Battley / Jonathan Bennett / Jackie Berridge / Kate Black / Kurt Buckley / Roma Bullen / Martyn Burdon / James Byrne / Lewis Chamberlain / Michael Doherty / Aisha Farr / Joana Galego / Frances Gynn / Susie Hamilton / Oona Hassim / Clare Haxby / Mary Herbert / Laura Hudson / Mandy Hudson / Nimmi Hutnik / Neville Jermyn / Hero Johnson / Melissa Kime / Marcus Leotaud / Michael Paul Lewis / Richard Lewsey / Andrew Litten / Eugene Macki / Derek Marks / Miguel Martin / Zara Matthews / Penny McCarthy / Patrick Miller / Tamsin Morse Commins / Alice Motte-Muñoz / Elizabeth Nast / Steve Payne / Julia Polonski / Caroline Pool / Fiona G Roberts / Katya Robin / Karin Schösser / Molley Scoble / Mark Shields / Nicholas Simms / Clare Smith / Paul John Taylor / Sally Taylor / Patricia Thornton / Alberto Torres Hernandez / Shelly Tregoning / Mariota Spens / Jaime Valtierra Sanchez / Henry Ward / Steven Ward / Charmaine Watkiss / Jessica Wolfson / Hannah Wooll / William Wright

Congratulations to all the wonderful 2019 prize winners : First Prize Alice Motte-Muñoz for her drawing, Reverie. Second Prize Shelly Tregoning for her drawing, Distracted, Distracted. Student Award went to Philip Battley for his drawing, Stand. The Working Drawing prize went to Jeanette Barnes for her drawing Study for Cable Cars – New York and The Evelyn Williams Drawing Award was awarded to Penny McCarthy for her drawings DNA in Nature and Photo 51 and her proposal for the Award.

Launching at Trinity Buoy and then touring to

The Salisbury Museum Wiltshire from 12 October 2019 to 11 January 2020

Trinity Buoy Wharf London 18 January to 2 February 2020

The Gallery at De Montfort University Leicester from 21 February to 18 April 2020.

For more information and events associated with TBWDP 2019 visit the website for news.