The Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize 2025 exhibition and shortlist includes 82 drawings by 76 artists eligible for awards with a total prize fund of £25,000. A further 21 drawings by 20 practitioners shortlisted for the Working Drawing Award of £2,000. The free exhibition will be open daily from Thursday 9 October to Sunday 19 October 2025 at Trinity Buoy Wharf, London E14 0JY before touring into 2026.
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 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.
“ It's going to be a fantastic opportunity for audiences to see a range of work that they might not see otherwise,” stated Fiona Bradley OBE, “The prize is really quite an extraordinary thing, and the range of submissions this year was incredibly broad and varied.”
“It has been a privilege to be on this side of the table” said Soheila Sokhanvari, artist, shortlisted for the Drawing Prize in 2016 and now a selector of the 2025 exhibition. “Being selected gave me a massive platform, enabling me to be seen by galleries and curators. I took selecting this year very seriously, as I know how important this prize is for artists worldwide.”
The Working Drawing Award, a special category celebrating the role of drawing within architecture, design and making processes, was selected by Pablo Garcia, Associate 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. 21 works by 20 drawing practitioners will be shown within this specific display dedicated to working drawings, and eligible for an award of £2,000.
The drawings selected for the Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize 2025 exhibition showcase the wide-ranging nature of contemporary drawing today: from works on paper and textiles to alternative surfaces and moving images. The selected drawings are by practitioners at all career stages and come from across the globe.
“We have had an incredible range to choose from, from all around the country and beyond” explained Kieran Long, selector for both the Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize 2025 and the Working Drawing Award: “drawing itself is a wonderfully varied practice, and this is evident by the phenomenal range of submissions this year”.
The Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize 2025 exhibition is open to the public from Thursday 9 October to Sunday 19 October 2025 and will then tour into 2026. Accompanying the exhibition will be a fully illustrated Exhibition Publication and an Education Pack. A one-day Drawing Symposium as well as an Educator’s Evening will be held on Thursday 9 October 2025.
The 83 drawings shortlisted for Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize 2025 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
