My drawing ‘Swerve’ is now on tour as part of the Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize 2023 Exhibition and is on show at TheGallery, AUB Arts University Bournemouth.

The AUB hang was curated by Violet M McLean and Millie Lake. The annual Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize celebrates talent and excellence in current drawing practice. The exhibition provides an important platform for artists, designers and makers and champions the role, breadth, and value of drawing today.

Installation view. TheGallery AUB. Photograph by Eliza Nade. © TheGallery AUB

Open until 16 April 2024.
Tuesday to Thursday: 9.00am – 5.00pm. Saturday: 9.00am – 1.00pm.
TheGallery AUB, Arts University Bournemouth (AUB), Poole, Dorset BH12 5HH

For more information visit aub.ac.uk/latest/trinity-buoy-wharf-drawing-prize-2023-touring-exhibition

I’m really pleased to reveal that ‘Swerve’, 2022 - the fifth of my ’Streetcombing’ series of drawings - has been selected for the prestigious Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize 2023.

***Swerve.*** *2022. Inktense pencil, acrylic, ink on paper. 29.7 cm x 42 cm.*

The exhibition opens on 29th September at Trinity Buoy Wharf, London and runs until 15th October 2023 before going on tour to other venues in the UK (Dundee, Bournemouth, Plymouth and Wigan). Thank you to Laura Hoptman, Dennis Scholl AM, Barbara Walker MBE RA and Drawing Projects UK for including my work. I can’t wait to see what the other artists chosen have produced.

The Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize 2023 received 3,000 submissions from 1,450 candidates located across the world. A total of 124 works by 111 drawing practitioners have been chosen by the two distinguished Selection Panels for the exhibition and are shortlisted for the awards. The Prize is the foremost annual open exhibition for drawing in the UK. Founded in 1994 by Anita Taylor and Paul Thomas as the Rexel Derwent Open Drawing Exhibition, it was known as the Jerwood Drawing Prize from 2001 to 2017 and delivered in partnership with the Jerwood Charitable Foundation.

I found all the discarded objects as I walked to my studio in Croydon, south London, and then arranged them into a tiny balanced tabletop sculpture. Some side lighting, and the camera on my phone, helped me construct a strong source of inspiration to work from for the drawing itself. Inktense pencil, acrylic, ink on paper. 29.7 cm x 42 cm.

The lighthouse and The Buoy Store, Trinity Buoy Wharf, London.

Installation view of the Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize 2023 at the Buoy Store, Trinity Buoy Wharf, London.

If you've got an hour spare you can watch a serious walk-through of the show here.

OR if you follow this link it will go straight to my bit.