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| View of part of last year's Jerwood Drawing Exhibition |
- The project was founded in 1994 as the Rexel Derwent Open Drawing Exhibition
- Between 1996 and 2000 it was known as the Cheltenham Open Drawing Exhibition
- Then in 2001, the Jerwood Charitable Foundation became its principal benefactor.
In the meantime the 2017 exhibition for The Jerwood Drawing Prize is seeking entries for and exhibition and somebody to give the prizes to!
Those who entered the Derwent Drawing Prize in 2016 should certainly be taking a look below...
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| One of the Student Awards 2016 went to the drawings of "dreams and nightmares" by Amelie Barnathan |
Jerwood Drawing Prize 2017 - Summary of Key Points
This open exhibition is a platform for drawing practitioners to showcase their work alongside other leading contemporary artists in the field, and provides those selected with the opportunity to help promote a wider understanding of drawing for future generations.
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| Second Prize 2016: Sid in Bathtub ball pen on tracing paper by Anna Sofie Jespersen |
- The deadline for registration of entries is 17.00 on 28th June 2017
- Significant cash prizes for drawing
- Up to 3 drawings
- Online registration - this is the online entry page
- Drawings must then be submitted to a number of Regional Collection Centres for drop-off and/or pick-up in Scotland, Wales, Northern Ireland and around the English regions - see end of this post
- Fees for submission vary between London and the Regions.
- Work can be for sale - but you need to allow for the 50% commission levied on all sales made at the exhibition(s).
- Notification of selection will via email by Friday 21 July 2017
- the Rules and Guidelines
- the Downloads/Links.
- the Submission/Collection Timetable - between 14th and 26th July (each Centre has its own unique dates)
Eligible artists - Who can enter
The Jerwood Drawing Prize is open to
- artists resident in the UK
- everybody who works with drawing from students to established artists.
The Jerwood Drawing Prize is open to all artists resident in the UK. (So you don't have to be born here but you need to be living here legally.)
Eligible Drawings - What you can enter
- Work MUST have made since January 2016
- You can submit up to three drawings (note you can change your mind about how many drawings you're submitting up until 28 June)
- Composite drawings must be presented within one frame.
- Work should not exceed 2.5m in any dimension when framed.
- There are specific requirements as to framing
- Each drawing must be authenticated by the artist in an appropriate place (eg signed and dated, on the reverse of the work or frame is acceptable).
Note that the First Prize in 2016 was won by a video - Singularity by Solveig Settemsdal (b.1984) - see BBC | Video Art wins Jerwood Drawing Prize
"which offers an almost sculptural digital rendering of the transformative and fluid drawing process."
The Selection Panel 2017
The Selection Panel will aim to create an exhibition that explores and celebrates the excellence and range of current drawing practice in the UK.
The Panel members are:
- Dr David Dibosa, writer, researcher and Reader in Museology at the University of the Arts London. A number of you may remember Dr Dibosa from the BBC's Big Painting Challenge. I was not impressed - as readers of my blog posts about each episode may recall. He's an academic and a curator not a practising artist. I'm guessing he might be better suited to this role.
- Helen Legg, Director of Spike Island, an international centre for the development of contemporary art and design, based in Bristol (who has got an interesting Twitter account @elenheggl) and
- Michael Simpson, artist - who seems to have a connection to Spike Island - this is an interview with him
The Exhibition
Up to 70 drawings will be selected for the exhibition.It may be less. Last year 61 works by 55 artists were selected for the 2016 Jerwood Drawing Exhibition
The Jerwood Drawing Prize 2017 exhibition will, as usual, be at the Jerwood Space, 171 Union Street, London SE1.
- The Jerwood Drawing Prize winners will be announced on Tuesday 12 September 2017.
- The exhibition opens to the public on 13 September and continues until 22 October 2017.
The Jerwood Drawing Prizes 2017
- First Prize: £8,000;
- Second Prize: £5,000 and
- two Student Awards: £2,000 each
- The second prize was won by Anna Sofie Jespersen (b.1992) for her ball pen on tracing paper work, Sid in Bathtub (studying for a Fine Art Degree at Chelsea College of Art)
- Two Student Awards of £2,000 each went to
- Jade Chorkularb (b. 1971) for "That What They Would Do" a video of real-time drawings during interviews with people being asked what they would do if they only had an hour left to live.
- Amelie Barnathan (b. 1991). studying for her MA in Visual Communication at the RCA produced large-scale drawings which rendered dreams and nightmares.
Collection Points
- London - Wimbledon College of Art
- Bath - Bath School of Art and Design
- Belfast - School of Art University of Ulster
- Aberystwyth - Aberystwyth University, School of Art
- Cheltenham - University of Gloucestershire Hardwick Campus
- Glasgow - Centre for Contemporary Arts
- Leeds - The Tetley 1st Floor Galleries
- Newcastle-upon-Tyne - Fine Art Department, King Edward VII Building, Newcastle University
- Norwich - Outside Colman House, University of East Anglia
- Plymouth - Main reception Plymouth College of Art
Please note that all Submission and Collection dates and times may be subject to change.
You can see past posts on this blog by reviewing posts tagged Jerwood Drawing Prize
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