The largest and longest-running annual open exhibition for drawing in the UK, exhibited in Bath for the first time.
This year 61 works by 55 artists have been selected from 2,537 submissions from across the UK by artist GLENN BROWN; Curator and Director, Kupferstich-Kabinett at Staatliche Kunstammlungen Dresden, STEPHANIE BUCK; and Director, Modern Art Oxford, PAUL HOBSON.
The selected artists are: Farina Alam, Nathan Anthony, Rachel Bacon, Jo Barber, Amelie Barnathan, Deborah Boyd Whyte, Nici Bungey, Caroline Burraway, Lewis Chamberlain, Jade Chorkularb, Kelly Chorpening, Małgorzata Dawidek, James Eagle, Kristian Evju, Kate Fahey, Mike FitzGerald, Gillian Foot, Christopher Fry, David Gardner, Sue Gilmore, Gill Gregory, Nicola Grellier, Heather Hancock, Michael Hancock, Summer Howard, Julia Hutton, Bruce Ingram, Adriana Ionascu, Lottie Jackson-Eeles, Anna Sofie Jespersen, Ben Johnson, Helen Jones, Tae Yeon Kim, Samuel Little, Jude Lunn, Penny McCarthy, Shona McGovern, Richard McVetis, Catrin Morgan, Eleanor Morgan, Craig Morris, Marion Piper, Messua Poulin-Wolff, Tyler Reed, Raji Salan, Annie Samuel, Solveig Settemsdal, Martyn Simpson, Helen Thomas, Kevin Tole Thomas, Treherne Kazuya, Tsuji Vandana, David Winthrop, Aishan Yu.
Jerwood Drawing Prize is a joint initiative, led by PROFESSOR ANITA TAYLOR, at Bath Spa University, School of Art and Design, and supported by Jerwood Charitable Foundation through its contemporary gallery programme Jerwood Visual Arts. The 20th anniversary of the Jerwood Drawing Prize exhibition was celebrated in 2014, and in 2015 Jerwood Charitable Foundation marked 15 years of its support for the prize.
An exhibition catalogue will be available to purchase from the Box Office.
OPENING TIMES: TUES-THU, 11AM-8PM, FRI & SAT 11AM-5PM (CLOSED SUN & MON)
FREE ADMISSION
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ASSOCIATED EVENTS:
ONE DAY DRAWING WORKSHOPS WITH ARTIST ALEX ROBERTS
The Basics – Observations and Making a Mark
Expanding your View
Photography Policy: please refrain from photographing or filming any work in the exhibition.
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VenueThe Edge, University of Bath
AddressClaverton Down Road, Bath, Somerset,
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