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Drawing Projects UK is a centre for research, development, production and engagement with events and exhibitions in drawing & contemporary art.

We are currently open to the public for exhibitions and events only as per the programme on our website. In 2015 Drawing Projects UK established a centre for the research and development of drawing and contemporary art at Bridge House in Trowbridge, the county town of Wiltshire. The Drawing Centre at Bridge House aims to provide opportunities for a wide group of people and to act as a public inter

face to experience drawing and gain understanding of the value of drawing as a vital means of expression and communication in the creative industries and beyond. There is a project space, exhibition spaces, studios, workspaces and offices for creative businesses and like-minded organisations. Bridge House also has bookable meeting space and workspaces to let for individuals and micro-enterprises, and houses Miranda’s Coffee Shop. Bridge House is adjacent to Trowbridge railway station, which has excellent train services and connections throughout the UK and region. Open to the public by appointment and as advertised for events and exhibitions.

15/02/2026

Join us on Saturday 7 March at 2pm for the next Trowbridge Poetry Stanza event, Manganaro: Performance and Workshop. Booking via our Eventbrite page, link in our Insta bio.

The Trowbridge Stanza is delighted to welcome Manganaro, who will be performing their poetry and leading us in a workshop about poetic performance. The workshop will help you to take your poems from page to stage, looking at techniques to take up space on stage with your performance, bringing your words to life, and truly engaging your audience. Bring a pen and notebook as ever, plus a poem that you’d like to work on performing.

Manganaro is a poet, performer, and event organiser. They’ve performed across the UK and their writing explores themes of identity, bilingual experience and everyday nuances, drawing on the personal side of political. Manganaro was a 2025 Q***r Bath award recipient, the 2024 DIVA Magazine poetry competition winner, and have supported artists such as Alice Oswald. Their work has been featured on BBC upload and in exhibitions as part of Fringe Arts Bath. Within their residency at Emerge, Manganaro has explored the radical history uniting zines and writing, producing a collection of poetry postcards.

Manganaro studied Creative Writing at Bath Spa University, achieving a First Class Bachelor of Arts with Honours, and spent their placement year travelling around the UK engaging with various arts projects and festivals. Manganaro is passionate about uplifting the local creative community, evident in co-founding Bath’s leading open mic poetry night Chimes, where they co-edited and self-published an anthology of attendees’ work. They programmed the poetry strand for Bath Arts Collective’s Curious Minds Festival 2026. Their debut pamphlet ‘This is Where I’m From’ was launched this month.

All are welcome to join this Trowbridge Stanza event - please note that entry is by pre-booked ticket only. Trowbridge Stanza is affiliated to the Poetry Society and abides by their code of conduct.

ArtHaus Coffee at Drawing Projects UK will be open from 10am to 3pm, for delicious coffee, tea and cakes… ♥️

15/02/2026

Vision Art Platform’s current exhibition, Unsettled, has been guest curated by Gary Sangster. We’re resharing this as a reminder to go and see this exquisite and poignant show, if in Istanbul…on until 15 March 2026.

“Our present moment has moved away from being a time that deepens dialogue or soothes division. Instead, it has become an uncertain and unpredictable era that erodes knowledge systems, institutional structures, and social consensus, while profoundly destabilizing environmental and political conditions. Various forms of denial and conflict actively undermine many of the foundations of contemporary life.

Artists perhaps offer a uniquely powerful framework through which to reconsider the fragile state of the world. One of the central aspects of this exhibition lies in the ways artists generate strong aesthetic forms in response to these real tensions embedded within contemporary experience.

Unsettled is conceived as an exhibition that brings together leading contemporary artists reflecting on the social, cultural, and psychological tensions currently experienced by communities and individuals worldwide. Key themes addressed in the exhibition include the climate crisis, nuclear proliferation, post-colonialism, conflict, migration, racism, gender, and religion. These issues are explored through a range of media, including photography, painting, sculpture, and video.

Nine established artists from Australia, Canada, Ireland, and the United States represent a compelling cross-section of 21st-century Western modernism. This highly contested and uneasy frame of reference positions art as a form of research, a site of interaction, and a critical mode of inquiry into the conditions and forces operating on, beneath, and above the surface of lived experience. This approach offers the possibility of a renewed aesthetic encounter with the real world.”

Excerpt from the text by curator Gary Sangster.

The exhibition features Rodney Graham, Gary Simmons, Carrie Mae Weems, David Maisel, Stan Douglas, Judith Barry, Debra Dawes, Merilyn Fairskye, Mairéad McClean.

On until 15 March 2026 at

14/02/2026

It’s a beautiful sunny day at Drawing Projects UK and delicious coffee at to enjoy with wonderful works in The Entrance Hall - painting by Anita Taylor, prints by Pauline Scott-Garrett. The exhibition in the gallery - Anita Taylor’s drawings for Telling Stories: Heroine Mythology Recast - is open by appointment (made in advance) only. ♥️

04/02/2026

We are delighted to announce that the international Call for Entries for the Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize 2026 is now open. There will be a 2-stage selection process and there is a new prize structure too…. Read more on our websites, including trinitybuoywharfdrawingprize.org or head to the application portal (link below).

03/02/2026

Join us on Friday 6 February at 8am online for the Girl Friday Breakfast Club with artist and writer, R&F Mo. 🎟️ Booking and more information is available on our Eventbrite page, link in our Instagram bio. An email with the joining link is also its way to our annual subscribers…🌸

R & F Mo is an artist and writer (b.1956, born in Cumberland) who lives and works in London. Maryclare Foá (aka R & F Mo / M.M. Kizi / MK Palomar) graduated from the RCA in 1984 and was awarded the RCA drawing prize. Her practice (sometimes across disciplines) explores narratives that connect the seen the sensed and the dreamed. A member of the performance drawing collective: Foá, Grisewood, Hosea, McCall, she co-authored Performance Drawing (Bloomsbury Sept 2020). Foá completed her PhD Sounding Out: Drawing in response to the outside environment in 2011. Foa’s work has been exhibited in Oliver Projects curated group show titled ‘Almost Blue’ (RWS Gallery Whitcomb St 2024), the RA Summer Show (2021-2025), A History of Drawing Camberwell Space (2018), is included in the V&A archive collection, and can be seen in Drawing Now: Between the Lines of Contemporary Art (I.B. Tauris, 2007) and Hyperdrawing (I.B. Tauris, 2012). Mo published Woandering: notes from a drawn path, first edition of 50 books in 2026 (…see our last post). Mo / Foa is represented by Oliver Projects

The Girl Friday Breakfast Club is convened by Professor Anita Taylor, artist, curator, educator, and was established in 2018 to provide a friendly and informal space for women to meet and to hear from an interesting woman speaker over breakfast at Drawing Projects UK on the last Friday of each month. We aim to retain the informal format online, and events are not recorded, so do book to join in - and bring your own breakfast - or lunch or supper depending on where you are in the world! And, yes, it’s not the last Friday….we’ll be back in sync soon. 🌸☕️🎤💻💬☕️🌸

We look forward to welcoming you!

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02/02/2026

A thoroughly enjoyable and inspiring read: Woandering, notes from a drawn path, by R & F Mo….thank you! And just how lovely to see the Girl Friday Breakfast Club referenced with these great quotes from Barbara Walker and Isabel Rock too. .andf.mo

31/01/2026

On Saturday 7 February at 2pm the Trowbridge Stanza will be presenting an Open Mic at Drawing Projects UK. The booking link for tickets is in our Instagram bio or find it on our Eventbrite page.

The Trowbridge Stanza meets monthly on the first Saturday of the month at Drawing Projects UK - and this will be the first meet up of 2026. To get back into the poetry swing of things, February’s Trowbridge Stanza event will be a good old fashioned open mic.

Please come along with two or three poems you’d like to share, and we’ll get to as many of them as we can, depending on how many people attend. Learn them by heart, sing them, perform them with props, or just read them from the page. It’s up to you.

There’ll also be plenty of time for coffee and chat - and will be open from 10am to 3pm.

We look forward to seeing you!

Please note that the Trowbridge Stanza is affiliated to the Poetry Society Poetry Society’s ‘Stanza’s Code of Conduct’, link in the event information. We ask that your behaviour and the poems you bring along fall in line with these guidelines. Thank you!

30/01/2026

We’ve been rather busy behind the scenes at Drawing Projects UK…..and just how did we get to the last Friday of the month so quickly! So, with apologies, the Girl Friday Breakfast Club will meet next Friday, t6 February, at 8am. More information soon about our wonderful guest speakers on the 6 & 27 February…. In the meantime, we hope you’ll enjoy a lie in, and this image of one of the extraordinary Medusa heads in the Basilica Cistern in Istanbul! Look forward to seeing you all very soon …. ☕️🌸🧿🎤🌸☕️ Club DrawingProjectsUK

15/01/2026

We’re delighted to see this article by Candy Bedworth on Art UK that sets Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize 2025 First Prize Winner Olivia Rowland’s award-winning work ‘I Am Destroy’ in a rich, diverse context of the use of drawing and text - from illuminated manuscripts, marginalia to comics and contemporary art. Candy writes: “Exploring her winning entry made me reflect on other contemporary artists who use drawing and text in experimental ways to create accessible and relatable art. Artists who use drawing and text to explore the self, and to share messages that are deeply personal, socially relevant and wonderfully political.”

Head to to read the full article that links to wonderful works by Andy Warhol, David Hockney, Grayson Perry, David Shrigley amongst many more with work held held in collections featured on ArtUK. We’ve also popped the link in our Instagram bio. There is also a great selection of articles on drawing supported by The Bridget Riley Art Foundation.

And, don’t forget to go and see Olivia’s work - and the other 102 wonderful drawings - on show in the at The Williamson Art Gallery & Museum in Birkenhead until 31st January 2026!

14/01/2026

Join our friends at DRAW for their ETC Artist Talk with Isabel Rock online on Friday 16th January 7-8pm (UK Time) - and hear more from Isabel about her work in conversation with Jake Spicer.

DRAW’s FREE monthly online ETC: Artist Talk series continues with Isabel Rock as the featured artist in January. Isabel won the biennial Evelyn Williams Drawing Award, in the Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize 2023, for her drawing, Our Cell, and her proposal for a solo exhibition at Hastings Contemporary.

Isabel will be talking to about drawing, climate collapse and her major new exhibition - the outcome of the Evelyn Williams Drawing Award, Things Fall Apart, The Centre Cannot Hold’ - on show until 15th March 2026 at Hastings Contemporary.

Isabel’s recent experience in prison, after participating in Just Stop Oil protests, informs key aspects of the exhibition. During a month-long stay at HMP Bronzefield, Rock used drawing as a vital outlet, sketching her surroundings with salvaged materials.

⭐ ETC Artist Talk:
🗓 Friday 16th January, 7-8pm (UK Time)
✨ FREE online talk (visit www.draw-brighton.co.uk for the zoom link to join)

The biennial Evelyn Williams Drawing Award of £10,000 is funded by the Evelyn Williams Trust and awarded in association with the Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize exhibition. The award is made to support the recipient to develop and realise a body of new drawings for a solo exhibition or an exhibition or installation otherwise based on their drawing practice to be presented at Hastings Contemporary. Isabel is the fourth recipient of the award first made in 2017.

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10/01/2026

Unsettled is an exhibition guest curated for Vision Art Platform by Gary Sangster, Director of Drawing Projects UK, opening on 17 January 2026.

“Our present moment has moved away from being a time that deepens dialogue or soothes division. Instead, it has become an uncertain and unpredictable era that erodes knowledge systems, institutional structures, and social consensus, while profoundly destabilizing environmental and political conditions. Various forms of denial and conflict actively undermine many of the foundations of contemporary life.

Artists perhaps offer a uniquely powerful framework through which to reconsider the fragile state of the world. One of the central aspects of this exhibition lies in the ways artists generate strong aesthetic forms in response to these real tensions embedded within contemporary experience.

Unsettled is conceived as an exhibition that brings together leading contemporary artists reflecting on the social, cultural, and psychological tensions currently experienced by communities and individuals worldwide. Key themes addressed in the exhibition include the climate crisis, nuclear proliferation, post-colonialism, conflict, migration, racism, gender, and religion. These issues are explored through a range of media, including photography, painting, sculpture, and video.” Excerpt from the text by curator Gary Sangster.

Unsettled features works by Rodney Graham (Hauser & Wirth, Zurich), Gary Simmons (Hauser & Wirth, Los Angeles), Carrie Mae Weems (Gladstone Gallery, New York; Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco; Galerie Barbara Thumm, Berlin), David Maisel (Ivorypress, Madrid), and Stan Douglas (David Zwirner, New York), together with Judith Barry (USA), Debra Dawes (Australia), Merilyn Fairskye (Australia), and Mairéad McClean (Ireland).

Opens Sat Jan 17, 2026
Closes Sat Mar 15, 2026

Visitor Information:
Tuesday – Friday: 11:00 am – 6:00 pm
Saturday: 12:00 pm – 6:00 pm
Sunday – Monday: Closed

All exhibitions are free of charge. For further information, press and interview requests: [email protected]

📍Vision Art Platform, Süleyman Seba Street, Akaretler No: 35, Beşiktaş, Istanbul

30/12/2025

Join us on Friday 2 January at 8am for the next Girl Friday Breakfast Club - an informal online gathering to share plans, projects and resolutions for the new year ahead, 2026! Join us for the Girl Friday Breakfast Club - New Year Gathering by registering via the link in our Instagram bio or our Eventbrite page.

The New Year Gathering will be convened by artist, curator and educator, Anita Taylor, the founding Director of Drawing Projects UK [since 2009] and the annual Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize exhibition [since 1994].

The Girl Friday Breakfast Club was established by Professors Kate Reynolds and Anita Taylor in 2018 to provide a friendly and informal space for women to meet and to hear from an interesting woman speaker, eat breakfast and drink great coffee or tea together at Drawing Projects UK on the last Friday of each month. We held our first online Girl Friday in October 2020 after realising we had longer to go before we could gather again for breakfast due to lockdown and have continued online ever since. We aim to retain the informal format, and events are not recorded, so do book to join in - and bring your own breakfast, or lunch or supper depending on where you are in the world!

Please note that the Zoom link to join this event will be made available in the online event information that you will find once you have registered for the event - you will need to log into Eventbrite to find this. Annual subscribers will receive joining information for this event by email.

We look forward to welcoming you!

A huge thank you to our brilliant and super inspiring Girl Friday Breakfast Speakers in 2025 including:
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Carali McCall
Sarah Purvey
Liz Gilmore
Fiona Robinson PRWA
Laura McSorley
Collette Rayner
Eileen Cooper RA
Patricia Brien
Christie Checinska
Anita Taylor
And an image of the Girl Friday ‘betwixtmas’ gathering in 2018 at Drawing Projects UK …

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Drawing Projects UK was established in 2009 to deliver projects and exhibitions in drawing including the annual Jerwood Drawing Prize exhibition. In 2015 Drawing Projects UK established a non-profit centre for drawing and contemporary art at Bridge House in Trowbridge, the county town of Wiltshire. The Drawing Centre at Bridge House aims to provide opportunities for a wide group of people and to act as a public interface to experience drawing and gain understanding of the value of drawing as a vital means of expression and communication in the creative industries and beyond. The Centre complements a range of drawing projects undertaken since 2009, and provides the opportunity to further build a community through drawing and a drawing network through a programme of drawing sessions, drawing discussions and exhibitions. Drawing Projects UK has a project space, exhibition space and studios, workspaces and offices for artists, designers, makers and other creative businesses and like-minded organisations at Bridge House. There are also bookable spaces, meeting rooms and cafe facilities on site. Bridge House is adjacent to Trowbridge railway station, which has excellent train services and connections throughout the UK and region, and there is plentiful public parking nearby.

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