Jolene Liam, Alumna of the Architecture MArch course from the University of Westminster, was selected to showcase her work at the Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize 2022 for her collection of drawings, titled ‘Taking Out the Trash’. The exhibition is open to the public in London Trinity Buoy Wharf between 29 September and 16 November.
The Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize exhibition celebrates contemporary drawing practices through showcasing original artworks from emerging, mid-career and established artists. The open exhibition provides space for drawing practitioners to present their work alongside other leading artists and makers in the field. The exhibition is launched each year with the awards announced in London before going on a tour in the UK. The programme includes drawing sessions and discussions delivered by drawing practitioners and experts online and in person.
For the 2022 competition and exhibition, the Prize received over 3,200 submissions from 1,617 drawing practitioners coming from 45 countries. The judging panel, Lucy Byatt, Danie Mellor and Isabel Seligman selected a shortlist of 113 drawings by 94 artists for the exhibition.
Talking about her art piece, Liam said: “As an architect and artist, drawing is an important part of my practice for both working out and representing ideas. With my drawing ‘Taking Out the Trash,' I wanted to treat items that might be considered as dirty or disgusting as beautiful objects that could be the subject matter of a work of art, whilst reflecting on the waste we produce in our day to day lives. I’m thrilled to be shortlisted for the Trinity Buoy Drawing Prize 2022 as it is an amazing opportunity to share my work alongside exciting contemporary artists.”
Liam is a Singaporean artist and architect based in London. She was commended in the Practitioner Category of RIBAJ Eye Line Competition in 2018, 2021 and 2022; she was shortlisted in the Experimental Category of the World Illustration Awards, and in the Prisma Art Prize in 2019; she was also featured as the Artist of the Month by Art Jobs in 2021. Her selected group exhibitions include World Illustration Awards Exhibition at Somerset House in 2019, and RIBA Journal Eye Line Exhibition at the Royal Institute of British Architects in 2018 and 2022. Liam’s work will also be featured in the upcoming Urban Sketchers London exhibition at the Art Pavilion in Mile End Park in October.
Coming from an architectural background and practice, Liam is interested in documenting how places and spaces are occupied. These include floor plans divested of the architecture itself and defined through the things inside it, spaces described through visual inventories of the objects within, or drawings of buildings midway through the construction or demolition process.
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