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- 20 Sept 2026, 14:00 - 15:30
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Be inspired by the 92 drawing on show in the Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize 2026 exhibition and enjoy this unique opportunity to sketch at Trinity Buoy Wharf, with its inspiring architecture and riverside location, in a drawing session led by the artist Jeanette Barnes, who sketches on location as an integral element of her drawing practice. Drawing materials will be available but please bring along a sketchbook and pencils, and wear walking shoes and weather appropriate clothes. Suitable for 16+. The session runs for 1.5 hours, please gather in the exhibition before 2pm, as the session will start promptly.
Jeanette Barnes' work explores the complexity of urban life and the shared public spaces where different lives come together. Through fractured marks and a sense of speed, she captures the energy of the city while encouraging viewers to slow down, look closely and observe the details of these constantly changing environments.
Her drawing, Liverpool St. Interior - For Now, 2026, included in the Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize 2026 exhibition, is a large drawing made in compressed charcoal on paper (146 x 214cm). Jeanette says of her drawing: Liverpool Street Station is a place I have returned to repeatedly over many years. I am continually drawn to its vast iron pillars and sweeping spans, but also to the way the architecture is animated by the movement of people passing through it. This remarkable structure, combining Victorian engineering with contemporary urban life, becomes a setting where countless different lives briefly intersect, sharing the same space before dispersing again. With plans for major redevelopment that could fundamentally alter its character, I felt compelled to draw the station once more. The drawing was developed through a process of continual revision: erasing areas, reworking previous marks and rebuilding connections between the architecture and the people within it. The contrast between dense areas of charcoal and passages of light creates a sense of movement, depth and the changing rhythms of the station.
Her work explores the complexity of urban life and the shared public spaces where different lives come together. Through fractured marks and a sense of speed, she captures the energy of the city while encouraging viewers to slow down, look closely and observe the details of these constantly changing environments.
The Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize 2026 exhibition is open to the public from Thursday 17th September until Sunday 4th October 2026 at Trinity Buoy Wharf, open daily from 11am to 6pm. It will then tour to museums and galleries into 2027.
