Drawing Discussion with Frank Leuwer & Ayeshah Zolghadr Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize 2020

Drawing Projects UK presented this online Drawing Discussion - with Frank Leuwer and Ayeshah Zolghadr - alongside the Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize 2020 exhibition on Wednesday 20 January at 6pm.
Selected artists, Frank Leuwer and Ayeshah Zolghadr introduced their drawings selected for the Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize 2020 exhibition, spatial, place and familial relationships with Anita Taylor followed by a Q&A with the audience. (Please note this recording includes informal discussion between the panellists as the audience gathers for the event.)
Frank Leuwer has three drawings selected for the exhibition, Untitled (Attic), Untitled (Room), Untitled (Room), all are Sellotape on paper, 44 x 34cm, and made in 2020. This work is part of an ongoing series of Sellotape drawings that fuse both imagined and actual spatial relationships. An integral part of the series is the constant layering of material, resulting in a condensation forming on the paper. This relates directly related to the atmosphere of the location.
Ayeshah Zolghadr's drawing Circling the Square I, 2020, is a digital line drawing (giclée print), 84 x 60cm. Circling the Square I traces repetitive walks made by her father from 07 February until 21 May 2020, looping the square outside of his home multiple times a day, following varying paths. Through the practice of walking, he seeks control over his medical anxiety and ongoing stroke recovery. Initially recorded by her father through the Strava platform, forming a way to generate line drawings, the work expresses an abstracted visual database that transcribes 116 meditative walks, where the greater the distance covered, the smaller the satellite representation becomes, with the line quality reflecting the mechanism used to capture them.
Frank Leuwer (b.1975 Bruehl, Cologne, Germany) studied BA Object Art at University of Applied Sciences for Design (2000-05) in Aachen, Germany; MA Fine Art at Royal College of Art, London (2010-13); and MSc Medical Visualisation & Human Anatomy at Glasgow School of Art and Glasgow University. Selected group exhibitions include: Royal Academy Summer Show, London (2019); Inthependant Gallery, Porto, Portugal (2019); Rundblick, Kunstwerk, Cologne e.V. (Deutsche Standard) (2014), Open West, Wilson Gallery, Cheltenham (2014); Aesthetica Art Prize, St Mary, York, UK (2014); 21st Century, Christies, London (2013); Gallery Anna Klinkhammer, Düsseldorf (2011); Potenti Impressioni, Gallery Fondazione Bevilacqua La Masa, Venice, Italy (2006), The Italian Cultural Institute, Washington DC, USA (2006); Nella Luce della Biennale, Project Space, Venice, Italy (2004). Awards include The Scottish Funding Council Research Grant (2016); David Villiers Award (2012). He lives and works in London and Cologne.
Ayeshah Zolghadr (b.1987 Birmingham, UK) studied BA Architecture at University of Sheffield (2005-09) and MA Printmaking at Cambridge School of Art (2019 -present). Group exhibitions include: Westminster Reference Library, London (2019); Golden Lane Estate, London (2019); Transition, Online (2020). She lives and works in London.
Professor Anita Taylor is an artist, curator and educator, and founding Director of the Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize project [1994-] and Drawing Projects UK [2009-]. She is also Dean of Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art & Design at the University of Dundee.
The Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize 2020 exhibition includes 71 drawings by 56 practitioners selected from 4,254 works submitted from across the UK and internationally. The independent Selection Panel comprised Sophia Yadong Hao, Principal Curator of Cooper Gallery at University of Dundee; Ian McKeever RA, artist; and Frances Morris, Director of Tate Modern. The working drawings were selected by Sir Ian Blatchford, Director of the Science Museum; Piers Gough RA, Architect; and Sophie McKinlay, Director of Programme, V&A Dundee.
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