Eye Line 2024: what the judges thought
Technical skills impressed but investigation and inquiry took the prize
Kun Yi James Lim’s fantastic and truly original drawings convey intimate moments
Eye Line drawing competition first place (student)
Tengku Sharil and Ewa Roztocka create possible futures for a redundant office
Eye Line drawing competition second place (student)
Robert Evans’ image-making skills bring delicacy and balance to powerful painting
Eye Line drawing competition second place (practitioner)
Jolene Liam breaks away from orthographic drawing to depict confusion and confession
Eye Line drawing competition third place (practitioner)
Ling Tiffany Lee interprets spiritual rituals to archive the lives of Chinese seamen
Eye Line drawing competition third place (student)
Katarzyna Zwolak brings unusual and effective framing to two canonical buildings
Eye Line drawing competition commended (practitioner)
Scaleless-seeming renders give Yat Chi Tse’s images enigmatic quality
Eye Line drawing competition commended (practitioner)
Eugene Tan stylises mappa mundi to depoliticise territorial issue
Eye Line drawing competition commended (student)
Garrett Nagorzanski captures the certainty of a building painting confidently in colourful oil
Eye Line drawing competition commended (student)
Eye Line 2024: call for entries
How do you see the world around you?
Eye Line 2023
Dustin Wheat’s introspection, humour and humanity charm judges
Eye Line drawing competition first place (Practitioner)
Chia-Yi Chou blurs two and three-dimensional representation in a ‘totally engaging’ submission
Eye Line drawing competition first place (Student)
Eye Line 2023 – how the judges reached their decisions, and why
Has AI changed the drawing landscape?
Water, plants, sky and concrete coexist and intermingle in Wyn Gilley’s linocut
Eye Line drawing competition second place (Practitioner)
Jolene Liam takes a psycho-geographical journey through the parks of Singapore
Eye Line drawing competition third place (Practitioner)
Victoria Wong’s stunning, other-worldly Hiroshima triptych is layered with meaning
Eye Line drawing competition second place (Student)
Max Cooper-Clark gives a striking and intriguing interplay of materiality and politics
Eye Line drawing competition third place (Student)
Eye Line commended, Practitioner: Sandeepa Vithanage
Striking mixed media image of the Red Mosque in Colombo
Eye Line commended, Student: Sweta Solai Sanker
Sophisticated representations of ideas to empower children through architecture
Eye Line commended, Student: Naomi Vallis
‘Architectural monster’ colludes Mughal and Gothic architecture
Eye Line 2022
Alan Power puts perception at the centre in a painting of his own fictional story
Practitioner, Winner: Alan Power
Sabina Blasiotti graphically visualises and exposes the threat of nuclear waste
Student, 2nd Winner: Sabina Blasiotti
Tyler Thurston puts children in charge of climate action
Student, 3rd Winner: Tyler Thurston
Duncan Webster marries futurism with primitive expression in his reimagined North American tipi
Practitioner, Joint 2nd Winner: Duncan Webster
Katherine Jones’ ‘flattened’ representations show two aspects of Wales
Practitioner, Joint 2nd Winner: Katherine Jones
Skills and surrealism: Eye Line 2022
Outstanding skills and diverse views made for exhilarating judging
Shaun Young presents reversible interventions in Robert Adam’s Croome Court
Practitioner, Commended: Shaun Young
Jolene Liam documents the minutiae of everyday space
Practitioner, Commended: Jolene Liam
Sana Tabassum celebrates all things shopping after lockdown
Student, Commended: Sana Tabassum
Zain Al Sharaf Wahbeh’s ‘spectacular’ images reveal ‘lost’ Palestinian neighbourhood
Student, Commended: Zain Al Sharaf Wahbeh
Eye Line 2021
Annabelle Tan mashes up Song dynasty traditions with Gainsborough and Sydney Lee
Student, 1st winner: Annabelle Tan
Pu Zhang’s remembered Hutongs capture a pervading sense of loss and melancholy
Student, 2nd Winner: Pu Zhang
Mel Galley’s rendered, surreal place reflects her perception of self
Practitioner, 2nd winner: Mel Galley
Andrew Riddell harnesses the visuals of drag to create bespoke queer domestic
Student, 3rd Winner: Andrew Riddell
Dominic Murray-Vaughan charms judges with inscrutable Spanish collage
Practitioner, 3rd winner: Dominic Murray- Vaughan
Nicole Ng proposes terraformation in a stylistic abstraction of Scotland’s coast
Student, Commended: Nicole Ng
Areesha Khalid depicts the mood and atmosphere of her childhood home
Student, Commended: Areesha Khalid
Hamid Zeayaian commended for measured dreaminess of imaginary buildings
Practitioner, Commended: Hamid Zeayaian
Jolene Liam meditates on space and identity with garden-inspired drawings
Practitioner, Commended: Jolene Liam
Eye Line 2021: 54 entries make it through to final selection
It’s summer, and the final 54 entries to the RIBAJ Eye Line drawing competition are available now
Eye Line 2021: Competition now closed
Any idea, any medium –our drawing competition awaits you
Eye Line 2020
Arinjoy Sen’s beautiful drawings offer modern interpretation of Mughal design
Student, 1st winner: Arinjoy Sen
Albert Orozco begins with the concept of ruins for his story of architecture
Practitioner, 1st winner: Albert Orozco
Delight beats dystopia in this year’s Eye Line
Lockdown effect evident in drawing competition entries – and entrants
Alan Dunlop conveys life and vitality in his Lockdown Sketchbook
Practitioner, 2nd winner: Alan Dunlop, Alan Dunlop Architect Ltd and professor of architecture
Cristina Gardiner evokes sense of place with stunning landscapes
Practitioner, 3rd winner: Cristina Gardiner
Prachi Panvalkar’s sketchpad makes Bergamo refreshingly light and fluid
Student, 3rd winner: Prachi Panvalkar
Shrek adds joy to Desislava Cholakova’s Brick Lane crafts
Student, 2nd winner: Desislava Cholakova
Viola Sze Wing Poon’s mossy dystopia charms judges for commendation
Student, commended: Viola Sze Wing Poon
Holly Chapman commended for deceptive, perceptually ambiguous pool
Student, commended: Holly Chapman
Envious judges commend Cornelia Tuglui’s sunbaked vineyard
Practitioner commended: Cornelia Tuglui
Francis Terry commended for redesigned Versailles
Practitioner, commended: Francis Terry
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