Two students awards, of £2,000 each, were awarded to Jade Chorkularb and Amelie Barnathan.
Chorkularb’s work, That What They Would Do, is a video of real-time drawing of answers given by people when asked what they would do if they only had one hour of their life left.
Illustrator Barnathan’s drawings are described by Jerwood as “large-scale, visceral, surreal and confrontational” works which show “dreams and nightmares”.
A panel of judges has chosen 61 works by 55 artists for an exhibition at the Jerwood Space in London. The Jerwood Drawing Prize show is on until 23 October.
Prof Taylor said: “Their works are confident and lively examples of drawing today, fresh in outlook and conception; unafraid to source, mine and examine the historic, spiritual, and visceral imagination through the act of drawing.”
