Annual Open Exhibition
Each year the Society exhibits more than 200 works of art selected from hundreds of submissions from around the country. Techniques and media range from traditional to experimental. Prizes worth more than £2,000 are awarded for drawings, prints, artworks in colour and monochrome and more, and we raise funds for the Artists General Benevolent Institution (AGBI). See submission information below.
Regional Exhibitions
We also organise members-only exhibitions in London, the southwest and elsewhere. Our venues have ranged from the Barbican Library, Tower 42 and Bankside Gallery in London, to The World of Glass in St Helens, the Meeting House Gallery in Illminster and the Octagon Theatre in Yeovil.
ANNUAL OPEN EXHIBITION AT MALL GALLERIES New Dates for 2021
Monday 5 to 10 July 2021
Entry deadline: Wednesday March 10th, midnight
Mall Galleries, The Mall, London SW1
More information including submission instructions here.
SUBMIT YOUR OESS ENTRY
2021 Annual Open Exhibition
2020 SHOW POSTPONEMENT - INFORMATION FOR ARTISTS
Members will be allowed to substitute any new work in place of their previously selected work. This is in the event of their work being sold or updated. All new work will be subject to selection and will come fresh to the Mall Galleries in 2021 having not been seen either at the Mall Galleries physically or in an online show.
We will allow non-members whose work has been submitted and selected in 2020 to resubmit that work again in 2021, together with any other work that they wish to submit. This is subject to selection again and not automatically accepted.
SGFA AT THE BARBICAN LIBRARY
5 – 27 February
30 members of SGFA – The Drawing Society, show original artworks, including work inspired by a sketching day at the Barbican and the City of London. Work will be for sale.
Opening times
9.30am to 5.30pm daily
(Late close 7.30pm on Tuesday & Thursday, closed Sundays)
Barbican Centre, Silk St, London EC2Y 8DS
DRAW 19
The SGFA centenary annual open exhibition
21 October – 2 November
Opening times
Monday October 21 12.30pm to 6pm
October 22 – November 2 (Sunday October 27 closed) 11am to 6pm daily (close 5pm on final day)
Menier Gallery, 51 Southwark Street, London SE1 1RU
MEMBERS CENTENARY
TOURING EXHIBITION
SGFA members exhibition
June 3 – 16 2019
Open Daily from 11am to 6 pm
PV June 4 at 6.30 pm
48 Hopton St, London SE1 9JH
We have an array of Artists’ Demonstrations and Talks – please email us for more information and see this schedule Bankside Demonstrations
BISHOPS PALACE SHOW
SGFA members exhibition
May 21 – June 30 2019
MEMBERS CENTENARY
TOURING EXHIBITION
SGFA members exhibition
May 3 – 18 2019
PV May 3 at 2.30 pm
PETWORTH
EXPLORED
SGFA members exhibition
March 2 – 6 April 2019
Opening drinks Saturday March 2, 12 noon - 2 pm
RK BURT
SGFA members exhibition
1-12 April 2019
Private View Monday 1 April 2-4.30pm
Monday to Friday 11am-5pm
Friday 12 11am-12 midday. Take down after 12 midday.
Saturday-Sunday closed
57 Union Street, London SE1 1SG
THE GALLERY
ADDENBROOKES
SGFA members exhibition
February 28 – 18 April 2019
NHS Foundation Trust
Hills Road, Cambridge
CB2 0QQ
DRAW 18
The SGFA annual open exhibition
View images here
1 – 13 October
Menier Gallery,
51 Southwark Street,
London SE1 1RU
HULL UNIVERSITY GALLERY
SGFA members exhibition.
We were the first National Art Society to appear in this new gallery
27 July – 19 August 2018
Hull University Campus, HU6 7RX
WESTACRE EXHIBITION
The SGFA members exhibition
20 Nationally recognised SGFA members exhibited a collection of their works at Westacre Theatre, patronised by Anthony Gormley and Stephen Fry
Westacre Theatre, River Road, Westacre, King’s Lynn, Norfolk, PE32 1UD
DRAW 17
The SGFA annual open exhibition
was held at the
Menier Gallery, London
TOWER 42 – the drawing society
The SGFA held an Exhibition of Members work at
Tower 42 Gallery, City of London
Images from Draw 19
