SFSA Drawing Open

A true celebration of Drawing, staged each spring alongside the SFSA Deptford Foundry Annual Open Studios. Registration usually opens early February, announced via Instagram.

SFSA have a long history of being inclusive and offering opportunity to all artists. 2024 will be the 5th SFSA Drawing Open, always a vibrant and celebratory exhibition and we look forward to welcoming you into the no format Gallery. #SFSADrawingOpen

2024 event now closed. Thanks to everyone who took part and visited the exhibition.

Artist Information and Key Dates:

  • All enquiries, registration and questions by email to Hannah.cushion@secondfloor.co.uk after the launch date. NOW CLOSED.

  • Registration opens 8am 1st February - To register please email your full name, artist name, expression of interest and confirm you can make the drop off and pick up dates. The first 100 artists who email in will be confirmed to take part.

  • Payment deadline 29th of February

  • Image and Paperwork submission deadline Monday 8th April.

  • Work drop off Tuesday 7th of May
    10:00 to 18:00. no format Gallery, Moulding Lane (off Arklow Road), Deptford.

  • Work pick up Monday 20th of May
    10:00 to 18:00. no format Gallery, Moulding Lane (off Arklow Road), Deptford.

Artist Information, Participation Guidelines:

  • True Open, all submissions accepted. Up to 100 artists welcome to participate.

  • 100 artists from London and the local counties are warmly welcomed to participate. One submission per artist

  • £24 submission fee (inc VAT)

  • Maximum submission size 30 x 30cm (to include any framing)

  • Each submission to arrive ‘hanging system ready’ for speed of installation. All work must arrive pre fitted with cord on the back, fitted one quarter below the top of the work.

  • no commission on sales

  • Please only participate if you can make the work drop off and pick up dates, thanks.

  • Postal returns are not possible, sorry.

Participating Artists.

  • 2024 Participating Artists

    Min Angel | Mariia Annenkova | Jocelyn Bailey | Rosalind Barker | David Barron | Jon Beaumont | Alison Berrett | Alexandra Blum | Su Bonfanti | Ian Boutell | Seb Bradshaw | Ann Bridges | Caroline Burgess | Sarah Carne | Tom Cartmill | Cristina Celestini | Annabelle Chace | Bula Chakravarty-Agbo | Claire Chandler | Ella Clocksin | Studio Janneke | Michelle Di Leo | Gail Dickerson | Susannah Douglas | Tracey Elizabeth Downing | Charlotte E. Padgham | Andrew Ekins | Jo Evans | Audrey Fattouche | Lara Feldman | Robert Fitzmaurice | Laura Fox | Liz Griffiths | Janine Hall | Nibras Hamadi | Bethan Hamilton | Elizabeth Hammond | Paul Hartley | Aileen Harvey | Paul Heredia | Russell Herron | Olivia Hicks | Pernille Holm | Emily Hopkins | Elisa Hudson | Caroline Jenkinson | Caroline Kha | Hiroe Komai | Caroline Lambard | Jolene Liam | Joanna Lynch | Jenni Main | Ella Mars | Kate Marsden | Heather McAteer | Sally McKay | Colin McMaster | Shell Meggersee | Arianna Tinulla Milesi | Nicole Mollett | Melitta Nemeth | Matt Nicholls | Alison O'Neill | Sandra Partington | Sumi Perera | Steve Perfect | Kasper Pincis | Kim Plowright | Tania Pourashraf | Alice Powell | Sarah Praill | Judit Prieto | Richard Proctor | Chris Ratcliffe | James Reynolds | Carole Romaya | Helen Rousseau | Simone Scafiti | Djuro Selec | Victoria Sills | L.A. Simmons | Miguel Sopena | Euan Stewart | Sharon Swaine | Franny Swann | Celestine Thomas | Carolina Thorbert | Tomomi Tomlin | Rebecca Tucker | Jenna Waldren | Judith Walker | Marianne Walker | Anna Walsh | Louise Ward | Michaela Wheater | Wolfgang Woerner | Qin Yue.

    Edited: 07/05/2024

  • 2023 Participating Artists

    Andree Adley | Farrah Akbarali | Luana Asiata | Liesa Bacchus | Matt Bannister | Rosalind Barker | David Barron | Jon Beaumont | Laura L Bell | Dominic Blower | Alexandra Blum | Su Bonfanti | Ann Bridges | Kathryn Broad | Ken Bruin | Deborah Burnstone | Pauline Burrows | Stephen Carley | Tom Cartmill | Claire Chandler | Natalie Charles | Kemi Clark | Marie Connery | Emma Coop | Philip Copestake | Hannah Cushion | Steven Dickie | Susannah Douglas | Tracey Downing | Charlotte E Padgham | Renata Fernandez Zarauza | Robert Fitzmaurice | Laura Fox | Chantal Gagnon | Andy Gashe | Nic Gear | Nick Grellier | Emily Grenville-Grey | Liz Griffiths | Janine Hall | Paul Hartley | Russell Heron | Sara Hindhaugh | Martin Hoare | Alexandra Hobson | Elisa Hudson | Sarah King | Blair Lamar | Rosie Lawrence | Karen Loader | Jo Mason | Vanessa Matten | Heather McAteer | Sally McKay | Mick McNicholas | Shell Meggersse | Melina Merlin | Jane Merriman | Sophie Meyer | Sandra Miralles Alcazar | Nicole Mollett | Claire Mont Smith | James Robert Morrison | Aurelia Neila | Andia Coral Newton | Alison O’Neill | Emma O’Rourke | Sandra Partington | Sumi Perera | Steve Perfect | Sarah Praill | Judit Prieto | Richard Proctor | Claudia Ramirez | Phoebe Randall | Chris Ratcliffe | James Reynolds | Ruth Richmond | Simone Scafiti | Victoria Snazell | Miguel Sopena | Sarah Spencer | Hannah Stageman | Carrie Stanley | Euan Stewart | Alison Stirling | Zhenya Stoyanova | Franny Swann | Sharon Swaine | Sonia Thomas | Gwennan Thomas | Arianna Tinulla Milesi | Kyriakos Tsirigotis | Marianne Walker | Shelia Wallis | Anna Walsh | Fania | Weatherby | Michaela Wheater | Lydia Wood | Peter Wylie.

    Edited: 20/04/2023

  • 2023

  • 2022 Participating Artists

    Jonathan Alibone / Min Angel / Nick Ashton / Lily Baker / Rosalind Barker / Jon Beaumont / Su Bonfanti / Miranda Boulton / Roberta Boyce / Ann Bridges / P Burrows / Sarah Carne / Tom Cartmill / Alison Christie / Kemi Clark / Lindsay Connors / Philip Copestake / Jenny Cox / Louisa Crispin / Hannah Cushion / Karen Davies / Jessica Dent / Jamie Eade / Robert Fitzmaurice / Clare French / Andy Gashe / Nic Gear / Caroline Gregory / Nick Grellier / Janine Hall / Kayleigh Harris / Russell Herron / Paul Hartley / Charly Heyler / Jane Higgenbottom / Harriet Mena Hill / Jenni Hodgson / Elisa Hudson / Andrea Humphries / Kate Jacob / Emma Jayne Jemson / Wiliam Jones / Eri Kikkawa / Jenny Klein / Sarah King / Blair Lamar / James Lawson / Maggie Learmonth / Paula MacArthur / Jenni Main / Vanessa Matten / Heather McAteer / Sally McKay / Mick McNicholas / Elizabeth Mikellides / Dean Melbourne / Julie Menelaou / Nicole Mollett / Tamsin Morse / James Robert Morrison / Andia Newton / Matt Nicholls / Kelly Norman / Emma O’Rourke / Charlotte E Padgham / Kathleen Patterson / Sumi Perera / Steve Perfect / M A Pioro / Kim Plowright / Mandy Prowse / Chris Ratcliffe / Ruth Richmond / Caragh Savage / Esme Austin Savage / Simone Scafiti / Alys Scott-Hawkins / Chris Shaw Hughes / Clare Smith / Simon M Smith / Miguel Sopena / Elli Sou / Marc Southey / Euan Stewart / Alison Stirling / Anna Suwalowska / Franny Swann / Adrian Neil Taylor / Sarah Tew / Geoff Titley / Ken Turner / Jane Walker / Marianne Walker / Anna Wash / Shefali Wardell / Witte Wartena / Andrew Watson / Michaela Wheater / Lydia Wood / Matthew Wood.

    Edited 03/05/2022.

  • 2018 Participating Artists

    Kelly Sweeney / Rosalind Barker / Robert Fitzmaurice / Kate Boucher / Richard Proctor / Andrea Coltman / Stephen Buckeridge / Anna Marie Savage / Richard Phoenix / Caragh Savage / Sally McKay / Daniela White / Elina Cerla / Lucy Smith / Helen Bermingham / Steve Burden / Lucinda Burgess / Tristram Aver / Jane Ponsford / Jessie Sheffield / Ken Bruin / Clare Smith / Nicole Price / Alex Roberts / Anna Garrett / Andrea Arnold / Stephen Carley / Paula Fenwick-Lucas / James Reynolds / Charlie Betts / Eddie Smith / Corinna Spencer / Sylwia Narbutt / Philip Copestake / Rebecca Lowe / Nancy Edwards / Tamara Dubnyckyi / Mick McNicholas / Glynis Lamond / Su Bonfanti / Frederic Anderson / Tom Cartmill / Steve Perfect / Tahira Mandarino / Euan Stewart / Jo Evans / Maxwell Middleton / Marilyn Durkin / Sumi Perera / Alison Goodyear.

  • 2017 Participating Artists

    Amy Bridges / Annamarie Dzenddrowskyj / Ashley Greaves / Billy Valencia / Carl Moore / Caroline Hands / Charmaine Watkiss / Dana Pavel / Daniela White / David Lupton / Fritz Duffy / Hannah Luxton / Hanna ten Doornkaat / Helen Bermingham / Iain Herdman / Jack Irish / Jenny Wiggins / Jonathan Huxley / Joseph Paxton / Julia Cole / Kate Boucher / Kate Khoury / Kevin Quinn / Liz Lowe / Lucy Ribeiro / Lucy Smith / Marilyn Durkin / Maxwell Middleton / Nick Malone / Pascal Bertaud / Rachel Pearcey / Richard McVetis / Richard Proctor / Rosa Beiroa / Rosalind Barker / Sally McKay / Sandra Beccarelli / Sarah Claxton / Shelley Theodore / Tete de Alencar.

Jane Ponsford