Exhibitions Update
Upcoming Exhibition Opportunity
Artcare Exhibition at Salisbury Hospital
17th October – 21st November 2025
We hope members will feel able to support the imminent ArtCare exhibition at the hospital. It is a very worthwhile cause, a great opportunity to achieve a sale, and a successful exhibition space. Last year we achieved sales of more than £1000 across ten paintings. Best of all, we all know from our own visits to the hospital, just how much it brightens up the corridors there. Hand in day is 13th October.
Entry is free. You can enter up to four pictures (not 3D). Simply fill in the form and take it with your pictures to the Hand in on 13th October.
Hand in: Monday 13th October, 10am – 3pm
Collect: Monday 24th November 10am-3pm
It can get busy in the first hour of both sessions, so we advise avoiding this time, if you can.
Drop off/collection point: ArtCare office, Facilities Directorate, Salisbury District Hospital, South
From the Odstock Road, turn into ENTRANCE B, and drive straight for about 250yards. Just before the second zebra crossing, pull up on the yellow hatched area on the righthand side. the ArtCare office is in Block 29 (see also map attached to submission form). There will be two designated parking spaces outside the ArtCare office (there is a maximum 30 minutes free parking on the hospital site, but this should be plenty of time to drop off and pick up pictures).
Guidelines for Exhibiting Artists
You may enter up to four pictures (maximum size 80 x 80cms). Lesley Self, the organizer, advises that it would be a good idea to include one which is smaller and ‘affordable’, if possible.
They must be presented for hanging properly framed (not clip frames). Frame fixtures must be D rings with a taut cord, not wire, and fixed in the top third of the frame.
Pictures must be unwrapped on delivery and the wrapping taken away. They must be clearly labelled on the back with the artist’s name, title and price.
The organisers cannot guarantee displaying everything if there is a large entry, and the hospital cannot be responsible for loss or damage to exhibited works. Please make your own insurance arrangements.
Commission of 30% will be taken and donated to the Hospital Arts Service.
The submission form for the ArtCare Exhibition can be accessed HERE
Past Events
Summer Exhibition 2025, 2nd- 29th August
We achieved a very satisfactory 33 sales this summer: our congratulations go to Loraine Sherlock who won the Public Vote with her lovely textile picture “Rocky Shoreline”.
The Library is celebrating its 50th year anniversary this year, and the SGA’s annual Summer Exhibition was there at the beginning (though has also been held at other venues).
We are grateful to everyone at the library, and also of course to our exhibition team - Jill, Annie, Becky, Pam, Sarah and Ros – who kept the show on the road so well.
Joint Exhibition with Plain Arts, Saturday 5th April – Thursday 1st May 2025
For the second year running, we twinned with Plain Arts to showcase some of the best art which Salisbury and the surrounding area has to offer.
More than 60 exhibitors contributed some 180 artworks.
Huge thanks are due to the hanging team who made a wonderful job of setting up the exhibition to present our work to best effect, to the broader exhibition team who managed everything so well, and of course to the members of both groups who exhibited some memorable artworks and stewarded so ably.
SGA ArtCare Exhibitions at Salisbury General Hospital, November 24 - January 2025
Ten paintings were sold, contributing more than £300 to help fund the many art activities run by ArtCare in health settings, and to support wellbeing more widely. It followed on from similarly successful Artcare exhibitions held in previous years.
Scenes from the main corridors on floors 2 and 3
Other Exhibitions
From time to time, we commit to other one off exhibitions. These have included at The Antelope Café, Arundells and the Leisure Centre in support of Silver Salisbury.
Other ways to exhibit and sell with SGA
Salisbury ArtScene
The SGA sponsors a gazebo for some of the Market Place monthly events from April to October, which take place on the first Sunday of every month. Please see our dedicated page in the 'Regular Events' area of our website for more information.