Call For Entries: How, When & Why to Submit Work For our Annual Exhibition

Submissions for our 2026 Annual Exhibition are open until 12 noon on Friday 20 March.

 

The exhibition offers several prizes and awards, worth over £10,000, including the NEAC Climate Emergency Prize.

 

The process is handled by the Mall Galleries team so you can find all the details on their website:

 

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The NEAC Annual Exhibition is a showcase not only for its members but also for aspiring artists: with a history going back more than a hundred years, it is an opportunity for work to be seen alongside some of the best artists today.

 

Full List of Prizes & Awards (2026)

  • The NEAC Climate Emergency Prize An award of £2,000 for an artwork that addresses the climate crisis and a prize of £500 for a runner up
  • The Doreen McIntosh Prize For an artist whose work fulfils the New English Art Club’s ideals of rigour, immediate engagement with the visual and a searching attitude. Value £2,000
  • The Hermione Hammond Drawing Award £2,000 for a drawing by an emerging artist aged 35 or under
  • NEW The Arts Society (Greater London Area) Award £1,000 to an emerging non-member artist
  • NEW The Borg Scott Art Award £1,000
  • The Ken and Dora Howard Prize £1,000 for a painting that best captures a sense of light
  • The Bowyer Drawing Prize Selected by the Bowyer family, £500
  • The Michael Harding Award £500 worth of art materials
  • The Milner Prize for an Emerging Artist £500
  • The Winsor & Newton Award Art materials to the value of £500
  • NEW The Wendy Harman Prize £200 for the best work in the exhibition as judged by Wendy Harman
  • The NEAC Critics' Prize £250
  • Mall Galleries / FBA Award Ten free submissions to exhibitions by the Federation of British Artists at Mall Galleries (worth over £200) for a first-time exhibitor with the NEAC
  • The Dry Red Press Award The winning work will be published as a greetings card in the Dry Red Press 'Prize Winners' range, with royalties from the sale of the cards going to the artist
  • The Val Harris Prize One week residency in The Atelier in Hay-on-Wye followed by a one-week exhibition at The Table, the art gallery owned by Val Harris, for a member of the NEAC

Subject to final confirmation

 

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You may also be interested in the NEAC Scholarships.