The Winter Show 2025 is open for applications!

Are you an artist, living or working in Richmond Upon Thames? Orleans House Gallery is inviting submissions from artists living or working in the Borough for our annual Winter Show.    

The open-call exhibition provides a platform for Richmond-based artists committed to developing their practice. The exhibition will run from 28 November until 1 February 2026 and coincides with our Christmas Shopping Weekend on 29 and 30 November. 

The Christmas Shopping Weekend offers designers, makers, and artists the opportunity to showcase and sell their products in the run up to Christmas. This weekend attracts local audiences and visitors from across West London and further afield.  

It is free for artists to apply and, if selected, take part in the exhibition. All selected artists will have the opportunity to sell their work as part of the exhibition. 

Submissions are welcome across visual and contemporary artforms, both 2D and 3D. Your submission may be artwork that you have already produced, or a new work in response to this call out.      

Orleans House Gallery will curate the exhibition, selecting artworks to be included based on:      

• artistic quality of the work   

• relevance to our communities   

• alignment with our values below     

Values 

Collaborative – we work with people in innovative and inspiring ways, we invite artists, communities and individuals to create the public programme with us and help develop the Arts Service.      

Socially engaged – we respond to the needs and wishes of local people, widen participation in the arts and connect people from different backgrounds, enabling them to have a say over issues that affect them, and promoting opportunity particularly for underrepresented groups. 

Experimental – through the arts we test new ideas and approaches and share our learning to support the work of the borough. This might involve being playful, adventurous and taking risks.      

We particularly welcome submissions by artists from communities that are currently underrepresented at Orleans House Gallery.   

Orleans House Gallery will    

• Provide the exhibition space and organise an opening event     

• Curate and install the exhibition      

• Process art sales     

• Publicise and promote the exhibition      

• Provide invigilation of the exhibition      

Please complete the application form below. A PDF version is available for computer accessibility. Printed copies are available at the Orleans House Gallery reception.  

The deadline for proposals is 11.59pm on Monday 13 October 2025.   

Applicants can submit 1 piece of work to be reviewed by the selection committee. Applicants can only submit one artwork per artist even if the artist works under multiple names or both as a solo artist and collective. Please note we expect a high volume of applications, and not all submissions will be selected or exhibited.   

The work submitted, if selected, must be the work brought to the exhibition, i.e. you can’t make something different retrospectively.   

If you have any queries, please email Arts Info artsinfo@richmondandwandsworth.gov.uk or call 020 8831 6000.