SFS Introducing 2019 Winners

We received over 450 entries and the standard was very high. Entries came from all over the world – Asia, Australasia, North, Central and South America, Africa and most countries in Europe.

Our Judging Panel was led by Gary Hodges, the UK’s best selling and most collectable pencil artist, and Karen Laurence-Rowe, an award-winning Conservation Artist based in Kenya. They were assisted by Robert Ferguson and Sara White, trustees of Explorers against Extinction. It took a full day of deliberation to narrow it down to the 100, the final cut from 120 to 100 taking several hours.

The following 100 pieces have been selected to join our Invitational Collection on their UK tour. Congratulations to all these artists.

The shortlist for the SFS Introducing Artist of the Year award will be announced on World Animal Day, Friday 4th October.

The Sketch For Survival Auction site and Sketch for Survival Gallery will also go live on Friday 4th October, featuring both the Invitational Collection and all the SFS Introducing Artwork that were generously donated by the artists. For those entrants who included postage-paid envelopes for the return of their work should they not be selected in the 100 pieces, these will be dispatched in the next week or so.

Voting for the Peoples Choice award will start when the pieces go live online on the 4th October. Full details of how to vote will be given then.

Thank you to everybody who entered. We are very grateful for your support of our campaign and together we can make a difference for endangered species worldwide.

I’m afraid we are unable to offer feedback on individual entries due to the volume received.

The SFS Introducing 100 Selected Works: