Free Painters and Sculptors (FPS) is an artist-led organisation based in London, England, which regularly exhibits every year.

[2] Halima Nalecz also ran the Drian Gallery[3] and many exhibitions were held there by members over the years.

In the early 1960s the group began to stage exhibitions at the FBA Galleries in Suffolk Street, Pall Mall.

In the early 1970s a desire to find venues aside from the annual exhibition was facilitated by the then-secretary of the group Nina Hosali.

Nina's mother Kate Hosali had founded the Society for Protection of Animals in North Africa (SPANA) in 1923 and the headquarters were at their home at 15 Buckingham Gate.

The group had healthy[clarification needed] number of members but had to work hard to ensure that quality remained high.

Membership is granted by election of the executive committee on the submission of acceptable samples of work.