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Making a living
Markets
What is the commercial climate for fine and applied arts? How important are galleries, corporate collectors and art fairs?
Artists seeking to make a living from their work have to think carefully about how best to develop sales opportunities for their work.
Introduction
Tours
Art buyers
Brigid Howarth presents an insight into the mind of the art buyer, from private buyers to corporate and public collections. Read on…
Tour, a-n.co.uk November 2003
Art markets
Sarah Thelwall reveals that there is not one art market but several different ones. These markets are very different in terms of the artists, gallerists and collectors who participate and develop them. This Art market tour articulates the main markets and looks at what drives them. Read on…
Tour, a-n.co.uk October 2008
Artists' product
Hilary Williams talks to four artists about how they have developed specific products. She learns about their initial motivation and inspiration, how they developed their ideas into production and what marketing strategies they employed for these particular products. Read on…
Tour, a-n.co.uk April 2003
Markets for designer-makers
How does a maker reach the market? Freelance consultant and Market Development Manager for Cockpit Arts Abigail Branagan highlights the key routes. Read on…
Tour, a-n.co.uk January 2009
Guides
Approaching galleries
While there are no set rules, this guide by Gavin Wade suggests a number of imaginative strategies for creating gallery interest in your work. Read on…
Guide, a-n.co.uk April 2003
Exporting
It takes considerable time and energy to sustain an overseas market. This guide by Anamaria Wills introduces key export principles and support structures and will help to establish whether you are ready to explore the potential of selling your work abroad. Read on…
Guide, a-n.co.uk April 2003
Gallery, dealer and agent agreements
The following checklist by Sheena Etches and Nicholas Sharp covers many of the issues that arise when artists enter an arrangement with a private gallery, dealer or agent. Read on…
Guide, a-n.co.uk April 2003
Intangible, inflatable, irreducible
Lucy Kimbell explores the value of artists' work. Read on…
Guide, a-n.co.uk November 2004
Profiles
Contemporary Art Society
The Contemporary Art Society (CAS) supports the museum collection of contemporary art. Hugh Adams investigates the society's aims and activities and offers advice on making an approach to CAS. Read on…
Profile, a-n.co.uk April 2003
Deutsche Bank Art Collection
Brigid Howarth talks to Deutsch Bank curator Mary Findlay about the sourcing and buying of artworks for the largest corporate art collection in the world. Read on…
Profile, a-n.co.uk November 2003
Hidden Art
Lucy Wilson explores the development and expansion of Hidden Art, an initiative set-up by Dieneke Ferguson to promote the work of designer-makers in Hackney. Read on…
Profile, a-n.co.uk April 2003. Updated February 2009.
Profile of a craft collector
Brigid Howarth gives a rare insight into one art buyer's collection and discovers the favorite haunts for snapping up the next big thing. Read on…
Profile, a-n.co.uk November 2003
Profile of an art collector
Brigid Howarth talks to an art buyer who has been collecting since the age of nineteen. Read on…
Profile, a-n.co.uk November 2003
Shipley Art Gallery
Brigid Howarth profiles The Shipley Art Gallery, which holds a public collection of contemporary craft. Read on…
Profile, a-n.co.uk November 2003
Supermarket
Pamela Wells and Alicja Rogalska report back from Supermarket - an artist-run international art fair in Stockholm. They talk about why their own artist association Laundry attended the event, meet representatives from a vibrant artist-run culture in Sweden and beyond, and offer a sample of some of the organisations who attended. Read on…
Profile, a-n.co.uk April 2009
The Manchester Contemporary
Launched in 2009, The Manchester Contemporary is an art fair that looks to encourage and develop a market for critically engaged contemporary art in North West England. We talk to Paulette Terry Brien of The International 3 who, alongside Laurence Lane, has been Curatorial Coordinator for the last three editions of the fair. Read on…
Profile, a-n.co.uk October 2012
Profiles: artists
Amy Azelda Cooper
Jo Wilson explores the work of ceramicist and sculptor Amy Cooper, in particular her successful balance between business and creativity. Read on…
Profile: artist, a-n.co.uk June 2007
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