Consultant and curator Mark Doyle offers advice on how to generate sales and develop a market for your work, through building relationships with clients and collectors.
In the second part to ‘Selling your work: building relationships with clients and collectors’, consultant and curator Mark Doyle provides further recommendations for sales, aftercare, and maintaining relationships with clients and collectors.
Hi 2020 just started for me, and I have so far reached my goals. I climbed a mountain, I had some tropical holidays and did lots of healthy stuff. A big and sad step but necessary was to stop every […]
Artists, collectors, gallery directors, curators and dealers offer tips and guidance on selling your work and maintaining relationships with clients and collectors.
Announcing the recipients of this year’s a-n Artist Bursaries, which offer awards of £500-£1,500 to a-n Artist members wishing to undertake self-determined professional development over the coming year. We take a look at some of this year’s funded projects and hear from successful applicants.
Acrylic on Canvas with painted sides
W 86.5 x H101.5 x D3.7
£2700
Technology and biology collide in this painting. A robotic conceptualisation of mankind, at the intersection between life and technology, this painting reconciles two worlds.
The online exhibition of selected black and white drawings from my Beachtime Stories series, curated by Sue Crellin-McCarthy is now live. If you missed the exhibition at The Margate School’s Line gallery, here is a chance to see some of the drawings. The complete series […]
door#12 (mixed media on canvas board) The world of doors within doors – looks cosy inside doesn’t it? Glimpses of these layers of doors always captures my imagination, what lies within? And is the reality as lovely as it looks? […]
Paintings, print and drawings
door#11 (mixed media on canvas board) The ordinary door with the big personality! I’d like to meet the person that lives here :) Click here to shop.
In recent years many artists have moved from major conurbations to smaller towns or cities in the UK, with access to cheaper work space and accommodation, improved health and wellbeing, and the need for stronger community networks among the factors influencing their decision to relocate. In this guide, Dan Thompson explores the many and varied reasons why artists move to a new place.
Nine artists share their stories and advice on how to make the most of moving your home and practice to a new location. In this follow up to Dan Thompson’s guide to relocating, artists working across a range of practice areas discuss how they found new networks, refuelled their practice and sought out support mechanisms following a move.
At the outset of this blog I stated … “I am used to working within a framework … created by budget, or brief, or client, or timescale…. I am comfortable in my art practice where I have a similar framework […]
I’ve been here 2 weeks now, and I’m beginning to get more of a feel for how I, at least, relate to the trees here, feeling like I am actually meeting some of them and getting more of a sense […]
We are gathering expressions of interest in the first instance from possible partner organisatons, and will be opening a call for papers shortly.
door#10 (mixed media on canvas board) So many layers and shades coming through each other, all hoping to be seen. The subtle shades combined bring a quiet energy of their own. Click here to shop :)
Our regular selection of shows to see around the UK, including an exhibition of Painting in the New Millennium at Whitechapel Gallery, London, four artists reimagining Castlefield Gallery, Manchester, into a place of ‘research, learning, conversation and exchange’, plus Pip Thornton’s installation at The Fruitmarket Gallery’s pop-up space in Edinburgh.
In the first part of her Negotiating with confidence guide, Rivca Rubin, a trainer-facilitator-mediator, coach and mentor, discusses how structure, attitude, and the ‘power of words’ can facilitate successful negotiations.
In the second part of her guide to negotiations, Rivca Rubin discusses how through active language choices, we can create more satisfied and invigorated negotiations with galleries, organisations and commissioners.
I’m delighted to have been asked to exhibit my work as part of a group show at the Collyer Bristow Gallery at the end of this month. ‘Me, Myself and I’ is an upcoming exhibition curated by Rosalind Davis which […]
door#9 (mixed media on canvas board) How does the red speak to you? Is your reaction to baulk and turn away or do you feel invited in? Click here to shop
door#8 (mixed media on canvas board) Thought this painting would never come together today. It’s never a comfortable experience, especially when trying something new, but it stayed in that messy disjointed stage for just that bit too long. Click HERE […]
