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How commercial galleries choose artists

What a director looks for before they open your email, written by someone who ran a commercial gallery and represented fifteen artists.

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Seven pages, from the other side of the desk

  • How a commercial gallery works: the stable, the program, the collectors and the commission
  • The six things directors look for, and the one question they ask above all
  • The usual path, from getting known to a studio visit to representation
  • How to research galleries before you approach, and which to approach first

I founded and directed ID Gallery in Paddington, representing fifteen artists across 47 exhibitions, and directed the Affordable Art Fairs in Sydney, Melbourne and Brisbane.

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