As a two-year pilot scheme to develop the market for contemporary art, the Art Market Project, led by Rachel Bradley (Head of Art Market Project) and co-ordinated by Anneka French, ends on 27 May 2016. The Art Market Project activity has involved the setting up of the website New Art WM to highlight the offer of the West Midlands visual arts scene
Read MoreNew Creative Markets (NCM) was a professional development programme for the Creative Industries, delivered by a consortium of four arts organisations -SPACE, Cockpit Arts, Four Corners and Photofusion- which ran between 2012 and 2015.
Read MorePaulette Terry Brien and Laurence Lane (co-directors of Manchester-based gallery The International 3). Image courtesy Corridor8. Photo: Stephen Iles
The purpose of Art Market Mapping is for the CVAM group to gain a shared understanding of members' activity in relation to collectors, collecting and the art-market. It will also record the aspirations of CVAM members with regards to this area of activity.
The project seeks to expose areas of expertise and overlap, to share models of good practice across the gorup, and to reveal areas of existing and potential collaboration.
The project will run until the end of April 2012, with a summary of findings being published shortly thereafter.
For more information about the programme, please contact The International 3.
The first of these posts is about Market Matters, a forthcoming event that Artquest, DACS and the Contemporary Art Society are running jointly. Market Matters is part of The New Economy of Art: a series of open discussions throughout 2011-12 focussing on economic developments and opportunities in the cultural sector. It explores the impact on artists, from the perspective of artists.
Market Matters will take place on Wednesday 14 March 2012, will explore the complex and overlapping motivations behind various kinds of ‘art market’ from commercial galleries, private dealers and auction houses to art fairs, online selling and gift economies. The debate will provoke thinking about how artistic practice intersects with and creates its own economies.
Speakers: Louisa Buck, Kate McGarry and Matt Roberts.
More information: www.artquest.org.uk/neweconomy
The Contemporary Visual Arts Network’s ultimate goal is to nurture contemporary visual artists and organisations in order to produce internationally regarded, critically engaged work that is valued by our society.
