Reviewing Fine Art Trouble Organisation Inwards 2012
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Part 2 of a review of the fine art concern inward 2012
plus predictions most fine art concern inward 2013
This is the 2nd of a ii business office "who's made a score this year?" annual review of fine art from the perspective of an independent fine art blogger. (See also the showtime business office - Reviewing Art on the Internet inward 2012). It focuses on a macro perspective on the the world of fine art inward 2012 together with my perspective of how the concern of fine art changed inward 2012. Inevitably this tends to live somewhat London-centric. It covers:
- the fine art economy
- art media together with genre
- art galleries together with museums
- selling fine art online
- art shops together with fine art supplies
- what stayed the same inward the fine art concern inward 2012
- what aspects of the fine art concern changed inward 2012 - together with how I did on my predictions for 2012!
- What did I fille together with what did I acquire right?
I'd live rattling happy for you lot to share, via a comment on this post, amongst other artists reading this post what you lot saw every bit the major changes inward 2012 - what surprised you, what dismayed you lot together with what have got your sustenance for the coming year.
The Art Economy - a macro perspective
My predictions for 2012 - together with what really happened
- 2012 PREDICTION: The double dip recession volition acquire inward (if it hasn't already) together with may good go along all year. That's when it gets bad (2008), gets ameliorate together with so gets bad again. We're straightaway entering the 2nd circular dip of depression. My gut experience is that this could live a long 1 amongst a irksome recovery. The primary work at the instant is nobody is confident every bit to when this volition end. ACCURATE There were 3 quarters of negative growth betwixt the halt of 2011 together with the middle of 2012. Art consumers inward the U.K. are feeling rather cautious. Sales are happening but they're irksome together with the £1k is a rattling existent psychological benchmark. Most importantly, although the stats showed a 1% growth inward 3rd quarter of 2012 the electrical flow warnings are that nosotros mightiness live most to hitting a TRIPLE dip recession. As I feared terminal year, this could good live a long hard slog dorsum to growth together with confidence inward the economic scheme for people inward the UK.
Vince Cable, concern secretary, has admitted at that topographic point is “clearly a risk” of the U.K. entering a triple-dip recession together with facing a Japanese-style lost decade of stagnant economical growth.Financial Times - Cable says U.K. faces triple-dip recession 9th Dec 2012
- 2012 PREDICTION: Sponsorship volition go along to live a victim of "downsizing" yesteryear smaller companies. It may good live that your fine art gild or local exhibition volition endure together with you lot in all likelihood involve a programme for "what if". ACCURATE This is the showtime yr that I've seen a major loss of sponsorship of awards together with prizes right across the piece. While some novel sponsors are coming forward, my gut experience is that it doesn't create upwards for the losses. All those organisations who rely on sponsors involve to live giving them risk-assessments at the same fourth dimension every bit you lot cosset them!
- 2012 PREDICTION: Sales at the top grade volition live "bumpy" ACCURATE Sales via major fine art auctions have got continued to live all over the place. Major industrial plant non selling inward some auctions together with so tape sales weeks later. One can't aid but wonder at times whether at that topographic point is an endeavour to massage the marketplace to restore confidence. An alternative perspective suggests it's most finding a identify to pass cash which currently isn't earning whatever interest. There over again an awful lot of bankers are losing their jobs.......
- 2012 PREDICTION: Lots of sweat volition live applied to working out how to create it piece of cake for people to pay. For example, paying a little amount each calendar month is a lot easier to do than to pay out the total cost of a painting. ACCURATE I'm hearing rattling positive noises most how much the OwnArt scheme has helped both artists together with galleries remain inward business. Collectors have got told me that the existence of the scheme makes a departure to their determination on whether or non to purchase inward the electrical flow climate. Artists should for certain been looking to live involved amongst galleries that role this scheme.
- 2012 PREDICTION: There volition live to a greater extent than emphasis on preparation people inward how to generate funds. UNSURE If anything is happening they're keeping it rattling quiet. I tried googling dissimilar phrases to reckon what turned upwards together with the internet termination was virtually nothing. I refer people dorsum to the showtime together with 2nd points higher upwards - let's promise things start to alter inward 2013.
- 2013 prediction: The taxation human being cometh - maybe amongst some rattling large bills for unpaid tax. In the UK, we've been learning of belatedly most individuals together with companies who have got been paying rattling depression levels of taxation - every bit inward depriving the economic scheme of proper levels of taxation paid. I wouldn't live inward the to the lowest degree flake surprised if at that topographic point have got been some "funny goings on" linked to the high halt of the marketplace where meaning funds alter hands. HMRC's novel focus on tackling industries, companies together with individuals that have got engaged inward diverse dubious practices to evade/avoid payment of taxation may good grab upwards amongst transactions inward the fine art marketplace inward 2013. If it does go on so it should create for some interesting stories inward the press that don't halt upwards beingness spiked yesteryear editors (see The most interesting stories are libelous inward Sarah Thornton's Top 10 reasons NOT to write most the fine art market).
2013 prediction: The U.K. faces a existent run a peril of entering a triple dip recession amongst farther loss of confidence inward consumer spending. I believe Vince Cable. He is known for proverb the unpalatable irrespective of whether it is politically correct. However he did predict that "The most probable outcome is that nosotros go along bumping along the bottom." The implications for fine art galleries together with artists is that the electrical flow economical challenges for the fine art concern every bit a whole volition go along for the foreseeable future. All concern strategies together with plans should assume this to live the case. The probable outcome volition live costs volition live cutting again, sponsors may live less than enthusiastic and the public's confidence inward buying fine art volition go along to live deflated inward relative terms
Portrait of Isabella Stewart Gardner
(a renowned fine art collector)
1888
John Singer Sargent (1856-1925)
Oil on canvas, 190 x lxxx cm
Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum
- 2013 prediction: Sales below £1,000 volition do ameliorate than sales higher upwards £1,000. I've been noticing over again together with over again inward exhibitions that sales are much ameliorate below £1,000 than higher upwards it.
- 2013 prediction: Artists volition cosset their fine art collectors together with discover novel ways to create them experience special. Sales higher upwards the £1,000 are frequently to existing collectors or those that know them. It's much to a greater extent than effective to create sales to existing collectors than to novel ones. Hence artists who are routinely selling higher upwards £1,000 involve to create sure that their collectors experience of import together with special.
- 2013 prediction: There volition live a focus on improving the commissioning procedure so that those amongst funds acquire what they want and/or exhibit off what they own e.g. paintings of their favourite people / animals / houses / artifacts. Commissions are also a proficient way of
My predictions for 2012 - together with what really happened This is a review of the concern of fine art - thus predictions do non relate to those who arrive at fine art for their personal pleasance together with have got an income or other back upwards independent of whatever turn a profit they generate from their art.
I walk roughly rattling many exhibitions during the class of a yr together with facial expression at an awful lot of art. Whatever talent I had earlier I started for 'spotting' proficient artwork has for certain been honed yesteryear reviewing so much art. I tin straightaway almost ever tell which fine art volition sell together with which fine art volition hang on the wall of an exhibition without fifty-fifty a sniff of interest.
It emphatically is non most a detail genre per se (although some have got proved to a greater extent than robust inward the confront of economical challenge than others) or size or media.
In my opinion, it's almost ever most the impact, its inclusion inside a coherent body of run together with the way inward which the creative individual has used together with developed the media. Good neutral framing also helps!
For example, run hung inward a grouping of similar artwork yesteryear the same creative individual invariably looks ameliorate than it does on its ain - it has to a greater extent than impact.
I frequently stand upwards together with facial expression at fine art from most xxx feet away so that I tin assess the bear upon earlier I read who painted it together with whether or non is had won a prize or sold. I discover the websites of artists also select rattling good those who sympathize most the outcome of presentation together with impact.
- 2012 PREDICTION: Artists volition go along to focus on trying to discover dependent area affair together with formats that people volition purchase on a consistent basis. ACCURATE There's a restrain to how long people are happy to go downwards the starving creative individual route. If you lot pigment to live, so ultimately at to the lowest degree some of your output has to live capable of beingness sold. This is an ongoing topic - although non 1 which people verbalize most a lot. I annotation artists developing dissimilar dependent area affair together with approaches together with I know that for many at to the lowest degree some of this is most trying to discover a way of improving sales.
- 2012 PREDICTION: More artists volition involve to analyse the existent costs together with benefits of dissimilar media together with formats. Artists can't afford non to know what kind of render they acquire on the dissimilar types of fine art they generate. UNSURE While I recall a lot of artists are thinking to a greater extent than most costs, I'm non at all convinced that many of them have got done an analysis of what their paintings cost to produce. I know a few do, but I regard them every bit beingness the exception rather than the rule. What genuinely surprises me is that at that topographic point is lilliputian evidence that the province of affairs has changed much inward recent years despite increasing economical challenges together with fluctuations inward sales.
I walk roughly rattling many exhibitions during the class of a yr together with facial expression at an awful lot of art. Whatever talent I had earlier I started for 'spotting' proficient artwork has for certain been honed yesteryear reviewing so much art. I tin straightaway almost ever tell which fine art volition sell together with which fine art volition hang on the wall of an exhibition without fifty-fifty a sniff of interest.
It emphatically is non most a detail genre per se (although some have got proved to a greater extent than robust inward the confront of economical challenge than others) or size or media.
In my opinion, it's almost ever most the impact, its inclusion inside a coherent body of run together with the way inward which the creative individual has used together with developed the media. Good neutral framing also helps!
For example, run hung inward a grouping of similar artwork yesteryear the same creative individual invariably looks ameliorate than it does on its ain - it has to a greater extent than impact.
I frequently stand upwards together with facial expression at fine art from most xxx feet away so that I tin assess the bear upon earlier I read who painted it together with whether or non is had won a prize or sold. I discover the websites of artists also select rattling good those who sympathize most the outcome of presentation together with impact.
- 2013 prediction: Both the 2012 predictions should also apply to 2013. Artists aiming to earn an income from fine art volition or should:
- focus on trying to discover dependent area affair together with formats that have got consumer appeal (ie sell!)
- analyse the existent costs together with benefits of dissimilar media together with formats (ie maximise profit)
- 2013 prediction: Specialist genres volition go along to live relatively stable inward terms of sales. During the showtime of the recent recessions, genres which have got an established collector base of operations who are passionate most the dependent area affair or type of art (wildlife art, beast fine art - peculiarly horses, dogs together with cats, botanical fine art together with miniature art) continued to do relatively good on sales. I'd await this tendency to continue. As indicated above, collectors tend to go for repeat buys. I've observed inward previous years that those who jealously guard their mailing lists of yesteryear purchasers together with cosset them amongst Buyers' Previews seem to do rather better.
- 2013 prediction: Fine fine art manus pulled prints on newspaper volition go along to sell well. They're original, they're affordable together with they facial expression similar "proper art" inward a way which photos or photorealistic fine art sometimes does not.
Art Galleries together with Museums
My predictions for 2012 - together with what really happened
- 2012 PREDICTION: Essentially concern every bit commons but to a greater extent than so together with amongst a detail emphasis on beingness cost-effective. Prestigious / publicly funded museums together with galleries will
- pursue blockbuster exhibitions UNSURE I recall the intent is at that topographic point but the bugdets are sometimes non large enough. The blockbuster is almost always wholly dependent on securing major fiscal sponsorship. Given the fact that a break of the investment banks have got been facing hard times since some of their less savoury activities came to low-cal they're straightaway facing large fines together with I'm guessing coin for sponsorship of the arts is less readily available. Unless you're a fellowship needing to rebuild its reputation.....
- increase charges for special exhibitions - ACCURATE the tendency seems to live towards ticket prices increasing faster than inflation
- keep costs downwards yesteryear repackaging the in-house collection every bit an exhibition - together with so charging people to reckon it! ACCURATE The current landscape exhibition at the National Gallery has been suggested to me every bit a instance inward point. It's charging people to reckon paintings which tin ordinarily live seen for gratis - plus it minimises the costs of carry involved. There has to live a lot of educational together with additional content to create this approach valued yesteryear exhibition visitors - every bit opposed to going away feeling similar you've been ripped off.
- continue the existing pattern of partnerships amongst other museums to defray costs together with improve the character of exhibits ACCURATE If anything I'm seeing to a greater extent than together with to a greater extent than partnerships. We seem to have got a Premier League and First Division emerging every bit the smaller galleries start to engage amongst this strategy to a greater extent than together with more!
- promote bookable exhibitions. ACCURATE There's been a lot to a greater extent than advertisement roughly bookable tickets inward 2012. It helps cash flow and also provides a machinery for reminding people the exhibition exists piece at the same fourth dimension suggesting its' becoming a scarce commodity - which increases the appeal of an exhibition. I did wonder how many of those inward the queues for the Da Vinci exhibition knew what they were going to see!
- pursue all avenues for generating additional income from associated activities or merchandising MIXED RESPONSE Active but yet optimising. Again the work seems to prevarication amongst next traditional models for retailing.
- reduce offense together with the theft of artwork UNSURE We're soundless seeing thefts of major industrial plant of art.
- 2012 PREDICTION: more fine art volition live sold through dedicated fine art fairs and to a greater extent than artists volition aim to link upwards amongst one. The fine art fairs are pop amongst collectors, they acquire to reckon a lot of fine art inward 1 time place. Good galleries straightaway compete for a identify at the proficient fairs. ACCURATE (with caveats). There's no inquiry that a lot of fine art gets sold at fine art fairs together with (despite the costs involved) being able to acquire a slot at an fine art fair tin create a rattling meaning departure to the bottom line of a gallery - if it does it good together with if it selects the right artists to exhibit.
- 2012 PREDICTION: to a greater extent than galleries volition closed but to a greater extent than artists may start selling fine art on the high street. Gallery closures volition live driven yesteryear collectors preferring fine art fairs, the turn down inward footfall on the high street together with the fact that people are beingness rattling careful amongst their cash. Sales have got dropped significantly for many artists. MIXED RESPONSE I've heard most yet to a greater extent than closures of galleries together with depression levels of sales - together with have got also seen the dead websites. However the shake-out seems to live reduced, in all likelihood because so many went inward the showtime recession. Unfortunately I've heard rattling lilliputian most artists together with galleries devising a novel together with to a greater extent than robust concern model which enables gallery spaces to remain opened upwards together with exhibit art.
- 2012 PREDICTION: more galleries volition go online together with to a greater extent than fine art volition live digitized - it's 1 way of cutting costs MIXED RESPONSE I facial expression at a LOT of gallery websites over the class of the year, most of them inward the UK. In the terminal yr I've NOT noticed a lot of change. The leading galleries are presenting run good digitally together with volition go along to improve. By way of contrast, those which are 'stuck inward their ways' go along to demeanor every bit they have got ever done
- 2012 PREDICTION: a few galleries volition laid about to explore the latest characteristic of retail marketing ie multi-channel marketing (eg reckon it online, monastic enjoin it together with pick it upwards inward the store of your choice OR reckon it inward a store together with monastic enjoin it together with have got it delivered to your home). UNSURE I'm non convinced this has taken off - although it has to live the logical adjacent step.
- 2012 PREDICTION: The major fine art competitions together with national fine art societies volition involve to run hard at reducing exhibition costs for artists if the exhibit is at some distance from home. MIXED RESPONSE - I'm seeing to a greater extent than together with to a greater extent than calls for digital artwork every bit entries for the screening phase of fine art exhibitions together with opened upwards exhibitions yesteryear fine art societies. This reduces travelling and/or courier costs plus framing costs are eliminated for run non selected for the adjacent stage. However I'm also seeing competitions (notably the BP Portrait) which has previously organised regional collection points together with this yr is non doing this.
- 2013 prediction: Artists together with fine art galleries volition laid about to devise a novel together with to a greater extent than robust concern model for selling art. Businesses which live on together with thrive are those which conform to novel contents together with changing economical conditions. I may live beingness optimistic hither but I believe at that topographic point is a ameliorate response than the traditional model.
- 2013 prediction: Art Galleries which desire to live on volition generate and/or improve virtual exhibitions for selling fine art on their websites at the same fourth dimension every bit B&M exhibitions. This is a tendency which is unfolding tardily - amongst the Pb beingness taken yesteryear those who are realising a virtual exhibition offers an chance to capture sales inward association amongst an exhibition.
- 2013 prediction: Artists and Art Galleries volition identify to a greater extent than emphasis on private online previews for people who have got bought run at previous exhibitions. Those who have got bought earlier are to a greater extent than probable to purchase over again together with a little break of galleries together with societies run rattling successful buyer previews inward galleries. This makes people experience special - the collector gets to mix amongst "people similar us" rather than those who typically plow upwards to Private Views. The logical adjacent measurement is to set these private online previews online so that those who cannot attend the preview tin soundless review - together with purchase - the run earlier the exhibition opens to the public.
Selling Art Online
My predictions for 2012 - together with what really happened
- 2012 PREDICTION: engaging amongst prospects together with developing client loyalty volition go major priorities for all those seeking sales of their fine art online. Those doing good may good live those who excel in this expanse rather than their fine art technique UNSURE I've non noticed whatever bully alter inward 2012. While at that topographic point may live more Facebook Pages roughly I'm non seeing a lot who role them well. It's also non so piece of cake to tell what changes have got been made offline except via anecdote.
- Some recognise the involve to invest inward human relationship management together with render an splendid response
- Some run hard at improving their response
- A lot don't fifty-fifty recognise the involve to pass fourth dimension on customers every bit good every bit on producing art.
- 2012 PREDICTION: artists volition develop/improve their branding together with how artists introduce themselves to the the world To live memorable involves to a greater extent than than only paradigm a bully painting. MIXED RESPONSE Most immature professional person artists have got got the message - they involve a website. (see below) It's straightaway fairly odd to run my way through a listing of artists whose run has been selected for a prestigious contest together with discover they don't have got a website independent of whatever galleries they sell through. Older artists who are "set inward their ways" remain inward their ain ruts. Some professional artists run hard at their branding together with raising their profile but they are a minority. There's lots who could do ameliorate amongst a lilliputian help.
What I didn't predict
Prospects for 2013
- More top artists straightaway have got proficient character websites which are good organised together with accessible In 2012, artists selected for prestigious art competitions inward the UK typically had (1) a website (2) which wasn't every bit good hard to discover eg lots of artists straightaway rank inward the #1 top spot inward Google for a search query which is their scream together with 'artist' or 'art'.
- More together with to a greater extent than artists are straightaway using Facebook every bit a way inward to their ain sites. The delineate a fast 1 on is to go out the individual who stops yesteryear wanting more........
- Some artists swear Pinterest has helped them to sell fine art inward 2012. Personally I'd live to a greater extent than persuaded if I saw the figures together with if the creative individual inward inquiry relied on their fine art for their living.
See the ii lists of posts I wrote most Facebook together with Pinterest this yr inward Part 1 of this review.
- 2013 prediction: More together with to a greater extent than artists are realising that they involve to drive their ain careers together with non rely on a gallery which does non response good to marketplace changes, the influence of the Internet together with indeed may good go nether every bit a result.
- 2013 prediction: Artists volition acquire ameliorate at using social media to promote fine art at the same fourth dimension every bit they acquire to a greater extent than wary most using it. Ownership together with command of images on the social media sites is of primary concern.
See also Reviewing Art on the Internet inward 2012 for a focus on the bear upon of mobile technology scientific discipline on reviewing / selling fine art on the Internet
Art shops together with Art supplies
My predictions for 2012 - together with what really happened
Prospects for 2013 - 2012 PREDICTION: highly specialised shops volition remain pop but volition also live vulnerable to the recession. ACCURATE The specialised fine art shops that I know are soundless going together with facial expression salubrious every fourth dimension I visit. However they also seem to have got licked their online businesses into shape - so I approximate at that topographic point is a hereafter for specialist shops so long every bit they come across expected standards for shopping online every bit well.
- 2012 PREDICTION: more suppliers volition re-create those who already encompass social media every bit a agency of communicating easily amongst customers ACCURATE I'm seeing to a greater extent than together with to a greater extent than fine art suppliers amongst Facebook pages together with active communication amongst their customers. The work is if they're non careful it tin experience similar endless advertising. Some acquire the residual right piece others involve to have got a rethink. My recommendation would live to picket what all the competitors are upwards to (if they're non doing this already)
- 2013 prediction / recommendation: The ameliorate fine art shops together with suppliers volition develop together with refine their overall marketing strategy within the context of a declining audience for impress publications together with the increasing evolution of social media - which is where all the advertising money is going
- 2013 prediction / recommendation : Both manufacturers and suppliers may start to pay to a greater extent than attending to the influence of the artists who stand upwards for their fine art materials. Obviously the primary consideration is whether or non an creative individual tin render a satisfactory demonstration of their fine art materials, yet the reach of their social network may also go a consideration amongst honor to secondary marketing.
What happened inward previous years
If you lot similar reading most what the yesteryear yr looked similar inward previous years essay checking out my previous halt of yr reviews of "who's made a score this year?" posts every bit follows: - December 2006 - Blogging Art inward 2006 - Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 Review (Part 1) together with Blogging Art inward 2006 - Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 Review (Part 2)
- December 2007 - Blogging Art inward 2007 - Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 Review (Part 1) and Blogging Art inward 2007 - Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 Review (Part 2)
- December 2008 - Blogging Art inward 2008 - Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 Review (Part 1) and Art inward 2008 - Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 Review (Part 2)
- December 2009 - Reviewing fine art inward 2009 (#1) - the fine art blog together with Reviewing Art inward 2009 (#2) - the fine art business
- December 2010 - Reviewing fine art inward 2010 (#1) - the fine art blog together with Reviewing Art inward 2010 (#2) - the fine art business
- December 2011 - Reviewing Art on the Internet inward 2011 together with Reviewing Art Business inward 2011
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