Timetable

10.00-10.30 Arrival/registration

10.30-10.40 Welcome, Grace Davies, Visual Arts South West (Turning Point SW)

10.40-11.20 Speaker: Sophia Bardsley, Deputy Director, Contemporary Art Society

The Contemporary Art Market: de-mystifying the art market; how artists enter the art market; relationship between institutional and private collecting, motivations and behaviours of collectors and current trends in the market place.

11.20-12.00 Speaker: Tania Kovats, Artist

Tania will discuss how she operates as a practicing artist working both to commission in the public realm as well as inside the art institution. She will also discuss the realities of sustaining her practice in the current economic climate.

12.00 - 12.20 Coffee/tea

12.20 - 12.40 Introduction to and demonstration of new digital platform ARTOLO: Peter Dickinson

Peter will run a session discussing how Artolo can be used by artists, curators, dealers, venue managers, art dealers and arts professionals to make money

12.40 - 1pm Google Plus: Paul Stickland will discuss the revolution in communication that has arisen with the rise of Google Plus and how it marks a radical shift in the way that creative professionals find and communicate with each other and their clients. He will also touch on the related topic of Print on Demand companies and how best to take advantage of this new opportunity.

1- 2pm Lunch

2 -2.30 Small art surgeries

Each led by one of the speakers with 5 participants attending. By end of day each participant will have been in the company of the 4 presenters

2.30 – 3pm Small art surgeries

3pm – 3.30 Small art surgeries

3.30 – 4pm Small art surgeries

4- 4.10pm Summing Up: Speaker: Event Facilitator

4.10pm Depart

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About the Speakers/ Organisations

Contemporary Art Society

Founded in 1910, the Contemporary Art Society exists to support and develop public collections of contemporary art in the UK. We do so by raising the funds to purchase and commission new works of contemporary art for a national network of public collections, which subscribe to us as Member Museums and Galleries, and by soliciting gifts of works to these collections for public benefit.

For 100 years, we have played a unique and largely solitary role in the formation of public collections of contemporary art in this country, donating more than 8,000 works where they are enjoyed by audiences everywhere. We continue to act as a catalyst for the visual arts in the UK, developing audiences, artists, curators, collectors and collections alike. We are a national membership organisation, bringing together individuals, institutions and organisations, including contemporary art enthusiasts and collectors, curators and artists, commercial gallerists and a UK-wide network of public collections in regional museums and art galleries. In addition to placing contemporary art in public collections, we run membership schemes for individuals which offer an inspirational insight into the world of contemporary art and private collecting; and for curators and those who work with collections, strategic programmes and initiatives which aim to build capacity and knowledge within and about public collections to strengthen the context in which we place works. We also offer one of the UK's leading arts consultancy services, providing independent expertise and advice to the corporate and public sectors on contemporary art collecting and commissioning. All proceeds raised through our diverse activities are used to purchase new works of art for our Member Museums and Galleries.

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Tania Kovats

After completing her MA at the Royal College of Art in 1990, Tania Kovats (b.1966) won the Barclays Young Contemporaries award at the Serpentine Gallery in 1991. Her work deals primarily with the experience and understanding of landscape. Her sculptural forms and drawings are pre-occupied with the earth’s shifting geology. She has commented: ‘The processes and verbs of geology inform my work: eroding, shifting, erupting, compressing, solidifying, subsiding, tipping, and cooling. I look to either describe or use geological processes in the making of both my sculptures and my drawings.’

Her recent successes include a travelling meadow and the prestigious commission, to mark the 200th anniversary of Charles Darwin’s birth, to create a permanent work in London’s Natural History Museum.

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Peter Dickinson

Peter Dickinson is an artist and curator who is the lead artist for the new online platform ARTOLO. Artolo is a ‘game-changer’ in the multi-billion pound art market. Using mobile and the web, with location and social media at its heart, Artolo will revolutionise the art market in the way that iTunes has revolutionised music and Amazon has revolutionised books.

The Artolo product is an online platform (website and mobile app) that solves these problems by offering artists, collectors and venues an elegant and simple interface to enable them to present, sell, evaluate and buy work safely and securely. Being a platform means that rather than competing with many existing online offerings it is a tool that can be plugged into them.

Peter graduated with a First from Chelsea Art School and went on to have a diverse career as video artist/producer, curator, gallery manager, arts writer and professional artist.

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Paul Stickland

Paul Stickland is an Illustrator and designer.


Paul Stickland has been working in the design, illustration and publishing world for the last 30 years, principally but not exclusively in the world of Children's Books.
He has a particular interest in the realm of web based artistic activity and the use of various web platforms to access and communicate with clients and colleagues alike. For the last five years, Paul has been exploring the world of Print on Demand and in tandem with that the various methods of gaining a wide audience on the internet, be it via blogging, web sites, or social media.
In the last year Paul has been particularly involved with the rise of the very powerful tool that is Google Plus, which has huge implications and opportunities for all creative professionals and society as a whole.

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VASW is a Visual Arts Network in the South West, part of the national Contemporary Visual Arts Network (CVAN). VASW aims to raise the level of critical dialogue and engagement across the region in order to support a dynamic and sustainable visual arts sector, especially within the current economic climate. VASW is delivering a programme of projects, which are crucial interventions that address gaps in the region's visual arts `ecology' and are designed as important building blocks to improve connectivity, diversity and criticality.

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