Commissions
The collective takes commissions: a single work, a series, or a body of work made against a brief.
A commission runs the same way the editions do — an artist and a technologist working as a pair — except that the question comes from you. That can be a room with a difficult wall, a collection with a gap in it, a building that needs something at a scale nobody stocks, or a subject a client wants worked through rather than bought off the shelf.
The people assigned to the brief are named to you before work starts. You see states along the way and sign off before anything is produced. What you receive is a work, its datasheet, and the right to reproduce it as agreed in writing — not a file and a guess.
The room, the collection or the question the work has to answer — and the constraints: format, palette, where it will hang, when it is needed.
The gallery puts an artist and a technologist to the brief. Who they are is named before anything is made.
Two or three rounds of states to look at, narrowed each time. Nothing is produced until a state is signed off.
Printing, framing, delivery and installation, with a datasheet recording process, contributors, output and release.
Typically commissioned
- A single work for a specific wall or room
- A series for an office, hotel or practice
- Large formats beyond the standard edition sizes
- A body of work developed with a collection over time
- Work for a publication, campaign or product surface
How it is priced
A commission is quoted as a fee for the development and a price for the work itself, separately, so that you can see what you are paying for. The fee is payable whether or not a state is taken to production. Rights are priced and written down rather than assumed.
Timelines depend on format and finishing. A single framed work is usually a matter of weeks; a series takes longer, and the gallery says so at the start rather than at the end.