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The commercial art market is valued at $64.1 billion. However, with it being unregulated, the art market as a whole is impossible to pin down. It is infinite. Through understanding the vast composition of the art market we can understand how to access it, question it and bargain for a healthier system. Gatekeeper magazine aims to investigate the art market in all entities, gaining insight into some of the ways in which artists explore this as a theme within their practice. The range of approaches to this immeasurable topic shows how artists can focus their future work, either tailoring it to be a financially beneficial business venture or by going against the art markets commercial bubble, through alternative economies . Our first issue will analyse the use of ‘transaction’ within the art market. This theme will unravel emerging artists personal experiences trading and selling work to an unpredictable and unregulated industry!

1 min read - Monday 11th October 2021 
Fair Art Fair X Gatekeeper Panel Discussion.
Time to Change the Top-down Industry

Gatekeeper and Fair Art Fair have teamed up to explore how the art market can become more transparent and accessible for all, liberating the artist and the consumer.

We recognise the innovation within the sector to shake up the winner-takes-all market model. To ignite further change the conversations must continue. For that reason we invite you to join our live discussion panel exploring how we can change this top-down industry. Join leading disruptors in the sector as we ask and discuss new ideas and economies for the art world.

Our panelists:

Stacie McCormick
Multi-disciplinary artist Stacie McCormick is Los Angeles-born and London-based. She runs the not-for-profit Unit 1 Gallery | Workshop, an exhibition and residency space supporting emerging artists. She has just launched her new app, Fair Art Fair, an artist-centred digital platform.

Matthew Burrows
Artist and Founder of Artist Support Pledge (ASP), an Instagram, hashtag-based initiative. ASP offers an alternative economy based on a culture of trust and generosity, giving agency back to artists. The initiative is now estimated to have generated £180 million in Art Sales around the world.

Mollie Balshaw
Mollie Balshaw is an artist based at Islington Mill exploring non-binary identity through painting. They are also Director of Short Supply, an arts organisation founded to bridge the gap between early-career artists and the more established art world.

Sachiko Osawa
Sachiko Osawa founded Yami-Ichi, an auction with a difference. Challenging the perception of art as a commodity, Yami-Ichi saw artists exchange their work, not for money but other people’s skills, services and objects.

If you have missed it don’t worry - you can check out the full panel discussion via the video. 
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