how did you start selling your work? collecting?
We sell works sometimes, because they might no longer fit our collection, and these sales help finance new acquisitions. We think that rotating a collection is very healthy, because a collection is the reflection of individuals and people change with time.
Bruce Haines Curator
During the first show I ever worked on, which was with Ian Hamilton Finlay at Oriel Mostyn in North Wales in 1996, I bought a screen-print by him called 'Citron Bleu', a sketch of a boat in the shape of a lemon, which cost me ÂŁ30. I should have got its partner print of a boat builder's plans for a boat in the shape of a lemon too.
Mikko Canini Artist
I started selling work by accident. Then I started making video and stopped selling work.
Rosanna Guy Greaves Artist
I started selling my work to the public through small exhibitions. But I am far more interested in getting the opportunity to make work for interesting places to develop my own engagement with my practice and to not be limited by mediums that lend themselves to sales.
Peter Lewis Curator Redux
Selling I didn't. Collecting People give me their work or trust me to look after it. The 'collector' is a player in a language game and also the title of a film starring Terence Stamp as one.
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