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The range of art displayed at the Galleries and included in our digital database for presentation to clients includes: sculpture, paintings, ceramics, glass, textiles/tapestries/wall hangings, photography, video, multi-media, installation and environmental art. We also commission works for specific sites and projects.

As well as supplying art to the corporate, public,education, healthcare and leisure sectors, we are involved in organising and curating temporary exhibitions for clients, giving artists the opportunity to display and sell their work.

There is no cost for joining AFO/IAC. Selection is on the basis of our opinion of the suitability of the work for our market. If the work is appropriate, we normally ask artists to bring a selection of work to the gallery from which we choose one or two pieces to be held and displayed on a sale-or-return basis in the gallery. If a client is interested, they may either buy the work or rent it for a minimum of 18 months. We also hold digital images of works on our database for clients/architects to view, and for us to include in printed pages when preparing selections of art.

If you think your work will be of interest to us please refer to the notes below on how to submit it to us. Submissions will be reviewed by the art consultant team at our regular art meetings and assessed for their suitability for our particular market. We will notify you of the result by letter shortly after the meeting.

If you have a website it is useful to refer us to that initially via email (artists@afo.co.uk) to enable us to get an idea of your work.

If you are sending images, or, having viewed your website we request images, please send these as digital files. We can incorporate these more quickly and easily into the visual database which we now use in place of slides to source and present works to clients.

Please send in any number of images to represent the range of your work/style, up to a maximum of 12.
Images should preferably be sent on a CD to avoid clogging up our email.
Images should be sent as PC compatible jpeg or tif files, preferably with images scanned at 300dpi. Images on a website are not normally good enough to be printed.
All image files must be named: Name of artist, Title of work, Medium of work , Size of work in cm (vertical/horizontal),Date of work, Location (if a specially commissioned work)

i.e. Sam Jones 'Green Dog' Oil on canvas 120x160cm 2001 at the Royal Exchange

After viewing images of your work we may ask you to bring some works into the Gallery for us to select one or two to hold and display in the gallery on a sale-or-return/consignment basis.

You must ensure that any work you bring in/send to the Galleries is suitably protected, presentable and ready-to-hang, if framed. Framing should be to the highest quality within your budget. Good framing will genuinely assist in the sales of your work.

Works on paper need to be either float or window mounted and acetated, preferably using thin acetate (under 90 microns) - most framing businesses can do this.
Paintings or framed works must have hooks on them ready to hang. We require D-rings or hooks so that we can slip in hanging cord, we do not use mirror plates. In the exceptional case that work does come in without fixings, you will be asked to put fixings on the works.
All works should be signed and titled.
In addition it is helpful if you write your name and the title clearly on the back of each work, indicating with an arrow the top of the work if abstract.

Please note that we cannot see artists at the gallery without an appointment