Monday, May 08, 2006
Saatchi Gallery Online
The Saatchi Gallery website has recently started an online gallery that is open to all artists. It is free to add your portfolio and allows you to display up to 8 works, your biographical details, your website address, and exhibition announcements.
I haven't added mine yet, but it looks like a lot of others have already added theirs, with more than 700 artist profiles now online. If you're not adding your profile, it's also a great way to use an hour or two browsing through the artists online already.
So, you may not have your work hanging in a Saatchi Gallery anytime soon, but anyone can show their work at the online Saatchi Gallery here.
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I haven't added mine yet, but it looks like a lot of others have already added theirs, with more than 700 artist profiles now online. If you're not adding your profile, it's also a great way to use an hour or two browsing through the artists online already.
So, you may not have your work hanging in a Saatchi Gallery anytime soon, but anyone can show their work at the online Saatchi Gallery here.
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This is a curious phenomenon. Are we seeing the gallery encroaching on the web, or the web encroaching on the gallery? It seems ambiguous. The boundaries become blurred.
It seems like a great way to draw attention to the gallery, turning it into something of a gallery blog, in the sense of easy participation by the artists.
The daily kos is an example of a participatory site where visitors vote ("recommend") on blogs. Anyone can add a blog, but the recommend ones have a longer lifetime. Combing that concept with the online gallery might be useful. Perhaps it has already been done?
It seems like a great way to draw attention to the gallery, turning it into something of a gallery blog, in the sense of easy participation by the artists.
The daily kos is an example of a participatory site where visitors vote ("recommend") on blogs. Anyone can add a blog, but the recommend ones have a longer lifetime. Combing that concept with the online gallery might be useful. Perhaps it has already been done?
I've signed up and found the Saatchi web site very easy and simple to use. The end result looks very good. Recommended. You never know *who* might be looking :-)
Yeah, it seems to be turning into an art portal Karl. It's definately not a bad thing for traffic, as Im sure the site is pretty busy each day.
It looks like they're working on new features too. One seems to be allowing artists to start their own blog. Which means hundreds of new pages of content written by artists everyday, and a lot more visitors to the Saatchi site.
I think it adds value to the art community online, so good luck to them.
The daily kos is a good idea too, which is also super popular!
And youre right Gareth, even the man himself must browse his own website sometimes ;-)
It looks like they're working on new features too. One seems to be allowing artists to start their own blog. Which means hundreds of new pages of content written by artists everyday, and a lot more visitors to the Saatchi site.
I think it adds value to the art community online, so good luck to them.
The daily kos is a good idea too, which is also super popular!
And youre right Gareth, even the man himself must browse his own website sometimes ;-)
The Wall St Journal reported Oct 10 that the Saatchi Online Gallery has 65,000 artists participating now. It also gave info on what is actually selling from this portal---yes, they are making sales and no, they don't take commissions from the artists. It's definitely worth uploading your paintings if you're a pro and you want to widen your exposure. With more than 500 people each night looking through the artist portfolios, that's way better traffic than most of us will get even in a live gallery.
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