Buying and Selling Relationships

Buying the work of living visual and craft artists provides them with the means and the stimulus to continue working. It also strengthens their supportive infrastructure - shops and galleries, dealers, agents, auction houses, and professional advocacy and support organisations - helping to keep the industry as a whole viable and vital. For example, the support for Australian Indigenous visual art and craft has had a significant positive impact on the economic circumstances of some artists and their communities.

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Exhibiting, Selling And Collecting Art And Craft, Chapter 2. Code of Practice for the Professional Australian Visual Arts, Craft and Design Sector 3rd Edition 2009. To purchase this publication or to find out more information click here.

Code of Practice for Australian Commercial Galleries and the Artists They Represent
This is the national best practice standard for professional engagement between commercial galleries and artists and was the result of an agreement between NAVA, the Australian Commercial Galleries Association and the Australia Council. Published 2003, 8 pages.
ISBN 1 920784 10 1.
Read the Code of Practice for Australian Commercial Galleries and Artists.

Valuing Art, Respecting Culture: Protocols For Working With the Australian Indigenous Visual Arts and Craft Sector. This document sets out protocols both to guide non-Indigenous people in their relationships with Indigenous artists and communities, and assist Indigenous artists to define their rights.
Published by NAVA, written and researched by Doreen Mellor with a legal section by Terri Janke. Published 2001, 110 pages. This publication is no longer available in hard copy.

Read Valuing Art, Respecting Culture (complete document).

Read Valuing Art, Respecting Culture (executive summaries).