Art Dealing: How To Sign An Artist Once You Have Discovered Them

How do you sign an artist up once you have discovered them?

You go to the studio, you have conversations with them, you try to follow their work for at least a year or two to see what they're doing, and then you offer them an exhibition. Usually when we offer somebody an exhibition, we're usually embarking on taking on their career. There are some galleries that just do exhibitions of artists' work as a one off situation, but we don't work that way. You can work both ways. Some galleries just give artists exhibitions. We tend to give them an exhibition and then manage their career from start and hopefully nurture it all the way through.