Guides for artists

How to organise your work, document it and present it. Written for the artist working alone, with verified facts and no filler.

• What Artium is: art inventory for visual artists

  What Artium does, which documents it produces, what it costs and why it exists. The home page pitch, on a page you can read slowly.

• How to keep an inventory of your art

  A practical guide for artists: numbering, status, editions, and how to catch up when you already have hundreds of pieces unrecorded.

• How to make wall labels for an exhibition

  What goes on a wall label, what size, where to place them, and why adding a QR code is worth the small effort.

• How to put together an artist portfolio PDF

  What a portfolio needs, how many pieces to include, whether prices belong in it, and how to build one without losing an afternoon.

• Artist CV: how to write one, with a full example

  What sections an artist CV needs, how to order exhibitions, a complete example to copy, and what to do if you are just starting out.

• How to make a certificate of authenticity

  What it must contain, what it is actually worth, what paper to use, and what changes when the work is an edition.