Artist Hub .
The sculpture market
is saturated with aspiring artists.
How will you build a career?
For individual artists hoping to attract top-tier customers, learning the ropes can take years. Without an established database or the resources to present your work to a matching standard, it can be an uphill battle.
What Todd can do for you
Are you an emerging artist sensing limited opportunities to win careerdefining work? Do you have clients wishing to commission a sculpture, but you’re worried about delivering on time, on budget and to certified quality?
When you team up with Todd Stuart, you can focus on your creativity knowing you’re backed by a process-driven philosophy and production- toinstallation ethos that de-risks projects and delivers maximum value.
Explore the possibilities
With Todd on your side,
several opportunities open up.
You can have your work supported by Todd and represented by the mainartery gallery to be made available for sale online to local and international clients. Importantly, you are not expected to sign an exclusivity agreement, meaning you are free to promote your work outside this arrangement as you see fit.
Todd and mainartery present work by artists
within Todd’s sphere at exhibitions where prospects engage with the works on display to make enquiries and buy. This extends to corporate spaces that stage free public sculpture exhibitions, allowing for selected works to be on display to art buyers around Australia.
Perhaps you need help to unblock a sculpture bottleneck with an existing client and project?
Use Todd as a resource and collaborator to solve design issues and successfully get your project back on track.
You can also be engaged by Todd as a nominated sculptor for clients who wish to own a newly commissioned piece of your work. When Todd approaches an artist, it’s because he has matched them specifically to a client, lifting the chance of a commission to 50 per cent.
Artist fabrication services
Ideas to thrive as a sculptor
Take the next step
If you share Todd’s values and believe your work to be different to anything
else you see on this site, please click the tile below to complete our screening questionnaire.
Your responses will guide your next step.
Are we the right fit for you?
Why sell with Mainartery Sculpture Gallery?
We are a specialised sculpture-only gallery, so we are considered experts in our field. Nearly three decades in the international market arm us with the acumen to know the ‘right’ sales avenues to pursue. Our contacts include high net worth individuals, designers, architects and property developers. You enjoy the advantage of our reputable brand, giving you access to a powerful marketing force at no cost. In practical terms, quality video, for example, costs upward of $1,000 per minute. Our track record with high-end clients affords you the possibility of pre-qualifying for bigger projects, gaining career-defining opportunities. All this, and we won’t tie you down with exclusive marketing arrangements.
Do you create, or are you open to creating, limited editions of your work in one or more sizes?
Our business model relies on investing heavily into marketing collateral and efforts to gain the right type of attention. We cannot recoup our costs or sustain our business unless we have the opportunity to generate multiple sales. In other words, apart from commissions, if you create one off pieces only, our business model will not be the right fit for you.
I see Mainartery also specialises in sculpture manufacture. I normally make or coordinate my own production. How does that work?
You may choose Mainartery for manufacturing support services, but for smaller sculptures that you can reliably create yourself, Mainartery will happily purchase those directly from you. At a larger scale, the skill set stretches beyond creativity into a combination of project management with specialised pre-qualified contributing parties. So, where an artist has a track record of delivering large scale works successfully, we may commission directly from the artist, although our longstanding global network often provides benefits that a proficient public artist may still prefer. Our reputation is only as good as our record of producing Todd Stuart Website sculptures of legacy quality, delivered on-time and to budget at a quality and scope that permits meaningful guarantees.
Do you promote the name of the artist?
Yes, at the appropriate stage in the process. Artworks displayed within our gallery don’t openly mention the name of the artist, but when a potential client makes an enquiry on your work, we obtain their contact details and, in return, provide information about you as an artist and your art piece. It’s at this stage we can confidently register client contact with you by email. Per our initial agreement, registered contacts are Mainartery’s exclusive right to market and sell to. It’s how Mainartery is able to invest in branding your work within our high-end platform of videos, photographs and augmented reality support. It lowers our risk for you to be on a nonexclusive basis to our gallery, but maximises the opportunities for artists that no other gallery will grant you. For realised public sculptures, we credit the artist.
What about my intellectual property if I choose Mainartery to assist the production of my sculpture?
Our agreement respects your rights to your intellectual property and accepts responsibility for the same for any related parties we deal with.
How do I get paid?
For commissions, we break the project down to several stages, so the artist is never out of pocket and, at same time, the client can see what they are getting to their satisfaction at each stage. We prioritise artists so they get paid within 48 hours of a customer’s transfer at each stage and, in the case of international transfers, never longer than seven days.
HOW TO GET STARTED
If you answer ‘yes’ to all questions, we are interested in viewing your sculpture works. Please provide links to your online portfolio, and we will reply within 48 hours advising the next steps.
