Selling and Exhibiting

Pricing Your Work

Pricing your work correctly is a vital part of running a successful business. Our craftscotland factsheet contains advice on establishing a cost for your work, creating pricing structures, deciding your terms and conditions, good customer relations, solving payment problems and useful contacts for more information. Download the Pricing Your Work factsheet and find out about other craftscotland factsheets.

 

Approaching Galleries

Be professional - that's the important thing to remember when approaching a commercial gallery. Lynn Park, Director of Applied Arts at the Roger Billcliffe Gallery in Glasgow provides some valuable advice for makers about approaching galleries.

 

Profiles of Scottish Galleries

craftscotland regularly features different galleries who sell craft in our new stories, and we are now developing a series of profiles to help makers to find out more about a gallery before they make an approach. Our first gallery profiles are the Juno Gallery on the Cowal Peninsula and the Castle Gallery in Inverness.   

 

Selling Overseas

Every maker profiled on this website now has a constant presence in an international market. Can you use the website to market your work? How do you handle an international enquiry? Find out where to go for help.

Creative Export also provides an information portal to help creative businesses with exporting.

 

Chelsea Crafts Fair

craftscotland asked a group of makers who have exhibited at Chelsea Craft Fair (now replaced by Origin: the London Craft Fair) what advice they would give to makers going there for the first time? Read their Chelsea tips covering everything from secret stores of food to methods of payment.

 

Surviving a Selling Event

The advice in our craftscotland factsheet on surviving a selling event comes from textile designer James Donald and sculptural willow weaver Lizzie Farey, who have sold their work at selling events in the UK and internationally.  Their advice for making the most of a selling event was presented at an event organised by the Crafts Council for exhibitors going to Origin: the London Craft Fair 2006. It could equally apply to any selling event and provides useful tips for first time exhibitors and helpful reminders for the more experienced exhibitor. Download the factsheet and find out about other craftscotland factsheets.