Exhibition Ready Program

The UMI Arts “Exhibition Ready” program is a skills-development program for Far North Queensland Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander artists who want to gain skills and experience in preparing art works for exhibition and sale.

The program takes artists through each step of gallery exhibition preparation, presentation and promotion, whilst working towards an exhibition at UMI Arts Gallery space in Cairns.

If you are working towards your first solo exhibition, the program provides all the advice about how to get started. By the end of the program you will have had your first exhibition, putting you a big step ahead!

If you have already exhibited but want to refine your industry knowledge and professional practices then the program can help you move to the next level of your career as an independent professional artist.

The program covers areas including:

Preparing your artist profile and CV
Pricing works
Preparing labels and stories
Professional installation and lighting
Marketing your exhibition
Coordinating an exhibition opening
Working with art centres and dealers
Indigenous Australian Art Commercial Code of Conduct
Certificates of authenticity
Accessing new opportunities and funding for future exhibitions

By the end of the process participants will have a complete body of work, together with a reusable kit with all the formal and legal documentation required to continue practicing as a professional exhibiting artist.

Applications are welcome from Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander artists with connection to Far North Queensland:

i) Individual artists
ii) Groups of artists
iii) Organisations representing artists

*UMI Arts Welcomes partnerships to deliver this program in conjunction with other Indigenous Service Providers.

For more information click on the link below:

Exhibition Ready Program Brochure

Image: Exhibition Ready Program participants 2009 (top row from left) Kevin Edmonstone on BBM Radio 98.7FM, Shaun Edwards, Lea Ambrum-Stevens, Lara Fujii's beaded jewellery, Misapele Nona wearing his carved jewellery, (bottom row from left) Ceferino Sabatino, Marylin Kepple, Gertrude Ygosse, Yowane Namaibai.