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Because we're a free-to-exhibit website with a highly skilled marketing team that promote and sell your artworks, worldwide. |
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We work with individual and corporate art buyers, sell your works through various forums including our curated gallery, and create additional revenue streams for you through our Art Prints-On-Demand program and TFT Merchandising. |
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We're in touch with many galleries round the world, who will get regular updates on your new artworks in the form of a newsletter. |
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We keep your art a hundred percent piracy-proof, and ensure a completely transparent logistical and economic interaction. |
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You will be a part of a select community of artists, who share and grow and contribute to our TFT Art Magazine. |
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| What does registering with TFT cost me? |
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Absolutely nothing. |
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It's simple. Just click on 'register' on the home page and fill in the form – your contact details, exhibition history and education background are mandatory. You can upload a minimum of five and a maximum of 15 artworks, so that the curators have a comprehensive idea of your style and oeuvre. Only when a curator accepts the work, does the batch move to the next level where prices are finalised with the artist. |
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| When will I know if my works have been selected? |
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We will inform you within 7 days of your artwork submission. |
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| If I'm not selected by the curators, what TFT facilities can I still avail? |
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You can still keep and use your domain name (www.thefuschiatree.com/artistname) as your website and to print on your visiting cards. Unfortunately, your artworks will not be displayed in TFT Gallery and it won't show up in intra-website searches. |
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| How do I become part of the TFT Gallery? |
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| What if I want to withdraw my works from TFT Gallery? |
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Send a request to admin to cancel your account. Please include your full name, screen name, and email address that you use with your account |
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| How safe is my art at TFT and how do you prevent piracy? |
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Your art is a hundred percent safe, because we're one of the only galleries to invest in Lock Lizard, a state-of-the-art anti-piracy software. Which means, that even though you upload high resolution images, nobody can make prints out of them unless authorised by us. We have further web tools to ensure that not more than a thumb-nail size of your image can be saved by any website visitor, onto their computers. |
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| Can I watermark my images? |
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No you cannot. We do not encourage it because |
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a) It dilutes the effect of the image |
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b) Anybody with basic Photoshop skills can remove the watermark anyway, so it's not as strong a piracy deterrent as other TFT web tools in place (see Lock Lizard). |
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| How does TFT sell an artist's work? |
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Once you register with us, our highly pro-active marketing team will promote and sell your works with individual and corporate buyers, as well as galleries. We also handle all customer service, packaging and worldwide shipping of your artworks. You are notified the instant a sale is made, electronically and personally. All payments are made to the artist on the seventh day of the following month or 21 days from the acceptance of the order. (See Terms and Conditions). |
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| What commission does TFT charge on each sale? |
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TFT will charge a 33% commission on all signed artwork sales. However, if an unsigned print or an Art-in-Utility product of the gallery artwork is sold, we charge no commission on the artist mark-up. |
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| What are Art Prints-on-Demand? |
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Our Art Prints-on-Demand program allows an artist to make art prints and original Art-in-Utility merchandise from the image of his/her artwork. This facility allows buyers to choose and purchase a particular artwork as an archival quality print. It's also a major part of our alternative revenue program for our artists, where they can choose to enter their artworks in our print program. More buyers will then be able to afford interesting versions of an artist’s artwork, at attractive prices |
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Besides making your art more accessible, this helps you generate additional revenue for yourself without even selling your artwork. Print-on-Demand can also create a recurrent income flow from the same artwork. You reach more buyers who can hence afford interesting versions of your artwork, at attractive prices |
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| In what other ways does The Fuschia Tree help me as an artist? |
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At TFT, we put artist interests first. Besides promoting, selling and licensing your artworks, you have direct access to our entire team for any query or guidance. For specialised queries, we are happy to get you in touch with some of our curators, all senior artists in their fields. |
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| Who are the TFT Curators and what role do they play? |
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The TFT Curators are senior artists, from various media, who form the selection committee for the TFT Gallery. They decide whether your submitted artworks can be exhibited at the TFT gallery. Their knowledge and experience also contributes to our TFT Art Magazine and provides mentoring to emerging artists' needs. |
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TFT Art Magazine is a dynamic forum of artists and art lovers, which studies art trends and movements, décor and aesthetics, thought and opinion, along with artist blogs, interviews and much, much more. We invite comments and contributions from all of you to make the TFT Art Magazine the most referred art directory in the region. |
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| What are the various options available to sell my work? |
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| The Fuschia Tree offers various avenues through which a work can be sold. |
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Original artwork sale – An artist’s work can be sold through The Fuschia Tree as original signed art. The Fuschia Tree charges a commission of 33 percent on all signed artwork sales. The listed price on the gallery includes the 33 percent commission payable to The Fuschia Tree. You keep the remaining 67 percent.
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Art Bespoke – Prints of original artwork can be sold in different sizes and on various media. Any number of these custom prints on demand can be ordered. The listed price of Art Bespoke is the base price fixed by TFT for each size, plus the mark up indicated by you for your artwork. For every sale, you are entitled to retain the full mark up, out of the listed price. TFT does not charge any commission on mark ups.
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Art merchandising – As an artist if you would like to collaborate with us to create merchandising, please email sales@thefuschiatree.com. |
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| Outside of the gallery, how does The Fuschia Tree support me as an artist? |
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The Fuschia Tree is dedicated to providing exemplary services to artists. Outside of our online gallery that helps you reach an ever-widening audience, we also have a brick and mortar infrastructure in place to sell your artworks. We are currently organizing and participating in many ongoing exhibitions as well as we have a committed sales team to sell your art to corporate/large buyers. TFT also sends out newsletters to galleries highlighting the most recent artworks listed on our website. On top of all this, we have an aggressive marketing plan for our website that will launch you and your works displayed at The Fuschia Tree into the global marketplace. |
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| How can I optimize my art for search efficiency? |
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While describing your art during the artist registration process, do remember to optimize your art for search efficiency. The fuschia Tree’s advanced search options allow buyers to search your work by color / themes / subjects / categories etc. Some tips to remember when optimizing your art:
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Be descriptive. Use as many different words as you can to describe your art. |
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Categorize it accurately. The TFT art description page has options for title, genre, colors, and media used. |
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Do not use uncommon words. Try to put yourself in the buyer’s shoes and understand which words they might use while searching for a piece of art. |
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Do not use two words when one would suffice and do not use hyphens. Most buyers will not use hyphens or other punctuations in their search. |
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