TIGA looks at work from artists across Ghana and West Africa all year round, whether or not we have an open call running. If you are making something you believe in, we would like to see it.
We are not looking for a particular style, medium or level of experience. We represent painters who have shown for forty years and artists who finished art school last year, and the questions we ask are the same for both.
Four steps, and no cost at any point.
Email us photographs of six to twelve pieces, with the title, size, medium and year for each. Phone photographs are fine as long as the work fills the frame and the light is even. A short note about what you are making, in your own words, helps more than a formal statement.
Every submission is seen by the gallery, not filtered by a form. We take up to three weeks, and we write back either way. If the answer is no, we will tell you plainly rather than leave you waiting.
Photographs only go so far. If we are interested we will ask to visit your studio, or to have you bring a few pieces to Cantonments. This is a conversation, not an assessment.
That might mean a group show, a place in the gallery, or a single work on the wall to begin with. We explain our terms in plain language before anything is signed, and you keep ownership of everything until it sells.
Everything in one email. It keeps your work together and means nothing is lost between messages.
info@tigaafricanart.com · or call +233 20 780 0460
No. We do not charge to look at work, to show it, or to hang it. A gallery that asks an artist for money before selling anything is not a gallery.
No. Several of the artists we represent came to us with no exhibition history at all.
We will say so, and where we can we will say why. You are welcome to send new work later, and some artists we now represent were a no the first time.
No. We show works on paper, prints, sculpture, textiles and jewellery alongside painting.
No. We work with artists across Ghana and West Africa, and we are used to arranging things at a distance.
Please email first so we know to expect you. Turning up with work unannounced usually means nobody is free to look at it properly.
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