Artsake Artists is a Gallery Portfolio of Artists' works

Artsake Artists is a Gallery Portfolio of Artists’ works

CLIENT: Artsake, Artsake Artists and ArteKunst

Artsake, Artsake Artists and ArteKunst are branded within Artsake Global Gallery. A portal for artists to display their works of art for sale, commision free. Unlimited amout of image and text uploads for a monthly cost of £5 per month. These independent artists, who are commissioned, exhibit or sell work on a regular basis, can be contacted directly using their own contact form or by telephone found on their same contact page. Artsake is here to put the buyers and artists together, it does not act as an agent.

David Hosking Painter - Artsake Artist website — David Hosking Painter – Artsake Artist landing page

REQUIREMENTS:

Artsake Artists needs to grow it’s portfolio and exhibitions of established contemporary artists. Content should include a diversity of art medium: paintings, sculpture, prints, textiles, illustrators, photography, mixed-media.

It has to be easy to use, for artists to upload their images and text. The site text needs to explain clearly what is offered to both the artists and visitors to the site.

It was necessary to reduce administration of the artists’ content from the website administrators in order to allow a lower monthly pricing model.

It should appear that each artist effectively gets their own website which opens in its own browser window from the parent Artsake website.

A diary of events and exhibitions was also required, to be fullfilled by Artsake artists but also by registered guests such as gallery owners and exhibition organisers.

WEB SOLUTIONS:

Joomla! was used with two template designs. The first took care of the main parent website containing all the information and registration processes. The second was used for each exhibiting artist. The challenge still remains to gain more interest to increase the number of contributing artists. A major marketing campaign is being planned as the next step.