ABOUT
Gallery Afrique is a family owned and operated Art and Framing business where you are assured of service excellence and high quality artworks.
All fine-art pigment Prints are meticulously created in-house to museum quality standards.
Our Team
Gallery Manager: Peter Dooley
Business Manager: David Dooley
Curator: Jeff Dooley
Assistant Curator: Pater Dooley
Website Manager: Peter Dooley
Art and Framing Advisor: Paula Dooley
Our passion
The legacy of ancient African art is reflected in a variety of modern art forms today, with African artists actively investigating and challenging the previous confines of their traditional techniques and styles. The African heratige and culture has also inspired artists globally and its influence can still be seen in contemporary art forms around the world.
We are fascinated by the progression of African Artistic Expression and in particular, the shift from Rock Art to modern Photography as a medium to convey the African story.
We passionately select artists whose works weave the intrigue of ancient Africa with contemporary personal narratives. Our mission is to support these artists and showcase their creations globally.
Background
Gallery Afrique is a modern style on-line gallery with a fixed Gallery situated in in an up-market location - Bedfordview, Johannesburg, South Africa
A new trend has emerged in the global gallery space where old fashioned brick-and-mortar galleries are being closed down due to the high costs involved in rent and maintenance and on- line galleries are becoming the new norm worldwide.
Apart from reaching a much wider audience, these on-line galleries are able to sell art at a much more affordable price whilst not impacting the profitability of their artists.
The legacy of ancient African art is reflected in a variety of modern art forms, with African artists actively investigating and challenging the confines of their traditional techniques and styles. Our objective is to highlight these creations and others.
We do this by exploring the Progression of Artistic Expression and Analysing the shift from ancient Art forms to contemporary Photography Art.
We provide a platform for contemporary photographers to exhibit their works to a wide range of markets, locally and internationally, and in so doing, to convey the African Story.
Exhibitions are held both on-line and in person as temporary exhibitions (usually 2-7 days) using the popular pop-up method.
Gallery Afrique has been designed to operate along all of these modern marketing trends.
Printing, Framing and Fulfilment
At Gallery Afrique, we have our own in-house printing facility where every print is checked by the artist and/or gallery director to ensure that you get the very best artwork.
We offer framing services from our in-house framing facility and we handle the logistics required to get your artwork to you in the most efficient and professional way.
Getting Listed
We are currently accepting applications to be listed. If you are interested, feel free to contact me atPeter.w.dooley@gmail.com and send me your contact details, mobile number and your style of photography (landscape, seascape, wildlife, people, street etc)
Our Artists are selected for their "ability to look through the haze and trauma affecting the world to a more pristine view of what an unspoiled environment looks like, a view humanity has forgotten about or maybe never experienced"
You will thereafter be required to send JPG files (max 3MB) via WeTransfer of your photographic artworks for application. We may thereafter call for some of your RAW files for further evaluation. You will retain the copyright and ownership of all your original works and we will not use nor sell any of your work without your written permission to do so.
We will not restrict our artists with an exclusive contract as many galleries do. We are happy to have you listed with us and be co-listed with any other gallery or market or your own website. This ensures that you get maximum exposure in the market space and that is exactly what our primary goal is.
Whether or not you have an existing market our are just starting out on your artistic journey, we will be very happy to list you to help propel you into the global market.
We look forward to hearing from you.
Our mission is to provide a platform to all of our artists, the early-career young and emerging artists with their fresh and innovative perspectives, the established, the historically underrepresented and the overlooked.
It is here that our arists seek to be discovered by the mainstream global art market, foster genuine relationships with potential buyers and to be introduced to new audiences.
We define “African Photography Artists” as people connected to Africa, irrespective of race or belief, and who have a love of the African landscape, its people, its fauna and flora and its complex African Heritage.
Authenticity
A Certificate of Authenticity is issued by Gallery Afrique for all artwork sold. This cerificate authenticates that the artwork is the Original Artwork by the Artist.
We do not support artists who have used AI in any of their work at any time where the works of other artists have been used, either to 'teach' the AI generator or to aquire such works by any means, irrespective of how or where the AI generator aquired such works, or learned from such third party works.
If however, an artist only uses AI to add elements of his or her own original work or technology to enhance their own work, we will consider that artwork as their own work.
For this reason, we only represent artists that have a proven track record of photographic authenticity. All artworks in the portfolio of the artist must therefore be their own original works and captured by the artist. The Gallery may call on the artist to provide the original unedited RAW file to verify its originality.
With Thanks
We would like to thank Shaun Stubley for his contribution of captivating graphic design of our logo, website and marketing material.
Shaun is a highly respected UK fine art photographer and studied at Loughborough College of Art and Design where he gained a diploma in graphic design.
Thank you sincerely Shaun
Mission
Our mission is to provide a platform to all of our artists, the early-career young and emerging artists with their fresh and innovative perspectives, the established, the historically underrepresented and the overlooked.
It is here that our arists seek to be discovered by the mainstream global art market, foster genuine relationships with potential buyers and to be introduced to new audiences.
We define “African Photography Artists” as people connected to Africa, irrespective of race or belief, and who have a deep love and understanding of the complex African Heritage and Ancient Traditions.
CONTACTS
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