About Gallery Afrique

What we are about

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. African art has also inspired artists globally and its influence can still be seen in contemporary art forms around the world.

Our objective is to highlight these creations and more.

We do this by exploring the Progression of Artistic Expression and Analysing the shift from Rock Art to Photography.

Our goal is to facilitate 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.

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)

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.

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