Smiths Row art Gallery is an art gallery based in Bury St Edmunds. Although a small gallery, it has a wide variety of exhibitions supporting local art and design industry. Smiths Row is well known for their learning and workshops, always open to lend a helping hand with their vast knowledge of their specific areas of art. They are happy to support new as well as accomplished artists through their surgeries, tutorials, are a well established part of the local community, running workshops and lessons in schools across the county. “one-to-one surgeries for artists to talk through their artistic practice with one of the Smiths Row team to receive critical feedback and discuss professional development” - Smiths Row Website.
As an art gallery, Smiths Row makes their business through the sales of artwork, from which they get a percentage. Artists have to pay to display their work in the gallery, a great form of advertising for local artists. However, a large bulk of Smith Row's business is from their workshops and shop, which contains a large variety of handmade objects, prints and artwork from local artists. Smiths Row is well known in the local community for these connections to the sales of local artwork and crafts. "Our contemporary Craft Shop showcases affordable work by the very best British makers, including ceramics, jewellery, textiles and printmaking, alongside artist-designed cards and wrapping paper." - Smiths row website.
As a local art gallery, Smiths Row is greatly publicised in the local and wider community. Their many exhibitions are advertised in the local paper, through flyers and on their website, http://www.smithsrow.org/, which even contains an exhibition list for the whole year. As a public service, funded partly from the local council, art gallery’s exhibitions and workshops are always well advertised.
Smiths Row prides itself for the promotion of contemporary art is the east and work both with artists and the public the help to make art accessible to everyone. In this sense, the art gallery is extremely successful with its wide variety and extensive list of exhibitions. However, I also think that the gallery is successful as a business too, generating profits through their services both to artists and students alike, selling work and providing tutorial style surgeries for aspiring artists.
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