Finding success outside the gallery system

Perth-born New York-based artist Ian Strange offers advice on how to go it solo without a gallery and how to find your support tribe.
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Image courtesy Ian Strange

He has shown with iconic street artists Shepard Fairey, Oz Jemios and Banksy. He successfully manages a studio in Brooklyn, has exhibited internationally and been commissioned by major museums, and yet, he does it largely himself.

Perth-born artist Ian Strange has chosen to date to work outside the traditional gallery system, and to complicate that further, he has chosen the “art centre of the world” to do it – New York.

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Gina Fairley is ArtsHub's Senior Contributor, after 12 years in the role as National Visual Arts Editor. She has worked for extended periods in America and Southeast Asia, as gallerist, arts administrator and regional contributing editor for a number of magazines, including Hong Kong based Asian Art News and World Sculpture News. She is an Art Tour leader for the AGNSW Members, and lectures regularly on the state of the arts. She is based in Mittagong, regional NSW. Instagram: fairleygina