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 National Visual Arts Editor. For a decade she worked as a freelance writer and curator across Southeast Asia and was previously the Regional Contributing Editor for Hong Kong based magazines Asian Art News and World Sculpture News. Prior to writing she worked as an arts manager in America and Australia for 14 years, including the regional gallery, biennale and commercial sectors. She is based in Mittagong, regional NSW. Twitter: @ginafairley Instagram: fairleygina