Preparing your art for reproduction

Get more out of your art with art reproductions. Join Jeremy Daalder from Image Science to de-mystify the process of preparing your art work for professional reproduction. Come along with your questions as Jeremy is ready to answer them in this conversational 2 hour workshop.

Get the answers from the source to the questions that have been stopping you from this next step.

• Why do art reproduction at all?
• Why do art reproduction properly?
• Effects on original artwork value
• DIY  vs. Service
• Capture of Artworks
• Effective Digital Editing of Artworks
• Printing of Artworks (inc. materials, archival concerns etc)
• Editions – limited/open/timed etc.
• Presentation of Reproduction Artworks for Sale (online, markets etc, framing concerns)
• Streamlining Art Reproduction through Effective Processes and Standardisation
• Pricing Concerns

I am Jeremy Daalder – owner of Image Science.   My personal background is originally in Professional Photography (technical studio photography of difficult subjects like jewellery etc.) – and before that, Computer Science.  I combined these two skill sets, and my strong interests in the visual arts, to form Image Science in 2001, when digital fine art printing was nascent.

Fast forward more than 20 years, and Image Science is now the longest continuously running fine art printing company in Melbourne, and is the only Hahnemühle Platinum Certified Studio in Australia (and was only the third Studio in the world to achieve this).  With our open and friendly approach, we have been sharing knowledge with artists across the world – not least in the form of our famous (free!) knowledgebase that has over 700 articles covering just about all aspects of digital imaging, fine art printing, and art reproduction.

Image Science is a fine art studio, but we also do retail.  Both sides of the business inform the other – we can much more effectively advise and support sales of equipment and materials because we also use these things, ourselves, on a daily basis to run a world class fine art studio.  Thus, we can be your ongoing art service partners, or we can help you set up to do these things – and do them to an excellent standard – for yourself.

We have been the leaders in Art Reproduction in Melbourne for the last two decades and our clients range from beginning artists right through to ‘household names’ in the art world – those selling thousands of prints each year – like Leunig, Jeremy Geddes, and Ross Watson.  We of course also work with leading photographers like Jason Edwards from National Geographic.

It’s also worth pointing out that Image Science is, deliberately, a small studio – we concentrate on high quality, personal service, and an ethical and environmentally friendly approach both to the running of our own business, and encouraging those considerations in the practices of the people and businesses we work with.  We are particularly good at helping emerging artists who are transitioning from the hobby/casual stage to more professional art practices and can offer advice on all aspects of that journey.

The aerie professional development program will provide monthly workshops for artists. These workshops will aim to develop artists’ strategic skills in arts business, marketing and more.

There are limited places in each workshop.