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Fine Art Trade Guild Committees
Framers Committee
Committee Members: Mary Evans GCF Adv (Chair), Ian Dixon GCF, Katie Herriman GCF, Neil Duguid, Nicola Harrold, Steven McKee GCF Adv, Barry Leveton GCF Adv, Mal Reynolds GCF Adv. Contact Framers Committee Members
A dedicated technical committee. This committee also voluntarily staffs the Guild technical line, a phone line to help Guild Member framers with technical advice and problem solving. Guild Members: contact the technical helpline .
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Guild Framers Committee Remit:
- Vocational Qualifications Development and Maintenance (currently GCF and Advanced GCF Modules)
- Framing Standards development and oversight
- Framing Materials specifications
- Framing Skills and Knowledge Training
- Professional Framer recruitment and retention – benefits, needs, interests etc.
Fine Art Trade Guild Retail and Marketing Committee
This Committee is currently dormant, its functions taken on by Guild staff pending re-establishment.
Its responsibilities cover:
- Art & Framing For You issues, as per the AFFY strategy document – gaining Consumer Awareness of Guild, its members and qualified practitioners, and the art and framing industry in general
- Retailer Training, Business Training
- Gallery recruitment and retention – benefits, needs, interests, etc.
Contemporary Art Dealer Committee
This Committee is currently dormant
Its remit is to attract and retain Contemporary Art Dealers, strengthening services for this sub-sector
Fine Art Committee
Committee members: Marialuisa Marino (chair), Colin Ruffell, Frances Aliefeh, Jorge Aguilar-Agón, Alex Borissov, Gordon King, Lynne Holehouse, Sue Howells, Peter Town, Pip McGarry. Contact Fine Art Committee Members
The Fine Art Committee’s remit is to attract and retain artist members, strengthening services for this sub-sector and educating artists to be better at business. Guild staff have been instrumental in developing many initiatives to fulfil this remit, including Annabelle Ruston’s book, co-published with A&C Black, ‘An Artist’s Guide to Selling Work’.
Printers and Publishers Committee
This Committee is currently dormant.
Printers and Publishers Committee remit:
- Print Standards development and oversight
- Print Stamping Programme development
- Publisher Recruitment and Retention
- Printer Recruitment and Retention
- Copyright issues
Although the committee was dormant, in 2008, the Guild Managing Director drew together experts from across the art industry to consider a definition for the term Original Print. Attendees were:
Christrose Sumner, Chair, Fine Art Trade Guild managing director; Michael Kennedy, Printmakers Council; Hilary Paynter, Royal Society of Painter-Printmakers, artist; Katy Richfield, DeMontfort Fine Art Ltd; Jenny Roland, The Curwen Studio; Colin Ruffell, Master of the Guild, self-publishing artist, Crabfish Ltd; Moira Sanders, Fine Art Trade Guild Print Standards Programme Manager; Mike Sims, Art Business Today and Printmaking Today; Simon Stokes, Solicitor, Blake Lapthorn Tarlo Lyon.
Guild Members: read the report of the meeting.
