Summary of Good Practice Recommendations

Gallery and exhibition spaces have a responsibility to:

• provide transparent and accessible information on their standard terms, including services, fees, floor plans and a standard hire agreement

• consider, communicate, plan and, where feasible, ensure the accessibility of physical spaces, online spaces and events, see Access Rights for d/Deaf and Disabled People

• implement equitable application processes, see Equitable Application Processes

• promote the exhibition 

Artists have a responsibility to:

• transport the work to and from the space

• price the work

• provide free images to promote the exhibition

• promote the exhibition

• consider, communicate, plan and where possible, ensure the work is accessible (see Access Rights for d/Deaf and Disabled People)

Agreements should include: 

• terms and conditions, according to a standard, transparent and accessible (preferably digital) template

• hire rates

• hire period

• floorplan of space

• list of works to be exhibited

• commission/consignment sales process, rates and period

• exhibition guidelines

• condition report of the space before hire 

• installation arrangements

• arrangements for Acknowledgement of Country in the space and online

• advertising and collateral material arrangements

• pricing of work

• responsibility for opening night arrangements and costs

• accessibility provisions

• staffing arrangements at opening night and during the show

• responsibility for insurances, including public liability insurance and insurance for loss or damage of the work

• rubbish removal