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While there have been numerous conferences on the theoretical and critical aspects of art, craft and design writing over the past decade in Australia, the more pragmatic issues of arts publishing – distribution, marketing, audience and niche market development-have seldom been addressed.
Australia has a very active arts publishing sector, with much of the material published, including magazines, exhibition catalogues and monographs, being produced on tight budgets by small independent presses. Much of this material is sold by subscription and some is distributed through mainstream commercial systems. With the globalization of both publishing houses and distribution companies over recent years, it is increasingly difficult (and expensive) for small publishers to access these mainstream circulation systems and to reach their maximum potential new readerships.
An Arts Publishing Forum, to be held in Brisbane in late November, will address these and other issues in both mainstream and small press publishing. One of the unique aspects of this forum is that it will bring together speakers from large commercial and small independent publish broad spectrum of arts publishing will be examined in the context of changes and trends within the national and international industry.
Individual sessions of the two day forum have been structured to look at specific areas, including: book publishing in the arts and its academic and general markets; art, craft, design magazines and journals-niche publishing in a competitive market; exhibition catalogues, their roles in the commercial and non-commercial gallery systems and their life beyond the exhibition; electronic publishing; museum publishing; marketing; distribution; identification of audiences.
Speakers confirmed as we go to press include Laurie Muller, General Manager, University of Queensland Press; Richard Gilmore, Thames and Hudson; Maggie Hamilton, Publicist, Trans... The rest of this article is available to subscribers of Eyeline