Hire an artist
Commission the work that does not exist yet.
One piece for a wall you cannot fill, or four hundred for a building that opens in March. You choose the artist and agree the brief; we handle the contract, the staged payments, the insurance and the freight.
Three routes
Whatever the scale, the same protections
The process is identical; only the size of the roster and the length of the programme change.
For collectors
Hire one artist
You have found someone whose work you love and you want more of it — a companion piece, a series for one room, or something made to a size that does not exist yet.
- Choose the artist, agree the brief together
- Payment released at milestones, not upfront
- Revisions built into the agreement
For trade & property
Commission at volume
A hotel, a residential development, a hospital, a corporate floor plate. Fifty to several hundred works that need to feel like one coherent collection rather than a bulk purchase.
- One curator holds the whole programme
- Work distributed across a matched roster of artists
- Phased delivery against your handover dates
For galleries & curators
Engage a roster
You are mounting a show and need ten artists working to a theme, a deadline and a hanging plan — with the contracts, shipping and insurance handled so you can curate.
- Shortlist built to your curatorial brief
- One agreement covering every artist
- Consolidated inbound freight and condition reporting
How it runs
Brief to installed
- 01Brief
Scale, budget band, palette, dates. A call if that is easier than a form.
- 02Roster
We propose artists matched to the brief, with sample work and realistic capacity — not everyone can absorb eighty pieces.
- 03Agreement
One contract covering scope, revisions, copyright, deadlines and the milestone schedule. Everyone signs the same document.
- 04Making
Progress images at each milestone. Payment releases as each is approved, so nobody is carrying the other.
- 05Delivery
Crated, insured, shipped and — where you want it — installed to your date.
Why through us
What you would otherwise be carrying yourself
A commission is a months-long agreement between two people who have never met, often across borders and currencies. Everything below is what the platform absorbs.
The contract
A written agreement covering scope, revisions, deadlines, copyright and what happens if either side walks away. Most direct commissions have nothing in writing, and that is exactly when they go wrong.
The money
Funds are held and released at agreed milestones. The artist is never asked to work months unpaid, and you never pay in full for something you have not seen.
The risk
Crating, insurance, freight and customs across borders, with damage in transit our problem. On a fifty-piece programme that is a logistics job, not an errand.
The recourse
If work arrives late, wrong or damaged, there is somewhere to go. A direct arrangement between two strangers in different countries has no recourse at all.
Conversations stay on the platform
Briefs, revisions and progress images are exchanged through Art Sutra, and contact details are not shared until a commission is agreed and underway. That is not about control — it is what makes the guarantees above enforceable. An arrangement made privately has no milestone protection, no insurance and no recourse for either side.
Artists are protected by exactly the same rule. Taking a commission off-platform means working without a contract, without staged payment and without anyone to chase an unpaid invoice — which is how most artists get burned. Both parties keep their guarantees by keeping the work here.
Once a commission is complete, artists keep the collector relationship — repeat commissions, follows and reviews all belong to the artist’s gallery.
Available for commission
A few of the artists taking briefs
Tell us the scale and the date.
One wall or four hundred. We will tell you honestly whether it is achievable in the time you have, and what it costs, before anyone signs anything.