Spring 2012: Buying and Collecting Contemporary Art

Alongside our coverage of the London Art Fair, we asked three collectors for tips on buying contemporary art and how to approach building a collection.

Alongside our coverage of the London Art Fair, we asked three collectors for tips on buying contemporary art and how to approach building a collection.

Alongside our coverage of the London Art Fair, we asked three collectors for tips on buying contemporary art and how to approach building a collection.

Find out what people are saying about this year's Fair on social media. Don't forget to add your opinion on Twitter using hashtag #londonartfair

Come behind-the-scenes of the Art Projects section of the London Art Fair with us. Keep an eye on our Blog as we update you on the comings and goings at the Fair during 18 - 22 January 2012.

Axis will be showing in the Art Projects Space where galleries present the work of emerging international contemporary artists with solo shows, curated group displays, editions and large-scale installations.

Do you financially supplement your artistic practice with part-time lecturing? Artist Jennifer Steele does and has started to question the viability of this career path, and the future of art education, as visiting lecturers' pay and hours are reduced.

Pricing your work is one thing, but being your own dealer is another says photographer Robin Cracknell. He gets to grips with how to sell work on and off-line, without the support of a gallery.

The exhibition 'A Private Affair: Personal Collections of Contemporary Art' take place at The Harris Museum and Art Gallery, Preston, 28 January - 5 May 2012. Curated in collaboration with the Contemporary Art Society, the exhibtion features work by emerging and established artists, owned by private collectors in the North of England. To find out more, we interview three of the collectors who have generously loaned work for the exhibition.