Behind the Gallery Wall: Kaeli Yarwood on What It Takes to Get Represented

And that's kind of what I thought might be very helpful because I didn't know what it was like to be behind the scenes.

Cause all I thought was, Oh, you know, galleries, um, people that take money from the artists.

And in fact, I've been told that from young artists coming in and, you know, like, oh, you guys are just taking

these cuts.

You know,

I,

I say that I, I totally, like, I am an artist.

I don't have a gallery, but I completely can understand and relate because I, the the amount of work it's a whole business to be a gallery and an artist and a gallerist whether or not you're an artist as well are completely different brains you need teamwork to go we talk about this all the time as an organization where it's like we please take our work take a commission because otherwise it probably wouldn't sell just on our own because that's just not who the artist is like yes they're painting they're not promoting it's a completely different so I'm with you on that and that like that's how the world works everyone works to their strength and it's everyone's just trying to help everyone really especially in the art world it's like I find such a genuine world I'm sure there's some not perhaps but the vast majority of people involved are out of passion mostly involved in this kind of world I just wanted to really point and go on with what you're saying, but really call that out because I think so many people think, oh, I don't want to be in a gallery.

I don't want to give them this.

And it's like, well, no, no, no.

They will X times your sales and allow you to do what you love while they get to talk and network and share the story side of it.

Because even I've been doing so many of these interviews and artists are like, ah, I don't really want to do this.

I'm like, it's good for you.

It's a whole, like we, this allows us to market you.

Exactly.

And I think you go on more about

it.

Yeah.

And that's so funny coming from and walking into that gallery as somebody that identified as an artist and then to sit in the chair and realize like, I think the greatest thing that happened to me, well, not that my mentor passed away, but the most growth that I have experienced was that, okay, at first I was like, I better hold this.

He was the first human that I had lost.

I had lost a dog in the past, which was awful.

Then it was the first human that had a legacy.

We couldn't even get in the doors, the amount of flowers that were piled outside.

He was kind of the unofficial mayor of Salt Spring.

And he actually made it on CBC for 10 minutes.