Working with the arts & museums

29/02/2024
by Simon McClelland Morris
Exhibitions & Events, Art, Galleries

Giving back to the cultures which supports your well-being is always rewarding. It's one of the reasons we like working with the arts and cultural institutions such as museums so much. These spaces that share education and thought-provoking art are such a valuable part of our lives, giving a platform to a myriad of artists, including writers, actors, playwrights, musicians, designs, sculptures and photographers. It's one of the reasons we started our self-curated central London gallery listing site Twenty One Trees.

We also love to be involved in the arts and museum based projects we work on regularly. These include venues such as the Natural History Museum, Tate Modern, 180 The Strand, Somerset House, The Brunei Gallery, Saatchi Gallery and the Royal Academy of Arts. As well as a host of smaller independent art galleries across London.

Location, location, location

We're well suited to working within these locations, amongst other reasons, we're situated just off London's Oxford Street, a relative stone's throw away from the surrounding arts culture. We feel that there's a huge benefit for having a central London Account Manager hub and production studio, not least, it can help you lower your carbon footprint. You can read more about it our central London location here.

A safe pair of hands

Dealing with, and working within environments which have unique pieces of arts, antique objects, and historic exhibits ,you need to have a supplier who you can trust to be careful and respectful. You need a safe pair of hands. It was important for us undertake and become accredited with SafeContractor certification. The Graphical Tree can provide reassurance that we have competence in health & safety, financial stability, environmental management, operational quality, acknowledge modern slavery protocols and more.

Experience and quality

Then there's our knowledge and production quality. With all our work, be it for retail environments, exhibitions and events, or office livery, we recognise that the public come into close proximity to the graphics, signage, and branding we produce and project manage. So it's really important that we produce high quality work. We continually invest in our production kit with eco-friendly latex ink inkjets, direct-to-media and routing capabilities, dye-sub and fine art printing so we can support the artist as well as the institution.

Sustainability

And then there's also our environmental offering. We're well aware how much the graphics industry impacts on the environment, so we do what we can to minimise our own. Our commitment to eco-printing, sustainable materials and graphics is part of this. Thankfully there are more and more sustainably-friendly printing products and media being developed and introduced to the display marker all the time. We regularly lobby our suppliers for better and better, genuinely sustainable materials to offer customers.

What might you need?

We cover a huge array of services which are used within the arts and museum spaces. These include printed wallpapers for feature walls; cut vinyl decals for signage; floor graphics; banners for external use; printed graphics for window advertising and marketing; fabrication and direct-to-media - which are great from supporting props; a full installation service; and even archival fine art prints that can be used in the exhibitions themselves.

Get in touch if you have an event or show you need our expertise help with.

print@thegraphicaltree.com + 020 7580 4405.