CIAF 2025 Art Market

CIAF is committed to strengthening and celebrating culture, creating professional development opportunities for artists, and cultural exchange between Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders and visitors.

CIAF is focused on offering an ethical art market-place, attracting national and international collectors and curators, commissioning new work and providing pathways for emerging visual and performance artists.

ART MARKET GUIDELINES

The CIAF Art Market is curated, and all potential art market stallholders are required to adhere to the following criteria:

• The artwork presented must be done so in accordance with the CIAF Code of Practice and must be original work by Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander artists with traditional connection to Queensland.
• Products must be creative and original work; independent designs, or products of a handmade nature.
• The presentation of work must be professional with finished product/s, including professional quality of images or collateral used for marketing your brand.
• Products must demonstrate a commitment to independent design, adopting and/or using traditional crafts, new technologies in art and design, and/or innovative methods of making.
• Works must not be designed or created by Indigenous artists and/or designers who have been commissioned by a commercial business.

 

IMPORTANT DATES:

• Application closing date: Friday 31 May
• Successful notification date: Wednesday 5 June
• Booth fee payment due: (NO DATES SET)
• Art Market install: (NO DATES SET) , 9am-3:00pm.
• Art Market bump out: (NO DATES SET) , 3:00pm – 6:00pm 

EXHIBITION BOOTH LAYOUT

 *Should you require additional or custom display items, we suggest contacting NQ Exhibitions on (07) 4041 2713

*NB: Any additional displays or equipment will be at the cost of the exhibtior.

Please complete the form below by 10 May, 2025

Places are limited and applications are competitive. Please note that applying does not guarantee a space in the CIAF Art Market. Applications will be assessed and eligibility will be at the discretion of the CIAF management.

Only EOI's submitted online will be permitted. No hard copies will be accepted.

If your submission is successful, it will then form the contractual agreement between the Exhibitor and CIAF (ABN 64167840100) and both parties will be bound by the terms included.

Please read the full Terms and Conditions prior to submitting.

 

CONTACT US

If you have any questions while completing your expression of interest form, you can contact the Cairns Indigenous Art Fair by phone on 07 4252 6313 or via email at artfair@ciaf.com.au

QUEENSLAND INDIGENOUS ART MOVEMENT

The Cairns Indigenous Art Fair supports an authentic Queensland Indigenous art movement that celebrates a traditional and contemporary approach to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander cultural expressions through stories, design elements, motifs, symbolism and imagery that is unique to Queensland.

The use of traditional and cultural designs must be representative of Queensland Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander cultures and not representative of people and cultures outside of Queensland.

The use of dot work and cross-hatching with origins and styles from the Central and Western Desert and Arnhem Land in the Northern Territory is not considered traditional to Queensland.

CIAF upholds cultural protocols and does not approve of products for sale or display that present reproduced styles or creation beings without “proper” cultural permission.

If artwork is presented as following “traditional” styles, it should be culturally authentic to the artist. Artists must show a cultural connection or belonging to the designs and stories.

CIAF in consultation with the relevant Traditional Custodians will remove ceremonial objects for sale on display that may offend other Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander groups.

TERMS AND CONDITIONS

• I agree to the CIAF Art Market guidelines.
• I agree to pay the full stall fee amount per the invoice by Close Of Business June 28. If final payment is not made by this date, art fair stall will NOT be held for exhibitor.
• I agree that the artwork presented is done so in accordance with the CIAF Code of Practice and is original work by Aboriginal and or Torres Strait Islander artists with traditional connection to Queensland.
• I agree to follow the specifications that CIAF sets in the design of the floor plan and agree to present all works in a professional manner.
• I understand that the delivery of works/products is the responsibility of the exhibitor and insurance of works/products must be undertaken by the exhibitor.
• I agree that CIAF is not responsible for theft/damage to/breakage of works.
• I agree that all Art Market sales will be the responsibility of the exhibitor and I/we understand that the exhibitor stand must have a respresentative present at all times to greet potential buyers.
• I agree that all expenses incurred to attend the Art Market are the exhibitors responsibility. This includes the registration fee, insurance of works, transport and display materials (i.e. plinths and racks ect.)
• I agree that CIAF reserves the right to photograph the Art Market stand for promotion and marketing purposes.
• I understand that photography will be allowed throughout the Art Market in 2025. If you would not like to allow photography at your Art Market stall, please advise CIAF in writing. Signage will be produced for your stall.
• I agree to provide commercial in-confidence information on sales at the end of each day of CIAF. The total sales figure is information required for CIAF reporting purposes only and individual exhibitors sales figures will not be disclosed.
• I agree that the installation of works for the Art Market is the responsibility of the Exhibitor and will occur Thursday 25 July from 9am and must be completed by 3pm.
• I warrant that I have entered into agreements with the artists | exhibit at Cairns Indigenous Art Fair that comply with the minimum terms contained in the Indigenous Art Code whether or not i am a signatory to that code. https://indigenousartcode.org/storage/uploads/9ca09be3-b23e-4e37-9f5c-af37d906a907/Indigenous-Art-Code.pdf 

View the CIAF Code of Practice