Student Art Market exists on a simple premise: the best moment to back an artist is before anyone else does, and the people who make the work should keep the money it earns.
The problem
Every year, thousands of talented artists graduate into a market that has no obvious place for them. Galleries take established names; commercial platforms take a cut of everything; and the work made at the very start of a practice, often the most experimental and undervalued, rarely finds a buyer at all. The result is that emerging artists subsidise the early years of their careers themselves, and collectors miss the window when work is most affordable.