Hi, I am Brendan, the creator of the 'Lean mean fast selling art

machine' .

 

I am hoping that you want to design and build your own vending machine to sell art from for your exhibition, gallery etc and that’s why you have visited this page. I am guessing that you have seen the vending machine in the exhibition and thought; 'I want to build one of those; that is such a good idea'.

 

The point of the vending machine came out of anger as I got sick and tired of seeing exhibitions and events and all the work is just placed on a table with a white cloth over the top. To me, that does not showcase the work off, I want a bit more of an experience when I am buying a piece of work, I wanted that little bit extra than just purchasing a book and getting in a paper bag and saying 'Cheers'. The customer has bought your artwork! A person has thought that is worth paying the money for!

Nine times of ten though, they look at the item once and maybe put in a draw somewhere until they need to find certain keys for a shed or need batteries for the TV remote. At least with this machine, they will have had an experience of going up to the machine, selecting which book they want, inserting the money and a piece of artwork coming out. That person will remember that item for how they bought it. That is an experience in itself.

 

These instructions, if you download them, will go through a step-by-step on how to build your own vending machine. This is just a base guideline on how I built mine but I have added little extra's so it matches my style of work. You do not need to do this. I want you to add your own little features to make it better. The dream would be that there would be these machines popping up all over the place, in different colours, shapes, sizes etc.

 

Make it your own.

I hope you enjoy building your own lean mean fast selling art machine.

 

Thanks and enjoy,

 

Brendan Reilly