ADDING TRUST AND VALUE TO THE WORKS YOU CARE ABOUT.

WHAT WE DO

Fully-managed, transferable Certificates & blockchain options.
FROM £15.00

Secure DNA Tags to identify your works
and link them to the digital record.
FROM £15.00

Streamline your records with artwork record management.
FREE

MANAGE YOUR ARTWORK RECORDS, CERTIFICATES AND TAGS ON YOUR COMPUTER, TABLET, OR PHONE.

  • MAKE YOUR STORY LAST

    Preserve information about your work for future generations. Manage preferences for editions, collector communication, and Certificate personalisation. Add additional protection to key works with Tagsmart DNA Tagging technology.

  • ENHANCE YOUR ART VALUE

    Our Certificates create a digital and physical provenance record for your work, designed to last for centuries. They provide additional evidence to collectors and custodians that your work represents a lifetime - and beyond - commitment.

  • TRUSTED WORKS SELL BETTER

    Ninety percent of new art buyers (up from 87% in 2022) said that the ability to accurately track an artwork’s history and provenance would increase their confidence in buying art online.

    *Hiscox Report, 2023

HOW IT WORKS

WHO WE WORK WITH

  • ARTISTS

    Track your Certificate status, monitor edition numbering, allow/disallow artwork sharing by your collectors on social media, enable your gallery to issue Certificates on your behalf.

    KEY BENEFITS:

    Streamline provenance records
    Track ownership changes
    Integrate with galleries
    Offer increased collector confidence

  • GALLERIES, STUDIOS & CORPORATES

    Offer every collector a high-quality, personalised product, a free online artwork account, optional blockchain registration and DNA tag technology.

    Enhance work values with a physical/digital provenance record designed to last for centuries.

    KEY BENEFITS:

    Branded physical + digital certification
    Provide increased collector confidence
    Support after-sales
    Demonstrate professional approach to art sales
    Improved organisation
    Security of ownership
    Protected value
    Legacy preservation designed to last 100s of years

  • COLLECTORS

    Our Certificates create a digital and physical provenance record for your work, designed to last for centuries. They provide additional evidence that your work represents a lifetime - and beyond - commitment.

    KEY BENEFITS:

    Secure digital + physical provenance records
    Confidence in your role as a custodian of the art
    Building portfolio value through verifiable provenance
    Added protection for key works

WOOLWICH CONTEMPORARY PRINT FAIR X TAGSMART PRIZE

Our partnership with the Woolwich Contemporary Print Fair has been ongoing since 2019. In 2020, we introduced the Tagsmart Prize at WCPF, which now occurs annually.

Tagsmart Prizewinner at WCPF 2023:

Cayetano Sanz de Santamaría

The prizewinner package includes:

10 free personalised for collectors Certificates with online provenance records, printed and posted free of charge to anywhere in the world (standard Certificate price £15.00)

Free account with concierge service for each Certificate (help with catalogue data management, manually checking collector addresses etc. before despatch, and provide any other support required)

Regular social media coverage of works, exhibitions during the year

Artist of the month on the Tagsmart website for a chosen month

TAGSMART BENEFITS

  • Physical Security

    Each Certificate features multiple security measures, from the overt (clearly present, e.g. cuts) to the covert (taggants and deformations) and has its own security profile.

  • Replacement and Revocation

    If a Certificate is damaged, lost or stolen, the holder can apply for a replacement. The original will be revoked by Tagsmart and invalidated on the platform.

  • Record Management

    We maintain and securely archive all your provenance and portfolio data, records of artwork transfers, Certification, and other information. We can provide detailed custom reports on request.

  • Your Custom Design

    We can design and produce for you your own, bespoke Tagsmart Certificate template for use on all your certificates.

  • Mediated Transfers

    If a collector sells or passes on a work, the existing Certificate can be used to re-register the work in the new owner's name, subject to individual security checks made by Tagsmart and approval of the existing owner. A provenance trail of registrations is maintained in our archives.

  • Signature Management

    Certificates can be signed by hand or a digital signature. Variations of the signature will be generated so that each certificate has a unique version applied to it.

WHY US

“Being an artist is always a struggle to get time in the studio. With Tagsmart, it’s easy to issue Certificates, letting my Tagsmart Team take care of the rest! The Certificates look professional and beautiful: all the way down to paper quality and colour, timing and control. The importance of knowing that my Collector will have the best impression when buying my art can never be underestimated.”

Marit Geraldine Bostad | Geraldine Studio | Norway

Tagsmart is a simple and effective method of providing an independently verified Certificate, giving our collectors the security and peace of mind that each piece comes directly from the artist's studio.

Kurt Beers | CEO | Beers London

Working with Tagsmart helps me to secure the provenance of my work for future generations and gives me a quick and easy way to generate independently verified Certificates for my collectors.

Dan Hillier | Artist | danhillier.com

“We have used Tagsmart's certification services for years. Tagsmart Registrars have always been very friendly and helpful, putting thought into every single of our requests and solving any doubts and problems promptly. The collector accounts are so easy to set up and the collectors we work with are very happy with the process.

Elena Aparicio Calero | Pictorum Advisory

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