Urgent announcement.

There is a scam ongoing out of Mexico, targeting Miniatura.

Using words culled from a previous Miniatura brochure small print about copyright law, a firm purporting to call itself Expo-guide, requires exhibitors to ‘register’.  Upon doing so they will find they have signed a bill for 1271 euros.

If you as a visitor or exhibitor receive, either by email or postally any such communication please ignore it or check with the Miniatura offices.

The originator of the show, Muriel Hopwood, is herself an artist and knows personally the many hundreds of Miniatura exhibitors there have been at the show over the years.  She is so well acquainted with the normal financial disposition of real artists she would never ask for upfront money for signing a form because she has better things to do with her time, such as genuinely helping artists, than chase an impossibility.

Miniatura publicity is, and always has been, part of the package for genuine exhibitors, on the website and in the show brochure.

The entire show was started with a view to giving artists somewhere to exhibit in the Midlands, rather to enrich the organisers, which is the raison d’etre for most other shows.  The first few shows, whilst successful, when all the bills had been paid, generated enough profit for a Chinese takeaway meal.  If you have been to the show you know that there are no carpets on the floor and that starting artists can begin with one chair and a two foot square table, and often do, because this show is not, and never has been, about money.

It’s about helping artists.  It’s about bringing the skill of real craftsmanship to a collecting audience at a price and in a fashion that everyone can relate to and enjoy.  For this reason,  the show attracts the best artists in the world, because the whole show, including all of the organisation right down to the detail of the floor plan, which can take a couple of months to get right, is quality.  Nevertheless, there is always something for children at pocket money prices.  There are always bargains to be had along with the masterpieces that often go straight from the show to museums.

Yes it’s about dolls houses.  Anybody, anywhere in the world can relate to this form of art because everyone lives somewhere and can see the charm in a miniature version of everyday life.  You can own a miniature house as a decorative piece in your own home; you can buy the house and in as many trips, over as many years as you want, slowly fill it with a collection of beautiful miniature artefacts that will only ever take up the space of the house and garden.  You can  buy a house shell and learn how to decorate and fill it yourself with kits and partially constructed art to finish.  Or you can do what I did, visit the show and appear shortly after in the garage with a sheet of plywood, looking for a saw.

However you do it, this is real art for real people.  You won’t find pickled sheep or performance ‘art’ or anything where you’re meant to guess what it is.  This is evolved art because you only buy it if it’s good enough and you like it; only the fittest and best survives at this world class show.

So, if you’re in doubt about any Miniatura communications check with the organiser.

This show is about art

but, you know, small.

www.miniatura.co.uk

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