Thrive designs websites for artists, galleries, festivals and arts organisations across Australia. Our Gold Coast team builds artist and gallery websites around the work itself: fast, image-led galleries, exhibition programs, artist pages, stockroom enquiries and online art sales, built so the site gets out of the way and the art does the talking.
Art is too important not to share. Thrive Digital designs artist and gallery websites that present the work properly, handle exhibitions and sales without fuss, and are simple enough for an artist or a gallery manager to keep current.
A collector, a curator and a casual visitor all arrive with the same request: show me the work, quickly and beautifully, and then tell me how to see it or buy it.
SWELL Sculpture Festival brings large-scale contemporary sculpture to the Gold Coast, transforming Currumbin Beach and locations across the city into places to experience art. Thrive designed and developed a new…
A prestigious leader in the art field, we thought 19 Karen really should have an online presence to match! So we created a modern digital platform to showcase their gallery;…
King Street Gallery on William is a sophisticated gallery located in the Sydney arts district and has been operating since the 1980s. The gallery represents many of Australia’s most prominent…
A sophisticated site for a community of Art Lovers and Art Creators to buy and Sell their art. The site features member logins with event bookings and commission payments. We…
Located in Miami on the sunny Gold Coast, THE WALLS is a regional Artist Run Initiative founded in 2013 by local artist Rebecca Ross. Her mission is to connect people…
The directory of local talent for the Northern Rivers, Northern Rivers Creative celebrates and supports the region’s thriving creative diversity. Needing an online platform to connect established and emerging creatives…
"I wanted to say how pleased we are with the results of the Northern Rivers Creative site. Thrive has really delivered what we were after and we've had an incredibly positive response to it from the sector, with really healthy growth on the platform already. Many thanks!"
Peter Wood
Executive Director, Northern Rivers Creative
Large images, generous whitespace, no clutter, and typography that stays out of the way. The design should feel like a well-hung show, not a brochure.
Galleries accumulate thousands of images over the years. We build the image pipeline so works load instantly on a phone and still look right on a large screen, with sizes, colour and sharpness handled automatically.
Current, upcoming and past exhibitions, each with its own page, images, text and catalogue, archived so the history of the gallery is searchable and each show can rank for the artist’s name.
Each work carries its title, medium, dimensions, availability and a clear button: enquire, or buy now. For galleries selling online, the cart, shipping and certificates run on WooCommerce or Shopify.
Collectors search for the artist, not the gallery. Each artist page carries biography, CV, representation and a selection of works, structured so it appears for that artist’s name.
Most galleries run on two or three people. Adding a work, marking it sold, posting a show or updating an artist should take minutes, and we train you to do it.
An individual artist needs a clean portfolio with a CV, a statement, selected works and a way to buy or enquire. A commercial gallery needs an exhibition program, a stockroom, artist pages and a sales process. An artist-run initiative or a festival needs a program, a call-out and an audience, often on a tight budget. An art marketplace needs member accounts, listings and payments.
We have built all of these, from King Street Gallery on William in Sydney to the SWELL Sculpture Festival on the Gold Coast, and the first thing we do on any arts project is work out who the site is for and how the work should be seen.
Thrive is based in Burleigh Heads on the Gold Coast and has designed websites for artists and galleries locally, in Brisbane, Sydney and the Northern Rivers. Work includes SWELL Sculpture Festival, the Gold Coast’s outdoor sculpture festival; King Street Gallery on William, a Sydney gallery representing established Australian artists; The Walls, an artist-run initiative in Miami; Northern Rivers Creative, a regional creative directory; Art Lovers Australia, an online art marketplace with member accounts and commission payments; and 19 Karen Art Gallery.
Projects run by video call and a shared project board, so a gallery in Melbourne gets the same process as one in Burleigh. We also design websites for photographers and creative services and entertainment and events.
A website only works if people find it. The same team that builds gallery websites runs SEO so artist and exhibition pages rank, email marketing for the exhibition invitations that actually sell work, Facebook and Instagram ads for openings, and the digital marketing strategy that ties it together.
Got questions?
It depends on the number of artists and works, whether you are selling online, and how much of the content and image preparation we do. An artist portfolio and a commercial gallery with a stockroom and online sales are very different projects. Every project starts with a written scope and a fixed quote, so you know the price before we begin.
Most artist and gallery websites take six to ten weeks from the first meeting to launch. Image preparation is the usual reason projects run long, so we agree a format early and build in stages you can review as we go.
Yes. We build online sales on WooCommerce or Shopify, with shipping rules for framed and unframed work, optional framing, certificates of authenticity and a sold status that updates the catalogue automatically. For galleries that prefer enquiries to carts, every work gets an enquiry button instead.
We build the site to serve each image at the right size for the screen, so a work looks sharp on a large monitor and loads instantly on a phone, with colour preserved. Right-click protection and watermarks are available, though we usually recommend relying on resolution limits rather than fighting screenshots.
Yes. Exhibitions have their own section with current, upcoming and past shows, each with images, dates, text, a catalogue download and the artists involved. Past shows stay online as an archive, which is good for your history and for search.
Yes. SWELL Sculpture Festival and Northern Rivers Creative are examples. Festival and organisation sites need a program, artist call-outs, sponsor and partner sections, maps and event information that changes every year, so we build them to be updated by your team.
Yes. We have built sites for galleries in Sydney and the Northern Rivers and for artists around Australia. Projects run by video call and a shared project board, so distance makes no difference to the result.
Yes, with a particular focus. Collectors search for the artist’s name, and curators search for exhibitions and themes. We structure the site so each artist page and exhibition page can rank for its name, and our SEO team can keep building on that after launch.
No. Every site is designed from scratch around the work and the way you want it seen. The design is deliberately quiet so the art is what people remember.
We do, if you want us to. Our hosting and support plans cover the server, security updates, daily backups and help with changes, and we train you so adding works, marking them sold and posting shows is something you can do yourselves.