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Exhibition wall label maker

Type the details of a work and its label takes shape beside them — museum, gallery card or minimal. Print a page of labels on card, or collect a whole show's and print them together.

Preview

No. 12

Eleanor Whitfield

b. 1978, Kiama NSW

Morning, Kiama, 2026

Oil on linen

60 × 90 cm

$2,400

An example — type the details of your work and it becomes your label.

10 × 6 cm · 8 to an A4 page

The artist

The work

Price and extras

As it should read. A plain number gets a $ sign.

0 / 220

The work's page. A visitor's phone, held to the label, opens it.

Print it

Label sizes, in centimetres.

In the print window, set the scale to 100% (actual size) so each label prints true to size, then cut along the faint lines. Choose “Save as PDF” to keep a copy. The PNG is 300 DPI, for a label printer or a screen.

Labels for a whole show

Add each label to the sheet, then print them together. The artist stays filled in and the number goes up by one for the next label. The sheet is kept on this device only.

Keep each piece's sizes, price and history together in a free ArtFlow account. Create a free account

What a label says

The usual order: the artist, the title in italics with the year, the medium, then the size — height before width. Keep it to what a visitor needs from a step away; the story belongs in the room sheet or on the work's page.

Hanging them

Galleries usually put the label to the right of the work, at the same height on every wall so the eye finds it. Print on heavy card, or mount on foam board, and fix with removable tabs. Print one first and read it from a step back.

The red dot

In a selling show, a red dot beside the label tells visitors the work has sold. Set the price line to Sold and reprint, or simply add a sticker. More in the glossary

Further reading

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Every piece's details, kept in one place

ArtFlow keeps the title, medium, size, price and history of every piece you make, and gives each public piece a page of its own — the page a label's QR code can open.