Built for my own art practice first

I've been building websites for 25 years — mostly for artists, small businesses, and nonprofits. Somewhere in the middle of that, I became one of the artists I was building for.

Running my own practice alongside that client work, I kept hitting the same wall I'd watched other artists hit: the website was one system, the inventory was another, and the CV was a document I updated maybe twice a year if I was lucky. A piece would sell and three different records needed the same update. Nothing was ever actually wrong, exactly — it was just never all correct at the same time.

Artwork Registry started as a tool to fix that for myself. I wanted one place to record an artwork once — its edition, its price, its exhibition history — and have my public site and archive draw from that same record instead of a copy of it. My CV lives in that same system now too, written directly and exportable to PDF, instead of a separate file I forgot to update. Once it worked for my own practice, it made sense for the artists and small galleries I'd already spent two decades building sites for.

It's still built the way I'd want a registrar's system built: your records are the source of truth, they're exportable, and the software stays out of the way of the work.