This week for our ongoing Working in the Arts profile, we talk to Batool Hassan who is the Finance & Gallery Assistant at Stuart Shave Modern Art. Where do you work? I work at Stuart Shave Modern Art in Mayfair and Shoreditch. What is your job title? Accounts assistant. I focus on assisting…
The global pandemic has been devastating for many small organisations in the fine art sector. As we all grapple with what the future might look like many of us are faced with the need to restructure our small teams and do things differently. This can be daunting for organisations that do not have…
Auction Houses often find themselves requiring the services of Specialist Valuers to provide expertise on particular categories of property. Most have their own network, but often there are gaps in availability, and this is where DRAW can help. DRAW has a robust and up to date database of…
The option to hire a Temporary Worker, Contractor, or Freelancer provides many advantages to businesses, as well as candidates. START Art Fair 2020, was a little different this year. It went ahead successfully with strict social distancing protocols and was by all accounts a success.…
Chris Stephens is Director of the Holburne Museum (https://www.holburne.org/) which has just extended the Grayson Perry: The Pre-Therapy Years until 3rd January 2021. Before the Holburne Museum, Chris worked at Tate in London for twenty-one years, for much of that time as Head of Displays at Tate…
Melanie Gerlis is Art market columnist for the Financial Times; Editor at large at The Art Newspaper and Author of "Art as an investment?"
We round off this week’s interviews with Guy Schooling, Chairman and Head Specialist, Art & Antiques at Sworders fine art auctioneers. https://www.sworder.co.uk What have you been up to during lockdown? Who would have thought running what was basically a shut down business could be so…
Verity Brown is a Director at ROKBOX (https://rok-box.com/), an award winning crate specifically designed to reduce the environmental impact, risk and cost of shipping high value art. What have you been up to during lockdown? The last few years have been a non-stop whirlwind for ROKBOX and so this…
Michael is the Head of Department, Auctioneer & Valuer at PFK Auctioneers, Penrith, Cumbria. What have you been doing during lockdown? I’ve worked throughout lockdown, keeping the business ticking over with online sales/valuations and adapting our business model to ensure a strong second…
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