Published in the Australian Financial Review, Weekend Edition, 24 October 2015
Veteran art dealer Anna Schwartz is handing the keys of her Sydney gallery to Carriageworks and teaming up with Carriageworks director Lisa Havilah to mount an ambitious five-year exhibition program in the space.
Schwartz, who will continue to run her Melbourne gallery, has donated $500,000 to fund the series of exhibitions.
Published in the Australian Financial Review, 9 October 2015
The market for Aboriginal art could be reignited if proposed changes to export restrictions are enacted, according to industry professionals including consultants Tim Klingender and D’lan Davidson.
The Protection of Moveable Cultural Heritage Act controls what culturally important material can leave the country, from Ned Kelly’s armour to art and craft objects. Arts lawyer Shane Simpson AM, who has just handed up his far reaching review of the Act to the government, says the current export system is time consuming and confusing, and has failed to balance the need to protect significant objects with maintaining “legitimate trade”.
Art consultant Tim Klingender says he saw a global market for Aboriginal art developing 20 years ago, but the introduction of the “well-meaning” legislation in 1986 largely quashed the interest of international collectors.
Published in the Australian Financial Review, 17 September 2015
Sydney Contemporary closed on Sunday with record sales for an Australian art fair, generating over $14 million across five days. It blitzed fair organiser Tim Etchells’ hopes of a $10 million turnover, and also passed the high point set in 2008, before the global financial downturn shook the local contemporary art market, when the Melbourne Art Fair delivered $12.1 million in sales.
Published in the Australian Financial Review, Weekend Edition, 5-6 September 2015
A major feature for the culture section of the AFR’s weekend edition, looking at Sydney Contemporary and Spring 1883, and the growing importance of art fairs in the Australian art market.
Published in the Australian Financial Review, 20 August 2015
My write up of one of the most epic sales to take place in Australia.
Published in the Australian Financial Review, 6 August 2015
Ah, art collections to die for.
