The Art Business

LAURA PEH, PUBLISHER & ART COLLECTOR: SINGAPORE ART WEEK

Laura Peh is the founder and creative director of Cinnamon Art Publishing - an independent publishing house specialising in illustrated non-fiction books for children. She is also an accomplished concert harpist and keen contemporary art collector, focusing on socially-engaged practices from artists of Southeast Asian, Latin American and Middle Eastern heritage. As a publisher and collector, she has spoken on panels and given talks with AWITA, Art&Summit (Singapore), National University of Singapore, Courtauld Institute of Art (London) and Sotheby's Institute of Art (London). She is a laureate of Prestige Singapore's 40 Under 40 2023, and has been featured in media articles including Channel News Asia, The Straits Times, Singapore Global Network, Lianhe Zaobao, Prestige Singapore and Tatler Asia.

Born in Hong Kong and raised in Singapore, Laura moved to Paris at the age of 15 to study at the Ecole Normale de Musique de Paris and graduated with a Bachelor's degree from the Royal College of Music in London. After shifting her focus to art history at the Courtauld Institute of Art and obtaining a Masters in Art Business at Sotheby's Institute of Art, London, Laura spent two years working in the art industry in Hong Kong before moving back to Singapore in April 2020 to realise her passion project, Cinnamon Art Publishing.

 

Favourite Artist: Citra Sasmita

Links: www.laurapeh.com and www.cinnamonartstories.com

 

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‘Baby, I Miss The Internet’ (Rama, Rama, Rama) 

by TOT TAYLOR

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MARINE TANGUY, CEO MTArt AGENCY & AUTHOR OF 'VISUAL DETOX' (2024)

Marine Tanguy launched Certified B Corporation, MTArt Agency in 2015, following a career in visual arts in London and LA. MTArt agency is worth £35 million and is the art sector’s leading talent agency representing some of the most talented, forward-thinking artists in the world. The agency looks to support, promote and enable artists to work with the broadest canvas possible, from working with brands to public art and fine art institutions. The agency works with global organisations and cities, nurturing an international community of art-lovers and collectors as well as diverse brands ranging from Apple to Dior and even the World Cup. Marine is an influencer and passionate advocate for the role of the artist in guiding the public through a world flooded with visual noise and the agency seeks to ensure artists are rightly recognised as the spokespeople for a visual age.  As a business person, Marine was awarded Forbes 2018 30 under 30 Europe: Art & Culture, UK entrepreneur of the year for the 2019 NatWest Awards and Woman of the Year 2021 by the magazine WOTC. She is a writer and keynote speaker on contemporary art and art investment. Her talks include two TEDx Talks on how to transform cities with art and how social media visuals affect our minds and she has recently published her first book “The Visual Detox – How to Consume Media Without Letting it Consume You” with Penguin.

 

Links:

https://mtart.agency/ 

https://www.penguin.co.uk/authors/298745/marine-tanguy

https://www.ted.com/talks/marine_tanguy_how_artists_can_transform_our_cities_jan_2017

https://www.ted.com/talks/marine_tanguy_how_social_media_visuals_affect_our_mind 

 

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by TOT TAYLOR

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ANINDO SEN, INDIAN ART & TECH SPECIALIST

Anindo is an alumnus of the MA Art Business programme at Sotheby's Institute of Art London and a specialist on technology and Indian art and its markets.  The podcast starts with a 15-minute history of Indian art and its markets.  We then discuss Anindo's experiences of the first edition of the Mumbai Art Fair and his opinions on the potential for exponential growth of the Indian economy and its art market.  

Links: https://news.artnet.com/market/art-mumbai-2023-opening-2396128

 

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by TOT TAYLOR

is used by kind permission of the artist

©Tot Taylor/Songmatic Music (2020)

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PAOLA LUCENTE, Director and Curator, Procreate Project

Paola Lucente is the Director and Curator of Procreate Project, the first UK social enterprise which supports the development of contemporary artists who are also mothers working with different types of art. She holds a BA in Visual art and an MA in Art Management Psychology and has previously worked at the Guggenheim Museum, Marian Goodman Gallery, Scope and Volta art fairs in New York City. Paola was Gallery Manager at the Zabludowicz Collection from 2011 to 2016, where she was responsible for the daily activities of the London gallery, managing events, gallery assistants and the production of art editions.  She was also Head of Exhibitions at Spazio Murat, the very first contemporary art space in Bari, Italy. 

Links:

https://www.motherhousestudios.com/

https://www.procreateproject.com/

 

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‘Baby, I Miss The Internet’ (Rama, Rama, Rama) 

by TOT TAYLOR

is used by kind permission of the artist

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Claire Fry & Joanna Shepard, Art & Heritage Conservators

Claire is an accredited conservator specialising in preventive conservation for historic house and museum collections.  She has over twenty years experience of all aspects of preventive conservation/collections care including: condition audits and risk assessments; collection care plans; conservation housekeeping; environmental monitoring and control; insect pest management; safe display and storage methods; and reducing the risks from hospitality, filming and events.

https://www.spencerandfry.co.uk/

 

Joanna is an experienced director and professionally accredited conservator with a demonstrable history providing modern & contemporary art conservation services to the international commercial art sector and museums. She is skilled in conservation issues, project management, visual arts and lecturing.

https://www.joannashepard.com/ 

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Church of Suceviţa Monastery , burial chamber. Removal of adherent surface deposits by physical chemical means (by cotton swab). September 2006, Romania , Suceava,

CERECS ART S.R.L.

This image is released under Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0

 

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by TOT TAYLOR

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MITHRA STEVENS, ART LOGISTICIAN & SUSTAINABILITY ENTREPRENEUR

Mithra Stevens is an art historian specialising in sustainable logistics within the fine art sector. She recently completed her MA in Art Logistics at Sotheby’s Institute whilst working for ROKBOX and has previous experience working as an exhibition manager and picture framer.  Mithra recently won the Sotheby's Institute of Art Enterprise Studio Gavel Competition.

 

Links:

 

https://www.linkedin.com/in/mithra-stevens-657346143/?originalSubdomain=uk

 

https://l.instagram.com/?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.madeinbed.co.uk%2Finterviews%2Fmithra-stevens-in-conversation-with-artist-jack-coulter&e=AT2VNRegwKBcvkqn2dbHtPWXOOppoi900fZvGL5XWxV60985oTiPcJ8jfNlIBDRABKo9R6LhwrhD30vl6Htl9ReMiP4W0oSW5rxgVA

 

@mithrastevens

 

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by TOT TAYLOR

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STEVE SABELLA, ARTIST & AUTHOR

Steve Sabella is an established artist and author. Born in Jerusalem and based in Berlin since 2010, Sabella's work is a powerful expression of his life and experiences. Widely recognized for his bold artwork, he is able to explore themes of identity and displacement, exile, the effects of colonization, liberation and the human condition in a unique and powerful way celebrating the resilience of the human spirit.

Employing the medium of both analogue and digital photography, Sabella has developed a distinct style of art that has earned him numerous awards and accolades. His thought-provoking artwork has been featured in numerous galleries, museums, and publications worldwide. 

 

Links:

website

www.stevesabella.space

The Artist’s Curse 

http://theartistscurse.art

Biography 

https://stevesabella.space/pages/about

 

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‘Baby, I Miss The Internet’ (Rama, Rama, Rama) 

by TOT TAYLOR

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CLAIRE MANDER, DIRECTOR & CURATOR OF theCoLAB FOR WOMEN SCULPTORS

Claire Mander is the Director and Curator of theCoLAB, a London based curatorial practice which has operated beyond the white cube since 2011.   She conceives and creates opportunities for women sculptors to use unusual sites as experimental laboratories to realise their most ambitious, far-flung and life-affirming work. She recently transformed a neglected half-acre roof terrace on the roof of Temple tube station into the Artist’s Garden a platform for women artists to make large-scale site responsive interventions. She has curated over 40 mainly site-specific interventions including Sculpture Shock residency/commissioning programme for interventions into subterranean, ambulatory and historic sites in London, Headlands to Headspace landscape art commissions across Morecambe Bay and Sculpture showcasing the work of seventeen Nordic sculptors across three sites in London.  

 

theCoLAB runs Body and Place drawing residencies in the landscape and is working on the Morecambe Bay Triennial, a residency based series of site responsive commissions across 100 miles of coast in the north west of England.

Claire Mander sits on Westminster’s City of Sculpture panel and is a Board Member of the National Festival of Making and of the artist-led 303 Projects in Lowestoft, Suffolk. She was formerly Deputy Director of the Royal British Society of Sculptors and a Trustee and Chair of the Steering Committee of UK Friends of the National Museum of Women in the Arts (Washington DC). She is a member of AICA and has published two books and numerous catalogues and has given/chaired many talks about women artists and site-specific commissions including at RCA, The National Gallery, Manchester Art Gallery and about Skulpturlandscap Nordland.

She holds an MA (Distinction) from the Courtauld Institute of Art and was a City solicitor.

@thecolab.art [instagram]

https://www.thecolab.art/temple 

 

 

 

 

 

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by TOT TAYLOR

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DEE HAUGHNEY, Head of Learning & Participation, De La Warr Pavilion

Dee Haughney is Head of Learning at De La Warr Pavilion, Bexhill-on-sea. She was born in Ireland, studied Photography at TU Dublin, Curatorial Practice at Falmouth University and Asian Art at Sotheby’s Institute of Art.  She worked with the Kilkenny Arts Festival, Ireland, Newlyn Art Gallery, Cornwall and The Photographers’ Gallery, London before joining October Gallery in 2012. As Curator of October Gallery for over eight years, she managed exhibitions, international art fairs and major installations working closely with artists such as El Anatsui, James Barnor and Sokari Douglas Camp. In 2018, she undertook a research trip, cycling the length of Africa from Cairo to Cape Town. Since 2022 she has been Head of Learning at De La Warr Pavilion, one of the largest contemporary arts centres in the southeast. Outside of this she works as an Independent Curator working with artists from Ireland and around the world.

Links:

https://www.deehaughney.com/aboutdeehaughney

https://www.dlwp.com/ 

https://www.madeinbed.co.uk/interviews/anindya-sen-in-conversation-with-curator-of-october-gallery-dee-haughney

 

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‘Baby, I Miss The Internet’ (Rama, Rama, Rama) 

by TOT TAYLOR

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JACK DAVIS, ARTIST

I got to know Jack Davis and his art whilst visiting the renowned seaside artists' colony of St Ives, Cornwall, with my students.  My students were involved in  curating small group exhibitions with Livingstone St Ives Gallery and Jack's tremendous seascapes were selected by several of the groups.

Jack graduated from Falmouth University in 2012 and has been painting professionally ever since. He lives and works near St. Just, painting the rugged West Penwith landscape between Sennen Cove and St. Ives.

Jack recently became a member of the St. Ives Society of Artists, has been a tutor at the renowned Newlyn School of Art since 2016, and the Aesthetica Art Prize named him as one of the Future Now 100 contemporary artists

'The West Penwith peninsula is at the end of the line, remote, rugged, and embodied with an ancient primal majesty. Living in such an impressionable environment evokes plenty of inspiration on a daily basis: I am drawn to the raw power of the natural environment and the sublime effect of light. I harness the impulsive energy of my subject matter and create order out of chaos like the landscape I inhabit.' (Jack Davis)

 

Jack has a solo show, 'Cornish Light' at Livingstone St Ives from 7-21 April, 2023

 

Links:

https://www.jackdavisfineart.com/

https://livingstonestives.co.uk/artist/jack-davis/

 

 

music

‘Baby, I Miss The Internet’ (Rama, Rama, Rama) 

by TOT TAYLOR

is used by kind permission of the artist

©Tot Taylor/Songmatic Music (2020)

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