The Art Business

16 Nicholson Street Gallery is a Glasgow-based, non-profit arts facilitation space run by a curatorial collaborative. The gallery was established in 2016 and all organisation and programming is managed by Isabella Shields, Nell Cardozo, and Aga Paulina Młyńczak.

Today's guests are the two curators Aga and Nell.  Aga is an Artist and Producer interested in media, electronics, and sculptural work. Nell is the Community Outreach officer for 16 Nicholson Street and leads the community programme ‘Freedom in Abstraction, Power in Creativity’ in partnership with Empower Women for Change.

For more information: https://16nicholsonstreet.org/ 

 

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Jeremy Eckstein is a statistician by training. He started his professional life as a fund manager before joining Sotheby's Auction House in 1979 as Head of Research for the company, with responsibility for monitoring the performance of the British Railways Pension Fund's fine art investment portfolio. An independent consultant in the art market since 1990, Eckstein has done a broad range of commissioned research, carrying out surveys for the art trade and producing a variety of statistics and economic analyses. His publications include a major survey for TEFAF Maastricht on the economic impact of art fairs (2006).

 

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Alicia Livingstone opened her first contemporary art gallery in the Cornish seaside town of Perranporth in 2018, followed by the opening of a second gallery in the seaside artist's colony at St Ives in 2020.  Alice discusses how her art business was impacted by the pandemic and its series of lockdowns, and how she successfully navigated out of it towards opening a third gallery in Clifton, Bristol.

In my introduction to the catalogue of her current exhibition (to 9 April 2022) at JD Malat Gallery Mayfair, I wrote: 'Georgia Dymock is an emerging English artist whose paintings are conceived and born from a combination of digital technology and traditional painterly techniques...... Georgia says that she likes to constantly come close to and then distance herself from the making process by travelling both physically and mentally between the virtual and physical worlds.  This process has become an integral part of the majority of human lives since the start of the pandemic.  Georgia’s paintings are a visual metaphor of what has been happening and continues to happen in the hybrid world of our everyday lives where we distance one another in virtual worlds, sometimes even lose and then movingly rediscover one another in the physical world.  Georgia Dymock’s prophetic paintings help us to find wisdom, understanding and offer a healing mediation of our internal binary oppositions in this world turned upside down.'

 

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In this episode we learn about the art world of Ukraine and its markets with guests Bohdan Mysiuha, curator of the Museum of Modernism, Lviv and Olena Grubb (alumna of the MA Art Business, Sotheby's Institute of Art, London) who also acts as interpreter for Bohdan's Ukrainian language.  The artistic community in Lviv, in the west of Ukraine, is preparing for the possibility of the current Russian invasion reaching their city.  Bohdan also talks about the history of modern Ukrainian art under Soviet and post-Soviet rule.

 

Here are some links:

 

Museum of Modernism

https://www.ukrgate.com/eng/?p=13433 

https://euromaidanpress.com/2021/05/13/ukrainian-modernism-revealed-lviv-artists-in-interwar-period-search-for-true-art-self-national-identity/ 

 

Ukraine Unofficial - project dedicated to the works of artists of the XX century.

http://www.archive-uu.com/en

 

Have a look at Yevhen Lysyk scenography here. It's amazing : http://www.archive-uu.com/en/profiles/lysyk-yevhen

 

This is one of Bohdan's monographs on Ukrainian art of the XX century.

https://issuu.com/archive.uu/docs/uu_23lviv_1?fbclid=IwAR19Cw5oBT31Z-1vujEuHLfi8zzqJLy6mspeofHtPzu7yr4_dg6pe-B8m0Y

 

These are some of Bohdan's articles for the Ukrainian newspaper (all in Ukrainian though). 

https://zbruc.eu/taxonomy/term/25831?fbclid=IwAR2dTK5QEkdNBlTrDZO1SkiAu25ao54tv8xVzAhMGyOwQxlfriE_UUxXvcU

 

NB  Information about the Fund for Documentation of the Crimes Against Ukrainian Art formed by the artists from Eastern Ukraine will be posted here later. It was only formed yesterday and its creators are still working on official accounts etc.

 

Names of some of the artists mentioned:

Oleksandr Archipenko, Alexandra Exter, Davyd Burliuk, Ivan Trush, Mikhail Vrubel

 

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In this episode of The Art Business podcast, we discuss the Russian art world and its markets, both in the main centres of Moscow and St Petersburg, as well as in the hinterland.

 

Dr. Anastasia Pechalova (b. 1992 Moscow) is an art market researcher with a PhD in the History of International Relations. She studied at Moscow State Institute of International Relations, and now lectures at the Department of International Relations. She has an MA and BA in International Relations, and has recently graduated with distinction from the MA in Art Business at Sotheby’s Institute of Art, London.  Her PhD was on the role of expertise in decision-making and politics.

 

In 2016-2021 Anastasia worked in top-level Russian politics as a speechwriter. In 2020-2021 she worked as a researcher on a project devoted to trend-watching in culture.  This analysed trends in exhibitions, the work of museums and cultural institutions.

 

In 2021 Anastasia launched Art Barometer, Russia’s first research platform dedicated to monitoring the art market. To date this includes communications with over 300 dealers, collectors and market professionals about their activities in 2021. http://artbarometer.ru/english 

 

Anastasia's professional interests include the market for Old Master paintings, Russian art and icons. She collects Russian eighteenth and nineteenth-century icons, damaged and unrestored as well as objects of Russian peasant life.

 

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Khalil Akar (b.1992) is a Nigerian-Lebanese art director working at the Signature African Art
gallery in London. Having been brought up in Lagos, he spent his formative years at his dad’s
Signature art gallery studying and learning about art, both traditional and contemporary. He
insisted on trying a new field at university to widen his horizon, and earned a Bachelors in
Civil Engineering with Sustainability as well as a Masters in Project Management. After five
successful years in the construction industry, he decided to return to the art world and
setup the Signature African Art gallery in London.  We discuss the history of Signature from its founding in Lagos in 1992 to the opening of the London gallery in 2019 and how the pandemic and BLM has affected it.

 

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Kojo Marfo's work has become familiar to Londoners living and working in the West End over the last two years since appearing in the 'Isolation Mastered' open competition finalists' exhibition at JD Malat Gallery in Mayfair in the summer of 2020 following months of lockdown.  His magnificent portrait paintings caught the eye of important collectors, so much so that Kojo was given a solo show in the summer of 2021, beautifully named 'Dreaming of Identity' (catalogue introduction written by podcast creator David Bellingham. In this podcast we discuss Kojo's influences and his poetic visual responses to the pandemic, his African heritage and contemporary global society and culture.

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Conrad studied Pure & Applied Mathematics at Warwick University and his early career was in oil derivatives trading. He took my summer school in Art & Its Markets at Sotheby's Institute of Art and was inspired to become an art consultant and dealer.  In 2014 Conrad launched the Emerging Artist Prize which now has over 2,000 global artists applying with over 5,000 artworks every year.  We talk about the relationships between dance, science, mathematics, music and art as well as (from @00:34:15) Conrad's methods of selecting and marketing his artists. Conrad's instagram site @theartprize has 38.4k followers of over 8,000 posts.

 

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Tot is best known in the art world for his London contemporary art gallery, Riflemaker which he co-curated with Virginia Damtsa from 2003-2018. His first novel The Story of John Nightly was published in 2017.  We talk about his early days in London as a session drummer and his first experiences with the art world from regular visits to Sotheby's to his time spent studying music at Goldsmiths which coincided with Damien Hirst and other nascent YBAs.  During lockdown Tot recorded his first solo album Frisbee......

 

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

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is used by kind permission of the artist

©Tot Taylor/Songmatic Music (2020)

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