Updated November 2021
Have uploaded more to Parting with Your Art — click here.
This new page is an update on my most recent experiences on parting with my own archive as well as some thoughts that may be useful to others dealing with these downsizing matters
For the full list of pages so far: Click here
Updated June 2021 Have uploaded more to Parting with Your Art — click here.
This page is about managing expectations, large collections, institutional collection policies, points for collectors approaching art museums and archives, recommended first steps — and more..
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Updated April 2021
topics: Downsizing Collections; More on Capital Gains Tax; Finding new homes for my library. Have uploaded these new pages to Parting with Your Art — click here.
Collection of photographs by William Henry Fox Talbot sells for nearly $2M.
Updated 12 August 2020
Have uploaded new pages on Parting with Your Art — click here.
Will be writing up some experiences and thoughts about parting with your art. This will be based on my own experiences as well as many stories heard in recent years.
Exhibition at GAGProjects (Adelaide) till 18 November 2018.
Click here for my essay and links to the exhibition page.
click here to see my postscript on my former report on these significant photography auctions by Mossgreen.
click here to see my report on these significant photography auctions by Mossgreen.
Curtain Call at Stills Gallery Sydney
Here at photographs of the opening of the final Stills Gallery exhibition — Curtin Call
Still have given notice of their final exhibition.
With Curtain Call, Stills Gallery is looking back over the history of the gallery and presents the mother of all salon hangs featuring over 70 artists from over the 26 years of exhibitions including:
Dörte Conroy — What Comes to Mind: Lorna Sim — Enigma:
Maurice Weidmann- Absence of Sunshine
Continue reading The Photography Room: May — June 2017
2 February — 4 March 2017 — click on image for images
Images from PHOTOFAIRS San Francisco — click on the image above.
Contemporary photography is alive and well!
Beetles+Huxley (London) till 18 February 2017
click on the image for a story about photography sales
click on the image for the story from The Art Newspaper
click on image for more on the Christie’s Photographs sales October 2016
Photography is alive and very well -
Tonight was the successful launch of the exhibition of the vintage photographs by Harold Cazneaux.
The photography dealers and collectors are constantly buying and selling historic photographs across international boarders.
Having retired from the National Gallery of Australia* and now working on Southeast Asian commissions as a consultant, I observed the sale of a recent ebay auction item, SINGAPORE dated 1900, Named China Man Inscribed Cabinet Photo by GR Lambert.
