Managing the artist's legacy: giving life to your collection
Two-day workshop
10 March 2018 10am - 5pm11 March 2018 10am - 5pm
The General Assembly Room, Burlington House, Royal Academy of Arts, Piccadilly
£480 for the weekend. Concession rates are available for artists and their immediate families. Please contact Mary Ealden, Academic Programmes Manager, mary.ealden@royalacademy.org.uk.
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Join us for the first course in our two-part series on managing an artist's legacy. Leading experts in the fields of the art market, archives, and law, including intellectual property, explore best practice when designing and implementing a strategy to preserve, promote and enhance the value of an artist’s work both now, and into the future, with a particular focus on the artist’s collection.
Speakers include:
Pierre Valentin | Partner, Constantine Cannon LLP
Anna Dempster | Head of Academic Programmes, Royal Academy of Arts
Loretta Wuertenberger | Founder, Institute of Artists' Estates
Edward Naish | Director of International Shipping, Mtec LTD
Paul Embleton | Director of Gallery Services, Mtec LTD
James Kelly | Former Director, Science Limited
Sarah Hilliam | Head of Major Gifts and Campaigns, Royal Academy of Arts
Mark Waugh | Director of Business Deveolpment, DACS
Christian Zimmermann | Chief Operating Officer, DACS
The artist’s legacy: giving life to your collection
Artists are well aware of the multitude of tasks demanding their attention: from setting up a studio or business to selling works, paying taxes and managing intellectual property. It can be difficult to find the time for business matters when you really want to be back in the studio. In a suite of four digestible sessions, this weekend will bring together industry experts to explore how the relationships from which artists flourish are developed, and the business practices which underpin their work and successful legacy.
Day one – Saturday 10 March
Exhibiting your work and getting noticed
Session one (10.00am – 1.00pm)
Relationships: artists & the art world
This first session will address the key relationships which enable artists’ work to become known and gain prominence, looking to the inter-dependencies between scholarship, academia, and the art market.
Session two (2.00pm – 5.00pm)
Practical considerations for dissemination and display
The second session will focus on the practical and legal considerations of displaying work, including locations for display as well as insurance, storage, and shipping for exhibition and sale.
Day two – Sunday 11 March
Knowing what you have and protecting your interests
Session one (10.00am – 1.00pm)
Archiving & inventory management
The third session looks at how keeping records of the creation, purchase, exhibition, copyright, and value of your work can create value, as well as an invaluable resource for the researchers, curators and buyers of the future.
Session two (2.00pm – 5.00pm)
Intellectual property rights: laws, practice and international consideration
The single most important right the artist has, after the work itself, is their intellectual property. This session explores how artists can protect that right and reap financial rewards when their work is used by others.
These expert-led workshops will provide cutting edge information and skills in planning and management relevant for living artists and their families. It is also relevant to advisers and collectors who are interested in protecting and enhancing the value of artist’s estates.
This is the first in a two-part series of courses on Managing the artist's legacy. To view the second course, click here. Courses are available to book as individual weekends or as a series.
For concession rates available for professional artists and their immediate families please contact Mary Ealden, Academic Programmes Manager - mary.ealden@royalacademy.org.uk.
Who can take this workshop?
This workshop is suitable for all levels with a personal or professional interest in an artist’s legacy and estate management.
This workshop is for you if:
• You are an artist, a family member of an artist, or a professional working with artists, and have a practical interest in the management of an artist’s legacy
• You aspire to work in the arts or cultural sectors and want to understand the importance of managing legacy and business practices involved in that process
• You are interested in the methods, tools and techniques of leading art-world professionals and advisers working with artists
• You would enjoy acquiring a fresh approach to understanding how to secure value for artists in the long-term
• You want to develop your skills and ideas in a peer-group context and within the historical setting of the Royal Academy’s Reynolds Room
For concession rates available for professional artists and their immediate families please contact Mary Ealden, Academic Programmes Manager.
Minimum age 18
Price for full weekend: £480 / £320 for artists
Price for full course (both weekends): £900 / £620 for artists
Saturday 10 – Sunday 11 March
This workshop will include:
• An introduction to important considerations, concepts and techniques which are relevant to the management of an artist's legacy
• An overview of the theory, practical information and best practice for the management and planning of artists’ estates and legacies using public examples
• Information on practical issues of law, tax, accountancy, intellectual property, and rights management
• The opportunity to work in a peer-group environment in conversation with professionals in the field
• Skills and knowledge that will help you in the management of an artist’s legacy
• Handouts and recommendations for further reading
• Light refreshments throughout the day, and an opportunity to visit an exhibition while at the Royal Academy
Please note the RA does not provide specific or individual legal advice on personal cases and RA courses are classes does not constitute legal advisory for which one should seek appropriate counsel.
The course is held in the General Assembly room – originally a private room in the grand London home of Lord Burlington, until the building was transformed by Samuel Ware into an elaborately gilded state room in 1815-8.
When the Royal Academy moved to Burlington House in 1867, it was again transformed by Richard Norman Shaw RA into the main meeting chamber for the General Assembly, the Academy’s governing body – which continues to meet in this room to this day.
With its beautifully gilded interiors, wooden floors and marble fireplaces, the magnificently restored 18th century room houses works from the Royal Academy's Collection of British art from the last 250 years, as well as portraits of contemporary Academicians.
Pierre Valentin
Partner
Constantine Cannon LLP
Pierre Valentin started Constantine Cannon LLP in London in 2012. The firm is affiliated with Constantine Cannon LLP in the USA where it has offices in New York, San Francisco and Washington D.C. Pierre heads Constantine Cannon’s international art law practice. His clients include commercial art galleries, art dealers, art collectors, auction houses, museums, artists, private banks and art investment funds. He was formerly Associate General Counsel and a senior director of Sotheby’s and more recently a partner of Withers LLP. Pierre speaks French, Italian and Spanish. Aside from his day job as a lawyer, he is a trustee of the Artists’ Collecting Society. Until July 2016, Pierre was also Chairman of the Board of World Monuments Fund Britain. Pierre is ranked in Legal Directory Chambers UK 2017 as one of the top two leading art lawyers in the UK and "one of the best exponents of art law in the business". Pierre lives and breathes art law. He is very well respected and known by clients and other professionals in the art market as the go-to lawyer, particularly where there is a contentious angle.
Loretta Würtenberger
Founder
Institute of Artists' Estates
After studying law, philosophy and art history, Loretta earned her doctorate in international copyright and patent law at the Max Planck Institute, subsequently becoming the youngest-ever judge at the Berlin district court. She has been managing the estates of Hans Arp and Sophie Taeuber-Arp since 2009, and the estate of Keith Arnatt since 2012, together with Matthew Arnatt. She has been a partner at Fine Art Partners since 2009 and is the co-founder of Contemporary Art Alliance, a non-profit organisation supporting young contemporary artists in Berlin. Loretta has been lecturing regularly at universities across Europe for over 15 years. She is the author of the book The Artist Estate: a Handbook for Artists, Executors, and Heirs, published in June 2016 by Hatje Cantz Verlag.
Anna Dempster
Head of Academic Programmes
Royal Academy of Arts
Dr. Anna M Dempster is Head of Academic Programmes at the Royal Academy of Arts in London. and is a College Research Associate at Wolfson College University of Cambridge, where she sits on the Fine Arts Committee. Anna was previously Associate Professor in Art Business at Sotheby's Institute of Art, responsible for the Art Business, Finance and Management Unit. Prior to that she was Director of Research at the Creative Industries Observatory, University of the Arts London and Founding Director of the MSc/MA in Creative Industries at Birkbeck College, University of London. She has research and teaching experience in leading academic institutions including the University of Cambridge, London Business School and Rotterdam School of Management and she regularly consults for practitioners and policy-makers. She holds a BA and MPhil in History from the University of Cambridge, and a PhD from the Judge Business School, Cambridge, UK. Her current research interests focus on the creative industries and visual arts and specifically Risk and Uncertainty in the Art World, with a book of this title published in 2014.
Edward Naish
Director of International Shipping
Mtec LTD
Edward Naish is an art logistics professional and works for international fine art shipper Mtec. Edward has a background in event logistics and has managed operations for events outdoor roadshows for food, motorsport and fashion industry before moving into the arts industry 10 years ago. After four years of learning the trade with a premium fine-art shipper, Edward was recruited to work as a Head Registrar at commercial gallery Blain Southern. With operations in London, Berlin and New York and a client base of international collectors, consigning galleries and museums, Edward supported global logistics, inventory management, insurance and risk for the gallery for four years. In Edward joined Mtec to develop its Shipping Department and is now International Director. Mtec's success is due to its focus on artist studios and galleries to provide a bespoke end to end service for art logistics. The 25-year-old company has more than 80 staff, a fleet of 32 vehicles, seven warehouses across UK, Belgium and Italy and metal and wood shops as well as an expanding global client base. Edward's team looks after imports and exports by road, air and sea. The Mtec installation team is world renown and teams regularly travel internationally for installations. In February 2018 project assignments have been in Changsha, Doha, St Petersburg and Taiwan.
Paul Embleton
Director of Gallery Services
Mtec LTD
Paul Embleton is a director at Mtec and is head of the newly commissioned Gallery Service department. Paul’s background has been in the fine art industry since graduation from Glasgow School of Fine Art in 1999. Paul has extensive experience both in major galleries throughout the UK including CCA, Tramway, Fruitmarket, Lisson Gallery, Henry Moore Foundation and has worked as studio assistant to Gilbert & George. He joined the White Cube in 2002, where he had a major role in the opening of Masons Yard and Bermondsey in implementing and planning the design and specification of all galleries from a technical perspective; making sure the galleries were fit for purpose and some of the most advanced commercial spaces in the world. He headed up the Technical coordination of all three spaces in London plus large external and international projects. Paul Joined Mtec in 2013 with the objective of developing a Gallery services department which would expand and enhance the skills of the technical department and incite new services in new markets. He has also been responsible for the rebranding of the business including the company’s website and social media presence. His most recent project has been the creation of Mtec’s new Viewing room facility at their London warehouse which has enhanced the services Mtec offers and given clients a unique opportunity to have access their collections.
James Kelly
James has a long association with business and the arts. Prior to his semi–retirement he was a director of Science Limited, which managed the affairs and business activities of contemporary artist Damien Hirst, playing a key role in projects such as the creation of the Newport Street Gallery, Hirst’s private museum, which won the 2016 Stirling Prize for excellence in architecture in the UK. He also was involved in significate elements of the artist’s epic Treasures exhibition that opened to acclaim at last year’s Venice Biennale. James retired from full time employment with Science and now provides commercial and strategic advice to businesses within the art world through his consultancy. He acts as a Non-Executive Director to a number of businesses including Bonhams auction house. Previously, he spent more than 20 years as a partner at the international Chartered Accountants, Rawlinson & Hunter, where his clients included a number of artists, galleries, auction houses and other art related businesses. The diverse range of clients within the art world that James has acted for over the years has given him a unique insight into the issues and challenges facing individuals and organisations.
Sarah Hilliam
Head of Major Gifts and Campaigns
Royal Academy of Arts
Sarah Hilliam has over a decade’s experience in arts development. Since joining the Royal Academy in 2014, she has overseen the Academy’s £50m campaign to redevelop Burlington Gardens as well as establishing its International and Architecture Patrons Programmes. She is currently Head of Major Gifts and Campaigns and previously held positions at Art UK, Bonhams Auctioneers and Watts Gallery. Sarah is a Trustee of DACS Foundation, and holds an MA Hons in Art History and International Relations, and an MLitt in Museology from the University of St Andrews.
Mark Waugh
Director of Business Development
DACS
Before joining DACS in 2014 Mark Waugh worked extensively in Korea and South East Asia as commissioner for emerging artfairs; Art Gwangju and G-Seoul 13 and as Associate Director of SUUM; commissioning a number of projects in collaboration with Samsung Electronics including the media art-focused award, The Samsung Art+ Prize and IOC commissions. He is Chair of the International Curators Forum and previously Director of the iconic A Foundation in London and Liverpool, and Head of Visual Arts, South East Arts Council England. He has curated numerous group and solo exhibitions and contributed to publications, catalogues and magazines including most recently a chapter in the acclaimed 2017 book; Artists: Rethinking the Blockchain. He is also author of the novels, Bubble Entendre and Come.
Christian Zimmermann
Chief Operating Officer
DACS
Christian Zimmermann oversees the legal and operational functions at DACS. He is a qualified solicitor in the UK and Germany with a Masters in Intellectual Property Law. Before joining DACS in 2006, he worked at the Association of Photographers (AOP). Christian is a Director of the Educational Recording Agency (ERA).
Frances Griffiths
Head of Legacy
Royal Academy of Arts
Frances has over 10 years’ experience securing philanthropic funding for the arts and humanities, in both museums and Universities. She contributed to the 600th Anniversary £100m campaign for the University of St Andrews, and the £45m campaign to create the first design museum outside London, V&A Dundee, in addition to delivering multimillion legacy revenues to the National Trust for Scotland before joining the Royal Academy in 2017. Currently Head of Legacy at the RA, Frances is a Board member of the Harry & Margery Boswell Collection, and a campaign council member of Remember a Charity – a consortium of over 200 charities working in partnership promote leaving charitable gifts in wills as a social norm. She holds an MA (Hons) in Art History from the University of St Andrews, and an LLB in Law from the University of Edinburgh.
The artist's legacy
Over the weekends of 10–11 and 24–25 March, we're running two expert-led workshops on planning and management. Divided into two courses entitled 'Planning for the future' and 'Giving life to your collection', we're offering a special rate to those who wish to attend both weekends.
£900, £620 for artists
Our courses and classes programme
Our programme of short courses and classes offers the opportunity to explore a range of subjects, led by expert tutors and practising artists.