Speaker Biographies

Christopher Baer, Director, Ben Brown Fine Arts Christopher Baer’s educational background includes an MBA from Duke University, Durham, N.C., as well as an Economist SEBA from Lucerne School of Economics and Business Administration in Lucerne. He obtained a Master’s degree in Contemporary Art from the Sotheby’s Institute of Art in and has attended several evening courses at the Institute and City University. Christopher is currently director of Ben Brown Fine Arts in London. Prior to that, he worked as an intern in the Contemporary Art department at Sotheby’s in London, and held several senior positions in various financial institutions, including as a Senior Equity Analyst at Pricewaterhousecoopers in London and a consultant in Zurich. He has also been working as a Private Banker at Bank Julius Bar & Co. in Zurich, a Summer Associate at Union Bank of Switzerland and an Equity Analyst at Morgan Stanley and Company in New York. Christopher is fluent in French, German and English.

Josephine Breese, Consultant Lecturer, Sotheby’s Institute of Art Josephine Breese was co-director of Breese Little, a commercial gallery in London, between 2009 and 2017. She teaches and lectures in contemporary art, art history and the art market. She co- founded Art & Culture, a non-profit educational organisation that offered a biannual art criticism prize and free lecture programme at LSE and The Courtauld Institute for five years. She has written for publications including Art Monthly, Art Review Asia, Art Asia Pacific and The White Review. Josephine has an MA from The Courtauld Insitute and a BA from Cambridge University.

Vanessa Carlos, Director, Condo Gallery Condo takes its name from ‘condominium’ and is a large-scale collaborative exhibition of international galleries. Host galleries share their spaces with visiting galleries either by co-curating an exhibition together, or dividing their galleries and allocating spaces. The initiative encourages the evaluation of existing models, pooling resources and acting communally to propose an environment that is more conducive for experimental gallery exhibitions to take place internationally. Condo is not-for-profit and participating galleries only share the costs of the opening party, design and printing, while host galleries contribute in kind by sharing their spaces. Vanessa Carlos started the project in London in 2016 with the aim of developing Condo in four regions: Europe, Asia, Latin America and North America. The project was brought to New York in 2017 by Simone Subal (Simone Subal Gallery) and Nicole Russo (Chapter NY). In 2018, Condo will launch in Shanghai headed by Lorraine Malingue (Edouard Malingue Gallery), and in Mexico City headed by Ana Castella (josé garcia,mx).

Carlos/Ishikawa’s program focuses strongly on international artists with wide-ranging, multi- disciplinary and experimental practices. Artists currently represented work with performance, sound, internet, dance, film, installation and text, as well as painting and sculpture. The gallery offers many artists their first solo show in London. Represented artists have recently exhibited in institutions such as MoMA, MoMA PS1, Venice Biennial, UCCA, Palais de Tokyo, New Museum, Chisenhale and ICA amongst many others. Artists represented by the gallery include Oscar Murillo, Korakrit Arunanondchai and Darja Bajagić.

Vanessa Carlos is the director of the gallery and originally trained as an artist at the University of Oxford, and worked previously at Stuart Shave/Modern Art and was Assistant Director at The Approach. Concurrent to her time at the Approach she was also Director of artist-run space Wallis Gallery, and curated performance events for the Barbican Art Gallery, Royal Academy and Serpentine Gallery. She currently serves on the ICA Council and has tutored at Goldsmiths University, Ruskin School of Drawing and Fine Art and Kingston University.

Emma Cousin, Curator, Bread and Jam Emma Cousin trained as a painter at The Ruskin School of Fine Art, Oxford University, before moving to London in 2008. She maintains a vibrant painting practice, recently winning the Marmite Painting Prize and exhibiting numerous times in London and Internationally this year.

After running a commercial gallery in Pimlico, Emma freelanced as an arts event organiser, researcher and curator, working with art institutions and museums, schools, commercial galleries, small artist-led projects and private collections. Working at Robin Katz Gallery since 2011, Emma honed an interest in curation where she conceived one of their most successful shows, ‘The British Line’ charting British history through Modern British drawing.

Emma has been commissioned by Hanmi Gallery, The Barbican Arts Trust and Arthouse1 Gallery to work with their alternative spaces and, in 2015, left Robin Katz to set up her own space. Bread & Jam began as a series of experimental and artist-led exhibitions based in a three-storey property in South East London. In resistance to space limitations and playful opportunities for mid-career artists, she set up a residency environment where new works could be tested, realised and exhibited to the public, without the constraints of a commercial gallery and outside of this conventional setting. Working with over five hundred artists over the past two years, Bread & Jam has become a platform where the public can interact directly with art in pieces commissioned for and developed in alternative spaces.

Bread & Jam is currently developing a writing residency linked to Milton Keynes Art Centre, and Emma is in the middle of a book charting the project to date and exploring the ethical, social and political issues it raises. The book features commissioned essays and contributions from academics, critics and artists.

Focused on developing interdisciplinary collaboration, Emma now works with writers, critics, educators, philosophers, poets, chefs, bakers and a wonderful range of artists to remain curious and challenged in reflecting and questioning the world in which we live.

Emilie Faure, Faculty, Sotheby’s Institute of Art – Online Courses Emilie Faure works at the intersection of art sales and commercial strategy for artists. In her six years as Sales Executive at , she advised collectors on acquisitions with an eye on both curatorial relevance and long-term investment. She also worked closely with the gallery’s artists, designing successful strategies for their practice.

Prior to joining White Cube, she directed The Farjam Foundation in Dubai, spearheading the inauguration of the first private museum in the United Arab Emirates, and curating its modern and contemporary art exhibitions.

She has held posts at Sotheby's Institute of Art in London, at the British Museum in the organization’s Business Strategy department, at A.E.A. Consulting in New York, and the Fondation Cartier pour l’Art Contemporain in .

Emilie holds a B.A. in Visual Arts from Harvard University, and an M.A. in Cultural Policy and Museum Studies from Sciences-Po, Paris. She is fluent in English, French, and Spanish.

Gareth Fletcher, Lecturer, MA Art Business, Sotheby’s Institute of Art Gareth Fletcher is a Lecturer and Seminar Tutor in Art Business. He holds a BA (Art History, History) and BFA (Film) from the University of Canterbury (New Zealand), and is a graduate of the Sotheby’s Institute MA in Art Business programme who has worked in a variety of roles within the London art market. His research explores the interrelationship between concepts of value and ownership as by- products of provenance research, and how these judgements respond to both international legal and ethical frameworks. Gareth lectures on the due diligence process, provenance research and the markets for alternative investments. Serena Fokschaner, Founder, Good Coverage Serena Fokschaner is a freelance journalist who has worked for titles ranging from the Sunday Times and The Telegraph to Homes & Gardens. Drawing on this experience, she also runs master classes on PR for independent businesses as well as organisations which include The British Association of Antiques Dealers and The Portman Estate. A former student of Sotheby’s Institute of Art, Serena was also educated at Oxford University and more recently at Birkbeck College where she studied History of Art. www.goodcoverage.co.uk. Dr Henry Lydiate, Founder and Director, The Henry Lydiate Partnership Dr Henry Lydiate is a scholar-practitioner and former Visiting Professor of Art Law at the University of the Arts, London. He has been a course consultant and visiting lecturer in legal, business, and professional practice studies at major art schools in the UK since 1978. His publications include The Visual Artist and the Law, The Visual Artist’s Copyright Handbook, Visual Arts and Crafts Guide to the New Laws of Copyright and Moral Rights. Henry’s specialist research and teaching areas include international legal frameworks for art business; international art transactions; international art auction practices; commercial and non-commercial museum and gallery management; international intellectual property rights and their management; and artistic estate planning and management. Peter Osborne, Director, Osborne Samuel Gallery Peter Osborne has been owner and director of the Osborne Samuel Gallery since 2003. He was previously owner and director of the Berkeley Square Gallery (1994-2003), CEO of the Harlech Fine Art Group (consisting of seven galleries), director of CCA Galleries plc and director of Christie’s Contemporary Art. His specialism lies in Post-War British Art, British Sculpture (notably ), Indian Art and Photography. Grace Scofield, Co-Founder and Director, Union Pacific Gallery Together with Nigel Dunkley, Grace Schofield is the co-founder and director of Union Pacific Gallery.

Following her graduation in Fine Art from Chelsea College of Art and Design in 2009, Grace has accrued a broad range of experiences in the gallery sector. She has been gallery assistant at Sprüth Magers London, worked with events managing at Whitechapel Art Gallery and in the sales department. She was co-director of The Sunday Painter Gallery between 2010 and 2014. During that time, she was also engaged in a four-year, full-time position at the Gagosian Gallery in a variety of roles, most notably assisting director Stefan von Ratibor.

Sarah Thelwall, Consultant and Strategist in the Art Market and Creative Industries Sarah Thelwall is a strategist working in the Art Market and the Creative Industries. She works both with individual firms and as a policy consultant to organisations such as DCMS, NESTA, TSB and ACE. Her work in the art market focuses on an analysis of the structures, their inter-relationships, the motivations & modus operandi of both public and private galleries and the effect these structures & motivations have on trends in the market. Sarah collaborates with Andrew Wheatley on much of this work. The outputs of this work have contributed to publications such as Tastebuds and Market Matters. Sarah’s current art world client base includes Workplace Gallery, Arts Council (North East), SCAN and Proboscis. Andrew is a director of Cabinet (a commercial gallery with several nominees and winners amongst its artists). Sarah also has close connections to the investment community in the Creative Industries. She is particularly focused on articulating the stages of development most commonly found in SMEs in this sector and how this connects to investment types from grants to loans to equity. Sarah is a director of www.mycake.org - an online book-keeping and benchmarking service designed to meet the needs of Creative Industries SMEs. Andy Wilkes, Managing Director, Andy Wilkes Training and Consultancy Andy is a qualified trainer and Management Accountant obtaining his qualifications during his seventeen years in Central Government where he worked for the Departments of the Environment and Transport. Andy joined BPP Professional Education in 2006 to become Head of Public sector training and developed and delivered a wide range of training interventions in both public and private sector organisations during his time in the role.

Andy now runs his own business delivering a range of courses on an associate basis for a number of high-profile clients. His skills range from delivering courses for people afraid of finance helping them understand and apply their knowledge to their business and to helping managers and finance professionals acquire the interpersonal skills needed to become real business partners in the workplace.