N EWS 2007 T RADE SHOW NEWS All the fun of the fairs: Emap TPS springs fresh ideas for buye r s SUMMER FAIR London, Emap TPS’s new mid-year show for the UK home fashion and gift market, has released details of confirmed exhibitors in the art sector. They include Gifted, Art Collection, Oberon Art and Icon by Luciana. ‘For me, it seems to be at the right time of year with a good chance of attracting buyers from London. Emap TPS have a good record of pushing on a show, so I’m hopeful this will be the case with Summer Fair London,’ said Susie Lipman of Oberon Art. Oberon will be showing alongside the internationally known brands Alessi, Kosta Boda, Hoff, French lifestyle brand Hatch and La Vie en Vert from Belgium. Details of the seminar programme on new trends, to be led by Michelle Ogundehin, editor of Elle Decoration, James Lohan of luxury concierge website Mr & Mrs Smith and fashion designer Wayne Hemingway MBE, have also been released. In a move to support the show, the Giftware Association has moved its prestigious Gift of the Year Awards at Grosvenor House to 19 June, so that they will coincide with the show. Emap TPS Group Exhibition Director, Louise Young, head of the Summer Fair team, said, ‘We Over 160 exhibitors will be showing Garden. Hopes are high that the new are working closely with industry partners, in the Gallery section, Hall 12, of this layout will attract more visitors, including from Elle Decoration to the GA to ensure year’s Spring Fair Birmingham. A major crossover business from adjacent halls, that Summer Fair leads the market and reorganisation of the fair, by far the most and stimulate more buying. Both is seen as very much the hub of the mid- important giftware event in the UK, has established names and a raft of new year buying season. The GA move is an seen the art and framing section move to names have taken space at the show. For excellent example of how Summer Fair is a new position, adjacent to Home & full details, see the Spring Fair Planner, considered integral to the industry.’ Clockwise from top left: brought to you exclusively by Art Business Art of Wench by Monte Moore, from ID-Wall Summer Fair London will be held at at SFB, Hall 12, stand J34 Today and supplied with this issue. the ExCeL centre in Docklands, from 17- Sea Breeze 2 by Pete McKee, SFB, Hall 12, stand L39 www.springfair.com Triptych by Lou Vockins of Oberon Art, one of the 20 June 2007. exhibitors already booked for Summer Fair London www.summerfair.com A RT I S T’S RESALE RIGHT DIVIDEND D ACS shares out £700,000 of ARR roya l t i e s £700,000 OF royalties have been criticism from those who argue that ARR damage artist’s earning power, not distributed by DACS in the first year of will chiefly benefit big-name artists. increase it. In this issue (see p18) Guild Artist’s Resale Right. The law, which Among the 400 beneficiaries to date are: MD Rosie Sumner warns that artists may gives artists a royalty on secondary sales Damien Hirst, Bridget Riley, Richard be paid less for their work and find that of qualifying works, was introduced in Hamilton, Craigie Aitchison, Mary galleries and publishers increasingly opt February last year. Since then, says Fedden, Tracey Emin and Anish Kapoor. to buy ‘sale or return’ in order to DACS, over 400 artists have benefited, A list of the top ten earners supplied by minimise the impact of the legislation. with amounts paid out ranging from DACS last autumn also included Paul ABT’s recent call for readers to send in £13.77 to £27,358. Resale royalties Feiler, Sir Peter Blake, Stuart Semple, questions for DACS to answer prompted collected from across the EU have also David Hockney, Jack Vettriano and a huge response. An edited version of the been paid to artists. Lucian Freud. exchange can be seen on pages 72-76. However, the payments will not stem Many in the trade feel that ARR could www.dacs.org.uk/arr ART BUSINESS TODAY January 2007 9.