Services
Strategic advice, project management and specialist expertise for organisations across the international art market and cultural heritage sector.
Areas of expertise
Every organisation has different ambitions and challenges, and so each service is tailored to the client's objectives, combining strategic thinking with practical delivery to create lasting value through collaboration.
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The art market is constantly evolving, creating new opportunities and new challenges for dealers, art fairs, auction houses, museums, foundations, collectors and other cultural businesses.
Working closely with leadership teams to identify opportunities and turn them into practical strategies, providing experienced, objective advice tailored to each organisation's ambitions - whether for a single project or over a longer period.
Services include:
Strategic planning and positioning
Business and partnership development
Market research and analysis
Art market reports and impact studies
Feasibility studies
Public affairs and regulatory advice
Government and trade association engagement
Stakeholder consultation
Exhibition and artist programmes
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Delivering successful projects takes more than careful planning - it takes a clear vision, effective collaboration, and the ability to bring together internal and external teams around a common objective.
Leading and supporting organisations in developing and delivering complex projects, from international art fairs and exhibitions to public programmes and events, bringing together the right people, expertise and processes.
Services include:
Art fair strategy and development, both long-term and immediate results
Cross-team alignment to develop major events, including partnerships, client relations, marketing and press
Project management
Exhibition and event planning
Programme, conference and summit development
Stakeholder engagement
International partnerships
Governance and committee support
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Museums and cultural institutions play an essential and undervalued role in society, extending far beyond the stewardship of collections to education, research, community engagement, economic development and cultural diplomacy.
Drawing on an established network across museums, governments, foundations, international organisations and the art market to help institutions develop strategy, public policy, partnerships and new initiatives that strengthen their impact.
Services include:
Museum strategy and organisational development
Cultural policy and sector strategy
Public affairs and sector advocacy
Public-private partnerships
Museum and stakeholder engagement
Programme and initiative development
Strategic partnerships
Economic and social impact studies
Funding strategy and grant development
Governance and advisory support
International collaboration
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Private collectors, foundations and family offices are central to shaping the cultural landscape - from building collections to establishing museums and foundations, or creating programmes with lasting public benefit.
Drawing on extensive experience across the art market, museums and international cultural organisations to transform ambition into practical initiatives with long-term cultural impact.
Services include:
Collection strategy
Museum and institutional partnerships
Exhibition development
Foundation strategy
Cultural programming
Philanthropic initiatives
Residency and educational programmes
Public-private partnerships
Stakeholder engagement
Strategic introductions
Governance and advisory support
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Cultural heritage protection increasingly depends on international cooperation, effective regulation and responsible market practices.
Advising governments, UNESCO and international organisations, museums and the art market to safeguard collections and strengthen the wider cultural sector - from registration initiatives and capacity building to international cooperation on practical, lasting impact.
Services include:
Cultural heritage strategy
Heritage protection initiatives
International partnerships
Registration and documentation projects
Capacity building
Stakeholder engagement
Cultural heritage policy
Grant and project development
Emergency heritage response
International coordination
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Trust and transparency are fundamental to the international art market.
Specialist advice on provenance and due diligence, drawing on practical market knowledge and an extended network across museums, collectors, dealers, auction houses, legal professionals and public authorities to help clients conduct research and navigate complex ownership and cultural heritage issues.
Services include:
Provenance research
Due diligence and risk assessment
Cultural property advice
Restitution and ownership issues
Collection research
Heritage protection strategies
Market monitoring
Collection management advice
Policy and best practice development
Approach
Understanding Your Objectives
Every organisation is different. It starts with understanding your ambitions, challenges and opportunities, ensuring advice is tailored to your specific objectives rather than a standard consultancy framework.
Building Strong Partnerships
The most successful projects are collaborative, working alongside leadership teams, staff and external stakeholders to build trusted relationships, strengthen existing teams and bring together the right expertise.
From Strategy to Delivery
Ideas only create value when they are successfully implemented. Developing practical strategies, establish clear priorities and support projects from initial concept through to delivery.
Creating Lasting Impact
The aim is not simply to complete a project, but to leave organisations in a stronger position - through new partnerships, greater capacity, stronger networks and strategies that continue to deliver long after involvement has ended.
Selected Projects & Case Studies
Long-term strategy for major art fairs
Multi-year strategy for major international art fairs - setting clear goals and the practical steps needed to reach them, developing new initiatives across the organisation, together with financial requirements and key performance indicators. Engagement with stakeholders across the fair to build a shared understanding of strengths and weaknesses, and restrategising how individual projects and ideas could address them.
Strengthening art dealers’ businesses
Assisting art dealers to maintain and grow their crucial role in the art market, development of artists and scholarship, and institutions - including restrategising impact and influence for one of the leading dealers in the world, reviewing key business decisions, developing their fairs programme and wider engagement with museums and the broader cultural sector.
Institution partnerships and funding
Pairing an institution and business with the right partners to build something new together - identifying opportunities grounded in each organisation's own history and existing strategy, and developing the work from concept through to delivery. The results included more dynamic and distinctive programming that generated press coverage and stronger income from both existing clients and new partnerships.
Positioning new entrants to the art market
Advising multiple businesses entering the sector for the first time on how its many different actors - auction houses, dealers, fairs, museums, lawyers, insurers and advisors among them - interact with one another, and mapping where they could best position itself within that landscape.
Convening the cultural sector
Bringing together both public and private actors within the sector - from leading governmental and intergovernmental agencies, the art trade and independent experts, foundations and collectors in major summits and working groups to develop authoritative reference documents used across the field. Extensive consultation with stakeholders and experts, programme development and delivery.
Museum due diligence & acquisitions
Comprehensive review and provenance research of collections. Development of acquisitions policy and procedures from the ground up for a group of the world's leading museums - ensuring governance was fit for the risks of the 21st century, among them legal exposure, provenance and social and ethical considerations.