Developing the Market for Contemporary Art: A Contemporary Art Society Conference

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Please find below the itinerary for the day:

10.00 - Registration and Coffee

10.30 - Ros Robins, Director, Arts Council England West Midlands - Welcome from ACE West Midlands

10.35 - Dida Tait, Head of Membership & Market Development at the Contemporary Art Society - Introduction to the Day - Aims and Objectives

10.45 - Sarah Thelwall, arts strategist and consultant - An Introduction to the Art Market

Click here to download Sarah Thelwall's Introduction to the Art Market (pdf)

Listen to Sarah Thelwall's presentation:

(duration: 44 minutes)

11.30 Lucy Byatt, Contemporary Art Society's Head of National Programmes in conversation with Toby Webster, The Modern Institute, Glasgow - Developing a Market and its Role in the Cultural Ecology of a City.

Listen to Lucy Byatt and Toby Webster in conversation:

(duration: 47 minutes)

12.15 - Soraya Rodriguez, Director of Zoo Art Fair, London - The Emerging Market and New Models

Listen to Soraya's presentation:

(duration: 48 mins)

13.00 - Lunch

14.00 - Dida Tait in conversation with collectors Sarah Elson and Michael King - An Insight into the Private Collector

Listen to Sarah Elson and Michael King in conversation:

(duration: 51 minutes)

15.00 - Coffee

15.30 - Workshops

• Commercial Galleries in a Regional Context - Led by Ceri Hand, Director of Ceri Hand Gallery, Liverpool

• Developing Programmes for New Collectors Outside London - Led by Mark Doyle, CAS Head of Collector Development, North West and Rebecca Morrill, CAS Head of Collector Development, North East

• Collective Approaches to Collecting - Led by Julia Bell, ACE Turning Point National Co-Ordinator with Tim Eastop, Co-Founder of The Collective

• Identifying Potential Collectors from Local Audiences - Led by Dida Tait, Contemporary Art Society Head of Market Development

Click here to download Dida Tait's powerpoint Identifying Potential Collectors (pdf)

• Selling: What’s It Worth To You - Led by Sarah Thelwall, arts strategist and consultant.

Click here to download Sarah Thelwall's Sliced by Size 2010 (pdf)

16.20 - Summing up

17.00 - End

For any further information on the day please email membership@contemporaryartsociety.org