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Noted scholars and practitioners in the art world
Programmes are taught by some of the most knowledgeable and highly respected scholars in the field of art. The combination of academic faculty, visiting tutors,specialist lecturers and Sotheby's experts provides students with a wide breadth of knowledge and experience as well as an opportunity to develop a network of professional relationships.
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JOS HACKFORTH-JONES
DIRECTOR, SOTHEBY'S INSTITUTE OF ART - LONDON
PhD from the University of Sydney and an MA from the Courtauld Institute of Art.
Prior to her role at Sotheby’s Institute of Art, Professor Hackforth-Jones served as President and Provost at Richmond The American International University in London.
She is a distinguished academic administrator, noted art historian, author, curator and lecturer. She has published widely on art historical subjects, including most recently Edges of Empire: Orientalism and Visual Culture, (co-edited with Mary Roberts, Blackwell Publishing, 2005).
She has held a number of international research fellowships, organised colloquia and conferences and lectured extensively. In 2007 she was lead curator of the exhibition, Between
Worlds, Voyagers To Britain 1700–1850 at the National Portrait Gallery, London, and edited its catalogue. |
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MEGAN ALDRICH
ACADEMIC DIRECTOR
PhD in architectural history, University of Toronto; BA, Brown University.
Megan Aldrich began her career in the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, curated the exhibition on the Crace firm of decorators at the Brighton Museum and Art Gallery (1990), and edited the accompanying publication.
She has contributed to the catalogues of the Pugin (1995) and William Beckford (2001) exhibitions at the Bard Center in New York, and her book Gothic Revival (1994) was awarded the Banister Fletcher prize by the Royal Institute of British Architects. She has lectured and published widely, edited the journal Furniture History (2001-05), and has contributed to BBC and Channel 4 television programmes.
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DAVID BELLINGHAM
PROGRAMME DIRECTOR, MA ART BUSINESS
BA (Special Hons), University of Birmingham.
David Bellingham is a former lecturer in Classical Studies and Heritage Management at St. Mary’s University College, London. He is writing his doctoral thesis on the cultural and socioeconomic aspects of sympotic scenes in ancient Roman wall-painting.
Publications include An Introduction to Greek Mythology; An Introduction to Celtic Mythology; The Kingfisher Encyclopaedia of World Mythology; Greece; 'Ethics & the Art Market’ in Robertson, I. & Chong, D. (eds) (2008) The Art Business (London Routledge); 'The Jenkins Venus: Reception in the Art World and the Market’ for a Sotheby’s Institute of Art publication (forthcoming Autumn, 2009); and an article on ancient wall-paintings and the art market for the RICS journal The Arts Surveyor (forthcoming, April 2009). Future commissions include an introductory book on the art market for Lund Humphries (forthcoming 2010). |
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ELISABETH BOGDAN
PROGRAMME DIRECTOR, SEMESTER IN ART AND BUSINESS
MA in History of Design, Royal College of Art/Victoria & Albert Museum; BA (Hons) in Historical Geography, University of Toronto.
Lis Bogdan was senior lecturer for eight years on Solent University’s BA (Hons) and MA Fine Arts Valuation programmes, and has taught both at Oxford Brookes University and at the University of Wales Institute, Cardiff. Her specialist teaching includes eighteenth- to twentieth-century European and American design, decorative art and architectural history, and she
is a former Trustee of the Design History Society. |
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CHANTAL BROTHERTON-RATCLIFFE
PROGRAMME DIRECTOR, MA FINE & DECORATIVE ART
PhD in Literature and Art History, Warburg Institute, University of London; MA in Art History, University of Edinburgh.
Chantal Brotherton-Ratcliffe is trained as a painting restorer and specialist in historical painting techniques, and lectures regularly for courses in London, Luxembourg and Washington, DC. |
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DERRICK CHONG
CONSULTANT LECTURER, MA ART BUSINESS
PhD, London University; BComm, University of Toronto; MBA, McGill University; MA, York University (Canada). FRSA since 2005.
Derrick Chong is a senior lecturer in marketing at Royal Holloway, University of London and conducts research on management and the arts. At present, he is working for Routledge on revising Arts Management (2002) for a second edition. His book, The Art Business, co-edited with Iain Robertson, was published by Routledge in 2008. |
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LIS DARBY
PROGRAMME DIRECTOR, MA CONTEMPORARY DESIGN
PhD in History of Art, Courtauld Institute, University of London; MA in Art History, Courtauld Institute; BA (Hons) in Fine Art, Leeds University.
Lis Darby's publications include The Cult of the Prince Consort (with Nicola Smith), the catalogue (with Benedict Read) of E. Manning, Marble & Bronze: The Art and Life of Hamo Thornycroft, and articles in various periodicals including
The Sculpture Journal, for which she is a member of the Editorial Board.
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NATASHA DEGEN
LECTURER, MA ART BUSINESS
Natasha has studied the intersection of art and economics, first as an undergraduate at Princeton University and most recently as a Gates Scholar at Cambridge. Her doctoral research concerns the relationship between economic ascendancy and the reception of art, focusing on postwar America and contemporary China.
She has also written for the Financial Times, Artforum, Frieze, and The New York Times on topics including contemporary art, emerging markets and collecting.
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ANTHONY DOWNEY
PROGRAMME DIRECTOR, MA CONTEMPORARY ART
PhD at Goldsmiths College, London
Anthony Downey sits on the editorial board of Third Text and has recently written essays for Conspiracy Dwellings: Surveillance in Contemporary Art, ed. by Pam Skelton and Outi Remes (Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2010); Cultural Theory, ed. by David Oswell (Sage Publications, 2010); Theories and Documents of Contemporary Art: A Sourcebook of Artist’s Writings (revised ed.), edited by Kristine Stiles and Peter Selz (University of California Press: California, 2009); Different Sames: New Perspectives in Contemporary Iranian Art, ed. by Hossein Amirsadeghi (Thames and Hudson: London, 2009); and Setting the Stage: Anthony Downey in Conversation with Yinka Shonibare, MBE (Sydney Museum of Contemporary Art, 2008).
In 2009 he was appointed external assessor for the revalidation of the Royal College of Art's MA in Curating Contemporary Art programme and sat on the curatorial committee for Guest Projects in London. He has recently given talks at Tate Modern, Brooklyn Art Museum (New York), Tate Britain, CENDEAC (Murcia), British Museum, Manchester University, Courtauld, AAH (Glasgow, 2010), and has given interviews for CNN’s African Voices programme and the BBC’s Islam and the Popular Imagination. He will also contribute to Iran Beyond its Borders (1960-2010) as part of the Bruges Cultural project “Horizons” in October 2010. He is currently researching a book on aesthetics, politics and ethics.
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JEREMY ECKSTEIN
CONSULTANT LECTURER, MA ART BUSINESS
Jeremy Eckstein is a statistician by training. He started his working life as a fund manager, before joining Sotheby's in 1979 as Head of Research for the company, with responsibility for monitoring the performance of the British Railways Pension Fund's fine art investment portfolio. He left Sotheby's in 1990 to work as an independent consultant in the art market.
He has undertaken a broad range of commissioned research, carrying out surveys for the art trade and producing a variety of statistics and economic analyses. Most recently he undertook a major survey for TEFAF Maastricht on the economic impact of art fairs. He also has a special interest in 'securitising' art, structuring fine art investment funds and specialist financial services designed to meet the particular needs of art dealers, collectors and banks doing business in the sector.
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ANNE FARRER
PROGRAMME DIRECTOR, MA EAST ASIAN ART
PhD in late Ming woodblock illustration, University of London; BA in Chinese, School of Oriental and African
Studies, University of London.
Anne Farrer is a sinologist and historian of Chinese painting and graphic art, and formerly Assistant Keeper of Chinese graphic collections and Chinese Central Asian collections at the British Museum.
Her exhibitions include Caves of the Thousand Buddhas: Chinese Art from the Silk Route, The Brush Dances and the Ink Sings and A Garden Bequest-Plants from Japan, as well as Chinese Printmaking Today: Woodblock Printing in China 1980-2000. |
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JANE GARDINER
CONSULTANT LECTURER, SEMESTER PROGRAMMES
MA History of Art, University of London.
Trained at the Victoria and Albert museum, specialising in early European ceramics and glass. Has also lectured for the University of London, Michigan State University, the National Art Collections Fund, the National Trust and l’Institut d’Études Supérieures des Arts, Paris.
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JULIET HACKING
PROGRAMME DIRECTOR, MA PHOTOGRAPHY
PhD (Nineteenth-century British photography), MA in Art History, BA (Hons) in Art History (all Courtauld Institute of Art).
1996-8: Visiting Lecturer at the Universities of Derby and Reading and the Courtauld. 1999-2000: Research Assistant, National Portrait Gallery (London).
2000: Author and curator of Princes of Victorian Bohemia: Photographs by David Wilkie Wynfield (National Portrait Gallery). 2000-03: Photographs specialist at Sotheby’s auction house, London; appointed Head of Department in 2003. Joined Sotheby’s Institute of Art, London, in 2006.
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JULIA HUTT
CONSULTANT LECTURER, MA EAST ASIAN ART
Part-time Curator of Japanese art at the Victoria & Albert Museum, specialising in lacquerwork, inro and netsuke. Books include Japanese Inro and Japanese Netsuke.
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GORDON LANG
CONSULTANT LECTURER, MA FINE & DECORATIVE ART
PhD in progress at Birkbeck College, University of London.
Gordon Lang was formerly an expert at Sotheby’s Ceramics Department in London (1966-72, 1978-86). He is Honorary
Keeper of Porcelain at Burghley House, and was for many years a ceramics expert on the BBC Antiques
Roadshow.
His publications include The Wrestling Boys: Catalogue of the Exhibition of Chinese & Japanese
Ceramics from the 16th to the 18th Century in the Collection at Burghley House and The Powell Cotton Collection
of Chinese Ceramics; he was a contributor to The Treasure Houses of Britain exhibition. |
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HENRY LYDIATE
CONSULTANT LECTURER, MA ART BUSINESS
LL.B, University of Newcastle upon Tyne.
Henry Lydiate is a Visiting Professor of Art Law, University of the Arts, London, and a Course Consultant and Visiting Lecturer in
legal, business and professional practice studies at a number of major art schools in the UK since 1978. He is a legal and business consultant specialising in the creative arts.
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 Right.
He is an author of a regular art law column for Art Monthly; collected art law articles on-line at: www.artquest.org.uk/artlaw.
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JAMES MALPAS
LECTURER, SEMESTER PROGRAMMES
MPhil, Renaissance Studies, Warburg Institute, University of London; MA in English and History of Art,
Cambridge University.
James Malpas is author of Realism and a contributor to exhibition catalogues at Royal Academy and elsewhere, and is a book reviewer for The Art Newspaper and course organiser for Tate Modern and Tate Britain. He broadcasts regularly for BBC Radio 3 and 4. |
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ANNA MOSZYNSKA
CONSULTANT LECTURER, MA CONTEMPORARY ART
MA in History of Art, Courtauld Institute, University of London.
Anna Moszynska devised and taught art courses in various London colleges before initiating contemporary art studies at Sotheby’s Institute of Art–London. She has written and broadcast extensively in the field of contemporary art; her books include Abstract Art and Antony Gormley Drawings. She is currently writing a book on Anish Kapoor. |
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RICHARD NOBLE
CONSULTANT LECTURER, MA CONTEMPORARY ART
PhD in political philosophy from the London School of Economics.
Richard Noble's research is centred primarily on the intersection of art and politics; he is currently working on the preparation of a reader on the utopian tendency in visual art. Dr Noble has recently written on a number of significant contemporary artists, including a monograph on Antony Gormley, and essays on Rachel Whiteread, Michael Craig-Martin and David
Batchelor. He also teaches Critical Studies in the Visual Art Department at Goldsmiths College. |
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RAYMOND NOTLEY
LECTURER EMERITUS; CONSULTANT LECTURER, SEMESTER PROGRAMMES
Raymond Notley is the Lecturer Emeritus of Sotheby's Institute of Art where he has taught there since 1987. His wide range of interests includes the history of glass and ceramics, as well as design and decorative interiors. The latter includes many aspects of Russian art and manufacture.
He has published and has curated several glass related exhibitions as well as donating items to many museums. He delivered the Robert Charleston Memorial Lecture of 1999.
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ANDERS PETTERSSON
CONSULTANT LECTURER, MA ART BUSINESS
CEMS in Management, London School of Economics and Hochschule St.Gallen, Switzerland.
A leading authority on art market research, with particular focus on the Western and Emerging contemporary
art markets in India, China, Middle-East and Russia. He is the Founder and Managing Director of ArtTactic Ltd, a London-based art market research and advisory company set up in 2001. He previously worked as an investment banker at JP Morgan in London, New York and Frankfurt. He is a frequent art market commentator on Bloomberg TV and CNN. |
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NOËL RILEY
CONSULTANT LECTURER, MA FINE & DECORATIVE ART
MA, Sotheby’s Institute of Art-London.
A writer and consultant on the decorative arts, Noel Riley completed the catalogue of the furniture at St Paul’s Cathedral,
London. She is the author and curator of Country Pursuits: the Business of Ernest Beckwith, shown in the Braintree District Museum, and a book on the Regency technique of penwork, was published by Oblong Press in May, 2008. |
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IAIN ROBERTSON
HEAD OF ART BUSINESS STUDIES
PhD on the emerging art markets of Greater China, City University, London in 2000.
In addition to over 100 articles for the arts and national press Iain Robertson writes a column on the art market for the quarterly Australian Art Market Report. His book, Understanding International Art Markets and Management, was published in 2005 and a Chinese translation of the book is to appear in 2009. This book was followed by The Art Business (2008). A third book on emerging art markets will be published in 2010.
Iain is advisor to the Asia Art Archive in Hong Kong, Honorary Director of Education at MoMA Hong Kong and a consultant to the private banking arm of Hana Bank in South Korea. |
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EDGAR SCHMITZ
CONSULTANT LECTURER, MA CONTEMPORARY ART
Edgar Schmitz is a practicing artist based in London.
He is the co-director of A Conversation in Many Parts, London, tutor in Visual Cultures and Art at Goldsmiths, University of London and curator on the Curating Architecture research cluster. He
has published on a.o. Michael Craig-Martin, Brian Jungen, Phil Collins and Sarah Morris and is a regular contributor to Kunstforum International and Texte zur Kunst.
Recent exhibitions include Kunstverein, Duesseldorf (Germany), Raid Projects, LA (USA), Steirischer Herbst, Graz (Austria), Vanabbemuseum, Eindhoven (The Netherlands), ICA, London (UK), BOZAR, Brussels (B) and play, Berlin (D). His PhD and book Ambient Attitudesis planned for 2009 with Sternberg Press, Berlin/NY. |
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BERNARD VERE
LECTURER, MA FINE & DECORATIVE ART
PhD (London Consortium) on the Avant-Garde in England, 1909-1939. MRes (Consortium) in Humanities and Cultural Studies. MA (Nottingham) in Critical Theory. BA (East Anglia) in Literature and Philosophy.
Has published work in a number of journals and art magazines, most recently ‘Enigma Variation: Edward Wadsworth’s “Marine Still-Lifes”’ and ‘Giorgio de Chirico’ in Visual Culture in Britain. He previously edited Eyeing London (Lawrence and Wishart, 2002) and has also published review articles and reviews in Textual Practice, New Formations and Contemporary. Has taught for Birkbeck College (University of London), London Metropolitan University and Tate.
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MARCUS VERHAGEN
LECTURER, MA CONTEMPORARY ART
PhD in art history, University of California, Berkeley; BA, Cambridge University
Marcus Verhagen wrote his doctoral dissertation on visual culture in France in the late nineteenth century. Still working primarily on nineteenth-century art, he taught at universities in both Britain and the States in the nineties, but for almost ten years now he has been working primarily on contemporary art.
In the years since 2002 he has written over sixty articles and reviews for art magazines such as Art Monthly, Art Review and frieze, while also occasionally writing catalogue essays. He has published in several periodicals, including Representations, New Left Review and Third Text.
Much of his recent work revolves around globalisation and its effects on contemporary art. He has, for instance, written articles on travel and migration as recurrent concerns in contemporary art and on the rise of the biennial as a central institution in an increasingly global art world.
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GILDA WILLIAMS
CONSULTANT LECTURER, MA CONTEMPORARY ART
Doctorate in architecture from the Politecnico University in Milan, and is currently working on a PhD with the Open University, titled Warhol’s Women.
Gilda Williams has been Editor and Commissioning Editor for Contemporary Art at Phaidon Press, London, since 1994. For Phaidon’s Contemporary Artists series she has commissioned 45 monographs, including Louise Bourgeois, Mike Kelley, Hans Haacke, Thomas Hirschhorn, Roni Horn, Paul Mc-
Carthy and Richard Prince. Williams’ curated exhibitions including London Orphan Asylum (2000) and Strange Days: New British Photography (1997). She is also a London correspondent for the magazine Artforum.
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MAXA ZOLLER
CONSULTANT LECTURER; MA CONTEMPORARY ART
London-based Maxa Zoller is a visiting lecturer in moving image art.
Maxa Zoller completed her Ph.D. on European experimental film in 2007. In her capacity as a film curator Maxa has presented experimental film screenings at Tate Modern, Tramway in Glasgow, Berlin Kunstverein, Rekord Gallery in Oslo and numerous London galleries. She also runs film workshops and works as a writer and art critic.
Her publications include a number of academic texts and exhibition catalogues, such as X-Screen: Film Installations and Actions in the 1960s and 1970s (MuMoK Vienna). She is a contributor to Art Monthly and Sculpture Magazine. In 2002 Maxa was part of the educational team at Documenta 11. |
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