Thinking before the box: artist estates

Planning for, and managing, an artist’s estate is not often considered until it is too late. Don't haunt your relatives with hassles from your legacy.

18 Aug 2016

Gina Fairley

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Kennylex Luckless, My very own watermelon on coffin via Flickr

In Australia we are not very good at planning for death. We are not even good at talking about it.

But for an artist of a certain career statue, the consideration of what will happen to their inventory and archive after they die should not be brushed under the carpet as a topic too hard.

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Gina Fairley is ArtsHub's National Visual Arts Editor. For a decade she worked as a freelance writer and curator across Southeast Asia and was previously the Regional Contributing Editor for Hong Kong based magazines Asian Art News and World Sculpture News. Prior to writing she worked as an arts manager in America and Australia for 14 years, including the regional gallery, biennale and commercial sectors. She is based in Mittagong, regional NSW. Twitter: @ginafairley Instagram: fairleygina