Bonhams London calling Australia

Art experts head from the UK with the offer of free valuations, in search of works for Bonhams’ London sale.
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Detail of “The Crab Pots” by Charles Napier Hemy sourced in Australia and sold for £128,500 (AU$237,500) Courtesy Bonhams.

It is not every day that Bonhams’ top art experts head to Australia to conduct free valuations. The journey is in a bid to unearth some treasures locally – paintings and prints which may be hiding in Australia but that are more suitable to sell in Europe, ideally British and European works or artists with British links to Australia – to feed a growing demand at Bonhams’ London sales.

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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