CATHERINE ASQUITH, B.A., B.Litt.(Hons).
Founder & Director
RECENT PRESS &
PUBLIC SPEAKING
Catherine Asquith is the Principal Advisor and Director of Catherine Asquith Art Advisory. An arts professional with an academic background in Art History, extensive international travel and residency and more than 26 years’ experience working within the Australian, Asian and International art markets, in both the primary and secondary sectors, Catherine has worked as a consultant and gallerist, and now operates as an art advisor and valuer.
After successfully owning and operating her eponymous gallery for just over a decade (2003 – 2013), Catherine recognised the potential of a burgeoning market in Asia, and with a strong interest in developing a more client-facing, advisory role, restructured her company to accommodate the needs of private and corporate collections.
Catherine’s art expertise comprises Australian modernist, contemporary and Australian Indigenous art, East Asian contemporary art, and international modern, post-war and contemporary art, inclusive of the genres of painting, works on paper (prints & multiples), and sculpture as well as large scale integrated urban artwork.
As an accredited practising valuer (AVAA), Catherine is qualified to provide informed and up to date advice and market values on buying and selling work from either market; additionally, Catherine also acts as agent in the auction arena, for pre-purchase/pre-sale advice, due diligence and/or bidding in lieu.
An increasingly developing part of her advisory has been the management of off-market, private transactions, predominantly on an international basis. Catherine has managed and brokered high value transactions on the private secondary market, on behalf of international private collections, for works by blue chip artists such as Andy Warhol, Mark Rothko, Gerhard Richter, and Yayoi Kusama, with market values ranging from US1m through to US$45m. Currently and on average, Catherine now manages a total value of US$20 to US$30m in private transactions at any one time.
Intermittently Catherine is invited as a speaker at various symposia on the art market and allied subjects. Catherine has been a guest judge for various art prizes, the subject of feature articles on the art market and during the covid pandemic ran a podcast, “Art Talks”, which focused on navigating the art market.
Frequently endorsed by the market, notable accolades have included the Agence France-Muséums on behalf of the Louvre Abu Dhabi consulting Catherine in respect of procuring museum quality artworks for the 20th/21st Century collections, specifically works from the Australasia and Oceanic region; and most recently, Catherine was invited by the Royal Commission for Allula to consider the role of CEO for the new museum of contemporary art for Allula, Saudia Arabia.
Catherine Asquith is an AVAA Certified Practicing Valuer (Auctioneers and Valuers Association of Australia), Chair of the Art Acquisition Advisory Committee for The City of Stonnington, a member of the City of Melbourne’s external assessment panel (visual arts), and a member of The Association of Women in the Arts (London).
ANGELINE COLLINGS, M.A.
Associate Art Advisor
Angeline has enjoyed an international art world career over the past twenty-five plus years in the art advisory and commercial gallery worlds of Australia, Hong Kong and Singapore, as well as with Sotheby’s, London.
Encompassing art advisory, gallery management, auction house management, academic research and client relationship development, her unique combination of skills and knowledge means she is equally at home in an auction room, art gallery or art fair setting.
Accomplishments of note during Angeline’s time at Sotheby’s, London include landmark auctions, such as The Wills Sale, Easton Neston and Important Turner Watercolours from the Guy & Myriam Ullens Collection as well as managing the valuation process for a number of significant private collections.
In 2016, as Consultant Manager, Angeline was instrumental in the successful launch of Mossgreen Auctions and Mossgreen Gallery in Sydney. She successfully delivered seven Single Owner Collection auctions and four gallery exhibitions within the first four months of opening. This included the white glove Max Dupain auction of archival photographs from the artist’s estate which launched the Sydney saleroom.
Enhancing Angeline’s art advisory and client relationship experience, she created and hosted a number of private art tours for HNW collectors, both within Australia and international, including to highly successful trips to Art Basel Hong Kong in 2014 and 2016.
Throughout her career, Angeline’s skill as an art management specialist has seen her advise and manage commercial galleries in Sydney, Melbourne, Singapore and Hong Kong.
Angeline holds a Masters Degree in Museum and Gallery Management from City University, London as well as a Bachelors Degree in Fine Art from the College Of Fine Art, University of NSW, Sydney. In 2012 she completed Sotheby’s Institute, Executive Education: Business Management in the Art World program in Hong Kong and in 2019 attained a Diploma in Interior Design from Sydney Design School.
Guest speaker at MARS Gallery: “Collecting Art Now” panel discussion. Read transcript here.
Arts writer & editor Louise Martin-Chew consulted Catherine Asquith for her take on the changes in the market and collector behaviour.
“The Age”
Interviewed by Marta Pascual Juanola for expert comment on the purported ‘black market’ in Australia. Read Q & A here.
“Leonard”
Profiled in Leonard Joel’s “Expert Series”
“The Age”
Interviewed by Nick Miller, arts writer for “The Age” values, estimates, provenance at auction
Catherine Asquith Art Advisory is pleased to have worked with prestigious corporate entities and significant tertiary institutions, as both consultant on artwork commission projects and arts initiatives, and as advisor and valuer, for their respective collections. In addition we are pleased to have placed important artworks in selected institutional and corporate collections.
