With decades of significant curatorial, consulting and art advisory experience in the public, private and not-for-profit sectors, Trish Clark is dedicated to excellence. She offers independent expert consultancy across the full range of activities, including art advice, acquisition and de-accession, framing, conservation, full collection management, full technical installation, international freight, and insurance valuations. Whether managing the care and logistics of re-installing an existing modest art collection or the consideration and execution of large-scale civic projects, Trish brings her sensitive eye, completely impartial client-centred advice, and expert teams of trusted contractors to every project.
Art has the capacity to speak to the soul, transform lives, and greatly enrich one's life or work environments, private or civic. For me it is as important, and as nourishing, as food or water, an integral part of human history for tens of millennia ...
Embracing the creativity of founding and working within different platforms in the arts for forty six years, while raising three children, has allowed for a richly diverse life. Over decades, it has been my deep privilege and pleasure to undertake art pilgrimages to far corners of the world; to work with and learn from a host of artists, great gallerists, museum staff and Directors, collectors, and technical experts; and to walk alongside clients on long-term journeys of discovery. Combining insight, judgement, intellectual rigour and specialist knowledge has been life-enhancing for myself and those whom I have worked with.
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Trish Clark — Owner Director
Holding an MA (First Class Honours) from the University of Auckland, Trish Clark has embraced a myriad of pathways to support artists and the art ecosystem across her career since beginning in 1980. Having represented such luminaries of New Zealand art history as Gordon Walters, Milan Mrkusich, Billy Apple, Max Gimblett, Stephen Bambury, Julia Morison and Christine Webster in her first gallery, established in 1984, she has recently stepped back from gallery ownership after mounting the first Australasian dealer gallery exhibitions by internationally renowned artists Anthony McCall, Kimsooja, Alfredo Jaar; curating exhibitions including significant works by Hiroshi Sugimoto, Marina Abramović, Carolee Schneemann, Patti Smith, Pilar Albarricin, Shaun Gladwell, Los Carpinteros, Nova Paul and Tia Ranginui; and facilitating significant museum acquisitions across Australia and New Zealand.
Trish's demonstrable specialist knowledge, international experience and networks, and proven long-term qualitative judgments since 1980 have assisted many dozens of clients, large and small. These include rationalising and developing significant corporate art collections for Russell McVeagh, PWC and Bell Gully over multiple decades; building art collections with key private clientele over multiple decades; and shorter-term project services to an extensive private and corporate clientele, including Mansons, The Northern Club, Robertson Lodges, SAP, Sheffield Consulting, Diocesan School for Girls, Dexus, and others.
Formal roles have included: founding Director to establish and then lead the Möet & Chandon New Zealand Art Foundation (1988-1997); appointed to the founding Advisory Board for Auckland University’s Centre for Projects in the Arts; appointed to then elected Chair of Auckland Council’s Advisory Panel for Public Art from 2009-2013; Trustee, New Zealand Maritime Museum 2008-2018, working towards transformational change to achieve a sustainable future for the Museum.
Publications have included authoring and producing a number of private books on art collections; commissioned in 2011 by Penguin to produce Journey, a collaboration with Pippa Blake to commemorate the 10th anniversary of Sir Peter Blake's death; co-edited Alan Miller New Zealand Photographs, 2010; and co-edited with Professor Wystan Curnow, Pleasures and Dangers: Artists of the Nineties, Longmans, 1991.