Art World Services | Recruitment & Search Agency | Sophie Macpherson

EXECUTIVE SEARCH

Over the past two decades we have worked with thousands of individuals operating in the art world, many of whom have gone on to help shape the international art market.

Through partnering with our clients on Executive Search briefs, from director to board level appointments, we have built strength in teams we have helped to construct, and trust from our ever-growing client base.

We work with auction houses, art fairs, galleries, museums, private and financial institutions placing senior level executives across all functions.

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RECRUITMENT

After nearly two decades we still pride ourselves on our personal approach. We advise artists, businesses, arts institutions and service providers around the world on key hires and strategic team building from entry to director levels.

From an initial brief we offer a tailored and detailed service, identifying and suggesting the most relevant candidates for each role. We are an experienced team with a large database and wide network, together allowing us to identify candidates quickly and with focus.

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Expert Consultants

As well as recruitment and headhunting for permanent, salaried roles, we work with an outstanding network of experts who are called upon to work on short term, specific projects. Using our professional and personal network combined with our research facility, we source independent consultants who help our clients by using their expertise in continuing business associations.

These consultants have over fifteen years of experience working in our industry and are skilled in areas including communications, financial management, collection curation, strategic growth or client liaison. Their knowledge can span specific areas of art history or arts business and their experience can be focused on specific geographic areas or collector demographics.

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Consultancy Opportunities

Board Appointments

Board formation is a crucial part of the success of any business or non-profit. When a client is going through transition or a period of significant growth, we use our network to suggest board members who will be able to drive organisational development, from financial, legal and HR to communication and digital. These appointments can be executive, non-executive or advisory and attract candidates with exceptional experience. Our close relationships with both clients and board members allow us to handpick the most relevant board members, creating lasting partnerships.

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MARKET INTELLIGENCE

Working with our existing database and with the support of our experienced and specialist research team, we provide our clients with data driven insights to help them make strategic decisions before expanding into new specialist or geographic markets.

Our reports can cover specific professional demographics to salary and commission structures and market trends. Detailed, strategically resourced data is created for each assignment and presented as a directory, offering each client a full overview of any sector in any region with specific search criteria added as needed. Each project is truly unique.

ADVISORY

We partner with our clients in times of change or growth in an advisory capacity. We review and feed back on current organisational structure, making professional recommendations and amending organisational charts and job descriptions. We review all job functions within each organisation and create ongoing strategic plans to streamline and advance each business. We help with future planning, creating leadership where it is lacking and creating unity where it has fallen aside.

We have been working with our clients on the establishment and growth of their organisations, advising on legal, communications, currency and properties matters. Through trusted partnerships with other market leader service providers and our unique knowledge of developments within the market place ahead of time, we have been able to offer hands-on guidance and advice.

In this fast-changing industry, as galleries, auction houses, collectors and artists all work alongside one another, our unique insight helps our clients to plan ahead and adapt to changing market conditions.

PROPERTY

We are now providing a property search service for clients who are seeking to establish a commercial space in London. We have partnered with a team of local consultants with extensive experience working in the central London commercial property market.

Through combining their local knowledge with our own intrinsic understanding of the art world, we are able to offer an entirely holistic real estate acquisition service to provide our clients with impartial information and knowledge, without the usual bias toward a certain landlord which is so frequently prevalent.

By combining the two disciplines of art and property, we’re able to add value in all aspects of your project, from recommending specific areas and spaces of architectural and artistic elegance to ensuring the legal counsel are diligently executing the terms. We are unrivalled in our passion to provide the creative solution to your search, with the substance to deliver it.

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