Alexys Schwartz, art consultant and collector from Los Angeles, London-based collector Henry Relph, and Martin Clark, Director of the Camden Arts Centre, will discuss the importance of patronage and support for young and emerging artists. Each speaker from their own perspective will share their experiences and share how they each support the emerging market, whether it’s through curating, collecting, advising or fundraising.
Alexys Schwartz
Alexys Schwartz is an art consultant and collector from Los Angeles, now living in London. As a teenager, Alexys’ parents began collecting emerging art. Through their extreme passion, she was exposed to the art world at a young age. Alexys began her art career organising and curating pop-up gallery shows in LA, which focused on exposing artists from the surrounding art schools such as UCLA and CalArts. By 2011, Alexys began building private art collections internationally specializing in emerging art, however, since then, her advisory and art brokering business cover all aspects of contemporary art. As a collector, Alexys’ fascination still resides with very young, emerging art.
Henry Relph
Henry Relph began navigating the art world in his 20s as a collector. In 2015, his professional career in Art began when he joined Citizen M Hotels as a curator for their contemporary art collection which spans globally across 22 Hotels and has a strong focus on supporting young and emerging art. He is also an assistant curator for the KRC collection; an important Dutch collection with a public gallery space in Amsterdam.
Martin Clark
Martin Clark is Director of Camden Arts Centre, London. Previously he was Director of Bergen Kunsthall, Norway, Artistic Director of Tate St Ives and Curator at Arnolfini, Bristol. Over the past 20 years has organised and curated over 70 exhibitions, including solo shows by Sadie Benning, Emily Wardill, James Richards, Moyra Davey, Giorgio Griffa, Albert Oehlen and Amy Sillman; as well as group shows including Pale Carnage, Arnolfini, Bristol, The Noing Uv It, Bergen Kunsthall, and The Dark Monarch: Magic and Modernity in British Art, Tate St Ives. This year he launched the Camden Art Centre Emerging Artist Prize at Frieze, a major new award to support young and emerging artists showing in the Focus section at Frieze London.
The talk will be moderated by Louisa Buck, British art critic and contemporary art correspondent for The Art Newspaper.
Breakfast will be served from 9.30am in Deutsche Bank Wealth Management Lounge at Frieze London.
The talk starts at 10am promptly and with Q&A in the end.
After the talk, guests will enjoy direct access into the fair from the Lounge, with quieter viewing during the VIP Hour between 11am-12pm.