Gareth Fletcher

MA, Sotheby's Institute of Art, London; BFA and BA, University of Canterbury, New Zealand

Gareth is a Lecturer in Art Business at Sotheby’s Institute of Art. He is Co-Unit Leader of the Art Business, Foundations and Placement semester course, leader of the Art Crime summer study course and Co-Leader of the Art and its Markets summer study course. He also lectures on Strategy and Risk Management as part of the Business Management in the Art World Executive Education program; Strategic Planning as part of the Business Management of an Art Gallery program, and the Contemporary Art Market as part of the Frieze Art Fair: Contemporary Art Today program. He has received a TECHNE AHRC scholarship to pursue his PhD examining the semiotics of provenance as institutional construct in the establishment of cultural and economic value in the market for Near Eastern antiquities.

Publications

‘The Ethics of Provenance Research and the Art Market,’ in Provenance Research: A Handbook for Buyers, Sellers, Researchers, Art-World Professionals and Collectors, edited by Arthur Tomkins, London: Lund Humphries (Forthcoming 2018).

‘Scores on the Doors: Establishing a Certificate of Virtue Framework for Future Art Market Regulation’ Cultural Heritage Law and Ethics: Mapping Recent Developments #26, Geneva: Schulthess, 2017.

‘Fakes, Forgeries and Thefts,’ in Art Business Today: 20 Key Topics, edited by Jos Hackforth-Jones and Iain Robertson, 106-114, London: Lund Humphries, 2016