Director, Annette Larkin, brings over three decades of specialist experience in the Australian and international art markets. Currently Larkin manages major corporate collections, works closely with private collectors of significant Australian and International art and is highly respected as a valuer of many areas of collecting.

In her 11 years at Christie’s Australia, many as Associate Director and Head of Contemporary Art, she established stand-alone sales of contemporary art, liasing and travelling to Asia, United States and Europe for the auctions of contemporary and modern, international and asian art. Prior to this, Larkin worked at the major Sydney commercial gallery, Macquarie Galleries; with the Art Gallery of New South Wales and Newcastle Region Art Gallery. In 1994 she was selected by the Australian Government as the Australian Curator and Commissioner for the VIII Indian Triennale, New Delhi.

At a national level Annette Larkin is a respected art valuer and was a committee member for the Australian Government Cultural Gift Scheme (2007-2010). In addition, she is a member of the Australian Valuers and Auctioneers Association; a Foundation member of the Art Gallery of New South Wales and a Museum of Contemporary Art Ambassador. In 1993 she was a founding member, and Chairperson (1996-1998) of the very successful Contemporary Collection Benefactor Program at the Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney.

• Collection management support if desired, cataloguing, IT, conservation and storage
• Estate Planning, organisation of legal and tax advice
• Strategic art market advice over the short and long term
• Production of scholarly catalogues raisonnés, online and/or print. Organisation of reassessment
• Liaison with Museums including placing works in international loan programs, public collections
• Acquisitions and sales of partial or entire collections
• Liaising with Australian and international auction houses on estate sales