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JANE RAFFAN
Jane Raffan’s consultancy practice, ArtiFacts, is an enterprise focused on delivering dependable and expert advice in the specialist field of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art. Services include collection management; market advice; and appraisals and valuations.
Australian
and European auction market agent; strategic advice regarding consignment
and selling
Customised sales strategies or direct management of sales
Confidential auction bidding service
Developing and managing collections, including sourcing works
Advice regarding acquisition options, including leasing
Network of contacts with Australian and international public institutions,
auction houses and dealers in the primary and secondary markets
Advice and services for documentation, cataloguing, storage and collection
care
Logistics advice including insurance, freight, framing, lighting and installation
Curatorial services including management of loans to exhibitions and short/long
term loans to public institutions
Australian
and European auction market agent; knowledge and expertise on current
market and investment trends read more
Practicalities of buying and selling at auction
Provision of tailored pre-sale auction reports with objective ratings
on specified lots
Advice on cultural gift provisions under Australian and American income
tax law, and attendant donation processes
Advice regarding art purchases for superannuation investment under Australian
tax law
Tax incentive
valuations for charitable donations, including the Cultural Gifts Program
Insurance valuations for newly acquired work, and renewals; superannuation
portfolio valuation updates
Market valuations for probate and family law proceedings
Appraisals for secondary market sales
Asset validation for corporate registers; acquisition financing and loans
ACCREDITATIONS
Accredited
valuer for the Australian Government's Cultural
Gifts Program: approved to value Australian indigenous art after 1970,
and bark paintings after 1950; all regions.
Member of the Australian
Auctioneers and Valuers Association, Inc., NSW
Member of the Art Consulting
Association of Australia
WHAT'S NEW
Indigenous Communal Rights are not supported in Australian Intellectual Property Law. Listen to my interview with ABC Radio Kimberley regarding copyright law and wandjina art. click
here (image of Mowanjum wandjina courtesy ABC Radio Kimberley)
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Find ArtiFacts on Facebook to discover more about current Aboriginal art exhibitions and news.
'Moral
Lip Service: Government's Hard Hit at the Art Market is a Soft form of
Redress', Sydney University Alumni Magazine, Autumn 2010.
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here for pdf
Judy Watson and Girrungun Aboriginal Art Centre Bagu ceramics add to the $1 million line up at the June Shalom Gamarada exhibition.
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