Art is a Passion Investment - A Conversation with Dr Iain Robertson

Dr Iain Robertson is head of Art Business Studies at Sotheby's Institute of Art. He was Senior Lecturer in Arts Policy & Management at City University. His books include: Understanding International Art Markets and Management (2005) (2nd edition 2013),The Art Business (2008) and 'A New Art from Emerging Markets' (2011). He was art market editor of Art Market Report and is co-series editor of Handbooks in the Art Business (SIA and Lund Humphries). He has written over one hundred articles in the arts and national press. He consults for Hana Bank, South Korea, Deloitte, Luxembourg, UBS, Global, Lisbon University and the Macao Institute in Portugal.

Publications

Books

Understanding International Art Markets and Management. Editor (Routledge, 2005) (Chinese edition- Chongqing University Press, 2011)

The Art Business. Editor with Derrick Chong (Routledge 2008)

A New Art from Emerging Markets. (Lund Humphries, 2011)sole author

Understanding Art Markets (second edition) (Routledge, 2013) sole author (combining Understanding Art Markets and Management and The Art Business under one title)

Principles of International Art Business. Editor with Derrick Chong (Lund Humphries, 2014)

Chapters in books

Taiwan The International Art Markets The essential guide for collectors and investors (Kogan Page, 2008)

The Art Market in Transition, the Global Economic Crisis and the Rise of Asia. Globalization and Contemporary Art. Edited by Jonathan Harris (2011)

Catalogue essays

Korean Odyssey. Antje Siebrecht (1993)

Rembrandt the Etcher. National Museum of History, Taiwan (1996)

Meditation on a theme. Brian Falconbridge, Masterpiece Art Centre, Taipei (1996)

Consumer China (Tale of Two Cities, Hanart, London 2000)

The Development of Art Markets and the London Contemporary Art Scene, Sungkok Museum, Seoul (2001)Fine Art Museum, Taipei (2002)

Korean Contemporary Art (2005) Of Origin and Future, I-Myu, London

Lee Jaehyo. Force of Nature (2009) Albermarle Gallery, London

Jiang Shanqing, About the Ink Communicating through ink (2010)

Korean Collective I, Albermarle gallery, London (2010)

Korean Collective II, Albermarle gallery, London (2011)

So didst thou travel on life's common way. The Art of Zhang Yu, Sem-Art Monaco (2012)

Sequence and Pattern, Albemarle gallery, London (2012)

Hiroshi Senju, Ode to Truth. Night and day, Sundaram Tagore New York (2013)

Articles

Over 100 articles for the arts and national press. Former Asia correspondent for the Art Newspaper

GC Privé Art. A World of Luxury.