ArtBeat
NZ Artbroker is a unique gallery and business model. Its focus is the resale of contemporary and historical New Zealand art from the mid-19th century to the present, painting and sculpture, works on paper and edition prints from private and prominent art collections. These works are assessed and re-sold within the secondary market through their on line platform.
NZ Artbroker was established in 2015, and central to its exhibition and sale of New Zealand art has been its extensive database of clients built over the past eight years. Yet, rather than exhibit and sell works through the more traditional means of an auction house, NZ Artbroker assesses their value through official auction records of New Zealand and Australian art to determine their market value. The model acknowledges the authority of auction records but the works are sold - rather than auctioned - at a fixed price within the context of the secondary market. For NZ Artbroker the opportunity for clients to purchase on line has led to many ongoing repeat customers and the building of long-term relationships locally, nationally and internationally.
This has also seen the gallery act as a starting point for collectors of both 19thth century and mid to 21stst century works by artists that include: Shane Cotton, Dick Frizzell, Bill Hammond, Pat Hanly, Margaret Stoddart, J S Parker, and many more.
As a business dealing with estates and the valuation and sale of works of art, NZ Artbroker has also recently allocated time to supporting the Canterbury Cancer Centre in Papanui, hanging donated works in their newly built premises. This is by no means a modest task. The centre provides integrated cancer support to patients across the South Island, and is now home to more than 100 works, with staff commenting on the value and difference it has made to patients, stating: ‘If the excitement and joy being shown by those staying here today watching Ron’s progress is replicated, we have done a magical thing.’
NZ Artbroker’s gallery is equally about a first-hand experience of a piece, or pieces of history of New Zealand art. A visit to its gallery in Sydenham (as part of a precinct and cluster of dealer galleries), and NZArtbroker’s inventory of 19thth to 21stst century art, all sharing space with one another, represents one further and practical way to experience first-hand the reach and importance of the visual arts in our lives.
DETAILS
NZ Art Broker
2 Kingsley Street, Sydenham
Wednesday – Saturday 11am – 2pm
PH: 0210 227 1157
IMAGE: Dick Frizzell, Cattle Stop, 2016, oil on canvas, image dimensions: 380mm (h) x 530mm (w)