Trish Clark has been delivering art projects in New Zealand and off-shore, public and private, major and less major, since 1982.
With an MA (First Class Honours) in Political Science from the University of Auckland, Trish established one of New Zealand’s leading dealer galleries in 1984, and the Moet & Chandon New Zealand Art Foundation in 1988, which she directed for nine years.
Trish Clark is Chair of Auckland City Council’s Advisory Panel for Public Art, and sits on the Trust Board of Voyager, New Zealand Maritime Museum.
Trish Clark has curated numerous public and private projects and exhibitions, and manages extensive art collections for leading corporate and private clients.
She has authored a number of private books on art collections, and co-edited Alan Miller New Zealand Photographs (due 2010), and co-edited with Professor Wystan Curnow, Pleasures and Dangers: Artists of the Nineties, Longmans, 1991.
She is the founder and director of Trish Clark Associates Ltd, based in New Zealand.
Whatever you need help with, we analyze your specific needs, strategize and advise, then move forward with you
We cover all aspects of Acquisition, Management, and Publications
- • customised to meet your objectives
- • discretion and confidentiality
- • project or long-term curating
- • strategy development
- • sourcing and acquisition of artworks
- • knowledge of emerging artists
- • rigorous research and due diligence
- • art registers for insurance purposes
- • expert crating, freighting, framing, conservation, installation, and lighting
- • deaccessioning artworks for funds
- • care of artworks
- • organising loans to museums
- • exhibition / collection catalogues
- • editorial services
- • private guided viewings for VIP's
- • international destinations / itineraries
- • interest group presentations / corporate seminars
- • Kriselle Baker has recently joined Trish Clark Art Consultancy as an Associate
- • Trish Clark has been appointed, as one of two arts professionals, to the new Advisory Panel on Public Art for Auckland City. Initiated by Auckland City Council to support their new Manager of Public Art, this is a serious and strategic commitment by the City to deliver a new, innovative public art programme
- • the recent launch of the major monograph HOTERE, With Kriselle Baker and Vincent O’Sullivan (from Ron Sang Publications)
- • Trish Clark was appointed in July 2008 to the Trust Board of the New Zealand National Maritime Museum in Auckland. In a period of expansion, the Museum has begun demolition work for the construction of a new extension by Bossley Architects to house Blue Water / Black Magic, a Tribute to Sir Peter Blake
- • as Art Curator, Trish Clark is part of the team working to renovate the Edmiston Gallery at the New Zealand National Maritime Museum, which will reopen at the end of 2009. She is also working to realise a major public art project at the site
- • completion of a substantial publication on a major private Collection
- • recently engaged to deliver analysis and strategy development for Bell Gully, Wellington
- • project management of branding work for PricewaterhouseCoopers, Auckland and Wellington
- • research and writing underway for a new ‘PwC National Art Collection’ book