Great Martins

Private Residence, Sculpture Collection

Art Contact was engaged by Estate Manager, Tom Bream, to maintain and manage the sculpture collection at Great Martins. Our work involves annual inspection and cleaning, as well as restoration and conservation as required to preserve the collection’s integrity, condition, and visual impact.

Alongside maintenance, we have also commissioned new works to enhance and expand the collection. These include an Armillary Sphere by Border Sundials and a Panoramic Thames Map – From Great Martins to the Sea by Ewan Eason. Both pieces were selected to complement the existing sculptures and to add contemporary relevance to the historic setting.

This ongoing programme ensures that the Great Martins collection remains visually engaging, historically preserved, and carefully curated, blending traditional craftsmanship with contemporary artistic expression to reflect the estate’s evolving legacy.

Object

  • Sculpture collection management
  • Conservation
  • Commissions.

Focus

  • Collection maintenance
  • Restoration
  • Bespoke commissions.

Client

  • Private Client

Sector

  • Private Residence

Location

  • Berkshire

Status

  • Ongoing
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Corporate Client – Nova South

Nova South Offices collection management

Art Contact has worked with this corporate client for many years, supporting the ongoing development and maintenance of their art collection at their Nova South offices.

Our long-standing collaboration includes the bi-annual auditing of the collection to assess condition and maintain accurate records for insurance purposes. During periods of office maintenance or refurbishment, we manage the safe removal, wrapping, storage, and reinstallation of all artworks to ensure their protection throughout the process.

In addition to collection management, we continue to source and supply new artworks that complement and expand the existing collection. Each addition is carefully selected to align with the company’s aesthetic, values, and workspace environment.

Through these services, Art Contact ensures that Advent International’s collection remains well cared for, visually engaging, and consistently aligned with the evolving nature of their workplace while meeting both practical and artistic objectives.

Object

  • Art collection management
  • Maintenance
  • Acquisition.

Focus

  • Collection care
  • Condition monitoring
  • Ongoing artwork curation

Client

  • Corporate Client

Sector

  • Office & Corporate

Location

  • Victoria, London

Status

  • Ongoing
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A Livery Company

Artworks Restoration and Conservation Programme

Art Contact was engaged as an art consultancy with expertise in the commercial and practical aspects of art management to implement a comprehensive restoration and conservation programme for the artworks at the Livery Company during their extensive Hall refurbishment.

Working closely with the Head of Collection, we developed and coordinated a phased restoration plan for the Hall’s artworks. Drawing on our broad experience in fine art restoration across multiple media, we have ensured that each piece is carefully conserved in tandem with the wider refurbishment schedule, with specific areas addressed each year.

The first step was to conduct a full audit of the collection to assess the condition of each artwork, identify urgent conservation needs, and determine the scope of treatment required. Following this audit, a detailed report was produced outlining the recommended conservation approach and providing indicative budgets for each piece.

Each year, we collaborate with the Head of Collection to review progress and plan the next phase of the programme. This includes re-assessing conservation priorities, managing the handling and transportation of artworks, and coordinating restoration logistics to align with ongoing works at the Hall.

The project remains ongoing, with Art Contact continuing to oversee the careful preservation of the Hall’s entire collection, ensuring that every artwork is maintained to the highest standard and safeguarded for future generations.

Object

  • Art restoration
  • Conservation
  • Collection management.

Focus

  • Phased restoration
  • Collection audit
  • Project coordination.

Client

  • A Livery Company

Sector

  • Livery Hall

Location

  • City of London

Status

  • On-going
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One Aldwych Hotel

Art Contact was engaged to undertake a full audit, including condition report, of One Aldwych Hotel’s wonderful art collection amassed over thirty years.

Several days were spent at the hotel collating and photographing 280 artwork hung throughout the hotel corridors and rooms including sculptures displayed in the public areas including works by Emily Young (limestone carved head of Dionysus), Andre Wallace (The Boatman with Oars) and Justine Smith (two pop-art paper mâché dog’s one decorated with Beano cartoons and the other English Pound notes).

The collection also includes works by Jaroslav Rossler, Keith Millow, Joost Beerents, Ronald Grierson and Enid Martin, Richard Bartle, Nick Malone, Arabelle Sim, Keith Grant and Philip Diggle to mention a few.

Art Contact were delighted to be engaged to start the process of bringing the artwork back to life by reviewing each artwork creating a detailed catalogue including replacement value and condition report being the first stage in developing a suggested care programme to maintain the collection.

  • Object – Audit of Art Collection including Condition Monitoring
  • Client – One Aldwych Hotel
  • Sector – Hotel and Leisure
  • Location – Aldwych, London
  • Status – Complete
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One Aldwych Art Collection Audit

One Aldwych Art Collection Audit

One Aldwych Art Collection Audit including Insurance Valuation and Condition Report as part of our Art Collection Management Service.

One Aldwych Art Collection Audit

One Aldwych Art Collection Audit including Insurance Valuation and Condition Report as part of our Art Collection Management Service.

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Equatorial Traders

Working directly with the client, Art Contact was asked to curate and manage the relocation programme for Equatorial Traders artworks to their new offices.

Our brief included; the review of existing framing, assessment of any restoration/conservation requirements to the artwork, printing and framing of previously commissioned photographs.

In advance of the move Art Contact pre-arranged the artwork layout for Equatorial Traders new offices, which was presented to the client for approval.

Art Contact over saw and managed the printing and framing of the new photographs, prior to installing them as arranged. Most of the artworks were re-framed in house, to suit the decor in their new offices.

  • Object – Curate, Frame & Install
  • Client – Equatorial Traders
  • Sector – Office & Corporate
  • Location – Kings Cross, London
  • Status – Complete
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Equatorial Traders
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Equatorial Traders
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BMA – Conference and Meeting Rooms

Art Contact was asked to find appropriate artwork to be included in the refurbishment of various meeting and conference rooms.

To meet the brief a series of photographic montages were commissioned printed onto acrylic panels. In the circulation spaces montages were created of the BMA and the surrounding area but in the named meeting rooms very specific themes were chosen relating to the name of the meeting room.

As well as these commissions, there were also a number of pictures that required re-framing to match the new colour scheme and the interior design of the refurbishment.

To further enhance the interior design clocks and other accessories were also supplied.

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  • Object – Commission acrylic panels for Conference and Meeting Rooms
  • Client – BMA
  • Sector – Institution
  • Location –  London
  • Status – Completed
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Waverton Investment Management Ltd

Working in conjunction with Denton Associates, Art Contact was asked to oversee and manage the relocation programme for Waverton’s artworks to their new offices.

Our brief included; the review of existing framing, assessment of any restoration/conservation requirements to the artwork, packing and moving of artwork to their new site and the installation of the artwork.

In advance of the move Art Contact pre-arranged the artwork layout for their new offices, which was presented to the client for approval.

Art Contact over saw and managed the packing and labeling of the artwork, prior to moving the existing artwork to the new site and installing them as arranged. Most of the artworks were re-framed in house, to suit the decor in their new offices.

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  • Object – Review and relocation of art collection for London offices
  • Client – Waverton Investment Management Ltd through Denton Associates
  • Sector – Offices and Corporate
  • Location –  London
  • Status – Completed
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Virginia provides Denton with a first class artwork consultancy service. She deals direct with all our clients, eliminating any added margin and advises on the strategy, sourcing and supply of all types of art. Given the diversified nature of these clients and their requirements, this is no mean feat! She has restored and valued existing portfolios and delivered some really innovative and creative ideas in all nature of products, to suit the modern and contemporary workplace, as well as within listed buildings. She is a true expert and makes it a thoroughly enjoyable process.

James Lang, Director, Denton Associates

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Corporate Client – Relocation to Nova South

Our client, one of the largest private equity investors, with offices globally. Art Contact was commissioned to review, refresh and supplement their existing art collection to suit their new offices at Nova South, Victoria.
To assist with the move Art Contact audited the collection and produced a detailed plan for each artwork. Where necessary artworks were re-framed to suit the new offices.

In addition Art Contact was invited to source and select new site specific artworks to complement both the existing collection and also their corporate identity. The resulting purchases and commissions were managed from design through to installation and at the appropriate time the collection was delivered and installed in their new offices.

  • Object – To review, refresh and supplement the existing art collection and co-ordinate the relocation to Nova South
  • Client – Corporate Client
  • Sector – Corporate
  • Location – Victoria, Central London
  • Status – Completed
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Worshipful Company of Fishmongers – Pageant Scroll

Art Contact was asked by the Fishmongers Company to arrange for the Conservation and Restoration of their Pageant Scroll. The scroll depicts the Lord Mayors pageant of 1616 and dates from around that time.

The scroll was hanging in a frame, mounted on fabric stretched over a wooden support. As part of their on-going refurbishment of the Hall it was decided to make a feature of the scroll by placing it in a purpose built display cabinet in the Library of the Fishmongers Hall.

Art Contact made the arrangements for the scroll to be removed from its existing frame and support. The scroll was then transported to our paper restorer for conservation, restoration and re-mounting onto a new conservation grade support.

The mounted scroll was then packed and placed in storage until the display cabinet had been installed ready to receive the re-mounted scroll.

See the images below in the various stages of the project.

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  • Object – Assist with the Conservation and Restoration of the Pageant Scroll of 1616 at the Fishmongers Hall
  • Client – Worshipful Company of Fishmongers
  • Sector – Office & Corporate
  • Location –  London
  • Status – Completed
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M3 Capital Partners

Art Contact was asked to assist M3 Capital Partners with the display of some of the photographs of development sites they have been involved in. Images were selected and enhanced by adding strategic colour to highlight areas within the image to give a ‘pop-art’ feel to their original photographs.

Images were selected for a number of wall recesses. These images were printed onto Di-bond panels and floated inside perspex boxes which were designed to fit into the recesses.

One large image, again printed onto Di-bond and floated in a large perspex box was installed leaning against the wall on a slightly raised shelf in the reception.

Other items were mounted and framed in specially milled Oak moulding to match the other woods use in the design of these offices. The images were again selected from detail photographs of their development projects.

The installed artworks were so well received that we have since supplied similar imagery to their offices in the USA.

  • Object – Frame and Display images for London Offices
  • Client – M3 Capital Partners
  • Sector – Corporate
  • Location –  London
  • Status – Completed
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Charles Russell Speechley

Main Brief: Review existing artwork and arrange for relocation to new offices. Review existing framing, asses and restoration requirements to the artwork, consolidate artwork from both venues to be re-house on the refurbished site. Pack and move artwork, transportation and installation.

Sculpture Brief: Commission wall sculpture for the main reception required to suit the general design of the space with special attention to the available fixing points within the wall.

Art Contact was already familiar with Charles Russell Speechly’s existing art collection as we had purchased all the artwork for Speechly Bircham and following their amalgamation with Charles Russell,

Art Contact was invited to oversee and manage the relocation programme for the artwork.

In advance of the move Art Contact pre-arranged the new artwork layout for each floor onto a plan, which was presented to the client for approval. Art Contact over saw and managed the packing and labelling of the artwork, prior to moving the existing artwork to the new site. Existing artwork form Charles Russell collection, where reviewed and re-framed to complement, those from Speechly Bircham. In addition, a site specific wall sculpture by Phillip Melling was commissioned in a recess by the main reception area.

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  • Object – Review and relocation of art collection for London offices
  • Client – Charles Russell Speechley
  • Sector – Offices and Corporate
  • Location –  London
  • Status – Completed
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Open University

The Open University campus has a large collection of artworks from around the world. Art Contact has been assisting the team at the Open University to maintain, conserve and restore their collection for many years. Most recently Art Contact was appointed to conserve and re-frame where appropriate their large collection of limited edition prints and paintings.

The pictures were largely re-framed in similar moulding so that any combination of artworks could be hung together as required. When required artworks were enclosed behind acrylic covers to add additional protection to vulnerable artworks.

  • Object – Conservation, restoration and re-framing of existing art collection
  • Client – Open University
  • Sector – Corporate/Educational
  • Location – Milton Keynes
  • Status – Completed
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Zaiwalla and Co

Zaiwalla & Co founded in 1982 and one of the first law firms to enter the international legal market in China, for this reason the company had a strong tie with China and wanted the artwork to reflect the oriental heritage as well as the European heritage in their artwork for the main reception.  The colour red was chosen to reflect the company colours.

Art Contact commissioned two digital montage artworks for the main reception and meeting rooms at Zaiwalla and Co London based offices. The artist created two cityscape depicting iconic sites from Europe and Asia to reflect the client’s associations with these countries. The concept enhances the corporate identity of Zaiwalla, by representing the global reach of the business.

  • Object – Source, select & commission artworks for London Offices
  • Client – Zaiwalla and Co.
  • Sector – Corporate
  • Location –  London
  • Status – Completed
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Speechly Bircham

“We are making a major investment in the new office and would like to make a statement of our identity, confidence and that the firm is moving forward”

From this brief we chose and commissioned works of art by established artists as well as up and coming artists such as Martha Winter and Mickey Dell and works by international artists such as Francois Pont and Ralph Keigal.

 

Together with their existing artwork their collection which has been built up over the years containing works in media from photography to oil and sculpture to relief’s has been much enlarged while still remaining in harmony with the state of the art new offices.

 

  • Object – Source, select and supply artworks to complement existing collection and move to new offices.
  • Client – Speechly Bircham
  • Sector – Corporate
  • Location – City Of London
  • Status – Completed
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“Art Contact took note of our brief extremely well by contributing to the overall success of our new offices.”

Tim Raper

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BMA Members Lounge

‘Trees’
The brief was to produce substantial artworks that would have considerable impact on the space at the same time as creating a tranquil atmosphere.
Images of trees were chosen to help create the calm and the use of non-reflective acrylic panels giving the impact that the space required.

View other work by Gudawer Kalirai:

  • The Waldron Health Centre, New Cross
  • Nottingham City Hospital – ‘Nottingham Forest’
  • Roche Diagnostics – ‘Trees’
  • Object – To provide artwork for the member’s lounge that created a tranquil atmosphere while also making an impact on the vast space.
  • Client – British Medical Association
  • Sector – Corporate
  • Location –BMA House, Tavistock Square
  • Status – Completed
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Gardiner & Theobald LLP

Having met Kevin Arnold from G&T to view the new site for site specific artworks, our rational behind the new commission was to take into account the work that Gardiner & Theobald specialise in, so in a loose way, we chose works which reflected their business in construction and consultancy.

Two artists were commissioned to fulfil the brief, firstly Brazillian ceramic artist Valeria Nascimento who created a wall sculpture ‘Ordered Chance’ which was constructed from ceramic cubes to represent Gardiner & Theobald’s position both in the locality and also in the construction industry. Secondly, a wall panel was commissioned from the light artist Chris Wood.

  • Object – Source, select and commission artworks for new offices
  • Client – Gardiner & Theobald LLP
  • Sector – Corporate
  • Location – London
  • Status – Completed
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Financial Institution – Bankside

Art work supplied for a financial institution for their new offices at Bankside.

Art Contact had worked with this organisation for some years and in 2009 we were asked to select artwork to complete this development.

A wide variety of artists were chosen to complement the design and to reflect the diverse nature of the organisation.

  • Object – Source, select and supply artworks for offices in Bankside
  • Client – Financial Institute
  • Sector – Corporate
  • Location – Bankside, London
  • Status – Completed
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Association of British Insurers

A selection of historical stained glass panels were reused and modernised into a light box to fit the company’s contemporary space.

Art Contact also selected and supplied a number of abstract contemporary artworks for the meeting rooms and other spaces around the building.

  • Object – Restoration of stained glass panels and supply of display.
  • Client – Association of British Insurers
  • Sector – Corporate
  • Location – City of London
  • Status – Completed
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Taylor Wessing

Our brief was to incorporate existing artwork into the company’s contemporary offices, as well as to provide further artwork to complement the existing collection for the client facing areas on the 9th and 10th floors at New Gate Square.

As well as providing a full audit of their collection, Art Contact also sourced a variety of items producing an extensive portfolio from which the final items were selected.

The  existing collection and the new artworks were framed or re-framed as required to suit the decor of the new offices and installed as planned.

Object

  • Audit Collection, source select and supply artworks to complement the existing collection

Client

  • Taylor Wessing

Sector

  • Corporate

Location

  • City Of London

Status

  • Completed
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