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Inspired by her childhood home in Oxfordshire, Georgia Spray, the founder of art platform Partnership Editions, has created a layered, lived-in family house filled with art, antiques and colour, while clever changes to the layout make it work beautifully for modern life
By Jessica Doyle
In the 10 years since launching Partnership Editions, founder and advisor Georgia Spray has been on a mission to demystify the process of collecting art. Published by Thames & Hudson this month, Spray’s first book, How to Start an Art Collection, distils her first-hand knowledge of the art world for fledgling collectors. Ahead of publication, the Partnership Editions founder shares five guiding principles for novice collectors.
By Hayley Maitland
Good art should be for all, and you shouldn’t need millions to collect it. What prevents so many from owning art often amounts to antiquated hang-ups around thinking art collecting is only for a select few — that you need to know about the art market to do it or you need to travel to galleries and spend a fortune to own it. Wrong.
What you really need is confidence — confidence in your own taste and your own choices. This is easier said than done, but read on. You too can build a deeply personal art collection rooted in the idea of all things emerging — emerging artists, emerging collectors (that’s you), and hopefully, as a result, an emerging sense of self.
In 2016, Spray launched Partnership Editions catering to what she saw as a gap in the market: the middle ground “between a poster shop and a Cork Street gallery”, she says. Her selection is priced between £50 and about £10,000, ranging from the luminous oil paintings of Sophie Glover to the illustrated ceramics of Freyja Lee.
Arabella Bowes asks our founder, Georgia Spray, to pick out her 'artists to watch' and invest in. Georgia highlights four standout talents: Lily Rose Fine and Ann-Marie Williamson, who use found materials to create memory-steeped, relic-like textile and mixed-media works; Jay Harper, a painter capturing mood through minimalist still lifes; and Tom Collison, who transforms paper into complex, lattice-like folded structures.
Georgia Spray, founder of Partnership Editions, suggests visiting galleries and museums purely to hone your eye.
“A fun game to play is to go with a friend, take photographs of what you’d buy if money was no object, then compare over a coffee after the show,” she says.
Rollo Dunford Wood and Freyja Lee's family home in Wales is an enchanted place, where she crafts folklore-inspired ceramics and he restores wagons and builds cabins surrounded by the beautiful ancient countryside
When artist Tabby Booth relocated to Cornwall with her young family four years ago, she found the shift from living on a houseboat to a traditional, land-bound residence to be nothing short of ‘luxurious’. No longer having to keep track of how much water and electricity they were using or carefully negotiate limited space, they eagerly expanded into the old 1970s coastal bungalow, transforming it as they did so.
The affordable-art platform’s founder, Georgia Spray, shines a light on the up-and-coming artists from this year’s Open Call.
“Unearthing exciting new artistic talent is the true highlight of my job.
I love to visit graduate shows and I spend time trawling Instagram for incredible artists every day, but there’s something so special about opening up this process much more widely.”
