Studio Manager for a Philanthropic Artist’s Studio, based in Shoreditch

Hours: 9-6 Monday to Friday, with flexibility for occasional evenings and weekends.

Salary: £45,000 - £50,000 depending on experience

Location: In the artist’s studio in Shoreditch, Occasional travel and occasional remote can be negotiated.

Responsible to: The artist/Director

Responsible for: Freelance Remote tech support, IT and technical support, Legal, Studio technician team, Contractors, Cleaner, etc.

Equipment: Company phone, Company laptop

Holidays: 25 days.

Studio manager for the artist’s Shoreditch studio/office complex overseeing Commercial and Philanthropic projects. Head of a small team and often working alone. Managing 20 years of the artist’s oeuvre and legacy projects with the artist and their associates. Flexible and varied schedule. Would suit someone with a sense of adventure and independence who is not afraid of getting their hands dirty.

Experience:

• 4+ years working in major artist studio.
• High level computer and software ability.
• Database software advanced experience.
• Working with high functioning executive neurodivergent / special needs training
• Major sculptural or public artwork production/installation.
• Artlogic, Adobe Suite, NAS/DAS storage, Mac system,
• Working with Cultural institutions.
• Handling sales admin for high level sales (£500,000+) as well as art shipping and handling.
• Handling art world criminals, fakes and forgeries
• Handling press and PR.

Duties:

Assistant to artist

• Assistant / Accessibility Assistant to high-functioning neurodivergent Artist.
• Comprehensive understanding and familiarisation of artist’s Oeuvre.
• Ability to rapidly relay data requests and give daily overview of business and database in various formats for the artist.
• Attention to detail, focus and patience.

Primary sales

• Placing the artist’s new works into large international collections and liaising with existing clients and patrons.
• Attending events with and on behalf of the artist to procure new leads.

Secondary market

• Tracking provenance of artworks through the secondary market, liaising with auctions, galleries, collectors and doing detective work.

Management of office

• Monitoring and responding to emails and all correspondence.
• Payment of all bills, rent, subscriptions, legal fees, trademark and intellectual property registrations and licensing, overseeing bookkeeping, insurance.
• Handling all staff payments.
• Keeping space tidy and arranging cleaners.

Management of studio:

• Hiring of technical staff and contractors.
• Tool and equipment purchase and hire.
• Coordinating materials, logistics and catering for studio visits.
• Arranging periodical deep cleaning.

Artist’s public sculptures

• Working directly with the artist to produce a series of self-funded, monumental, bronze, public sculptures around the world.
• Hiring and managing producers and technicians and overseeing production, shipping, structural engineering and installation.

Council Sculpture Project.

• Managing the £1/4M project, founded and exclusively funded by the artist in 2020 in partnership with a local Council.
• Commissioning young artists from under-represented and marginalised communities to create permanent, public artworks.

Charity fundraisers and projects.

• Co-ordinating charity sales with local and international charities.
• Placing and promoting auction sales.
• Facilitating press and PR.

Educational archive programme.

• Managing a 30TB database of 20 years of video and photographic archive from the artist and their community projects.
• Granting creative commons licences to academics, educators, students and artists.
• Continued documentation and acquisition of old archives.

Legal

• Tracking stolen artworks and intellectual property infringements.
• Monitoring updates from legal team Liaising with authorities in UK, Europe and USA.

Licensing

• Tracking IP and Trademark usage in partnership with legal team.
• Managing licensing agreements, territories and limitations with film publishing companies