The recent Artnet X AWITA survey reveals the realities of women’s roles, salaries, benefits, and career progression in the fine arts sector—where women make up 75% of the workforce yet remain undervalued.
Join a panel of cultural leaders as they discuss the findings, address systemic challenges, and explore actionable opportunities to gender equity in the arts
Speakers:
India Phillips, U.K. Managing Director of Bonhams
Sadie Coles, Owner and Director of Sadie Coles HQ
Sigrid Kirk, AWITA Co-Founder
Moderator:
Margaret Carrigan, News Editor, Europe, Artnet
Opening remarks:
Naomi Rea, Editor-in-Chief, Artnet
Mary Findlay, Senior Art Curator, Deutsche Bank
Attendee Information
Please join us from 8:30 am for a prompt 9:00 am start. The talk will last 45 minutes followed by a Q&A session. There will be time for networking and light refreshments.
All attendees must bring a form of ID (such as a driving license or credit/debit card).
The event takes place in the auditorium at Deutsche Bank’s UK Headquarters at 21 Moorfields, EC2Y 9DB. Nearest underground station is Moorgate.
This event is in partnership with Artnet and is open to all. Please RSVP using the form below by Tuesday 11th March and we will confirm your attendance via email. RSVP is required.
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India Phillips is Managing Director Bonhams UK. She was appointed in January 2022, and is based in New Bond Street in London. Raised in Edinburgh, India studied History of Art at Cambridge. Joining Bonhams in 2014, India was formerly Global Head of Impressionist and Modern Art, where she oversaw the most successful period of growth in the department's history. She brings significant experience to her role as Managing Director, Bonhams UK - from the museum sector, and both Christie's and Sotheby's - in presenting private collection sales, sourcing important works of art from an international network of collectors, and working with clients to focus on and build their collections.
Margaret Carrigan is Artnet’s News Editor, based in London. She writes weekly about the art market in The Back Room, Artnet’s subscriber-only industry insider newsletter, and is the host of the podcast Art Market Minute. Previously, she was the senior editor and deputy art market editor at The Art Newspaper. She has been covering the business of art for more than a decade and has contributed to publications such as the Observer, Frieze, and Cultured, among others. She holds a master’s degree in Art History, Theory, and Criticism from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and a bachelor’s in English from the University of Illinois Champaign-Urbana.
Sadie Coles opened her London-based gallery in 1997, it now spans three London locations and represents over fifty established and emerging international artists. The inaugural exhibition of paintings by John Currin was shown in parallel with an offsite show by Sarah Lucas, and in recent years younger artists have joined the programme. Sadie has had board experience with Whitechapel, Institute of Contemporary Art and Michael Clark Company and is currently on the executive board of Society of London Art Dealers, the Art Basel selection committee and active in various industry forums.
Sigrid Kirk was born in New Zealand and has an MA in the History of Art from the University of Auckland. She runs her own curatorial, advisory and strategy business with a strong interest in sustainable cultural production. In 2016, she co-founded Association of Women in the Arts to support female ambition and the talent pipeline and last year launched NXT GEN to demystify the artworld for emerging professionals. Kirk is a committed supporter of arts institutions and over the years has been trustee of the Drawing Room and Cubitt, Advisory Board of Glasgow International, and Ikon Gallery, Birmingham. She and her husband are patrons of Dundee Contemporary Arts, Drawing Room, Fruitmarket Gallery Edinburgh, Yorkshire Sculpture Park, Gasworks, Studio Voltaire, INIVA, South London Gallery and CCA Goldsmiths among others. She was guest curator for the Royal Society of Sculptors summer exhibition in 2021.