Is the Australian Art Market Now As Safe As Houses? Excellent Results at Deutscher + Hackett on 7 May 2025
The Australian art market: With the turmoil in both local and international stock markets caused by Donald Trump, are troubled 1 percenters ploughing their money into blue chip art? The bullish sales results by leading auctioneers in recent months – including Smith & Singer on 8 April with a turn-over of $8,697 million hammer price […]
Canvass the Opportunity: Your Guide to Investing in Australian Art
Jack Phillips investigates the potential of investing in art, and particularly in Australian art, in Boss Hunting. He also spoke with art valuer and consultant David Hulme on what establishes good value: “A valuer looks at the market value of a painting,” explains David Hulme, co-founder of Banziger Hulme Fine Art Consultants. When engaged, it’s […]
News Flash: David Hulme on the 2024 Art Auction Market
Arts journalist Elizabeth Fortescue looks back on an eventful year in the fine art auction room. It saw several auction records, but records do not define a market.
For a closer look, she spoke with several art market specialists, including our very own David Hulme for his view.
Top End Art Buyers In Excellent Health at Smith and Singer’s Final Sale of the Year
Banziger Hulme Fine Art Consultants report on the record breaking Smith & Singer art auction in November 2024
Great Art Auction Records at Smith and Singer Sale
Banziger Hulme Fine Art Consultants report on the Smith & Singer art auction in August 2024
Sunshine and Sun Shine Brightly at Smith and Singer Important Australian Art Auction
Banziger Hulme report on the Smith & Singer art auction in April 2024
The art of outperforming – one masterpiece at a time
Investment is not what drives most art collectors. It has more to do with what art consultant David Hulme likens to a “mild addiction”, writes Megan Neil in “The Australian”.
Battle of the Australian Landscape Painters at Menzies Winter Sale
Report on the Menzies fine art auction in June 2023
Art investment in SMSFs ‘not easily done’, but trustees backing their taste
James Dunn writes in the Insider Adviser, 19 June 2023: “All investors face the quandary of how to diversify their portfolios into assets that are uncorrelated to the major asset classes of shares, bonds and property, preferably with an inflation hedge thrown in for good measure. For this, portfolio managers turn to alternative assets. And […]
Sidney Nolan Reigns Supreme at Menzies’ Sydney Auction
Menzies’ final major art sale of 2022 comprised a whopping 153 offerings, of which a third – the first 49 lots – came from the extensive collection of the late Millie Phillips, Australia’s first female mining magnate and highly successful businesswoman. The auction held in Menzies’ Kensington, Sydney, premises proved to be just as successful, […]