How do you start a collection?

Chapter 1

Art collecting with Kathlene Fox-Davies

Kathlene Fox-Davies is a London-based art adviser and private dealer with a string of clients, some old hands in the art world and some bright young things who need a word to the wise. How do you start a conversation in a contemporary-art gallery? How do you pass the test of being allowed into the inner sanctum? Fox-Davies tells Robert Bound.

Chapter 2

Monocle Quality of Life Conference: Time to Collect

We recap our conversation about collecting art for love rather than money at this year’s Monocle Quality of Life Conference in Vienna. Our panellists – gallery-owner Clemens Gunzer, artist Martin Guttmann and director of Vienna Design Week, Lilli Hollein – speak to Robert Bound and Andrew Tuck.

Chapter 3

Investing in an artist: Marine Tanguy

Marine Tanguy is a gallerist turned art agent who last year launched MTArt, a company that represents a new generation of international young artists. Tanguy doesn’t believe in just investing in one work, she thinks that we should be investing in the artist. Culture producer Holly meets her in the apartment of one of those artists, Anna Fafaliou.