Kym Elphinstone is an arts advisor and advocate with more than 20 years experience working in the contemporary visual arts within Australia and globally.

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Abdul-Rahman Abdullah
Stay up late, get up early 2020
Painted wood wall sculpture
Augusta Vinall Richardson
Fitting in, 2023
Bronze, patina sculpture
Michael Georgetti, Venetian Serenade, 2023 (foreground)
Petrina Hicks, Lauren (Eyes Closed), 2003' 2003 (background on left)
Petrina Hicks
Lauren (Eyes Closed), 2003
Photograph framed in perspex
Lucina Lane
Do you want the truth, or something beautiful? 2021
brass, galvanised steel brackets, elm
Michael Georgetti
OCCHIOLINO (Little i) 2021
Acrylic and collage on canvas with custom-made brass frame and vinyl
Coen Young
Untitled (Mirror Painting)2 2022
Acrylic, enamel, silver nitrate on paper
Thea Anamara Perkins
memory mirage 2, 2024
acrylic on board
Far left: Jonny Niesche
Silence returns like a modest veil (study) 2019
dye sublimation print on polyester voile, acrylic mirror

To the rear: Abdul Abdullah Rahman
Stay up late, get up early 2020
Painted wood wall sculpture
About

Kym Elphinstone is an arts advisor and advocate with more than 20 years experience working in the contemporary visual arts within Australia and globally.

A former lawyer, Kym is the founder of Australia’s leading cultural agency Articulate and arts content agency The Golden Mean. Over the past 15 years, at the helm of these agencies, Kym has championed the work of thousands of artists, advising on major museum and commercial gallery exhibitions, as well as arts festivals, art foundations and biennales throughout Australia and around the world, with clients including the National Gallery of Australia, Biennale of Sydney, National Gallery of Victoria, Australia’s Pavilion at the Venice Biennale, Art Basel Hong Kong, Carriageworks and Kaldor Public Art Projects.

Kym brings a unique insight to her art advisory clients, drawing on decades of working closely with artists directly as well as with leading arts institutions and galleries, allowing her firsthand knowledge of evolving curatorial trends as well as bringing rare insight into the next generation of emerging artists. This is cemented by her current roles sitting on the Advisory Council of Sydney Contemporary art fair and on the Board of emerging artspace Firstdraft.

Services

We offer a private and uniquely tailored advisory service, assisting clients in their art collecting journey. Our advice leverages decades of experience, knowledge and relationships within the arts sector.

Whether your focus is to build a collection for investment purposes or for personal enrichment, we assist in acquiring one-off works and building in-depth art collections for individuals, corporates and foundations. We also work closely with architects and interior designers to build collections aligned to specific residential and commercial projects.

Deep working relationships within the arts sector and first-hand knowledge of upcoming exhibitions and art market trends, underpins the service provided to our clients, allowing them advance access to artworks, exhibition previews and sought-after industry insights.

Kym Elpinstone with Tom Polo painting exhibited
by Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery at Sydney Contemporary 2022.

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We acknowledge the Gadigal people of the Eora nation, the traditional custodians on whose lands we work and pay our respect to Elders, leaders and artists, past and present.