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David Hulme is a renowned Art Valuer and Consultant and often appears in the media. Art valuer and consultant David Hulme features on ABC News on the James Fairfax art collection auction at Deutscher & Hackett on 30th August 2017         Art valuer and consultant David Hulme interviewed on ABC TV News David Hulme featured on the ABC TV News on 10...

writes Peter Fish in the “Australian Financial Review” on 10 May 2017. The mood in the art market is reviving after almost a decade of flatlining annual sales. Evidence of increased dealer activity on behalf of private clients is mounting amid improving sentiment and the evidence of several successful sales this year – culminating in last week’s Sotheby’s Australia sale, where numerous works realised way above...

writes Michaela Boland in “The Australian” on 4 May 2017. The Australian art market ­continued its stellar run last night when Sotheby’s Australia auctioned 108 artworks for $14.3 million, the company’s best result since the market peaked a year before the global financial crisis hit. Four artist records were set but the highlight of a night when only a couple of big artworks failed to find...

writes Michaela Boland in The Australian on 9 December 2016. As the nation’s art auction houses draw the shutters on a busy year, sales figures reveal a dynamic buyers’ market in an industry that’s working harder for the money. With just a few small sales outstanding this year, total artwork transactions at auction were $102 million, about 8 per cent down on last year. Despite...

By Susan Muldowney | Vol: 38 Issue: 2 | Jul 2015 Published in The Journal of the Australian and New Zealand Institute of Insurance and Finance   The sale of Arthur Streeton painting The Windsor Damsel, Fishing earlier this year raised a few eyebrows in the art world. The rarity of Streeton works, the condition of the painting and the unquestionable esteem of the artist...

By Andrew Taylor, The Sun-Herald, 20 April 2014 “Consumers are at risk of being ripped off by a website selling artworks and prints at more than 10 times their market value, a leading art expert has warned. David Hulme said art collectors should avoid making purchases from Chartfords, an online gallery that operates in Britain with a head office in Canada. “I’m concerned, not just...

2013 HSC graduate, Luke Henderson, has been awarded the Banziger Hulme Fine Art Award at the Manly Art Gallery’s Express Yourself exhibition. … David Hulme of Banziger Hulme Fine Art Consultants said he was particularly impressed by the printmaking skills of Luke Henderson and presented Luke with a limited edition signed print. “When I look at an exhibition of HSC students I go O.K. which...

By Andrew Taylor, Sydney Morning Herald, 17 March 2014 Sydney will lose yet another commercial art gallery, with the announcement that the well-regarded Eva Breuer gallery will close in May. … Art consultant David Hulme says the gallery’s closure is not a sign the art market is in trouble. However, like other areas of retail, buyers are turning to the internet to view and buy...

Written by Steve Dow and published in The Age, 17 December 2013 “Art sales at auction in Australia defied dire predictions this year, despite small-time investors backing away from buying low and middle-priced art for their own superannuation funds. Total art sales at auction will reach $104 million this year, up from $95 million in 2012, according to the Australian Art Sales Digest – but...

What is chosen for a cover lot of an auction catalogue can make for interesting insights. Not necessarily is it the most expensive offering of the night, but perhaps a painting that is beautiful, decorative and able to set off a whole catalogue of works. So, not surprisingly, Brett Whiteley makes it on to the front of fine art auction catalogues probably more than most...

It has been a long time since the boom year of 2007 when the print media were excited enough to splash an Australian art auction story on the front page and the bull market was waiting with baited breath for the next great and good auction record to be broken. This week, Melbourne’s ‘The Age’ was happy to oblige prior to the auction on 31...

The Sun-Herald, 8 September 2013, by Andrew Taylor “Blame it on the resale royalties scheme, changes to superannuation, the end of the mining boom or pre-election jitters – but most people believe the Australian art market is in the doldrums. However, auction results for this year suggest the market is healthier than the doomsayers claim. … … Art consultant David Hulme said there had been...

The Australian, 28/08/2013, by Michaela Boland “Pre-election jitters got the better of art buyers at Sotheby’s Australia’s Important Australian Art auction …. David Hulme said he thought Sotheby’s had limited its options by offering so few artworks. A larger collection would have attracted more buyers who might then have found themselves interested in others as well. …”...

Katie Hamann reported this story on Friday, 9 August 2013, 18:46:00 on Radio ABC News, PM. Click to listen to the interview. PETER LLOYD: For the better part of a decade, Indigenous Australian art was at the top of many collectors ‘must have’ list. After hitting a high of $26 million in 2007, turnover has plummeted to around $8 million annually. Indigenous art dealers and...

The Australian, 9/8/2013, Opinion “NICOLAS Rothwell’s excellent article on the disastrous results of the government-imposed resale royalty scheme clearly shows that mistakes have been made (“Royalties scheme shines stark light on divided landscape”, 8/8). Let’s hope a decision is made to abandon the scheme. If not, then at least take notice of the heavily weighted evidence from Australia’s art experts that it is a flop...

Andrew Taylor “…Art consultant David Hulme confirmed the prices fetched at auction by these artists [David Bromley, Robert Dickerson, Pro Hart, David Boyd] had declined sharply. ‘Their prices have dropped by 50 percent over the highs of 2007-08 and just seem to keep dropping,’ he said. Hulme said all four artists were traditionally favoured by new colletors and dealers in the secondary art market who...