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by Renata Gorgan
The Daily Telegraph,
Thursday May 17, 2012
p. 53

"Like a lot of things in life, Søren Solkær Starbird's career was serendipitous. The Danish literature graduate was working as a portrait photographer when his assistant started a band, The Raveonettes. He became their unofficial photographer, caught the attention of record label EMI and a career as a rock photographer was born".

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By Katrina Strickland
Australian Financial Review, 16 May 2012

For some investors, the recent sell-off in world sharemarkets and worries about European debt issues have reopened a few scars from 2008 and 2009, when the global financial crisis was in full swing. But if you think investing in shares is tough, try making money from art.

"Art is not liquid, but can be quite liquid if the price is right,'' says Ralph Hobbs, director of art investment company Art Equity.

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There was a highly charged energy in the gallery on Tuesday evening as three "young guns" of Australian art - Jeremy Kibel, Morten Lassen and Luke Cornish (E.L.K.) revealed fascinating information about their highly differing art making techniques and surfaces. Of course, the discussion took some amusing diversions!

The timing couldn't have been more perfect for this Contempo event as two of the artists were selected as finalists in the 2012 Archibald Prize - Kibel for his self-portrait and Cornish for his stensil painting of Father Bob Maguire (the first sencil-art finalist in the history of the Archibald Prize).

The discussion, led by Ralph Hobbs was the highly anticipated sequel to  the "Young Gun" event held two years ago. As sponsor of Contempo at the Art Gallery of New South Wales, Art Equity co-hosts regular artist talks and workshops. If you are interested in joining these events, please email us or contact Contempo.

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Alistair Bailey, Art Equity's Executive Director of Sales and writer of Art Insight's Market Watch is a regular art market commentator on Sky News Channel's Switzer TV.

View recent Interview - Broadcast 21st February 2012

Alistair is also a columnist for the Switzer Super Report & columnist for AHA Investor magazine.

Last year the Cooper review recommended to the government that self-managed super funds should be banned from holding art and other collectibles. Both the ALP and Coalition rejected these recommendations.

The government, however, did commit to putting in place some additional super laws that SMSFs would need to follow when the trustees decided to hold such investments.

This month the government released a draft version of the regulations it intends to put in place for July 1. Overall these proposed regulations are pretty good.

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Some investments a fine art
The Australian
1 June 2011

Adam Chang, winner of the 2011 People's Choice award at the Archibald Prize is the cover feature in the current edition of Oriental BQ - the most important Chinese business magazine in Australia with major distribution throughout China.

It is the first time the magazines has featured an artist on the front cover and Chang has four full pages of editorial and images printed in both English and Chinese.

In his native China, Adam Chang is regarded as one of the most powerful painters in the international art world.

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