Art Advisory & Consultancy

New Blood Art helps collectors, developers and design professionals build meaningful collections and bespoke art schemes. Drawing on two decades of curatorial and market experience, we source and commission works from our own roster of artists as well as across the wider market, including other galleries and artists, as well as more established names, curating collections with aesthetic coherence and investment potential. 

Founder Sarah Ryan, widely quoted in the national press and a regular writer on art investment, has a strong track record of recognising artists with real long-term potential at an early stage in their careers. Clients therefore benefit from informed investment advice as well as creative guidance. Whether shaping a family collection, curating a hotel or developing a public-art strategy, we manage sourcing, curation and placement with care and rigour.

Art Advisory

Our art advisory service is designed to help clients navigate the market with clarity and confidence. This can involve building and shaping a collection over time, researching a particular artist or area of the market, tracking availability, reviewing sale histories and market trends, advising on value, and guiding a purchase with care and discretion. A client might come to us looking for a specific work, wanting to build a collection with a clear point of view, or needing expert guidance before making a significant acquisition. We work across the wider market, including galleries, dealers, auction houses and artists directly.

Art Consultancy

Art consultancy is perhaps the more creative side of our work. We collaborate with private clients, interior designers, developers and luxury hospitality  and residential development teams to shape art schemes that respond to architecture, atmosphere, scale and placement. This can involve sourcing work and commissioning artists, curating and refining schemes in collaboration with design teams and considering how a scheme integrates across an interior project, brand or collection as a whole. The aim is always to create something cohesive, distinctive and fully integrated into the space and psychology of our clients’ vision.

Fees & Engagement

Every project begins with an initial conversation with Sarah to understand the brief, review the broad scope, and decide the best way forward.

For art advisory briefs, we work either on a fixed fee basis or on a retainer for an agreed period, depending on the nature of the brief. Art advisory often involves substantial research, market tracking, pricing analysis, liaison with galleries, dealers and auction houses, and specialist guidance over time before any acquisition takes place.

For defined pieces of work, such as a specific report, artist review or time-limited acquisition brief, fees start from £3,000. For more complex or ongoing acquisition briefs, retainers usually range from £2,500 to £5,000 per month, depending on the scope, level of research and market involved. Where an acquisition goes ahead, any further fee is agreed in advance according to the value of the work involved.

For art consultancy projects, we charge an upfront engagement fee before detailed sourcing begins. This is usually 10–15% of the overall art budget, depending on the scale, complexity and level of input required. As a guide, for budgets up to £50,000, the engagement fee is usually 12.5%, with a minimum fee of £4,000. For budgets between £50,000 and £150,000, it is usually 10%. For larger projects, fees are quoted case by case. This fee covers the development of the scheme itself, including curatorial direction, sourcing, selection, proposal preparation, revisions, and placement planning.

Artworks may then be purchased through New Blood Art or sourced through our wider network of galleries, dealers, auction houses and artists. Where we source and oversee the purchase of the works, the relevant proportion of the engagement fee is credited back through the works placed through us. Where part of the scheme is purchased elsewhere, that proportion remains covered by the consultancy work already carried out.

Additional services such as framing, delivery, installation and on-site coordination are priced separately according to scope.

Why New Blood Art

The bedrock of New Blood Art has always been the work of creating the conditions for talented artists to be discovered, collected and sustained over time. For over 20 years, that commitment has shaped the business and the wider ecosystem around it. Much of that work has carried a non-profit spirit, despite creating exceptional cultural and commercial value, and we are now in the process of creating the New Blood Art Foundation to hold that work more formally.

Any acquisition through New Blood Art, and any use of our advisory or consultancy services through the commercial gallery, forms part of a wider ecosystem shaped by that ongoing commitment to discovering, championing and sustaining artists over time.

Whether you have a fully developed brief or are simply looking to acquire art for your home or project, we would be very happy to hear from you.

Enquiries

Please contact Sarah directly with a short outline of your project, budget and timeline, or simply a few details about what you are looking for and the space in question.

Sarah oversees every project personally and begins with a short complimentary call to understand the brief, the budget and the level of support required. From there, we confirm the most appropriate structure for the project and the next stage of work.

Email Sarah: sarah@newbloodart.com

New Blood Art has been recommended in the press by leading figures in interior design, including Fiona Barratt-Campbell, founder of FBC London, Sophie Ashby, founder and creative director of Studio Ashby, Michelle Ogundehin, former Editor-in-Chief of ELLE Decoration and judge on BBC’s Interior Design Masters, and Abigail Ahern, founder of her eponymous interiors brand.

“Thanks to New Blood Art for its suggestions on where to buy affordable art in Elle Decoration. My suggested No1 place to start? Them!” - Michelle Ogundehin