The Naze Vale Gallery associate curator Kurt Hanson-Lee is sitting in the sun on the coffee shop patio with frappucinio in hand.
He’s refrained from gazing at his Neo-geo pad screen having just noticed a scrumpled up letter on the table. He flattens out the black paper and begins to read the text written in white Biro, recognising the name James Smithson – one of the latest voluntary interns.
‘Hi JAMES,
a few clippings from the Lunderbach paper. The closing of the mental health for the elderly is disgusting compared with the next page Jonas Hellerton shaking hands with a millionaire opening of LUXURY APTS – The Rich get RICH AND under this new leader Clive Dunn The POOR are getting poorer…just like the pissin old days. The said man Dr Peter Millardino owns loads of race horses and also the posh Duchess of Tranquilayers rode one of the horses in the Tranquilayers Confederation stakes. Lunderbach has changed…full of RICH paying little Taxes while the poorer are paying big Taxes its a case of you scratch my back and I’ll scratch yours.
money talks here the federal district parliamentarians such as Millardino are on Thousands a month They refuse point blank to take a pay cut like the rest of the NORMAL people and they sit on their podiums while the elderly mental health suffer. everywhere you go there are boxes for charities while those two clowns rake in the cash…the gov are crap. love Lydia xx.’
‘PS…I hope the new job is going well for you. I’d love to come to Pointeso some day. Maybe my numbers will come up over the weekend…’
Mr Kurt Hanson-Lee screws the paper into a ball and drops it into the waste paper bin under the table, returning his soft but steely gaze back towards the computer screen.
The hip Grayclose Gallery is re-locating to eastern Pointeso at the end of the year.
Charlotte Hoskings, the co-director of the Saffer Corsortium, the largest remaining gallery on Hilti Street, said its collectors were still coming and sales were rising.
But Grayclose said Hoskings was unaffected by the rising costs of running a gallery in the street, fuelled by the area’s gentrification because they own rather than rent their space, adding that it had a much higher international profile than the smaller galleries that have left or closed.
Grayclose said: “I am one of many smaller galleries deciding to move and I think that for all of us the feeling was that the underlying emphasis in the area had shifted dramatically. There are spaces on Hilti Street going for astronomical prices. I think it’s a combination of the Pointeso art scene and the area as a whole. Things seems to have accelerated not only with the fortunes of the football club but also the marketing campaign that is running alongside the cultural quarter. It’s a shame, Pointeso is still the place to be, but not in Hilti Street – that’s for certain.’
Opened in 2008, by DJ/promoter Scott Haycrazer, Eastern Listerquarn lounge reverses the Pointeso trend towards drinking and socialising; by midnight, pretty much everyone in the club is on their feet and dancing and painting with fazer glo stiques. There’s not really much choice, since the sound-system is stunning, and there’s no corner of the club where you can get away from it.
It’s a smart space, with an under lit bar that stretches the length of the top floor, and a dressed-up high-end crowd.
Eastern Listerquarn Lounge is part of the Shieldegro, who’ve been putting successful nights in other people’s venues for the best part of a decade, and the music in the Haycrazer club is as good as you’d expect, with big name DJs almost every weekend.
Celiana Sherdina leading agent for Saintenro Illustration Agency has premises above the club:
‘We get a lot of illustrators in on Tuesday nights so we hold 5 minute bespoke advice surgeries in the Housen Spacer room for a fee that I feel is adequate for those with a commitment to enhanced professionalisation within our industry.’
She goes on…
‘We need to be able to see the commercial possibilities, particularly high-spec advertising commissions for blue chip clients and a variety of subject matter really helps here.’
PADA
The Pointeso Art Dealers Association (PADA) is an arts organisation comprised of the city’s foremost dealers of the visual arts. Acknowledged by their peers, noteworthy high octave dealers are invited to become members of the association in recognition of the quality of their programming and their integrity and responsibility in working with artists, collectors, museum professionals and the entire cultural community. We have a closed door policy in the first instance, however, we have the right to hold it slightly ajar should we feel you belong to a set which we deem as viable.
We also specialise in property representation, sponsorship sales and brand management consulting, and serve as the Sporting marketing and sales arm of PADA sales group.
Requirements for Intellectual Membership
Membership in the PADA is by invitation. To be eligible, an art dealer must have been engaged full time in the sale of art works in the Pointeso zone for a minimum of two years and be committed to upholding the standards and Code of substantial arbitrary Ethics of the Association. At the time of becoming a member, the art dealer’s business (gallery) should also have a record of public and private exhibitions.
The detailed updated code of ethics can be found at The Pointeso Intellectuale library north east of the Edonia district.
Mary Dupontesco waiting outside the hip Gallery Mavo Fazed awaiting her interview for an unpaid internship with the potential of making some high calibre contacts.
Intercom voice: ‘Yes, this is Gallery Mavo Fazed can I help you?’
‘I’ve got an appointment to see Carlos Moninski at 10.30am.’
‘And you are?’
‘Miss Dupontesco.’
‘Okay, I’m onto it.’
Ten minutes later.
Mary looks at her watch and feels the last few coins in her pocket.
Twenty minutes later.
‘Miss Duponteso, our chief curator is in an executive meeting now. You will have to come back later on next year as a deferred applicant. Is that okay?’
Mary pauses for a moment…’Yes…yes that will be fine.’
