For this week’s Visiting Artist’s Talk we welcome art historian, former journalist and art-markets expert Tom Flynn to demystify what emerging artists need to know about how art markets actually work.

Tom Flynn is a UK-based art historian and former art market journalist with specialist interests in the professional practices of the international art markets, historical and contemporary sculpture, and issues in art crime and cultural heritage.

He is a graduate of the University of Sussex and the Royal College of Art, completing his doctorate at the University of Sussex in 1998.

A former Assistant Editor of The Art Newspaper, his journalism and writing has appeared in numerous international art publications and he has held board positions with London-based art price data and contemporary print publishing companies. He lectures at a number of UK and European universities and has published widely on the global art market, contemporary sculpture, museology, and art and design history.

In 2017, with Angelina Giovani, he co-founded the art provenance research agency Flynn & Giovani. He is the author of The A to Z of the International Art Market (Bloomsbury, 2016).

About the Visiting Artists’ Talks series

The Visiting Artist’s Talk (VAT) series hosts talks by an exciting range of arts practitioners from around the world every Monday afternoon 2–4pm during teaching weeks.

All of our talks are compulsory for our Fine Art students but are also open to anyone else who would like to join us.

Full details about this week's talk including venue information.