Colville Auctions provides expert valuation services for private, corporate, and institutional clients, offering tailored advice for insurance, estate planning, and market assessment.
Director Trudi Curtis - Art Historian & Curator.
Trudi Curtis is Director of Hobart based gallery specializing in modern fine art representing contemporary Tasmanian and Australian artists. Established in 2004 in Colville Street Hobart, in 2009 acquiring the Salamanca Collection, the oldest continuously running Hobart gallery, originally established by Marjorie Hill in 1969. Our registered office is located 30 Collins Street Hobart.
Extensive Public and Private Arts Sector experience including:
Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery,
The University of Tasmania Fine Art Collection,
Arts Tasmania
Joseph Brown Gallery
Christies Auction House, Australia
Extensive experience in Registration, Documentation and Research of Tasmanian and Australian art, including the curation and development of exhibitions, including Tasmanian Museum & Art Gallery Lands of Light Lloyd Rees in Tasmania 2024
Accredited Commonwealth Valuer, undertaking research and documentation of a wide range of artworks for the Commonwealth Cultural Gifts Program; valuations of Public collections including Parliament House Tasmania, Hobart City Council, and private collections across Australia.
Approved to value for the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program. Australian and Australian related paintings, drawings, watercolours, prints, etchings, sculpture and photography from 1770, and Australian Art Publications including artists' books, catalogues, archival and related material.
AVAA Certified Practising Valuer (No. 584)
Artists Estates
Experience in management artists estates including documentation, management, exhibition and touring of significant works within solo or group exhibitions and the private sale of works.
Fine Art Auctions
Colville also presents a regular program of Fine Art Auctions for collectors in the contemporary, modern and colonial periods of art.
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Trusts & Estates, Museum Services and Corporate Art Services