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The DegreeArt.com Team (March 2011) by Abigail Box

www.DegreeArt.com, which was founded in 2003, is an innovative company selling, commissioning and renting the finest artwork created by the students and recent graduates emerging from the most prestigious art establishments.

Since its inception, DegreeArt.com has established itself as the market leader in UK student and graduate art sales.

DegreeArt.com is run by founding partners Isobel Beauchamp and Elinor Olisa. They created the company to provide promising, emerging artists with a platform from which to launch their careers and to provide the art buying public access to these artists and their art through their website, showcases, events and exhibitions.

The company is based at The DegreeArt.com Gallery on Vyner Street. Read more about the gallery
THE FOUNDERS OF DEGREEART.COM  
   
ISOBEL BEAUCHAMP
Director
isobel@DegreeArt.com

 ELINOR OLISA
Director
elinor@DegreeArt.com
Isobel graduated with a BA First Class Honours in Fashion Promotion from the London College of Fashion in 2003 where she specialised in Public Relations, Journalism and Broadcast. Having graduated with a BA in Art History at Goldsmiths College, University of London in 2003, Elinor went on to complete her MA in the same subject at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London in 2004.
   

THE DEGREEART.COM TEAM
ANNEKA SOOBHANY
Website Assistant
anneka@DegreeArt.com		 RYAN LANJI
Gallery Manager
ryan@DegreeArt.com		 CHLOE LAWRENCE
Gallery Assistant
chloe@DegreeArt.com
Anneka graduated with a BA (Hons) in History from London Metropolitan University in 2010. Her degree concentration and area of interest was the Suez Crisis in Egypt in 1956 and Arab nationalist political ideology. Ryan's love for Production Managing and Arts & Culture has transitioned him into a fashion and art curator. In the London art scene he is the gallery manager of The Execution Room on Vyner Street. Chloe graduated with a BA (Hons) in Art History and Museum Studies from John Moores University Liverpool in 2009 and then went on to complete an MA in Art History from the University of Manchester in 2010.
     
     
        
SARA NEWMAN
Interior Design Consultant
sara@DegreeArt.com

 ALISON POTTER
In House PR
alison@DegreeArt.com
   
THE DEGREEART.COM BOARD  
       
ELINOR OLISA & ISOBEL BEAUCHAMP
Directors and Co-Founders		 CHRISTOPHER A HOLDER
Director		 ROBERT MCCLATCHEY
DIRECTOR		 MIKE MCGONIGILE
CHAIRMAN
       
Elinor and Isobel are founding members of AWAD - the Association of Women Art Dealers, founded in 2009 in order to foster, promote collaboration and business deals between women art dealers and gallerists based in the United Kingdom.

The Association of Women Art Dealers

DegreeArt.com offers clients the opportunity to invest in the artists of the future.

Our services include:

- Corporate Art Consultancy
- Private Art Portfolio Managment
- Art Rental
- Public and Private Art Commissions
- Artist Advisory Services
- Public Speaking Engagments

DegreeArt.com offers clients the opportunity to:

  • Purchase unique, fresh contemporary work
  • Own art produced by the alumni of Great Britain’s most prestigious art establishments
  • Acquire affordable art that has the potential to be a valuable investment
  • Purchase art unpretentiously over the Internet
  • Have art delivered to the door
  • Support emerging artists
  • Know that their purchase will contribute to donations made by DegreeArt.com to nominated charities.
  • Commission a piece of artwork
  • Receive art consultancy to discuss individual requirements
  • Take advantage of a fourteen day trial
  • Have artists sourced for specific projects and budgets
  • Hold a short/ long term exhibition organised by DegreeArt.com
  • Be kept up-to-date on the progress of our artists