As with other artists fields, we have a distinguished record as legal counsel for a wide range of clients in the visual arts.
In particular our specialist expertise is called on to advise on numerous copyright and intellectual property issues. We are notable for our understanding of the issues applicable to the visual arts community today such as those brought by digital technology and the Internet, as well as advising on the effect of copyright law reforms such as moral rights and performer's rights reform legislation.
In the field of the visual we act for:
Indicative of the breadth clients we have act for in this area of the arts we have represented:
Ms Lea-Shannon has published various articles and contributed to texts in the field. She researched and assisted in drafting Chapters on Tax and Obscenity for 2nd Edition of Visual Artists and the Law, by Shane Simpson, Law Book Company, Australia, has made various contributions principally concerning Visual Arts to Art Monthly (Australia based and Internationally Distributed Museums and Visual Arts Specialist Magazine)and various lectures in Museums and the Law for Masters of Museums Curators Course, City Art Institute, Sydney.
The firm itself occupies space (previously Syme Dodson Gallery) within an the art gallery premises of the Ray Hughes Gallery in Surry Hills; which is itself a locale populated by galleries and artists.
We have also represented individual artists including:
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