Guest Work Agency (GWA) Director and Founder Alana Kushnir has been shortlisted for ‘Sole Practitioner of the Year’ and ‘Pro Bono - Community Legal Centre Lawyer of the Year’ in the Lawyers Weekly Women in Law Awards 2022.

Guest Work Agency (GWA) has advised Dr Marie Geissler, an art and cultural historian, lecturer, and curator of Australian Aboriginal art, on the publication of her first major book with Thames & Hudson, Dreaming the Land. Aboriginal Art from Remote Australia.

Guest Work Agency is your go-to source on art-related legal cases and law reform in Australia, as well as select cases internationally. In this story, our Director and Founder, Alana Kushnir and Paralegals, Mia Schaumann and Jess Olford report on Banksy’s ongoing trade mark challenges in Australia, the latest updates on proceedings brought against Australian art dealer Tristian Koenig, and the UK High Court’s novel approach to granting an order of service – by NFT.

So you want to create an ambitious, attention-grabbing public artwork for people from all walks of life to enjoy. Sounds like an easy enough process, right? You design the work, ask a fabricator to produce it, and then voila, in one magical moment the fabricator brings your artistic vision to life. We wish it were this easy for all involved, but unfortunately it’s not that simple. Here are our handy legal tips on working with fabricators for public art projects.

Guest Work Agency has been advising the artists on their commissioning arrangement with Queensland Art Gallery/Gallery of Modern Art and fabricators UAP. For this edition of Meet our Guest, our Director and Founder, Alana Kushnir spoke to the artists about collaborating on this exciting project.

In Australia it is extremely rare for an art story to hit the front page of a mainstream, national newspaper. Congratulations to Chief Reporter of The Age and The Sydney Morning Herald, Chip Le Grand, for covering 'Rogue Gallery Tristian Koenig and the Case of the Missing Artworks.

Guest Work Agency has provided advice to art tech platform Zien on stakeholder mapping and how to transform complex legal and regulatory documents into accessible, user-friendly tools.

Guest Work Agency Director Alana Kushnir featured on Serpentine’s first Legal Lab Live session as part of its 2022 Twitch series.