Art law and advisory firm, Guest Work Agency (GWA) has advised the Ballarat International Foto Biennale on the entry terms and conditions for their inaugural Prompted Peculiar – International AI Prize. Ballarat International Foto Biennale is Australia’s most prestigious photographic festival, held in the historic town of Ballarat spanning over 60-days from August to October.  

IP Australia recently called on designers, intellectual property professionals and others who use the design rights system to share their thoughts on ways to improve the Australian design system and the protection it affords. As a legal practice with particular expertise in advising creatives, Guest Work Agency submitted a response outlining our suggestions regarding the proposed reforms and how they could better serve our clients.

As part of Director of Guest Work Agency, Alana Kushnir’s role in leading the Serpentine Legal Lab, we have recently assisted the Serpentine Arts Technologies in the development of Brazilian artist Gabriel Massan’s ground-breaking experimental video game, exhibition and web3 project, Third World: The Bottom Dimension, powered by Tezos.

Guest Work Agency Director and Founder, Alana Kushnir was recently invited to attend the Digital Asset Conference held in Sydney. The conference brought together industry leaders with domain expertise from different spheres to explore avenues for Australia’s future engagement with the digital assets sector.

Guest Work Agency’s Director and Founder Alana Kushnir recently assisted the Victorian Crimes Investigation Unit in identifying, cataloguing and returning missing artworks to eleven artists on a pro bono basis, after more than 70 artworks were discovered in connection with the ongoing investigation into art dealer Tristian Koenig.

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 Paralegal Mia Schaumann report on an investigation into the provenance of First Nations artworks, the establishment of a new arts funding and advisory body in Australia, the final outcome in the legal dispute involving Warhol’s Prince Series plus more.

At GWA we're passionate about providing user-friendly solutions to our creative clients. Which is why we're thrilled to be working with Josef to create legal chatbots as part of our services. What on earth is a legal chatbot and why is it relevant to me, you might ask? For this edition of Meet our Guest, we had a chat with Tom Dreyfus, CEO and Co-Founder of Josef, to find out.

In this Art of Business story, our Archives and Collections Consultant, Laura Brandon, shares her insights on why archiving is an integral aspect of quality studio and collection management. Laura has been assisting Guest Work Agency clients with establishing archiving systems as part of our estate planning services for artists and collectors.