Mr Ryan English
Contact
- Email: k2304378@kingston.ac.uk
- Location: Kingston School of Art, Knights Park
- Faculty: Kingston School of Art
- School: School of Creative and Cultural Industries
- Department: Department of Creative Industries
- Personal website
Research project: Crafting FLUXUS: Will a Web3 platform for Emerging Artists have a global impact and address the problem of provenance?
Abstract
This research examines the problems of access to the art world for emerging artists and investigates the possibilities of a specially designed Web3 platform to address those issues and open up the art market to new and emerging talent.
- Research degree: PhD
- Title of project: Crafting FLUXUS: Will a Web3 platform for Emerging Artists have a global impact and address the problem of provenance?
- Research supervisor: Dr Landé Pratt
- Other research supervisor: Professor Alistair Payne
Biography
I am the principal and founder of Ryan English & Associates, an independent personal property appraisal firm in Southern California specialising in fine art.
In 2017, I received my MA in Art Business with honours from Sotheby's Institute of Art, Los Angeles, in conjunction with the Drucker School of Management at Claremont Graduate University. I was inducted into the International Business Society Beta Gamma Sigma upon graduation, being nominated as a top business student worldwide. While attending Sotheby's, I concentrated on Modern and Contemporary Art and its markets. I lived in London to study Fine and Decorative Arts and the Old Masters and did a stint in East Asian Art in New York. I am a Member of the International Society of Appraisers and travel extensively to major international art fairs and exhibitions.
Areas of research interest
- Art Business
- Web3 and Blockchain Technology
- Technology and Emerging Communication
- Creative Technology and Design
- Emerging Technologies
- Smart Contracts
- Digital Provenance
- Emerging Artists
- Democratizing Art
Qualifications
- MA Art Business, Sotheby's Institute of Art, Los Angeles
Funding or awards received
- Beta Gamma Sigma
- Sotheby's Fellowship Award
- The Group, Otis College of Art and Design
- Otis College of Art and Design with Angelo Donghia Foundation
- PAVE/Eric Feigenbaum Scholarship
- Outstanding Academic Studies in Architecture, NEWH LA Chapter