Valeria Napoleone

Valeria Napoleone is an art collector and patron to a select number of arts organisations. She is a trustee of the Contemporary Art Society and head of the development committee at both Studio Voltaire and the Institute of Fine Arts in New York. She is also a member of the President’s Global Council at New York University and is an advisory board member of the Association of Women in the Arts. In addition, Napoleone launched SculptureCenter in September 2015 as a collaborative project that supports the production of a major artwork in a selected exhibition every 12 to 18 months at the New York-based non-profit dedicated to contemporary sculpture.

Valeria received a BA from New York University’s journalism school and an MA in art gallery administration at the Fashion Institute of Technology in New York. Valeria’s collection focuses on female contemporary artists working internationally. Forming an exceptionally close bond with artists, Valeria has supported many of today’s most acclaimed artists at pivotal moments in their careers.

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Martina Batovic

Since January 2016 Martina Batovic has held the post of UK director at the Austrian auction house Dorotheum, based at its London showroom in St James’s Place. With more than 40 different departments, 600 auctions a year and over 100 experts, Dorotheum is one of the oldest and largest auction houses in operation today. Croatian-born Batovic is a specialist and an expert in her field, passionate about 20th-century modern and contemporary art – particularly of the post-war 1950s and 1960s period.

Batovic has advised clients internationally across building collections for over a decade, starting her career at a London-based art advisory, sourcing artworks for private and corporate clients, then moving on to become sales director in a prominent photography gallery in Mayfair. Following this, she joined a major international auction house as a contemporary specialist in the post-war and contemporary department, covering auctions across London, New York and Hong Kong.

She is a keen advocate for female artists as well as an active member and patron of a number of arts organisations, educational initiatives and female-led groups. She is trilingual, holds an MA in art business and a double BA in art history and English language and literature. She currently lives with her family in south London.

Frances Hedges

Frances Hedges is the associate editor of Harper’s Bazaar and Town & Country, specialising in the visual arts. Her previous roles have included the editorship of the journal for the Royal Society of Arts and a stint as the digital editor for Elle Decoration. Frances is a guest curator for the ‘ING Discerning Eye’ exhibition, held this November at Mall Galleries, and is on the jury for the international Black & White Spider Awards for photography.

Helena Lee

Helena Lee is the features editor of Harper’s Bazaar and Town & Country. She is responsible for Bazaar’s art and culture coverage and commissions award-winning writers and artists such as Margaret Atwood and Tracey Emin.
Most recently, she edited the annual Bazaar Art magazine, and spearheaded the cultural celebrations for Bazaar’s 150th anniversary, which included contributions from Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Yoko Ono and Ali Smith.

She began her career in advertising as a graduate trainee at Ogilvy & Mather, creating campaigns for BT, Unilever, the mental health charity CALM, Nestlé and Ford cars, before becoming a director at Lowe and Saatchi & Saatchi. She has also written for The Times, City AM, The Telegraph and Condé Nast Travel